Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1856. First Edition. Complete in two volumes, both octavo (22 x 14cm), Vol 1: pp. iii-xiv, 460 (first title page and publishers page have been excised, otherwise complete), Vol.2: pp. [4], 446; brown calf with contrasting red and black labels, gilt lettering, borders, detailing and edges... More
London: Adam Islip, 1629. Full calf. Sixmo (298 x 200 mm.), [6] 648 [18] pp., engraved title page by T. Cecill, index, full calf, 5 false raised bands with gold rules either side. Good, rebacked (since split externally) with corner repairs, binding chipped, scratched and scraped, paper browned at edges... More
Montreal and London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1975. Super octavo (26.2 x 18.4 cm), 192 pp. Contents, Preface, Abbreviations, Introduction (I: The Illness and the Occasion; II: Medication and Metaphysics; III: Seventeenth-Century Copies; IV: The Editions; V: The Text), Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Commentary, Selective Bibliography. Bound in red cloth quartered... More
London: Printed by J. F. Dove, St. John’s Square; for William Baynes , Paternoster-Row; and R. Priestley, Holborn, 1819. Third Edition. Complete in two volumes, both 4mo (21.7 x 13.5cm), Vol 1: pp. (xxii), 555 [1, blank] + fold out biographical chart; Vol 2: pp. 577, [1] ; brown calf... More
Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003. Compiled, Translated and Annotated by Victor Sogen Hori. Royal octavo, 24 x 16.7 cm, 764 pages. Preface, Introduction (six sections: Nature, Steps and Literary Study in Koan Practice; Koan and the Chinese Literary Game, History of Zen... More
West Bengal: Swami Vireswarananda, General Secretary, Ramakrishna Math & Mission, 1964. First Edition. Dark red cloth with gold blocked title. Landscape quarto, 22.7 x 29.7 cm, 100 pp., ill., glossary, signed on p. 4 by Christopher Isherwood. Swami Brahmananda (1863–1922), born Rakhal Chandra Ghosh, was one of the direct disciples... More
London: Baynes and son, 1825. Full calf. Octavo (225 x 145 mm.), 2 v., [6] vi, 568; [4] 496 pp., engraved portrait frontis., black calf, 5 false raised bands with red and brown labels in 2nd and 4th compartments with gold blocked author and title, other compartments decoratively tooled in... More
Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute, 1812. Light brown half calf; calf corners; banded with contrasting dark brown labels and gilt; marbled covers. Complete in three volumes, octavo (21.5 x 14cm). Light brown half calf; calf corners; banded with contrasting dark brown labels and gilt; marbled covers, edges and endpapers. Volume one: [2... More
1857: John Henry and James Parker, Oxford. New edition. Full leather. Together with 'The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying, together with Prayers and Acts of Virtue to be used by Sick and Dying Persons, or by others standing in their attendance. To which are added Rules for the Visitation... More
Amsterdam: Joannes Pauli, 1720. First Thus. cloth covered boards. Small octavo (15x10.5cm), 14pp (includes engraved allegorcal title plate), 149 of 150 plates (lacks pl.149), 24pp (A8 - B4, Solutions). In worn fabric covered boards with barely visible embossed pattern and "Prent Bijbel" in gilt on spine. Text block detached except... More