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Samuel Clark The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History containing The Life and death of Our Blessed Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ, The Lives of the Fathers and Other Learned and Famous Divines from Christ's time, to this present Age, the Lives of Many Eminent Christians whic
London Printed for Tho. Sawbridge and Will. Birch 1675 2nd Edition Hardcover Good
The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History Containing the Life and Death of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, The Lives of the fathers and Other Learned and Famous Divines from Christ's Time to This Present Age, the Lives of Many Eminent Christians which have lived from the Primitive Times to the Present Age, the Lives of Christian Emperors, Kings and Sovereign Princes and the Lives of Christians of an Inferior Rank Printed for Sawbridge and Will. Birch in 1675 Bound in full leather with marbled endpapers. In one volume but with two parts separately paged, the first part in two sections - Life and death of Our Blessed Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ followed by The Lives of the Fathers and Other Learned and Famous Divines from Christ's time. The second part has a separate title-page for The Lives of Many Eminent Christians which have lived from the Primitive Times to the Present Age (stating it to be the 2nd edition) and is divided into two "Books" which are firstly the Lives of Christian Emperors, Kings and Sovereign Princes and secondly the Lives of Christians of an Inferior Rank the, to this present Age The title-page to the first part is missing but present are the Author's Dedicatory Epistle to the Right Honourable Philip Lord Wharton, Baron of Wharton in the County of Westmorland And to the Lady Ann Wharton, His Pious and Vertuous Consort and dated "From My Study in Hammersmith" Aug 2 1675 (this epistle is detached, darkened and repaired at the bottom edge of the first page) (unpaginated, 3); the Author's Epistle to the Christian Reader dated 1649, (2); To the Christian Reader from Edmond Calamy (2); To the Christian Reader from Simeon Ash and John Wall, dated 1649 (4); Greek verse with decorated header (1); verses to Samuel Clark from John Fuller, Guiliem Jenkyn, Sam. Clark (father), and Jo. Clark (son) (3); A Table of Names of those Persons, whose Lives are contained in this First Part (2); A Table of the Persons whose Lives are Contained in the First part set down Alphabetically (2); The Life and Death of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 1-27pp; introductory paragraphs, errata and books printed by this author (1) The Lives of the Fathers and Other Learned and Famous Divines From Christ's Time to This Present Age, illustrated with portraits, 504 pp, the reverses of pages 123 and 126 are incorrectly numbered as 224 and 225 but the text follows, similarly the reverses of pages 163 and 166 are numbered as 284 and 285, pages 171-174 are incorrectly numbered as pages 191-194, pages 180-181 are incorrectly numbered as pages 200/201, page 205 follows page 184, pages 175-179 are between pages 194 and 200, these are printing rather than binding errors, the text follows throughout. There are discrete paper repairs to a tear on page 377/378. A Table of all the Principal things contained in the Lives of the Fathers and latter Divines (4). Title page for the Second Part, Book 1; the Epistle to the reader (2); verses etc to S Clark (4); The Lives of Christian Emperors, Kings and Soveraign Princes, 116pp; An Alphabetical Table of all the chief things contained in this first part of the Second Volume (4); Title Page of the Second Part, Book 2 and Second part, 104pp, Table to Second part (4) - pages are torn across about two-thirds of the way down and the lower parts of both of theses pages are missing. Full leather with worn corners and small amounts of loss at spine ends and short tears in leather on rear, marbled endpapers, the internal front joint is wholly split and the internal rear joint is cracked but held by cords, the covers are firmly attached to the spine. The internal binding is sound except as noted, the pages are a little darkened.
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850.00 GBP
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Sir Henry Hobart The Reports of That Reverend and Learned Judge, the Right Honourable Sir Henry Hobart, Knight and Baronet, Lord Chief Justice of his Majesties Court of Common Pleas. And Chancellor to both Their Highnesses Henry and Charles, Princes of Wales. Purged from
Printed by R & W Leybourn for William Lee and Daniel Pakeman and to be sold at their shops at Fleet Stret, London 1658 Hardcover Very Good No Jacket
Leather covers, appear to be original, clean frontis portrait of Sir Henry Hobart, table of "The Names of All the Cases Reported or cited, Alphabetically disposed and so transposed, that the Cases may be as well fouud by the names of the Defendants as by the names of the Plaintiffs", Reports of Sr Henry Hobart lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (350 pages), An Exact Table to the Ld Hobarts Reports (non-paginated) with decorated header. Brown Leather is rubbed and lightly marked, corners are bumped, spine ends are worn, leather and inner paper of front hinge are cracked but cover is securely attached by cords, rear hinge is intact. There is a small aged bookplate on the inside front cover with the apparent initials GP, a name on the inside front cover - Tho. Harmer, 2 names on font end-paper (which may have been added) - Tho Farmer & Sam Paddison, a blank front end-paper, name at top of title-page - E Bacon, binding is sound, pages are a little darkened, there are very occasional longstanding marginal notes in ink. There is a worm hole in the outer margin through some of the pages of the table towards the rear and on the inside of the rear cover. There is a handwritten note and date of 1663 written upside down at the bottom of the inside of the rear cover.
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200.00 GBP
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Thomas Dekker The Seven Deadly Sins of London: Drawn in seuen (seven) seuerall (several) Coaches, Through the seuen seuerall Gates of the Citie Bringing the Plague with them. Opus septem Dierum
University Press, Cambridge & London 1905 Hardcover Good
Limited Edition "Of this Edition, printed in the Cambridge type upon hand-made paper, two hundred and fifty copies have been printed, of which two hundred and twenty-five are for sale in England and America & the type has been distributed". Based on the 1606 Edition of Dekker's Work "printed by E A for Nathaniel Butter, and are to bee sold at his shop neere Saint Austen's gate". Plain darkened grey boards ( marked on rear cover) with white darkened title-label, worn corners and a darkened parchment spine, small bookplate on inside front cover "A K Sanchrie", front and rear end-papers are darkened (probably from paste/glue of front covers). Sound binding, clean uncut pages.
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165.00 GBP
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Thomas of Kempis The Following of Christ writen in Latine by Thomas of Kempis, Canon Regular of the Order of St Augustin, translated into English and in this last Edition, Reviewed compared with several former Editions. Together with the Author's Life
Printed for M.T. , London 1686 Hardcover Very Good
474 pages: Preface, The Life of Thomas a Kempis (pages 1-23); A Table of the Chapters (non-paginated); Book I (pages 1-102); Book II (pages 103-158); Book III (pages 159-385); Book IV (pages 386-474). Pocket-sized (approx 11cm by 6cm by 3cm), very dark brown leather binding with gilt decoration on covers and on banded spine, lightly rubbed with bumped corners, front hinge split for approx. 2 cm at bottom edge. Faded marbled end-papers, gilt blocks, Previous owner's name pencilled on reverse of front endpaper. Pages a little darkened but otherwise clean.
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475.00 GBP
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