FRIESEN, JOHN W.

Mennonite Through the Centuries from the Netherlands to Canada

Stienback, Mennonite Heritage Village. (ISBN: 0-920739-23-7). [no date], 1st edition. (Cloth) Very good, no dust jacket.

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Book number: 116328

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Mennonite, Canadian Prairies, Ethnic, Manitoba, Mennonite 0920739237

FRIESSEN, JOSEPHINE

Three Generations of Mennonite Women in the Canadian West

Surrey, Ocean Park Publications. (ISBN: 1-897266-15-4). 2001, 2nd edition. (Mass market paperback) Fine. vi, 183pp. Signed by the author.

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Book number: 116242

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Mennonite, Canadian Prairies, Ethnic, Mennonite 1897266154

FROEHLE, VIRGINIA ANN, R.S.M.

Called into Her Presence; Praying with Feminine Images of God

Notre Dame, Indiana, Ave Maria Press. (ISBN: 0-87793-470-3). 1992. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 133pp. 4to (short). Card covers, spiral bound. Some highlighting and lightly pencilled notations made and which ends at page 43. All text is legible. Remains intact, solid, bright.

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Book number: 125896

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Christian Iconography, Christian Iconography, Christianity, Iconography 0877934703

TSU, CHUANG; FENG, GIA-FU AND ENGLISH, JANE (NEW TRANSLATION BY)

Inner Chapters

New York, Vintage Books / Random House. (ISBN: 0-394-71990-5). 1974. (Mass market paperback) Very good. vii, 161pp. 4to. This Chuang Tsu (also known as Chuang-Tzu / Zhuang Zhou / Zhuangzi) work is considered a companion volume to the Tao Te Ching of Lao Tsu (Lao Tzu). There is some staining, small in size and of no consequence to the text, to the end pages (4 unnumbered pages that relate information about the book and its translators). Billingual text: English and Chinese (Mandarin?). Black and white photographs, drawings lavishly highlight the text. Very good copy.

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Book number: 130105

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, Curiosities, Esoterica, Nan-Hua Chen Ching 0394719905

GAVIN, S.J., JOSEPH B.

Teachers of a Nations; Jesuits in English Canada 1842-2013; Volume 1 in the Jesuit History Series

Toronto, Novalis Publishing Inc. 978-2-89688-124-6. (ISBN: 978-2-89688-124-6). 2015. (hardcover) As new, no dust jacket. 284pp. 8vo. As new. The comprehensive history of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit Order of Canada). Mapped endpapers. Black and white drawings and photographs.

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Book number: 126541

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Jesuit Priests, Canadian History, Education, Jesuits in Canada, Society of Jesus 9782896881246

GEORGE, HENRY

A Perplexed Philosopher; Being an Examination of Mr. Herbert Spencer's Various Utterances on the Land Question, with Some Incidental Reference to His Synthetic Philosophy

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.. 1893, 1st British edition. (12mo, cloth) Good. 319pp. Exterior wear, bumps, general age, remaining sound and bright enough. Hinges tender. One leaf lacks corner affecting two words only - otherwise entirely clean within.

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Book number: 112271

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Philosophy, Great Britain

GERMAIN, VICTORIN

Catéchisme Pittoresque; À L'usage Des Commençants de Leurs Parents Et de Leurs Maîtres

Québec, Des Presses de L'action Sociale Ltée. 1931, 1st edition. (Mass market paperback) Good. 176pp. 12mo. In original brown wrappers, printed in black. Wrappers with wear; edgewear. Faint crease at bottom corner of front and rear covers. Internally bright and clean. Frontispiece. Illustrated with 180 engravings. "1ère Édition" stated at bottom corner of title page. Prayer card laid-in at front. Text in French.

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Book number: 122423

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Religion, Catechism, Christian, Christianity

GOLLOCK, GEORGINA A.

Aunt Africa; a Family Affair

London, Church Missionary Society. 1909. (12mo) Very good. 248pp. Frontispiece, illus.- plates. Attractive decorated boards. Former owner's gift inscription on pastedown, and name on clipped endpaper. Red wax pencil mark on prelim.

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Book number: 200723

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Religion, Africa, Juvenile

GOSWAMI, SHYMAN SUNDAR

Layayoga; The Definitive Guide to the Chakras and Kundalini

Rochester, Vermont, Inner Traditions International 0-889281-766-6. (ISBN: 0-889281-766-6). 1999. (Mass market paperback) Very good. xxi, 342pp. 8vo. Comprehensive guide to the chakras, Kundalini, and Layayoga, which is at the the heart of the tantra spiritual tradition to find enlightenment. Clean, crisp, solid copy with several colour plates.

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Book number: 125330

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Yoga, Health, Sanskrit, Yoga 08892817666

GRANT, AGNES

Finding My Talk; How Fourteen Native Women Reclaimed Their Lives After Residential Schools

Calgary, AB, Fifth House Ltd.. (ISBN: 1-894856-57-0). 2004, 1st Paperback Edition. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 212pp. 8vo. Head of top cover bumped. Internally tight and clean.

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Book number: 118863

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Residential Schools, First Nations, Native Americans, North American Indians, Women 1894856570

GRAVEL, REV. L.P. (EDITOR)

Little Manual of St. Philomena; Arranged for St. Philomena's Societies

New York, Rev. L.P. Gravel/N.Y. Catholic Protectory Print. 1960. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 53pp. 32mo. Scarce. Dark burgundy-brown soft, pebbled leather. Pages lightly age-toned. There is a mark to the rear cover, and a light stain (small) to the last 6 pages, which remain uncut. Second copy available. Each is complete and unmarked with regard to notation, underlining, and the like.

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Book number: 126721

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Catholicism, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Devotionals, Sainte Philomena, Saints

GROUSSET, RENÉ; LÉONARD, ÉMILE G. (UNDER THE DIRECTION OF)

Histoire Universelle I; Des Origines À L'islam

Paris, Éditions Gallimard. 1965. (Leatherbound) Fine. xxx, 1862pp. 12mo. Housed in publisher's original plain card slipcase. Brown leatherette; spine with decorative stars and lettered in gold. In original protective plastic jacket; lacking paper jacket inserts. Ribbon markers. Bright and clean throughout. Illustrated with tables, figures, maps. Text in French. Printed on Bible Bolloré, allowing for the large page count. Printed by L'Imprimerie Sainte-Catherine (Bruges. From the "Encyclopédie de la Pléiade" series; No. 12.

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Book number: 124525

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Islam, Eastern Religion, Encyclopedia, History

BROMSGROVE GUILD

The Blessed Jeanne D'arc Maid of Orleans

Birmingham, The Shakespeare Press. [circa 1909], 2nd . (Mass market paperback) Very good. 14pp. 8vo. Plain paper covers embossed with a gilt cross and lettering. Covers separated entirely. Commisioned by the Archbishop of Westminster, in connection with the ceremonies that took place in Rome in regards to the Beatification of Jeanne D'Arc.

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Book number: 113699

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Catholicism, Catholicism, Joan of Arc, Religion

HAGENBACH, K. R.

Encyklopadie Und Methodologie Der Theologischen Wissenschaften

Leipzig, Weidmann. 1845. (hardcover) Good. xiv, 420pp. Zweite Umgearbeitete Auflage (Second Revised Edition). Short 8vo. In common early-20th century institutional rebinding. Black fabricoid boards over smooth black cloth backstrip; black-paper title compartment, lettered in gold. Edges red-speckled. Boards rubbed. Previous owner's period signature tiny at the foot of the ffep. Deep age-toning at inner-margin of pages 166-193 (as though a reader of some bygone year spilled something in the gutter at this point). Presumably for this reason, pages 175-178 are missing. Else the textblock is clean and complete. Text in German.

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Book number: 121992

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Religion, German, Theology

HANDY, ROBERT T.

A History of the Churches in the United States and Canada

London, Oxford. 1976, 1st Edition. (Cloth) Fine. 471pp. Clipped wrapper shows light shelf wear. Oxford History of the Christian Church.

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Book number: 203763

Catalogue: Philosophy and Religion

Keywords: Religion, Christian