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Pearls & Corals: Al-Lu'lu'wal-Marjan: Arabic-English: A Collection of Agreed upon Ahadith from Al-Bukhari & Muslim (2 volume set) (ARABIC TEXT WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS) by:
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Pearls & Corals: Al-Lu'lu'wal-Marjan: Arabic-English: A Collection of Agreed upon Ahadith from Al-Bukhari & Muslim (2 volume set) (ARABIC TEXT WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS)
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Hardcover. Saudi Arabia, Dar-us-Salam Publications, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two volume set. Arabic text with English translations. "The Translation of the Meanings of Al-Lu'lu'wal-Marjan" Vol 1: 504 pages. Vol 2: 511 pages Both volumes in similar condition, very good. Dust covers have just a little bit of shelf wear along tops of spines, Vol. 2 has small tear on back dust cover over ISBN label where original bookstore price tag was rubbed off. Otherwise clean. Very clean inside. Gilt title on spines and front cover boards.

Record # 30477

Price: $60.00

Price: $60.00 

Hegel's Development: Night Thoughts (Jena 1801-1806) by: Harris, H.S.
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Hegel's Development: Night Thoughts (Jena 1801-1806) by: Harris, H.S.Hegel's Development: Night Thoughts (Jena 1801-1806) by: Harris, H.S.

Hegel's Development: Night Thoughts (Jena 1801-1806)
by: Harris, H.S.

Hardcover. Oxford, England, Clarendon Press, 1st Edition, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 627 pages. Hardcover. Sequel to Hegel's Development: Toward the Sunlight 1770-1801(Clarendon Press, 1972). Black cover boards, gilt title and design on spine. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, faded (shelfwear), light agewear, glossy. Harris distinguishes three main phases in Hegel's development over this period: the period of callaboration with Schelling (1801-3); the appearance of a three-part 'phenomenological' system (1803-50; and the emergence of the mature system.

Record # 99060

Price: $100.00
Price: $100.00 

Cluade Buffier and Thomas Reid: Two Common-Sense Philosophers by: Marcil-Lacaste, Louise
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Cluade Buffier and Thomas Reid: Two Common-Sense Philosophers by: Marcil-Lacaste, LouiseCluade Buffier and Thomas Reid: Two Common-Sense Philosophers by: Marcil-Lacaste, Louise

Cluade Buffier and Thomas Reid: Two Common-Sense Philosophers
by: Marcil-Lacaste, Louise

Hardcover. Canada, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 227 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth cover boards, black title on spine and front cover. Pages clean and bright. Spine straight. Binding tight. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Brown endpapers. This book challenges widespread asumptions about common-sense philosophies and provides a major reassessment of an influential segment of the history of ideas.

Record # 99067

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Averroes' Tahafut Al-Tahafut (The Incoherence of the Incoherence) Volume 1 & 2 by: Van Den Bergh, Somin
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Averroes' Tahafut Al-Tahafut (The Incoherence of the Incoherence) Volume 1 & 2 by: Van Den Bergh, SominAverroes' Tahafut Al-Tahafut (The Incoherence of the Incoherence) Volume 1 & 2 by: Van Den Bergh, Somin

Averroes' Tahafut Al-Tahafut (The Incoherence of the Incoherence) Volume 1 & 2
by: Van Den Bergh, Somin

Hardcover. London, England, Messrs. Luzac & Co., 1st Edition, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volume set. Hardcovers. Domestic shipping only. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Vol. 1: 374 pages; Vol. 2: 217 pages. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Volume 2 has fading to spine. Pages unmarked. Spines straight. Binding tight. An important Islamic philosophical treatise in which the author defends the use of Aristotelian philosophy within Islamic thought. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 99151

Price: $200.00
Price: $200.00 

Lactantius' Epitome of the Divine Institutes by: Blakeney, E.H. (Editor and translation with commentary)
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Lactantius' Epitome of the Divine Institutes by: Blakeney, E.H. (Editor and translation with commentary)Lactantius' Epitome of the Divine Institutes by: Blakeney, E.H. (Editor and translation with commentary)

Lactantius' Epitome of the Divine Institutes
by: Blakeney, E.H. (Editor and translation with commentary)

Hardcover. London, England, SPCK, 1st Edition, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 175 pages. Hardcover. Red cover boards, fading to spine and edges, gilt title on spine. Pages unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. The Epitome covers a wide range of topics, including the nature of God, the creation of the world, the fall of man, the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, and the end of the world. It also discusses various aspects of Christian morality.

Record # 99155

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Early Christianity and Greek Paideia by: Jaeger, Werner
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Early Christianity and Greek Paideia by: Jaeger, WernerEarly Christianity and Greek Paideia by: Jaeger, Werner

Early Christianity and Greek Paideia
by: Jaeger, Werner

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st Edition, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 154 pages. Hardcover. Navy blue cloth cover boards, title on spine in white and small gilt design on front cover board. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Light pencil marks (erasable) throughout. Binding tight. Spine straight. This small book, the last work of a world-renowned scholar, has established itself as a classic. It provides a superb overview of the vast historical process by which Christianity was Hellenized and Hellenic civilization became Christianized.

Record # 99157

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by: Croce, Benedetto, Douglas Ainslie (Translation)
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Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by: Croce, Benedetto, Douglas Ainslie (Translation)Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by: Croce, Benedetto, Douglas Ainslie (Translation)

Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
by: Croce, Benedetto, Douglas Ainslie (Translation)

Hardcover. London, England, Macmillan and Co. , 2nd Edition, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 503 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, some chipping to edges of boards. Tanning to pages and edges from age. Binding very good. Spine straight. Benedetto Croce is one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. His work in aesthetics and historiography has been controversial, but enduring.

Record # 99158

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy in England in the Seventeenth Century (Two volumes) by: Tullich, John
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Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy in England in the Seventeenth Century (Two volumes) by: Tullich, JohnRational Theology and Christian Philosophy in England in the Seventeenth Century (Two volumes) by: Tullich, John

Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy in England in the Seventeenth Century (Two volumes)
by: Tullich, John

Hardcover. Edinburch and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 2nd revised edition, 1874, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol. 1: 463 pages. Vol. 2: 500 pages. Scarce. Hardcovers. Colored endpapers (black). Light pencil notes/marks in margins. Red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, light age wear to covers. Front endpapers' gutters are split, binding is good. Spines straight. Edges untrimmed, pages and edges have some tanning from age. Some foxing to preliminary pages. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 99160

Price: $120.00
Price: $120.00 

Gautama's Nyaua Sutras (With Vatsuayana-Bhasya) by: Jha, Ganganatha (English translation with revised notes)
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Gautama's Nyaua Sutras (With Vatsuayana-Bhasya) by: Jha, Ganganatha (English translation with revised notes)Gautama's Nyaua Sutras (With Vatsuayana-Bhasya) by: Jha, Ganganatha (English translation with revised notes)

Gautama's Nyaua Sutras (With Vatsuayana-Bhasya)
by: Jha, Ganganatha (English translation with revised notes)

Hardcover. POONA, Oriental Book Agency, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 567 pages. Hardcover. Boards bound at spine with orange quartercloth, has fading and foxing to spine from age. Gray cardboard cover boards (some agewear). Pages and edges have some tanning, but otherwise unmarked. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. This work is a product of seven manuscripts. It begins with the English tranlation of lectures on Nyayasutras by Gautama. The author has also used his notes from Bodhasiddhi.

Record # 99164

Price: $150.00
Price: $150.00 

Essays on Truth and Reality by: Bradley, F.H.
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Essays on Truth and Reality by: Bradley, F.H.Essays on Truth and Reality by: Bradley, F.H.

Essays on Truth and Reality
by: Bradley, F.H.

Hardcover. London, England, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, Reprint, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 480 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper and names written on front flyleaf. Light pencil notes and underlining. Spine straight. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Split at gutter on title page, but binding good. Bradley was a leading member of the philosophical movement known as British idealism.

Record # 99175

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Locke's Theory of Knowledge and its Historical Relations by: Gibson, James
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Locke's Theory of Knowledge and its Historical Relations by: Gibson, JamesLocke's Theory of Knowledge and its Historical Relations by: Gibson, James

Locke's Theory of Knowledge and its Historical Relations
by: Gibson, James

Hardcover. London, England, Cambirdge at the University Press, 1st Edition, 1917, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 338 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover board, gilt faded on cover, some agewear. Some light pencil within. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Some tanning to pages and edges.

Record # 99182

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Zion's Pilgrim by: Hawker, Robert
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Zion's Pilgrim by: Hawker, RobertZion's Pilgrim by: Hawker, Robert

Zion's Pilgrim
by: Hawker, Robert

Hardcover. Middlebury, VT, Swift & Chipman, 2nd American from the 7th London Edition, 1811, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 202 pages. Hardcover. Brown leather cover boards, front cover board slightly bowed (see image), gilt title on spine with gilt bands. Binding tight. Spine straight. Some appropriate agewear throughout: tanning, foxing, etc. A series of graphic and interesting scenes illustrating the temper and conduct of the pilgrim on his way to Zion.

Record # 99194

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

The Jerusalem Bible by: Jones, Alexander (General Editor) Salvador Dali (Illust.)
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The Jerusalem Bible by: Jones, Alexander (General Editor) Salvador Dali (Illust.)The Jerusalem Bible by: Jones, Alexander (General Editor) Salvador Dali (Illust.)

The Jerusalem Bible
by: Jones, Alexander (General Editor) Salvador Dali (Illust.)

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1st thus, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1715 pages. Hardcover. color illustrations throughout, illustrated by Salvador Dali. Pages unmarked (including back pages intedend for recording of family information). 2 red ribbon book marks attached at spine. No slipcase. Marbled decorated endpapers. leather cover boards, gilt title and decoration on spine and front cover board. Gilt edges (slightly faded). Binding beautiful. Spine straight. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 99224

Price: $250.00
Price: $250.00 

La Pratique Des Vertus Chrestiennes Ou Tous Les Devoirs De L'Homme (FRENCH TEXT) by: n/a
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La Pratique Des Vertus Chrestiennes Ou Tous Les Devoirs De L'Homme (FRENCH TEXT)
by: n/a

Hardcover. Chez Rene' Pean, 1st thus, 1680, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 648 pages. Hardcover. Brown leather bound cover boards (age wear-see images) with faded gilt title on spine and raised bands. Front cover board completely separated from spine with front flyleaf. Previous owner's notes on preliminary page, dated "1694 16 November". Dark brown dyed edges. Tanning to pages (some partially detached from spine) from age. A few stray ink marks on pages. Christian devotions in French text.

Record # 99229

Price: $200.00
Price: $200.00 

Kingdom and the Power and the Glory, The - Stories of Faith and Marvel Selected from the King James by: Daugherty, James
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Kingdom and the Power and the Glory, The - Stories of Faith and Marvel Selected from the King James
by: Daugherty, James

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with black design. Shows some minor wear but mostly a clean, nice copy. Black & white illustrations by Daugherty. No dust jacket.

Record # 109688

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Man Of Galilee, The - Twelve Scenes From The Life Of Christ by: Barton, Bruce and Dean Cornwell
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Man Of Galilee, The - Twelve Scenes From The Life Of Christ
by: Barton, Bruce and Dean Cornwell

NY, Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1st Thus, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 137 pages, 12 color plates by Dean Cornwell. Color illustrated frontispiece. Prelim pages with light foxing. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Soil and light edgewear to covers. Plates clean and bright.

Record # 203099

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

Sevilla Cathedral by: Delgado. Francisco Gil (Editor)
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Sevilla Cathedral
by: Delgado. Francisco Gil (Editor)

Softcover. Spain, Editorial Escudo de Oro. S.A., 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 93 pages. Softcover. Mild soiling throughout. An otherwise unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color photographs throughout.

Record # 353569

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Russian Church and Russian Dissent, The: Comprising Orthodoxy, Dissent, and Erratic Sects by: Heard, Albert F.
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Russian Church and Russian Dissent, The: Comprising Orthodoxy, Dissent, and Erratic Sects
by: Heard, Albert F.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 310 pages. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Light wear and rubbing to covers and edges of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 354098

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Historical Account of The Church Hymnary: Revised Edition, An by: Kinloch, T.F.
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Historical Account of The Church Hymnary: Revised Edition, An
by: Kinloch, T.F.

Hardcover. Cambridge, W. Heffer & Sons, Revised, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 94 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A few minor margin marks in pencil. Dark blue cover boards.

Record # 354128

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Journal of the Life, Gospel Labors, and Christian Experiences of That Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ by: Woolman, John
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Journal of the Life, Gospel Labors, and Christian Experiences of That Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ
by: Woolman, John

Hardcover. New York, Collins Brother & Co, 1st, 1845, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 309 pages. Hardcover, full leather with black band on spine. Heavy wear to tan leather edges. Water staining throughout bottom half pages, heavy foxing and tanning. bottom corners bumped. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf and end paper. Front end paper has previous owner's name pasted on small piece of paper bottom corner. Binding tight for age of copy.

Record # 354174

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung and
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Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung and

Hardcover. Oxford, Thomas Baskett and Robert Baskett, 1st, 1743, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated in parts. Leather binding shows heavy wear to edges, especially corners. Gilt decoration on spine and stamped embellishment on front. Heavy foxing on pages. Gutter cracked in center. Black and white illustrations.

Record # 354188

Price: $500.00
Price: $500.00 

Wisdom of the Zohar, The: An Anthology of Texts (3 VOLUMES ) by: Tishby, Isaiah
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Wisdom of the Zohar, The: An Anthology of Texts (3 VOLUMES )
by: Tishby, Isaiah

Hardcover. London, Littman Library of Jewish, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 3 volume set. 1596 pages total. Light shelf/edge-wear to all three volumes and slight crease to spine on volume 1, else a clean, tight set. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 354808

Price: $500.00
Price: $500.00 

Horae Lyricae. Poems Chiefly of the Lyric Kind in Three Books Sacred to the Devotation and Piety, to Virtue, Honour and Friendship to the Memory of the Dead by: Watts
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Horae Lyricae. Poems Chiefly of the Lyric Kind in Three Books Sacred to the Devotation and Piety, to Virtue, Honour and Friendship to the Memory of the Dead
by: Watts

Hardcover. Vergennes, VT, Jeptha Shedd & Co., unk, 1813, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages. Hardcover. All leather with areas worn to wood board. Heavy foxing throughout. Wright & Sibley, Printers. Heavy soiling to edges.

Record # 354860

Price: $75.00
Price: $75.00 

The King James version of the Holy Bible (5 Volumes Complete) by: Berla, Julian E. (Printer)
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The King James version of the Holy Bible (5 Volumes Complete)
by: Berla, Julian E. (Printer)

Hardcover. NY, Limited Editions Clob, 1st thus, 1935-36, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Five hardcover volumes in two slipcases. The first set: The King James Version of the Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament; 3 Volumes: Genesis to Malachi, three large 8vo volumes in gilt slipcase, original blue and gilt spines. Number 1327 of 1500 copies. 406, 407-954, 955-1662 pages. This set published in 1935. The second set in matching slipcase and bindings: Volume 4-The Apocrypha, 1663-2073 pages, Volume 5 - The New Testament, 2074-2575. This set published in 1936. Also #1327 of 1500 copies. This complete set is uncommon.

Record # 358228

Price: $400.00
Price: $400.00 

Manuscript Remains, Volume II: Critical Debates (1809-1818) by: Schopenhauer/ Arthur Hubscher (Editor), Arthur
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Manuscript Remains, Volume II: Critical Debates (1809-1818)
by: Schopenhauer/ Arthur Hubscher (Editor), Arthur

Hardcover. Berg Publishers, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 528 pages. This historico-critical edition of Schopenhauer's manuscript remains contains Schopenhauer's entire surviving philosophical notes, from his university years until his death in 1860. Translated here into English for the first time, it provides a fascinating insight into the workings of Schopenhauer's mind and an important key to his philosophical work. Translated by E.F.J. Payne

Record # 361640

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

Book of Common Prayer, The: and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England; Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be su
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Book of Common Prayer, The: and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England; Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be suBook of Common Prayer, The: and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England; Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be su

Book of Common Prayer, The: and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England; Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be su

Hardcover. Cambridge, England, Cambridge University, 1st Edition, 1777, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in polished calf (agewear--see image), gilt bands on spine. Front cover boards and front flyleaf still attached but coming loose from binding,Binding tight otherwise. Spine straight. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf and dated signatures (178? and 1792) on title page (see image). Some light pencil on top of title page (see image). Tanning throughout from age. Beautiful old volume, a collector's dream.

Record # 367817

Price: $250.00
Price: $250.00 

Reason: DECEMBER Vol. 6. Number 2. Psychic Science, Social Reform, Education, Healing Success by: n/a
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Reason: DECEMBER Vol. 6. Number 2. Psychic Science, Social Reform, Education, Healing Success
by: n/a

Softcover. Rochester, NY, Austin Publishing Co., 1st, 1908, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover booklet with stapled binding. Paper wrappers have heavy wear, soil and chipping. Booklet spiritualism in New York. Edges are chipped and frayed.

Record # 368493

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Village Sermons; or, Short and Plain discourses, for he Use of Families, Schools, and Religious Societies. by: Burder, George
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Village Sermons; or, Short and Plain discourses, for he Use of Families, Schools, and Religious Societies.
by: Burder, George

Hardcover. London, Religious Tract Society, 1st, 1838, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Contains 13 sermons. Hardcover with leather spine and marbled covered. Gutter cracked and tender with loose pages throughout. Moderate soil and fraying to edges.

Record # 369307

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Rhetorical Thought in John Henry Newman by: Walter Jost
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Rhetorical Thought in John Henry Newman
by: Walter Jost

Hardcover. Columbia SC, University Of South Carolina Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 325 pages. Landmark study in 19th century rhetorical theory, significant contribution to Newman studies & the study of rhetoric;

Record # 371321

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Metropolitan Magazine: January to June 1838 Vol. V by: N/A
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Metropolitan Magazine: January to June 1838 Vol. V
by: N/A

Hardcover. NY, William Lewer, 1st, 1838, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards, black calf spine labels with gilt lettering, 396 pages, American Edition noted on title page; its London parent, "The Metropolitan: A monthly journal of literature, science, and the fine arts" was a London monthly journal established by Thomas Campbell in 1831 and continued, under various editors, until 1850. Clean bright copy.

Record # 371324

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

Reason in Action (Collected Essays, Vol. 1) by: John Finnis
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Reason in Action (Collected Essays, Vol. 1)
by: John Finnis

Hardcover. NY/London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 350 pages. Reason in Action collects John Finnis' work on the theory of practical reason and moral philosophy. The essays in the volume range from foundational issues of meta-ethics to the practical application of natural law theory to ethical problems such as nuclear deterrence, obscenity and free speech, and abortion and cloning.

Record # 371653

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

Intention and Identity: Collected Essays Volume II (Collected Essays of John Finnis) by: John Finnis
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Intention and Identity: Collected Essays Volume II (Collected Essays of John Finnis)
by: John Finnis

Hardcover. NY/London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 350 pages. The essays in Intention and Identity explore themes in Finnis' work touched on only lightly, if at all, in Natural Law and Natural Rights, developing profound accounts of personal identity and existence; group identity and common good; and intention and choice as action- and self-shaping. In his many-faceted study of what it is to be a human person, and a human community, Finnis not only engages with contemporary philosophers and bioethicists such as Peter Singer, Michael Lockwood and John Harris, with thinkers from other traditions such as Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II), and with judges in the highest courts. He also offers illuminating and deeply considered readings of Shakespeare and Aquinas, and debates with Roger Scruton, Joseph Raz, Hans Kelsen, John Rawls, Glanville Williams, Richard Posner, Ronald Dworkin and others. The role of intention in the criminal law and the law of civil wrongs is searchingly explored through case-law, as are judicial attempts to understand conditional and preparatory intentions. Moral or bioethical issues discussed include in vitro fertilization, cloning, abortion, euthanasia, and 'brain death', patriotism, multi-culturalism and immigration.

Record # 371654

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

Human Rights and Common Good: Collected Essays Volume III (Collected Essays of John Finnis) by: John Finnis
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Human Rights and Common Good: Collected Essays Volume III (Collected Essays of John Finnis)
by: John Finnis

Hardcover. NY/London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 470 pages. This central volume in the Collected Essays brings together John Finnis's wide-ranging contribution to central issues in political philosophy. The volume begins by examining the general theory of political community and social justice. It includes the powerful and well-known Maccabaean Lecture on Bills of Rights -- a searching critique of Ronald Dworkin's moral-political arguments and conclusions, of the European Court of Human Rights' approach to fundamental rights, and of judicial review as a constitutional institution. It is followed by an equally searching analysis of Kant's thought on the intersection of law, right, and ethics. Other papers in the book's opening section include an early assessment of Rawls's A Theory of Justice, a radical re-interpretation of Aquinas on limited government and the significance of the private/public distinction, and a challenging paper on virtue and the constitution. The volume then focuses on central problems in modern political communities, including the achievement of justice in work and distribution; the practice of punishment; war and justice; the public control of euthanasia and abortion; and the nature of marriage and the common good. There are careful and vigorous critiques of Nietzsche on morality, Hart on punishment, Dworkin on the enforcement of morality and on euthanasia, Rawls on justice and law, Thomson on the woman's right to choose, Habermas on abortion, Nussbaum and Koppelman on same-sex relations, and Dummett and Weithman on open borders. The volume's previously unpublished papers include a foundational consideration of labor unions, a fresh statement of a new grounding for the morality of sex, a surprising reading of C.S. Lewis's Abolition of Man on contraception, and an introduction reviewing some of the remarkable changes in private and public morality over the past half-century.

Record # 371655

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

Religion and Public Reasons: Collected Essays Volume V (Collected Essays of John Finnis) by: John Finnis
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Religion and Public Reasons: Collected Essays Volume V (Collected Essays of John Finnis)
by: John Finnis

Hardcover. NY/London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 450 pages. The essays in Religion and Public Reasons seek to argue for, and illustrate, a central element of John Finnis' theory of natural law: that the main tenets of personal and political morality, and of a good legal order, are taught both by reason (arguments accessible to everyone) and by authentic divine revelation (teachings accessible to all who have a reasonable faith in its witnesses). The author's main books each include arguments for rejecting atheism and agnosticism; several papers here take up these arguments and indicate ways in which they open onto the reasonable grounds for accepting that more about God's nature, and about the meaning of Creation (including ongoing natural evolution), is disclosed by the revelation carried far forward among the Jewish people, and given definitive form by the Jews and Greeks who assembled in the universal Church, as witnesses of Christ, to carry forward that revelation into our present. Several papers argue that "public reason" properly includes such a religion, and that Humeian, Nietzschean, Deweyian, Rawlsian or other atheistically or deistic understandings of a reasonable secularism are badly mistaken. Many substantial papers record the author's position in controversies within Catholicism since the 1960's: on social justice, contraception and abortion; nuclear deterrence; Newman on conscience before pope; Maritain's hopes for a new Christendom and von Balthasar's for a hell empty of human persons; and on "proportionalism" and Lonerganian "historical consciousness" as moral-theological methods. Previously unpublished papers include several University and college sermons, and a substantial introduction.

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Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan by: Anthony T. Kronman
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Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan
by: Anthony T. Kronman

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 1176 pages. We live in an age of disenchantment. The number of self-professed "atheists" continues to grow. Yet many still feel an intense spiritual longing for a connection to what Aristotle called the "eternal and divine." For those who do, but demand a God that is compatible with their modern ideals, a new theology is required. This is what Anthony Kronman offers here, in a book that leads its readers away from the inscrutable Creator of the Abrahamic religions toward a God whose inexhaustible and everlasting presence is that of the world itself. Kronman defends an ancient conception of God, deepened and transformed by Christian belief--the born-again paganism on which modern science, art, and politics all vitally depend. Brilliantly surveying centuries of Western thought--from Plato to Augustine, Aquinas, and Kant, from Spinoza to Nietzsche, Darwin, and Freud--Kronman recovers and reclaims the God we need today. Clean copy.

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The YOUNG MAN: or Lectures for the Times, Delivered in the Fourth Congregational Church, Hartford, Ct. by: Patton, William W.
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The YOUNG MAN: or Lectures for the Times, Delivered in the Fourth Congregational Church, Hartford, Ct.
by: Patton, William W.

Hardcover. Hartford CT, Edwin Hunt, 1st, 1847, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 213 pages. 7.75 x 4.75", blind & gold stamped brown cloth. A collection of sermons: Elements of Power: spirit of enterprise, enthusiasm, courage, readiness to receive & propagate new truths; Sources of Danger: trifling pursuits, unworthy associates, improper pleasures & amusements, ball-room, intemperance, theatre, improper reading; Pleasure & the Judgment; Demands of Age: reforms, slavery, war, temperance; spurious reforms, capital punishment. Some light foxing, minor wear to covers, clean.

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From Rousseau to Ritschl being the translation of eleven chapters of Die Protestantische Theologie im 19. Jahrhundert by: Barth, Karl
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From Rousseau to Ritschl being the translation of eleven chapters of Die Protestantische Theologie im 19. Jahrhundert
by: Barth, Karl

Hardcover. London, SCM Press Ltd, 1st UK, 1959, Hardcover, pale blue textures cloth with black stamping, gilt title on spine. 435 pages.

Record # 374051

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Secret Teachings of All Ages, The: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic & Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy by: Manly P. Hall
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Secret Teachings of All Ages, The: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic & Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy
by: Manly P. Hall

Hardcover. Los Angeles CA, Philosophical Research Society, 19th ED., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, textured black boards with red and gold gilt lettering design on front cover. Bronze color title on spine B&w illustrations by J. Augustus Knapp, 245 pages. Clean, bright copy. A reduced facsimile of the 1928 edition.

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God In Action by: Barth, Karl
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God In Action
by: Barth, Karl

Hardcover. Manhasset NY, Round Table Press, reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacker, 143 pages. Introduction by Elmer Homrighausen. Owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 374237

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Essays Philosophical and Theological by: Bultmann, Rudolf
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Essays Philosophical and Theological
by: Bultmann, Rudolf

Hardcover. London, SCM Press Ltd., 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, bound in original publishers gray fleck cloth, with black title/design labels. 337 pages. Dust jacket chipped, bottom third of spine gone. Internally clean.

Record # 374260

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Humanism in East Asia Confucian Contexts by: Chung-chieh Huang
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Humanism in East Asia Confucian Contexts
by: Chung-chieh Huang

Hardcover. New Brunswick NJ, Transaction/Transcript, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 165 pages. Renowned Confucian scholar Huang analyzes East Asian communities to identify their Confucian humanist spirit. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 375183

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Lao Tze's Tao Teh King: The Bible of Taoism. English Version, by Sum Nung Au-Young. With an Introduction by Merton S. Yewdale by: Sum Nung Au-Young; Lao Tze
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Lao Tze's Tao Teh King: The Bible of Taoism. English Version, by Sum Nung Au-Young. With an Introduction by Merton S. Yewdale
by: Sum Nung Au-Young; Lao Tze

Hardcover. NY, March & Greenwood, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, purple cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 23.4*16.3cm, 123 pages. Printed on one side of double leaves, folded once in Chinese style. Now uncommon in commerce, this was the first English translation by a Chinese scholar of the foundational book of Taoism. The enigmatic polymath Dr Sum Nung Au-Young (1893-1942) was an accomplished poet, philosopher, lawyer and economist. There is some faint discoloration but hardly visible unless held at an angle, otherwise a very good hardcover. "Author's edition".

Record # 378490

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The Garden of the Prophet by: Gibran, Kahlil
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The Garden of the Prophet
by: Gibran, Kahlil

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1933, Hardcover, black cloth stamped with gilt title and design, 68 pages. Gilt lettering on spine with light fading. This is the first printing with 1933 on title page and First Edition stated on copyright page. Illustrated with seven drawings on glossy stock by Gibran and two facsimile manuscript pages, all present and intact. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, mild wear to covers, faint foxing to endpapers, otherwise clean.

Record # 378493

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Selling the Old-Time Religion: American Fundamentalists and Mass Culture, 1920-1940 by: Douglas Carl Abrams
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Selling the Old-Time Religion: American Fundamentalists and Mass Culture, 1920-1940
by: Douglas Carl Abrams

Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 168 pages. This work tells how the first generation of Protestant fundamentalists embraced the modern business and entertainment techniques of marketing, advertising, drama, film, radio, and publishing to spread the gospel. Clean copy.

Record # 378844

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The Very Model Of A Man by: Howard Jacobson
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The Very Model Of A Man
by: Howard Jacobson

Hardcover. London, Viking, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A dark comedy recreates the biblical books of Genesis and Exodus from Cain's point of view, depicting a capricious God who resents Eve's flirting with an angel, an envious and sullen Adam, and Abel, Cain's irreconcilable opposite. Clean copy.

Record # 378880

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A Handbook of Christian Symbols and Stories of the Saints As Illustrated in Art by: Clara Erskine Clement, Editor: Katherine Eleanor Conway
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A Handbook of Christian Symbols and Stories of the Saints As Illustrated in Art
by: Clara Erskine Clement, Editor: Katherine Eleanor Conway

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 3rd Ed., 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 3/4 leather over marbled boards, ribbed spine with gilt lettering. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Marbled endpapers with gilt pattern. Black and white plates and illustrations. 349 pages. Front cover starting to split from spine but still holding. Mild edgewear to covers, bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean copy.

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Thus Have I Seen: Visualizing Faith in Early Indian Buddhism by: Andy Rotman
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Thus Have I Seen: Visualizing Faith in Early Indian Buddhism
by: Andy Rotman

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 323 pages. Although Buddhism is often depicted as a religion of meditators and philosophers, some of the earliest writings extant in India offer a very different portrait of the Buddhist practitioner. In Indian Buddhist narratives from the early centuries of the Common Era, most lay religious practice consists not of reading, praying, or meditating, but of visually engaging with certain kinds of objects. These visual practices, moreover, are represented as the primary means of cultivating faith, a necessary precondition for proceeding along the Buddhist spiritual path. In Thus Have I Seen: Visualizing Faith in Early Indian Buddhism, Andy Rotman examines these visual practices and how they function as a kind of skeleton key for opening up Buddhist conceptualizations about the world and the ways it should be navigated. Clean copy.

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Karmapa The Sacred Prophecy. Foreword by his holiness the Dalai Lama by: Kagyu Thubten Choling
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Karmapa The Sacred Prophecy. Foreword by his holiness the Dalai Lama
by: Kagyu Thubten Choling

Hardcover. Wappingers Falls NY, Kagyu Thubten Choling Publications Committee, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 120 pages. Color illustrations throughout. Clean copy.

Record # 379409

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The Saving Grace of America's Green Jeremiad by: John Gatta
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The Saving Grace of America's Green Jeremiad
by: John Gatta

Hardcover. Lanham MD, Lexington Books, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 143 pages. American nature writing characteristically embodies an appreciative, lyrical evocation of the natural world. But often, too, green-disposed authors have been moved to dramatize diverse, anthropogenic perils to environmental health. John Gatta freshly reveals how this dark yet graced and hopeful strain of environmental literature enlarges upon a jeremiad tradition of prophecy inherited from Puritan New England. Across successive historical periods, such expression has assumed a rich variety of American form--as creative nonfiction, poetry, fiction, or film documentary. In the spirit of ancient Hebrew prophecy, jeremiads--unlike diatribes--reach beyond effusions of doom and gloom toward the prospect of change through a conversion of heart. Accordingly, the new climate fiction and much other writing steeped in what Gatta terms this "Green Jeremiad" tradition not only warn of material threats to life's flourishing, but may also look to stir spiritual understanding and renewal. Clean copy.

Record # 379557

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A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Vol. 2 - Mentor, Message, and Miracles by: John P. Meier
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A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Vol. 2 - Mentor, Message, and Miracles
by: John P. Meier

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor edgewear. 1118 pages. This book is the second volume in John Meier's masterful trilogy on the life of Jesus. In it he continues his quest for the answer to the greatest puzzle of modern religious scholarship: Who was Jesus? To answer this Meier imagines the following scenario: "Suppose that a Catholic, a Protestant, a Jew, and an agnostic were locked up in the bowels of the Harvard Divinity School library... and not allowed to emerge until they had hammered out a consensus document on who Jesus of Nazareth was and what he intended...". A Marginal Jew is what Meier thinks that document would reveal. Volume one concluded with Jesus approaching adulthood. Now, in this volume, Meier focuses on the Jesus of our memory and the development of his ministry. To begin, Meier identifies Jesus's mentor, the one person who had the greatest single influence on him, John the Baptist. All of the Baptist's fiery talk about the end of time had a powerful effect on the young Jesus and the formulation of his key symbol of the coming of the "kingdom of God." And, finally, we are given a full investigation of one of the most striking manifestations of Jesus's message: Jesus's practice of exorcisms, hearings, and other miracles. In all, Meier brings to life the story of a man, Jesus, who by his life and teaching gradually made himself marginal even to the marginal society that was first century Palestine. Clean copy.

Record # 379586

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Antiquarian Religion & Philosophy Books

This section brings together used, rare and out-of-print works in philosophy, theology and religious thought, from primary texts to scholarly studies. Titles include Arthur Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation, E.R. Dodds's edition of Proclus: The Elements of Theology and H.S. Harris's Hegel's Development: Night Thoughts.

The shelves range across the Western canon and beyond, with volumes such as Jonathan Bennett's Learning from Six Philosophers and dual-language religious texts. Multi-volume sets and antiquarian printings are common, and editions range from student reading copies to fine older bindings, making this a good place to track down scarce and long-out-of-print works.

As these are used and rare books, condition and availability vary from copy to copy. Browse the collection and order online.