First Edition. A proposal for a new design for Arabic type to solve the problem of vowels, which are placed above or below the regular line of type. According to Ferrette, a protestant missionary in Damascus, "The Arabic typography was so complicated in its mechanism, so slow in its working.....

First Edition. An uncommon account of travel to Australasia. The Scottish author was prominent in the early Christadelphian movement and edited The Christadelphian magazine from 1864 to 1898. This travelogue, which includes much theological commentary, has been published several times in the 20th century; this original edition is uncommon. [4].....

A Catholic devotional book, published many times in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Illustrated with twelve nicely engraved plates (opposite pages 3, 13, 23, 33, 43, 53, 63, 73, 85, 92, 105, and 117). One of the tail pieces is a skull and crossbones. Text in Spanish. Small format octavo.....

First Edition. An historical chapter book about the founder of Methodism by May McNeer, illustrated by her husband Lynd Ward. 96 pages. With many full-page color illustrations. First edition (first printing, with an "A" on the copyright page and no indications of later printings). This is a very good copy in.....

First Edition. A substantial and important colonial American book printed on the press of one of the country's founding fathers and its first great polymath (inventor, revolutionary, politician, diplomat, raconteur, writer, and entrepreneur), Benjamin Franklin. If Franklin had been nothing more than a printer, with his shop foreman, David Hall.....

First Edition. "A collection of sermons by Issei Christian ministers and leading laymen, including some in English."—A Buried Past, 450. "Collection of sermons by pastors of Japanese churches mainly located in California."—JANM bibliography, 306. Volume one only. One plate, 1–163, 23 (English), 165–334 pages. OCLC: 22357178 (both volumes), 37265751 (vol. 2). First edition.....

First Edition. A survey of the history and influences of theosophy by one of the movement's early American supporters. The Cincinnati Theosophical Society, one of the first American branches of the Theosophical Society, started at Buck's house just a few months after he gave this speech. Buck was a homeopath.....

Pergamino (folded broadside). 7 by 34 inches, unfolded. Edition size not noted. [Colección Clásicos]. This pergamino has three sections, the title, illuminated with white and yellow paint; the text of the poem, mimeographed from typescript in the center; and an image of an angel at the bottom. The design is by.....

113 pages, but printed only on the odd pages. 9-1/2 by 7 inches (oblong). An edition of 200 copies. Colección Venablos. An exploration of the influence of Catalán culture in Matanzas, Cuba, and the connection between the Virgin of Montserrat in Catalonia and the Ermita de Monserrate in the hills above.....

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.....

Second edition, revised and expanded, of this collections of hymns, first published in 1873 as "Temperance songs, etc., in the Maori language." The text of this book is devoted to Maori language songs written to the tunes of the hymnal "Sacred Songs and Solos" as well as popular melodies, including "God.....

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.....

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.....