BOLTON, ROBERT

Some Generall Directions for a Comfortable Walking with God: Delivered in the Lecture at Kettering in Northhamptonshire, with enlargement, bound with A Discourse about the State of True Happiness

London, Felix Kyngston, for Edmund Weaver NONE. 1625. (hardcover) Near fine. 391, 215pp. 12mo. Presumed first edition. Rebound in brown calf, title stamped, in bright gilt, to spine. Original dark brown calf leather boards, rubbed, still in exceptional condition. 5 raised bands. Some underlining and marginalia throughout, with notes and a paper paste down (tasteful, small) book plate to the front fixed end paper. Pages show light staining, markings, as may be anticipated, given the age, and there is a name eloquently penned to the leaf between sermons. Solid, square binding, corners lightly bumped. Lovely copy. Robert Bolton, Bachelor in Divinity, and Preacher of Gods Word at Broughton in the same county. At London, Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, for Edmund Weaver, and are to be sold at his shop at the great North doore of Pauls Church. 1625.

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Book number: 131649

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Christian Texts, British History, Christian Sermons, Christian Theology, Church of England, Collectible Books, Theology

BOSSUET, JAMES BENIGNUS; CLAUDE, JOHN

A Conference on the Authority of the Church: Held March 1st, 1679, Between James Benignus Bossuet, Bishop of Condom (Afterwards of Meaux), and John Claude, Calvinist Minister of Charenton

Baltimore, John Murphy. 1842, 1st US Edition. (Cloth) Very good. 132pp. Light general shelf wear and ageing to boards; foxing to endpapers. Internally clean & bright. ".. Together with reflections on a treatise by M. Claude, by the Bishop of Condom. First American [edition] from the last London Edition." "In no country is Protestantism more active than in the United States, in endeavoring to uphold its discordant principles, and consequently no where does the evil call for a more powerfully counteracting influence..".

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Book number: 203343

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Religion, Roman Catholic

BOYDEN, JOSEPH

Wenjack

Toronto, Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Canada 978-0-7352-3338-6. (ISBN: 978-0-7352-3338-6). 2016. (Mass market paperback) Fine. 102pp. 16mo. The story of Chanie Wenjack, an Ojibwe First Nation boy who ran away from Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School in Kenora, on. and who died trying to walk home 400 miles. Fine copy. Illustrations: Kent Monkman.

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Book number: 125534

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Residential Schools, Canadian - History, First Nations, First Nations History, Ojibwe First Nation, Residential Schools 9780735233386

BRYANTON, ROB

Imagining the Tenth Dimension; A New Way of Thinking About Time, Space and Strong Theory

Regina, Talking Dog Studios, Inc. 978-0-9780397-0-7. (ISBN: 978-0-9780397-0-7). 2006, 1st edition, 1st printing. (Mass market paperback) Near fine. 214pp. 8vo. Wrappers. Original price sticker to rear cover. White card wrappers ever-so lightly dirtied from rubbing. Internally bright and clean. Inscribed by the author at the head of the title page. Book advert laid-in at front.

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Book number: 123327

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Philosophy, Geometry, Physics, Saskatchewan Author, Science 9780978039707

BUCKLEY, KENNETH

Historical Estimates of Internal Migration in Canada

Toronto, The Canadian Political Science Association. 1960. (Mass market paperback) Near fine. 14pp. 8vo. No wrappers, stapled. Tables at rear. C.P.S.A. Conference on Statistics, 1960, Papers.

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Book number: 117505

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Social Sciences, Economics, Migration, University of Saskatchewan

BULL, GEORGE

Defensio Fidei Nicaenae; A Defence of the Nicene Creed

[No Place], [No Pub.]. [no date]. (Disbound) Good. 477pp. Lacking all covers, prelims and title-page: commences with Dedication-page. Some minor age spotting, the text else complete, square, and quite bright. Published probably 1685; possibly 1688. STC 5414 or 5415.

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Book number: 112444

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Religion, Christianity

BUNYAN, JOHN

Grace Abounding

London, The Religious Tract Society. 1909, 9th edition. (Pictorial cover) Very good plus, no dust jacket. 243pp. 12mo. Red cloth covers with elaborate and ornate woodcut illus.to front and spine. Gilt lettering to spine. 8 full page coloured illus. by Harold Copping. Frontispiece. Postscript to rear. Catalogue of Religious Tract Society's published works in rear. This absolutely gorgeous edition brings the Bodley Head's "Yellow Books" to mind, as the blood red front cover and spine are gloriously illustrated with elborate woodcuts, depicting John Bunyan at an open doorway, peering in which is further explained by the illustration at pgs. 64- 64. The full page illustrations by Harold Copping visually explain the narrative in a wonderful fashion.

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Book number: 113613

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Religion, John Bunyan, Religion

BURCH, GEORGE BOSWORTH

Alternative Goals in Religion: Love, Freedom, Truth

Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press 978-0773501638. (ISBN: 978-0773501638). 1972. (Mass market paperback) As new. 118pp. As New. "A stimulating assessment of Christianity, Buddhism, and Vedanta.".

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Book number: 109264

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Religion 9780773501638

CAMUS, ALBERT; O'BRIEN, JUSTIN (TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY)

Exile and The Kingdom

New York, Vintage International / Vintage Books / Random House, Inc.. (ISBN: 0-679-73385-X). 1991. (Mass market paperback) Fine. 213pp. 8vo. Fine copy. Three other titles available from the Vintage International editions (at the time of this data entry): The Fall; The Plague, and A Happy Death, all in fine condition. $15.00 each.

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Book number: 130076

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Absurdism, Anarchism, Human Nature, Philosophy 067973385X

CAMUS, ALBERT; O'BRIEN, JUSTIN (TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY)

The Fall

New York, Vintage International / Vintage Books / Random House, Inc.. (ISBN: 0-679-72022-7). 1991. (Mass market paperback) Fine. 147pp. 8vo. Fine copy. Three other titles available from the Vintage International editions (at the time of this data entry): Exile and The Kingdom; The Plague, and A Happy Death, all in fine condition. $15.00 each.

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Book number: 130074

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Absurdism, Anarchism, Human Nature, Philosophy 0679720227

CAMUS, ALBERT; HOWARD, RICHARD (TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY)

A Happy Death

New York, Vintage International / Vintage Books / Random House, Inc.. (ISBN: 0-679-76400-3). 1995. (Mass market paperback) Fine. 192pp. 8vo. Fine copy. Three other titles available from the Vintage International editions (at the time of this data entry): Exile and The Kingdom; The Fall, and The Plague, all in fine condition. $15.00 each. Afterword and Notes by Jean Sarocchi.

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Book number: 130077

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Absurdism, Anarchism, Human Nature, Philosophy 0679764003

CAMUS, ALBERT; GILBERT, STUART (TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY)

The Plague

New York, Vintage International / Vintage Books / Random House, Inc.. (ISBN: 0-679-72021-9). 1991. (Mass market paperback) Fine. 308pp. 8vo. Fine copy. Three other titles available from the Vintage International editions (at the time of this data entry): Exile and The Kingdom; The Fall, and A Happy Death, all in fine condition. $15.00 each.

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Book number: 130075

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Absurdism, Anarchism, Human Nature, Philosophy 0679720219

TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION OF CANADA

Canada's Residential Schools: The History, Part I: Origins to 1939; Part II: The History, Part 2 1939 to 2000 / the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (Two Volume Set)

Montreal & Kingston; London Chicago, McGill-Queen's University Press. 2015. (Mass market paperback) Fine. xiv, 1015; 865pp. 8vo. These two volumes carry the narrative of the residential school system from their origins in 1867 to their closure in the late 1990s, and include the six years of research of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada which was established in 2008. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was put in place as part of the Indian Residential Schools Agreement. An apology was issued by the Government of Canada before its work got under way. Clean, tight, bright, solid. Sold as a two volume set. ISBN (Volume I): 978-0-7735-4650-9. ISBN (Volume II): 978-0-7735-4652-3.

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Book number: 127824

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Residential Schools, Indigenous History - Canada, Indigenous Peoples - Canada, Reconciliation, Residential Schools, Truth and Reconciliation Commission of C

TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION OF CANDA

Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada; Volume 1: Summary - Honouring the Truth Reconciling for the Future

Toronto, James Lorimer and Company 978-1-4594-1067-1. (ISBN: 978-1-4594-1067-1). 2015, 1st thus. (Mass market paperback) Near fine. 451pp. Previous owners name to title page. Else unread.

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Book number: 121667

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Residential Schools, North American Indian, Residential Schools 9781459410671

CHILLINGWORTH, WILLIAM

Nine Sermons: The First Before His Majesty K. Charles I. The Other on Special and Eminent Occasions

London, Benj. Tooke. 1719, 7th edition. (Folio) Good. 92; 63pp. Lacking covers. Aged, but bright enough. Bound with: "Additional Discourses of Mr. Chillingworth", the Third Edition.

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Book number: 110719

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Religion, Christianity