Item 415Catechismus, Oder kurzer Unterricht Christlicher Lehre, für die angehende Jugend in der Churfürstlichen Pfalz und andern Reformirten Orten zu Gebrauchen

[Catechisms]

German religious instructional text, printed in Germantown, Pennsylvania by Peter Leibert and Michael Billmeyer, one of their first publications. Leibert & Billmeyer, who opened up shop in Germantown in 1784, were in some ways the successors to Christopher Saur, having acquired much of his stock following the liquidation of Saur's firm.

Germantown: Leibert und Billmeyer, 1784. 118 pp. 24mo. Period sheep-backed boards. 118 pp. 24mo.

Item 224[Canon Law] Corpus Juris Canonici Emendatum et Notis Illustratum: Gregorii XIII. Pont. Max. Jussu Editum. [WITH] Decretales D. Gregorii Papae XI [WITH] Liber Sextus Decretalium D. Bonifacii Papae VII. Suae Integritati una cum Clementinis et Extravagantibus, Restitutus [WITH] Institut. Juris Canonici, Quibus Jus Pontificium Singulari Methodo Libris IV Comprehenditur a Joan. Paulo Lancelotto Perusino

Giovanni Paolo Lancellotti‏; Corpus Juris Canonici

Early 17th century collection of canon law published in early 17th-century Lyon. **EXTRA SHIPPING MAY BE REQUIRED**

Lugduni [i.e. Lyon]: 1613-1614. Four works bound in one. Contents: Corpus Juris Canonici Emendatum et Notis Illustratum: Gregorii XIII. Pont. Max. Jussu Editum. [34], 318 leaves (1272 columns); Decretales D. Gregorii Papae XI. [10], 189 leaves (754 columns); Liber Sextus Decretalium D. Bonifacii Papae VII. Suae Integritati una cum Clementinis et Extravagantibus, Restitutus. [6], 102 leaves (406 columns); Institut. Juris Canonici, Quibus Jus Pontificium Singulari Methodo Libris IV Comprehenditur a Joan. Paulo Lancelotto Perusino. [4], 40 leaves (158 columns), [41] leaves. Period blindstamped pigskin, modern morocco lettering.....

Item 5The Grounds & Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy and Religion Enquired Into. In a Letter Written to R.L.

John Eachard

First Edition of this work attributed to John Eachard, the DNB says of him and this work: "This work, which brims over with wit and humour, had a rapid sale, and passed through many editions. The author represents the contempt with which the clergy were generally regarded as being in great measure due to a wrong method of education or the poverty of some of the inferior clergy." Eachard became Master of Catharine Hall, Cambridge in 1675, and Vice-Chancellor in 1679. This copy with the armorial bookplate of James Hustler (d.1769), of Acklam, Yorkshire, England, affixed to the verso of.....

Item 247A View of the Expected Christian Millennium, Which is Promised in the Holy Scriptures, and is Believed to be Nigh Its Commencement, and Must Transpire before the Conflagration of the Heavens and the Earth

Josiah Priest

Owner inscription on front flyleaf: "Aquilus Dari[us](?) his Book Bought January 27 1829 price – 1-25".

Albany: Published for Subscribers, Loomis' Press, 1828. Illustrated with a long folding woodcut frontispiece, "A Chart of the River of Life, or the Dispensations, from Abraham to the End of Time". 408 pp. Sixth Edition. Period sheep, lettering piece. Illustrated with a long folding woodcut frontispiece, "A Chart of the River of Life, or the Dispensations, from Abraham to the End of Time". 408 pp.

Item 21A Journal of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, and Labour of Love in the Work of the Ministry, of that Worthy Elder, and Faithful Servant of Jesus Christ, William Edmundson, Who Departed this Life, the Thirty First of the Sixth Month, 1712

William Edmundson

Life of the introducer of the Society of Friends, or Quakerism, to Ireland. Of American interest for the description of three trips he made to America, in 1671, 1675, and 1683, including descriptions of some of the Indian Wars in Rhode Island during this period. Edmundson had previously fought in Cromwell's Parliamentary army, and would eventually be imprisoned under James II for protesting the treatment of Irish Protestants. The Dublin issue of the work is considered the first edition, with this London issue following later in the same year. Provenance: inscription on front free endpaper: "Richard Leavers Book - 1793";.....

Item 2A Wedding-Ring Fit for the Finger; Or, The Salve of Divinity on the Sore of Humanity

William Secker

A nineteenth-century chapbook reprint of a sermon originally preached a wedding in 1658. William Secker is known largely for this sermon (cf. DNB). The sermon, on Genesis 3:18 ("And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make an help-meet for him."), deals with the duties, joys, and temptations faced by the married person, and was a perennially popular sermon, as evidenced by this reprint over a century and a half later by M. Randall, a printer active in early 19th-century England.

Stirling: Printed and Sold by M. Randall, ca. 1815? 24 pp.....