First Edition. The most thorough history of Texas in the Spanish period, with the first six volumes devoted to the period from Alonso Alvarez de Pineda's mapping of the Texas coastline in 1519 to Texas independence in 1836. The seventh volume is a history of the Catholic Church in Texas.....
Price: $2,750
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. From the early 18th century, Catholics have been prohibited from joining Masonic orders and the popularity of freemasonry in the United States seems to have generated considerable interest among Spanish speakers. At least as early as 1818 (Reflexiones imparciales sobre la frano-masonería), publishers in the US have issued.....
Price: $150
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. Rodríguez's.....
Price: $2,750
First Edition. 452 pages. Explores mythologies of the cataclysmic deluge from around the world. With contributions from Stephen Jay Gould, Leonard Woolley Hans Kelsen and others. First edition (first printing). Fine in a fine dust jacket. This was Gould's own copy. From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and.....
Price: $85
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
