Religion og teologi

The Portable Folio Family Bible

Rev. John Eadie; Rev. Walter M'Gilvray · 1857 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)

Glasgow, W. R. McPhun, 1857 . Leather. Lovely scarce family Bible, featuring countless notes and additions, bound in impressive full-morocco wraps. Scarce edition.In red full-morocco binding. With full-morocco wraps.Impressive Holy Bible including the commentaries of Scott and...

Service Book of the Western Eskimos

1949 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.63 | $356.71 | ¥56,944)

Toronto, Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada, 1949 . Cloth. Very scarce early Inuinakton-language edition of prayers and hymns from the central Canadian Arctic. New and enlarged edition.Very scarce. Only five editions held institutionally.In publisher's ...

The Song of a Dawning Day

Francis G. Hanchett · 1915 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

Chicago, Privately Printed, 1915. First edition. Hardback. A very scarce first edition of this theosophical work, with illustrated endpapers. A very scarce first edition of this privately printed American title, printed at the Lakeside Press, in Chicago.In original quarter clo...

The Works of William Smith, D.D. Late Provost of the College and Academy of Philadelphia

William Smith · 1803 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

Philadelphia, Hugh Maxwell and William Fry, 1803 . First edition. Cloth. Complete in two volumes, this is the scarce first edition of the posthumously published sermons of important American Episcopal priest William Smith. The scarce first edition of this work, complete in two...

A Course of Lectures; Delivered on the Six Sundays in Lent

R. Rev. John Skinner · 1786 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

Aberdeen, J. Chalmers & Co, 1786 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the vanishingly scarce first edition of John Skinner's Episcopalian lectures, inscribed to pioneering American Episcopal Bishop Samuel Seabury. An inscribed author's presentation c...

De Exemptione Et Libertate Imperiali Monasterii S. Emmerami Et Martyr. Ratisbonae Dissertatio Altera Novo Et Inaudito Quod R.D. P. Hansiz Soc. Jes. Presbyter de Hoc Coenobio Novissime Finxit, Systemati Opposita

Joannes Baptista; R. D. P. Hansiz Soc. Jes. [Marcus Hansiz] · 1755 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.52 | ¥94,906)

Ratisbonae , Typis Joannis Viti Radlmayr, Aulici Episcopalis Typographi, 1755. Vellum. A very scarce copy of this 18th-century dissertation on the monastery and martyr Saint of St. Emmeram. Very scarce, with only two institutional copies found. A Latin treatise on Saint Emmer...

The Charitable Gift Funds Belonging to the Parish of Saint Botolph without, Bishopsgate, London

1883 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, Newman & Son, 1883. Cloth. A very scarce record of the charitable gift funds of the church of St. Botolph in Bishopsgate, London. Very scarce work. A record of the charitable gift funds to St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate, a Church of England church in the Bishopsgate Wi...

A New Version of the Psalms of David Fitted to the Tunes Used in Churches

N. Brady; N. Tate · 1766 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.26 | $726.63 | ¥115,997)

London, J. and J. March for Stationers, 1766. Leather. A beautiful eighteenth century binding for this pocket sized edition of this new version of the Psalms of David, fitted to music by Nicholas Brady and Nahum Tate. Pocket sized miniature, in contemporary red calf with gilt....

The Mainz Psalters and Canon Missae 1457-1459

Sir Irvine Masson · 1954 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London, The Bibliographical Society, 1954. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated study of the printing of the Mainz Psalter and the Canon Missae, with folding plates. First edition. Illustrated with six folding tables and six folding plates to the rea...

English and Welsh Cathedrals

Thomas Dinham Atkinson · 1912 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1912. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this study of English and Welsh Cathedrals, with colour plates. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, eighteen colour plates, twenty black-and-white plates, and numerous plans. Col...

Mamecestre: Being Chapters from the Early Recorded History of the Barony, &C. Of Manchester

John Harland · 1861 · Rooke Books

£118.00 (€141.44 | $155.90 | ¥24,887)

Manchester, The Chetham Society, 1861-1865. Cloth. A collection of five volumes from The Chetham Society on the city of Manchester. Five volumes. Being volumes LIII, LVI, LVIII, LXIII, and LXV of the Remains Historical and Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lanca...

Fabric Rolls and Documents or York Minster: Or, a Defence of "the History of the Metropolitan Church of St. Peter, York

John Bowne · 1863 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

York, Published by the Author, 1863. Cloth. A new edition of this detailed history of York Minster, with records of the documents and fabric rolls held. New edition, with additions and corrections. A detailed record of the contents of the fabric rolls and documents held in rel...

Dieu En Nous

Roaul Plus; R. P. Foch · 1924 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

Toulouse, Apostolat de la Priere, 1924. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this work from French Jesuit priest and author, Raoul Plus, in the original French. French. Fiftieth thousand. A comprehensive religious study into the ide of God's presence inside of each individual...

The Works of Robert Sanderson, D.D.

Robert Sanderson; William Jacobson · 1854 · Rooke Books

£895.00 (€1,072.79 | $1,182.43 | ¥188,758)

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1854. First edition. Vellum. The first edition of this very scarce set collecting the religious and philosophical works of Robert Sanderson. The first edition of this very scarce work.Complete in six volumes.The collected works of Robert Sander...

A Defence of Reveal&Apos;D Religion Against the Exceptions of a Late Writer in His Book

John Conybeare · 1732 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

London, S. Wilmot; James and John Knapton, 1732 . First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of John Conybeare's response to Matthew Tindal's 'Christianity as Old as the Creation', in which he emphasises the importance of scripture. The first edition ...

The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the United Church of England and Ireland; Arranged and Disposed According to the Exact Order in Which the Same Must Be Read; Together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David, Pointed As They Are to Be Sung or Said in Churches; with Occasional Notes, Practical and Explanatory

1814 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London, Printed by B. McMillan, 1814. Leather. An early 19th-century copy of this Book of Common Prayer, inscribed with an impressive family record to the endpapers, dating back to 1874. Comprising the Church services, a table of proper lessons and psalms, the orders for morni...

The Clergyman&Apos;S Instructor, or a Collection of Tracts on the Ministerial Duties

John Randolph [ed.]; Barnabas Oley [preface] George Herbert; Jeremy Taylor; Gilbert Burnet; George Bull; Edmund Gibson; et al. · 1807 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1807. First edition. Leather. A rare first edition of the Clergyman's Instructor, a selection of tracts by George Herbert, Jeremy Taylor, Edmund Gibson and others, advising on ministerial duties. The first edition of this work in a half morocc...

The Book of Common Prayer Together with the English Version of the Polygott Bible, and the Psalms of David

None stated · 0 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,216)

London, Samuel Bagster, c1844. Leather. A pocket sized volume containing the 'Common Book of Prayer' the 'Polyglott bible' and the 'Psalms of David' in a lovely full morocco binding. Three volumes of Christian works bound into one volume, includin...

Diocesan Histories: Salisbury, Norwich and Durham

William henry Jones; Rev. Augustus Jessopp; J. L. Low · 1880 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1880-4. First edition. Cloth. Three works from the 'Diocesan Histories' series, covering the history of Salisbury Norwich and Durham, in uniform decorative cloth bindings, and folding maps. The first editions. Illus...

Women Who Have Worked and Won: The Life-Story of Mrs. Spurgeon, Mrs. Booth-Tucker, F.R. Havergal, and Ramabai

Jennie Chappell · 1904 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

London, S. W. Partridge and Co, [1904]. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this interesting illustrated work on the lives of many noted and influential Christian women, written by Jennie Chappell and bound in half calf. The first edition. Illustrated with a monochro...