Religion
Copies of Instructions… for promoting the Moral and Religious Instruction of the Aboriginal Inhabitants of New Holland or Van Diemen's Land.
London: 23 September, 1831.
Macquarie, Brisbane & Darling on schools for Aborigines
Foolscap folio, 19 pp.; Later half roan, spine lettered in gilt. An excellent copy of a rare report, printing a decade of major dispatches from New South Wales Governors on the subjects of the Aborigines of New South...
Price (AUD):
$1,300.00
Ref: #4106401
Lecture II: On the Due Observance of the Sabbath.
Sydney: James Reading, n.d. but, 1841. Duodecimo, 24 pp.; original plain blue paper wrappers. Very scarce Sydney printing of the Reverend Adams' lecture on the Sabbath. Adams, a seaman's chaplain, delivered this sermon in the Scot's Church, Sydney on 25 July 1841. It was the second in a series of...
Price (AUD):
$885.00
Ref: #3412505
Ukazanie Puti v Tsarstvie Nebesnoe.
Moscow: Sinodalnaya Typografija, 1899.
Saint Innocent of Alaska
Octavo, [iv], 114 (paginated in Old Slavonic); old quarter sheep with marbled boards. Rare: evangelical text translated into the Aleut language (and printed in Cyrillic), prepared by Ivan Veniaminov-Popov (1797-1879), the great Orthodox missionary to the northern Pacific. Veniaminov was educated in...
Price (AUD):
$1,850.00
Ref: #4002642
Eight Sermons by the Rev. Charles Marsden Betts…
Canterbury: 1859.
Drowned in the Wollondilly
Octavo; in original cloth. Published as a memorial from the parishioners of Goulburn to their curate who was drowned age twenty-four when the Wollondilly river flooded in 1857. This volume was printed at St Augustine's College Press, Canterbury where Reverend Betts had been educated...
Price (AUD):
$1,100.00
Ref: #2206593
Lights and shadows of church-life in Australia including thoughts on some things at home.
London: Jackson & Walford, 1860.
Reflections upon the Colonial Missionary Society
Octavo, appendix, advertisement leaves; in original blind-stamped cloth. With the stamp of Arthur W Piper, South Australian Supreme Court Jurist, Federationist and son of the long-serving pastor of the Adelaide district, Thomas Piper. Thomas Binney, a fervant Congregationalist minister...
Price (AUD):
$325.00
Ref: #4108108
Vocabolario della lingua nativa dell' Australia occidentale…
Rome: Coi tipi della S. Congregazione de propaganda fide, 1845. Duodecimo, 50 pp., uncut and unopened; original plain blue paper wrappers. A superb copy of this rare and interesting pamphlet, the Italian edition of John Brady's Descriptive vocabulary of the native language of W. Australia (Ferguson, 3996; see 3995 for...
Price (AUD):
$1,650.00
Ref: #3906199
Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages, and Religions…
London: Printed for John Bill, 1614.
"The Inhabitants of that South continent, are Idolaters"
Small quarto, bound with another work in contemporary limp vellum; boxed. First edition: containing a little noticed discussion of the Southern Continent and its likely inhabitants. Brerewood, Professor of Astronomy and scholar in many fields, explores...
Price (AUD):
$9,850.00
Ref: #3907227
Forty Years in New Zealand.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1878. Large octavo, portrait and plates; in original pictorial cloth. With a large section of "Maoridom"
Price (AUD):
$275.00
Ref: #2903114
The State of Religion and Education in New South Wales
London: J.Cross and Simpkin, Marshall. 1840. Octavo, with a folding map and folding tables; complete with the errata slip, in the original cloth. First Edition. Burton was a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, whose views on the moral decline of colonial society were a significant influence...
Price (AUD):
$975.00
Ref: #3609618
Scelta di lettere edificanti scritte dalle Missioni straniere…
Milan: Ranieri Fanfani, 1825-1829.
Fine Americana in original wrappers
Eighteen small quarto volumes, with a total of 101 handcoloured plates and seven maps; an excellent set as issued in the publisher's tinted wrappers. Scarce in original condition: a record of Catholic missionary activity across the globe from the seventeenth to...
Price (AUD):
$7,500.00
Ref: #4211248
Antiquitates Apostolicae or, the History of the Holy Apostles…
London: R. Royston, 1676.
The dreaded 'cauldron of boyling oyl'
Folio, with a frontispiece and double page 'Tree of Faith' plate, several other cuts in the text; contemporary gilt-ruled polished crimson calf, spine with gilt decorated panels between raised bands. A beautifully printed history of the early church, illustrated with...
Price (AUD):
$2,700.00
Ref: #4401855
Large illuminated leaf from an Antiphonal centred on the word Jerusalem.
Venice: circa 1430. Illuminated leaf on vellum, 469 x 353 mm., with illuminated initial "I", 122 x 90 mm. (body of initial); initial on a burnished gold ground and painted in rich colours of blue, red, green and ochre, the initial extended with lush leafy decoration in similar colours with...
Price (AUD):
$11,000.00
Ref: #3911457
The History of Hindostan…
London: T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1770-, 1772. Three volumes, quarto, folding map and eight plates (including frontispieces), a fine set in handsome contemporary gilt decorated calf, spine in raised bands with red and green morocco labels. A beautifully bound set of Dow's history of Bengal, illustrated with...
Price (AUD):
$2,750.00
Ref: #4102404
A Sermon, delivered at the Cathedral of Ely...
London: James Hodson, 1816. Quarto, disbound. Sermon delivered in the aftermath of the Littleport riots of 1816 on the Isle of Ely. The riots arose from inflation following the Napoleonic Wars that drove the price of bread and other necessities beyond the reach of the labouring poor. During the subsequent...
Price (AUD):
$500.00
Ref: #2302551
A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean…
London: Printed by S. Gosnell for T. Chapman, 1799.
"Greater Australia" before Flinders
Quarto, with six plates and seven maps (most folding), list of subscribers, errata leaf, library markings but a fine tall copy in modern red half calf by Sangorski. First edition, an attractive copy of the Chapman edition...
Price (AUD):
$4,400.00
Ref: #4106065
The 104th Psalm…
London: Vincent Brooks Day & Son, circa 1870.
Unusually fine Victorian panorama
Folding panorama in its original cloth boards, chromo-lithographic plates pasted together to form one continuous panorama 113 x 3660 mm.; lettered in gilt to front. Beautiful coloured-lithographic panorama, as issued in its original decorated cloth boards: the series...
Price (AUD):
$1,800.00
Ref: #4202835
Illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours.
France: Paris or Rouen, circa 1475-1500.
Late medieval manuscript leaf.
Illuminated leaf, 215 x 139 mm., with an illuminated panel border on each side of the leaf, one 2-line initial, ten 1-line initial and eight line-fillers, 18 lines of gothic bookhand; mounted. A beautifully illuminated leaf from a luxurious fifteenth-century...
Price (AUD):
$2,750.00
Ref: #2909770
Illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours.
Paris or Rouen: circa 1475-1500. Illuminated leaf, 215 x 139 mm., with a panel border on both sides of the leaf composed of blue and gold acanthus and coloured flowers and leaves on shaped grounds of liquid gold, three 2-line initials in pink with white tracery, naturalistic branch line fillers...
Price (AUD):
$1,950.00
Ref: #3504685
By-Laws of the Moss Vale Lodge Harmony
Sydney: F.W. White, 1888. Duodecimo; in limp blue binder's cloth. An attractive piece of ephemera. This small pamphlet lists all of the duties for the members of the Moss Vale Lodge, and includes a list of the principal officers.
Price (AUD):
$55.00
Ref: #3806689
Illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours.
Paris or Rouen: circa 1495. Illuminated leaf, 215 x 152 mm., with a panel border on both sides of the leaf composed of blue and gold acanthus leaves and coloured flowers and leaves on diagonal grounds of liquid gold, illuminated initials in white tracery on pink grounds, and numerous 1-line...
Price (AUD):
$1,950.00
Ref: #2909699
Illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours.
France: circa 1480. Illuminated leaf, 182 x 118 mm., with a panel border of liquid gold on one side and red ground on the other, nine 1-line and two 2-line initials in red and blue and gold, eighteen lines of text;. A well-illuminated leaf from a French Book of Hours...
Price (AUD):
$1,350.00
Ref: #2909716
Illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours.
Northern France (probably Paris): circa 1475-1500. Illuminated leaf, 215 x 139 mm., with an illuminated panel border on each side of the leaf, one 2-line initial, eleven 1-line initial and nine line-fillers, 18 lines of neat gothic bookhand. A beautifully illuminated leaf from a French Book of Hours with all...
Price (AUD):
$2,750.00
Ref: #2909769
Voyage autour du monde…
Paris: Henri Plon, 1871. Octavo, colour folding map of Tahiti and Morea; in contemporary quarter morocco. Author's presentation copy of this study of Tahiti and the surrounding islands.
Price (AUD):
$850.00
Ref: #2903230
Umbra in Luce: Sive consensus et dissensus religionum profanarum…
Jena: Bauhofer, 1667.
Esoteric idols and child sacrifice
Small quarto, with nine woodcuts throughout the text and a folding plate; in modern gilt ruled mottled calf, leaf of manuscript notes dated 1718 pasted to front blank endpaper. Scarce comparative study of non-Christian religious practices (the so called religionum profanum), containing...
Price (AUD):
$1,285.00
Ref: #3703906