Justin Croft Antiquarian Books - Rare and Antiquarian Books and Manuscripts

First edition of a lovely example of the Armenian typography of the Mekhitarist monks of the island of San Lazzaro in the Venetian lagoon.

An early edition of Aubigné's controversial invective against the enemies of Protestantism in France, which takes the form of a prose dialogue between the Catholic courtier Baron de Fæneste, the satirical anti-hero and a Protestant gentleman named Enay.

First edition in French of Baker’s Reflections upon Learning (1699), a work designed to display the inadequacies of human knowledge and reason and to emphasize the ultimate need for belief in revelation.

First edition in Hindi, probably translated from the English version of Barth’s Christliche Kirchengeschichte, a fundamental text for the protestant mission in India.

First edtion.

One of numerous foreign-language editions published at this time by the British and Foreign Bible Society.

An attractive polyglot New Testament.

First edition of this Behmenite collection, serving as an introduction to Boehme’s theosophical system.

“Bogatzky [1690–1774], an impoverished Silesian nobleman, weak and sickly from childhood, turned to divine worship early in his life.

A very scarce Kettering-printed broadside bearing the text of a hymn-tune beginning: My soul’s full of glory, which fires my tongue, / Could I meet with angels, I’d sing them a song.

A striking and beautiful single sheet of brokatpapier, with devotional images printed in gilt in a style usually associated with Augsburg.

A rare London pocket edition of Buchanan’s Latin verse paraphrases of the Psalms: “The work which more than any other has secured to [Buchanan] his eminent place among modern Latin poets.

First edition, very scarce, of a work reprinted twice in the following decade.

First edition of a work “designed to explain and defend the position of the Church of England, so far as it involves that of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States” (Preface).

An interesting and extensive American devotional manuscript: beginning with observances for every day of the week, morning, noon and evening and continuing with a large number of praers for specific life events or moment of spiritula advancement.

A very extensive pocket-size compilation of Devotions at Mass with special emphasis on the Cross and the Wounds of Christ.

A very decorative personal prayer book containing morning and evening prayer and private prayers to be said as an accompaniment to the mass.

A French-Latin dictionary for Jesuit use.

First edition, second issue, giving the date '1648'.

First edition of D’Urfey’s anonymously published satire on William Sherlock, lampooning his notorious abandonment of nonjuror principles and satirising the reputed influence of his much-reviled wife.

First edition.

First Elzevir edition of this biography of the French protestant hero Gaspard de Coligny.

Fourth, amended edition.

First edition.

First edition, one of 250 copies of this valuable biographical dictionary.

First edition.

A collection of nineteenth century Scottish ecclesiastical pamphlets, principally by Robert Lee, the reforming Church of Scotland minister.

First published in 1855 Timbs’s Curiosities is a wonderful catalogye of London facts and eccentricities: alchemists, coffee houses, Chelsea buns, fogs, law courts, railway termini, prisons - they’re all here.

The ‘caudatari’ or train-bearers of Rome were central to the rituals of the mass and of the papal courts.

A rare account of the miraculous ‘resurrection’ of a stillborn child in the church of Notre Dame de Bonne Nouvelle in Aigris (in the old French province of Gâtinais, now parts of Loiret and Seine-et-Marne).

An extraordinary French binding incorporating lozenge-shaped mirrors into its sides.

Issued during the revival of the Muggletonian sect during the 1820s, this copy is entirely unopened (and unused).

First and only edition of this virulent sectarian attack on the antinomian artist/engraver Garnet Terry (‘Onesimus’) by a dissenting ‘Minister of the Gospel at Nethaneel chapel, Eden Street, Tottenham Court Road’.

First and only edition of M’Quhae’s only published work, a sermon preached in the presence of Charles, Lord Cathcart.

A comic picaresque novel and an anti-Jesuit satire recounting the life and adventures of Rozelli in a series of fanciful catastrophes and disasters, in the course of which he becomes a Catholic clergyman and then converts to Judaism.

First edition thus.

First edition of Bridel’s French translation of A brief account of the rise and progress of the people called Quakers.

First published in the 1680s the New England Primer became the most successful of all early educational texts for American children and was reprinted in numerous editions into the twentieth century.

First edition in French of Clarkson’s very successful and influential A Portraiture of Quakerism (1806).

This is no VI in the series issued by the Church of England Tract Society “instituted in Bristol, 1811” (from the title).

Scarce first edition of this work on the medieval Scottish church, inscribed by the author: “James T.

A cento in Virgilian verse giving the principal Biblical events from the death of Abel to the ascension of Christ, mainly concerning the life of Christ and the prophecies of his Messiahship, the text extensively revised and enlarged from the author’s Virgilius evangelisans, sive, Historia Domini & Salvatoris Nostri Jesu Christi (1633).

A confessor’s manual arranged according to the Scotist system favoured by the Franciscans: a system named after the thirteenth-century Oxford theologian John Duns Scotus.

First edition of this rare Puritan pamphlet on the downfall of the Scottish bishops, written from an apocalyptic perspective and printed in the Low Countries.

First edition.

A handsome group, superbly bound in Paris by Simier for Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay, British ambassador to France 1815-24 and 1828-31.

First edition of Stuart’s account of the Scottish Reformation from 1517 to 1561.

First edition.

First separate edition, attributed by some authors to Varillas; according to Michaud and Nouvelle biographie générale, it is an extract from his Histoire des revolutions arrivées dans Europe, though disavowed by him.

Scarce Lyon edition of Polydore Vergil's second and most famous book De inventoribus rerum (“History of Inventions”) in French, with an interesting later Lyonnais provenance.

An anonymous and probably unpublished treatise on female virginity, in French, and clearly intended as a practical manual for the instruction of novice nuns.

Presentation first edition of the autobiography of the first President of Israel, with an excellent and well documented provenance: "To Admiral Sir John Edelsten with cordial regards Chaim Weizmann […] 27.

First edition.

A very uncommon printing of the four books of the Dialogus, Wycliffe’s principal doctrinal work.