Miracles by Lewis, C.S - 1947

First Edition. Paris: Jean Budry & Cie, 1929. In two volumes: La Porte d'Entrée: JAFFA and JAFFA la Belle. Copy no. 321 of the initial 1 - 1000 numbered print run. Photos and full description available on request. Condition generally very good except for water staining to covers (particularly vol.2 extending to FEP, half-title and title pages) and very minor traces of mould close to bindings. Photos are unscathed in both volumes: 449 bandw historic photos in vol.1, plus 370 in vol. 2. : more than 800 photo heliogravures in excellent condition.

Toronto: Pontificial Institute of Mediaeval Studies [0-88844-149-5] [2005], 1st printing. (Hardcover) 399pp. Fine. Issued without dust jacket. Appendix, bibliography, indexes. Based on the work of Peter Lombard--Bishop of Paris. Time Period Medieval. Publisher series: Studies and Texts 149 . Edited with introduction and notes by Girard J. Etzkorn & Joseph C. Wey. (Religion, Catholic Church, Theology).

Ma prière et ma contemplation. Traduit de l'allemand de Conseiller antique d'Eckartshausen. 237pp.+1 gravure h.t. 13,5x8,3 cm. Thad. noble de Schmidbauer et Compagnie, Vienne, 1797.
--- Text in french. Full leather with gilt lettering and decoration on spine and covers. Edgewear and wear at corners, spine ends and hinges. Sensitive hinges, tight binding. Marbled enpapers, all edges gilt. Occasional light foxing.

Mountain Valley, Va: Andrew Hess & Henry A. Showalter, 1853. Hardcover. Fair. Printed at the Office of Joseph Funk & Sons. 336 p.; 18 cm. Contemporary calf with five spine compartments between double gilt rules; black leather label with gilt-tooled title in second compartment. Green label on front fixed endpaper: "From Joseph Funk & Sons Cheap Printing and Binding Establishment." This appears to be the only work every published by Andrew Hess and Henry A. Showalter. The two volumes are paginated continuously and bound together. Very scarce. In Fair Condition: both boards are detached but present; loss of some leather on front board; title page is detached but present with loss along gutter, which results in minor loss from text on title page verso (To the Reader) but not from the title page itself; old repair holding back free endpaper to back board; old dampstain along lower page edges; foxing and occasional staining.

Joseph Sharpless, No. 4, Franklin-Court, (Market-Street, Between 3rd. and 4th Streets, South Side, Philadelphia, 1813; First American Edition; 223 pages; original leather boards; red morocco title label. Noteworthy Bible History instructional, adapted for the understanding of everyday people and the young. First published in England during the latter part of the 18th century under the title "An Abridgment Of The Holy Scriptures," it was widely disseminated in both Britain and on the Continent, and by 1814 had undergone 15 editions. Authored by William Sellon (1730-1790), revered curate of St. James, Clerkenwell from 1767 until his death, who was much esteemed for his personal integrity and power as a lecturer. His grandson, Baker Peter Smith, in an 1852 memoir of Sellon reports that he (Sellon) was facetiously referred to by his colleagues as "silver-tongued Sellon" for his ability to bring his hearers to such heights of enthusiasm with his oratory that donations poured in.… Read More