Pondicherry, India: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department, 2000. First Edition. Cloth. Complete in two volumes, both 22.5 x 28.5 cm, bound in grey cloth with unclipped dust jackets. Volume one: [16], 323, [4, blank] pp. Light foxing to edges of dust jacket and edges of text block; small scuff to bottom... More about The Spiritual Significance of Flowers
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 about Devout Contemplations, expressed in two and fortie Sermons upon all ye Quadragesimall Gospells.;...
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 about Swami Brahmananda in Pictures; BIrth Centenary Souvenir 1863-1963
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 about The Works of John Macgowan; Illustrated with a portrait
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 about The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living; Together with Prayers, containing the whole Duty of a...
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 about De Kleine Print-Bybel; Waar in door verscheide afbeeldingen een meenigte van Bybelsche spreuken...