first First Thus. The second US edition of this collection of 82 pronouncements of Baha'u'llah. This version has a slightly different foreword from the first edition and has a revised version of the text, mostly reflecting a more concise translation from the Arabic and Persian. This version does not include.....
Price: $95
First Edition. "It is our desire to promote the settlement of these Indians upon farms, and secure their support from the labor of their own hands," wrote the members of the Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs. The group had been formed under President Ulysses S. Grant, who.....
Price: $85
A lovely, continuous bifolium (two connected leaves) on parchment from an illuminated manuscript of the Hours of the Virgin, likely French in origin, from the 15th century. This manuscript fragment is decorated with fourteen small initials decorated in gold, and several more in red and blue ink. The Latin text.....
Price: $300
![Two Portraits of Dr. Pauline Root [Cabinet Cards]. Abell, Priest, photographers](/pictures/thumb/307182.jpg?v=1604707212)
Two fine images of pioneering physician Pauline Root dressed in a sari, presumably one she wore while in Madurai, India, while working as a doctor for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). In one photograph, Root wears the sari in traditional style, over her left shoulder and.....
Price: $1,250
Nearly four dozen early 20th century images of Mexican American neighborhoods centered around Baptist churches and missions. Photographs documenting any aspect of Mexican American life from a century ago are decidedly uncommon. These slides, numbered 1 to 54, lacking ten images scattered throughout the sequence, document Mexican American Baptist churches.....
Price: $4,500
A rare Maori hymnal for the Ratana church. Ratana, a Maori religious, political, and social movement, was founded in 1918 in New Zealand by Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana. He saw a vision and began preaching that the Maori and the Japanese were the lost tribe of Israel. The Ratana church advocated.....
Price: $750
First Edition. An appeal for religious faith over theology. "I have all my life avoided all knotty and disputed points of religion. I argue with nobody about the trinity or the unity of the Godhead; the mysteries of free knowledge and free will; or the profound doctrine of the atonement by.....
Price: $75
First Edition. A pamphlet, in Spanish, in support of the New Mexico penitentes, a group of lay Catholics who practice self-flagellation during pilgrimage walks. Trujillo offers an explanation of the practice, defines terms, and gives a history of the group in New Mexico. Uncommon, with six copies recorded in WorldCat. 16.....
Price: $50
First Edition. The Old Guide is one of the earliest memoirs by a Mexican immigrant and it is particularly interesting for Rodriguez's first-hand accounts of early Texas state history and for his religious work, for which there is no comparable account of Mexican American Protestantism in the 19th century. RodrÃguez's.....
Price: $2,750
First Edition. xii, 275 pages. Folding tables; in-text illustrations. Christianity and science are used to argue against evolution, atheism, and agnosticism. First edition (first printing). Cloth a bit spotted, else very good. Ownership inscription dated 1894.
Price: $30
First Edition. About 75 pages. Editorial cartoon-style images featuring gas masks drawn by the British-Israeli architect during the first Gulf War, when threats of gas attacks were common in Israel. First edition (first printing). Near fine in illustrated boards (no jacket, as issued?). Inscribed by the artist, "For Abe, keep.....
Price: $30
Later printing. 94 pages plus an ad leaf. 3-1/2 by 5 inches. Short, insprirational stories, including one on fireworks. Illustrated with a handcolored frontispiece. A later printing, with ten subsequent volumes in the series listed in the ads at back. The first volume seems to have come out in the.....
Price: $15
