[JOHN FOTHERGILL]

A Brief Account of the People called Quakers. Their Doctrines and Discipline> Taken from a Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences, lately published at Edinburgh.

Reprinted by Mary Hinde, at No. 2, in George Yard, Lombard Street, 1773. 8v. pp, 16. Minor paper restoration to title. Recently re-stitched. With an inscription "[indecipherable] The Gift of Danl. Bell a Quaker who gave me also Barclay's Apology, a fine edition by Baskerville." The Quaker printer, Mary Hinde [née Phillips 1720 - 1807], took over the business after the death of her husband Luke in 1766. She was active until at least 1792.

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JOHN BAIRD

Dissertations, chronological, historical, and critical : on all the books of the Old Testament > through which are interspersed, reflections, theological, and moral, arising from the various subjects. Vol.I.

Dublin: Printed by R. Stewart, 1778. All Published. 8vo. pp. xix [including list of around 130 subscribers], [1, blank], 531. Contemporary full calf, a couple of patches of wear but an excellent sound copy. No records exist of any subsequent volumes> the on-line entries do not mention Vol. I> it is possible that it was abandoned soon after publication of the first volume and amended title pages issued.

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Book number: 44404

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H.P. BLAVATSKY

The Theosophical Glossary.

The Theosophical Publishing Society, 1892. 1st Edition. Small 4to. pp. [p4], 389. Original cloth, gilt, rather discoloured. "The Glossary purposes to give information on the principal Sanskrit, Pahlavi, Tibetan, Pâli, Chaldean, Persian, Scandinavian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin Kabalistic and Gnostic words, and Occult terms generally used in Theosophical literature, and principally to be found in Isis Unveiled, Esoteric Buddhism, the Secret Doctrine, The Key to Theosophy, etc." Printed at the Women's Printing Society Ltd., a co-operative founded to provide employment in a field usually restricted to men. It played an important role in the early suffrage movement. Elizabeth Yeats worked there in the early years before returning to Ireland to found the Dun Emer and later the Cuala Presses with her brother William Butler Yeats.

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Book number: 44365

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MINIATURE BOOK

The Bible in Miniature or a Concise History of the Old & New Testaments

J. Harris, No 42 Leadenhall Street, 1778. 24mo. 45 x 35 mm. pp. 256> 14 plates, 2 engraved title pages. Original red calf gilt, slightly sprung but an unusually nice copy of this masterpiece of miniature printing.

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Book number: 45426

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W. DERHAM

Astro-theology: or, a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from a Survey of the Heavens.

W. Innys, 1731. The sixth edition. 8vo. pp. [16, preface and contents of preliminary discourse], lvi [preliminary discourse], 8 [contents], 246> 3 folding plates by J. Sexex, 10 [index]. Contemporary full sheep, a little worn but a sound copy and clean and tight internally, with the bookplate of George Booth Tyndale.

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Book number: 44476

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