Religion from R & A Petrilla

Cincinnati: Lodge, L'Hommedieu & Co., Printers, 1835. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 14pp, disbound, paper remnant along spine. 8.75" x 5.25" [American Imprints 35464].

Portland, Oregon: Champoeg Press, 1957. Hardcover. Fine. 76pp w/index; tipped frontispiece portrait of Father Joseph Giorda, S.J., rubricated title-page and chapter titles, one plate from a photograph, several other illustrations. Bound in pictorial red cloth, gilt spine title. 10" x 6.5" One of only 804 copies, designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy.

Hancock, MA / Hanover, NH: Shaker Community / Univ Press of New England, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Two volumes. pp: 253 + 338 with author-title index. Bound in tan cloth, gilt spine lettering on black background. 10.25" x 7" Contains 3,986 annotated entries. Volume I is devoted to literature by the Shakers; Volume II, literature about the… Read more about this item

Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. pp: x, 271; facsimiles of Mark Hoffman's forgeries and related correspondence. Bound in black cloth, gilt spine lettering, illustrated dust wrapper. 10.25" x 7

New York: American Home Missionary Society / John A. Gray, Printer, 1857. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 34pp. Bound in decorated yellow wrappers, sewn. 9" x 5.75" Sturtevant was then president of Illinois College. Here, he discusses emigration to the 16 non-slaveholding States. "For obvious reasons...we shall leave out of our estimate the colored population of the Free States.… Read more about this item

London: Printed by John Hasler, 1846. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 31pp. Contains the texts of eight papers, including: On the Separation of the Literary and the Theological Course, by Rev. F.W. Gotch; The Practicability and Expediency of Requiring All Students to Pay, at Least, for Their Board, by Rev. B. Davies; Theological Education in Germany and America,… Read more about this item

Boston: William Collier and Lincoln & Edmands, 1829. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 24pp, including Appendix. Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.25" x 5.25" Babcock was associate pastor of the First Baptist Church of Salem. The Appendix here comprises the Constitution of the Education Society of Young Men of Boston, formed… Read more about this item

Boston: Lincoln and Edmands, 1832. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 12pp. Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.25" x 5.25" [American Imprints 14531].

London: Printed by George E. Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode; Sold by Barritt & Co, 1842. Hardcover. Very Good. Unpaginated, leaves bulk to 1-3/4". Separate title-page for psalms dated 1842. Bound handsomely in brown morocco, ribbed spine with gilt title, gilt-decorated turn-ins; polished brass corners and clasp, stamped Barritt & Co., London; all edges gilt. Original owner's name and… Read more about this item

Portland: Printed at the Argus Office, 1820. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 34pp. Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.25" x 5.25" [American Imprints 711].

Portland [Maine]: Printed by Charles Day & Co, 1846. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 32pp. Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.25" x 5.25" [American Imprints 46-1411.] Waterville College is the former name of Colby University.

Andover [MA]: Warren F. Draper, 1850. First Separate Edition. Softcover. Very Good. pp: 26, (2). Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.25" x 5" Park asserts that more colleges and professional schools "are needed, especially in our Western States, to resist the encroachments of foreigners upon those great principles for which our… Read more about this item

London: Hamilton, Adams and Co, 1844. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 48pp. Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.25" x 5" The author admonishes seminary graduates and new ministers to pay attention to classical studies and philosophy, refers to the "at last successful battle for the emancipation of the negro slave" in… Read more about this item

Germantaun [Germantown, PA]: Michael Billmeyer, 1806. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. pp: 271, (4) Register [index]. Bound in old flame calf, five gilt rules on spine; printer's devices on title-page, tailpiece, and as separators between prayers in text. 6" x 3.5". Near fine condition for the age. [Early American Imprints 10468. Botte, First Century of German Language… Read more about this item

Rahway, NJ: Union Democrat Press, 1899. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. (10)pp; two small views from photographs, full-page portrait of Rev. John A. Liggett. Bound in light-green textured wrappers, gilt lettering and ornaments on cover. Covers slightly tanning. 8" x 6

Burlington, NJ: Franklin Ferguson, Printer, 1859. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 8pp, integral title-page, printed on an unopened broadsheet. 9.5" x 6" Written in pencil at top of cover: "Proof--Pres by F. Ferguson 12/59." This assembly drew "from six to seven thousand persons, of whom twenty-five hundred were Sunday School scholars." Chairman for the occastion was John D.… Read more about this item

Bridgeton, NJ: G.W. McCowan, Book and Job Printer, 1892. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. (19)pp; frontispiece and 8 other full-page views. Printed throughout in blue ink. Bound in blue textured wrappers, cover decorated in blue and gilt. 7.75" x 5.75". Laid in is a leaflet for a Vocal and Instrumental Concert to benefit Irving Avenue Presbyterian Church, held… Read more about this item

1952. Original manuscript. Hardcover. Very Good. Oblong quarto. Contains 30 pages of handwritten entries (more than 300) on printed forms: name, home address, home church, date, remarks. The first entry is dated May 11, 1952; and the final one is dated 30 March 1986. Bound in red morocco, all edges gilt, cover gilt-stamped: Our Church Guests / Sandy… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Victorious Life Testimony, 1937. Original documents. Very Good. (8)pp brochure, folds open to 8.5" x 14", printed on pale-green stock; 7 illustrations from photographs. Lists the dates and hourly activities of this Christian Bible Camp in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, offering some recreation and many hours at prayer, and lists the names of the many… Read more about this item

New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1855. Morocco. Very Good. pp: 670 + 237 with first-line index. Bound in black pebble-grain morocco, elaborate gilt-stamped decorations on spine and both boards, all edges gilt, yellow coated endpapers. 5.5" x 3