Search Results: Religion from Attic Books

Love Printing Service, 1975. Booklet. Very good. ii, 58 p. 23 cm. B&w photos. Stapled card covers. Some discolouration around spine, ink notation to front cover.

Erin, Ontario: The Erin Advocate, 1967. Booklet. Near fine. 16 p. 22 cm. Photos inside covers. Stapled yellow covers. Text inside is attached a bit crookedly.

Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1972. Hardcover. ex library-good. xx, 392 p. 25 cm. B&w illustrations. Red cloth. Ex library with labels on spine and rear pastedown, ink stamps on top edge and title. Title stamp has slightly marked frontispiece opposite but not the actual picture. Some wear and soiling to boards. Spine a bit faded with crease near top. Foreword by Dr. W. K. Bunce. Topics icnlude the Kokutai Cult, the Japanese government, basic policy directives, the new constitution, separation of church and state, religion in education, elimination of ultranationalism and militarism, national holidays, war dead, Shinto, Buddhism, Christianity, Missionaries, Douglas MacArthur, the Emperor, etc.

London, Ontario: St. Andrew's United Church, 1930. Softcover. ex library-fair. 57 p. 21 cm. B&w illustrations. Card covers. Spine poor with hinges loose. Tape residue. Library blind stamp on title page. Ink stamp on front. Published to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of the Dedication of St. Andrew's Church, Oct. 31, 1869.

Belleville: Mika Publishing, 1979. Hardcover. Fine. 209 p. 24 cm. B&w illustrations. Green cloth with gold print.

London: Skeffington & Son, 1958. Hardcover. Very good/good. 216 p. 23 cm. 23 b&w photos in centre section. Black cloth hardcover in mylar-covered pictorial dustjacket. Chips and tears to edges of jacket. Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper. Lew Ayres is best known for his role in All Quiet On The Western Front. In 1954 he and Robert Duncan, an accomplished photographer and technician, embarked on a year-long, 40,000-mile trip around the world to study the non-Christian religions. Ayres hope to assist the cause of world peace, reinforce his own religious convictions, and entertain the public. This book, part of his attempt to fulfill the third goal, remains an interesting and often amusing look at the Asian world of the 1950s.

London: Frank Cass & Co., 1970. Third Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fair. Reprint of 1899 edition. Missionary Researches and Travels No. 12. xii, 319 p. 23 cm. B&w illustrations. Fold-out map at rear. Blue cloth in orange dustjacket. Jacket has chips and tears to edges. Book itself has a little wrinkling to front cover cloth, else fine. New introductory note by Ian Nance.

Calcutta: Sanskrit College, 1976. Hardcover. ex library-good. Calcutta Sanskrit College Research Series No. CXIV. xiv, 249 p. 24 cm. Tan cloth. Ex library with labels on spine and endpapers, ink stamps on top edge and title. Some discolouration to covers. Staple in front free endpaper. Some thumbing and notations on first pages.

Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 2005-06. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Nos. 325 & 326. 2 vols.: lxxiv, 254; lvii, 475 p. 23 cm. Brown cloth in cream dustjackets. Drawing on the uncomplete edition by E. J. Dobson with a glossary and additional notes by Richard Dance. Earl 13th century guide for women recluses.

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1849. Hardcover. Good. xiv, 335 p. 17 cm. Frontispiece, folding map, and 1 illustration of snow shoes. Brown cloth hardcover. Spine chipped and frayed, hinges cracked. Front free endpaper detached and has stamp. TPL 3000. TPL lists as having 5 plates, which are not in this volume.

Cambridge: J. Hayes, 1693. First English edition. Leather Bound. Good. 320 p. 20 cm. Full leather. Front board chipped near spine, and nearly detached. Spine cracked with chipped ends. Thumbing and a few stains. Page 79 has some marginalia. The author, in addition to his writings on theology, founded the Ashford Grammar School, still in operation today. It is one of very few schools to maintain a continuous association with its founder, and one of the Governors today is a direct descendant.

Madrid: Antonio de Sancha, 1771. Vellum. Very good. 520, [6]p. 21 cm vellum binding. SPANISH language text. Some foxing to pages. Several pages of index at end of book detached by still included. Text unmarked. Vellum soiled with a small tear at the top edge of the front of the wrapper. Ties for the binding broken. Vellum detached from binding along front hinge of spine. Contiene la explicacion del mysterio o la vida del Santa correspondiente a cada dia; algunas Reflexiones sobre la Epistola, una Meditacion despues del Evangelio de la Misa, y algunos exercicios practicos de deocion, o propositos adaptables a todo genero de personas. Fielmente Traducido del Frances en Castellano. Enero. con las licensias necesarias.

Madrid: Por Pedro Marin, 1777. Vellum. Fair. 389 p. 21 cm. Vellum binding. Text block is coming loose from covers. Worm holes at tops of pages throughout. Chips and tears in endpapers, dark stain in margin of p. 307. Title continues: "Para Los Principales Misterios de Jesu-Christo nuestro Redentor, y Festividades de su Santisima Madre, y Santos que celebra La Iglesia. Repartidos por Los Messes del Año. Sacados de Los Mas Clasicos Autores por El Padre Don Pedro Diaz de Guereñu, Presbytero, de la Congregacion de Clerigos Reglares de San Cayetano." Spanish text.

Madrid: Por Pedro Marin, 1777. Vellum. Fair. 389 p. 21 cm. Vellum binding. Spine ends chipped, edges worn, bottom of front coming unglued, much of rear chipped away. Text block detached, front endpapers missing. A few pages stained but overall very clean and bright. Title continues: "Para Los Principales Misterios de Jesu-Christo nuestro Redentor, y Festividades de su Santisima Madre, y Santos que celebra La Iglesia. Repartidos por Los Messes del Año. Sacados de Los Mas Clasicos Autores por El Padre Don Pedro Diaz de Guereñu, Presbytero, de la Congregacion de Clerigos Reglares de San Cayetano." Spanish text.

London: J. Walthoe et al, 1742. Tenth edition. Hardcover. Very good. [6], L, [8], xxviii, vii, [3], 622 p., interspersed with plates. 36 cm. 76 b&w engraved plates, including one fold-out across from p. 60 and the frontispiece. Some plates double numbered. Black and red title page. Full burgundy leather with raised bands and gilt impressing to spine. Respined with original spine overlaid. Repaired corners. Spots pp. 513-522 in margins. Tear in bottom of fold-out not affecting illustration. Tear in bottom of p. 89 not affecting text. Other small spots and thumbing. New free endpapers. Ink signature on front pastedown is that of "Frederick Hanmacher." Title continues: "As Also the Lives, Acts and Martyrdoms of His Apostles. In Two Parts. The First Part, containing The Life of Christ, Written by Jer. Taylor, late Lord Bishop of Down and Connor. The Second, containing The Lives of the Apostles, with an Enumeration and some Brief Remarks upon their first Successors in the Five Great Apostolical… Read More

Privately Printed, 1932. Hardcover. Near fine. 100 copies printed by George W. Jones at The Sign of The Dolphin, London. 37 p. 21 cm. Colour frontispiece portrait from original painting by Mr. Keturah Collings. Bound in beige cloth spine with marbled paper boards. Tiny ink inscription on front free endpaper. Black-rimmed letter from author to Mrs. Magruder pasted on front pastedown.

Galt (Ontario): William March, 1860. First Canadian edition. Hardcover. Very good. 166 p. 18 cm. Rebacked. Faint stain to front cover, paper chipped from bottom edge of covers, tears at bottom of title page and next two pages. Not in TPL.

Amsterdam: Thomas Lombrail, 1701. New edition. Disbound. Fair. lx, 156 p. 15 cm. From our As Is shelf. Disbound. Spine leather mostly chipped away. Library label on red and black title page. Front endpaper missing. Tear in last leaf, an endpaper. Text block mainly clean and bright. French text.

Geneva: Editions de l'Avenir, 1976. Third Edition. Softcover. Very good +. Academy of Islamic Research Rajab 1388. 95 p. 24 cm. Paperback. Light wear.

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2010. Hardcover. ex library-very good/Very good. xiii, [3], 233 p. 24 cm. 2 maps, 3 figures, 2 tables. Burgundy cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket taped to book. Ex library with labels on lower spine. Ink stamps on text block edges and title. Some tape on front cover.