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THE JOY OF LITTLE FOLKS Travels in the Old testament. A Bible Game for Sundays.
London.S. W. Partridge. No date (circa 1905/08). Folding coloured pictorial lithographed sheet with typical 'Goose Game' spiral. 32pp. book of rules, and a printed card with 'revised rules'. All contained in the original slipcase with a mounted pictorial label. A very good copy of a rare game, unknown to Whitehouse.
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THE LIFE OF CARDINAL REGINALD POLE, Written originally in Italian, by Lodovico Beccatelli, Archbishop of Raguna; And now first translated into English. With Notes Critical and Historical. To which is added, An Appendix, setting forth the Plagiarisms, False Translations, and False Grammar in Thomas Phillips's History of the Life of Reginald Pole By the Reverend Benjamin Pye.
London: C. Bathhurst, 1766. xxiv, 225, [1] pages. Bound in full calf, recently re-backed; black gilt title label. Octavo. First edition. A very good, clean copy.
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THE LIFE OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, of the Society of Jesus, apostle of the Indies and of Japan. Written in French, by Father Dominic Bohours, of the same society. Translated into English, by James Dryden, Esq.
Dublin: T. Haydock, 1812. [12], 376, [14] pages. Portrait frontispiece. Contemporary full sheep gilt, with red label. Octavo. Binding very worn and cracked at spine on both sides; else clean. Translated by John Dryden, and first published in 1688.
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THE NEW HIEROGLYPHICAL BIBLE: or, select portions of scripture familiarly explained, and embellished with two hundred and twenty neat and appropriate engravings: intended as a pleasing inducement to children, to read the Holy Bible.
London.Dean & Munday. No date. [Circa 1830/40’s.]. 108pp. Illustrated throughout with wood-engravings. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. 12mo. Neat previous owner's note on front free endpaper dated 1845; slight wear to spine, and corners gently knocked; else a very good copy indeed.
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THE PATMOS RECORD.
London: S. W. Partridge & Co, No date [1907]. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 140 pages. Illustrated. Original cloth, gilt. Octavo. Presumed first edition. Light spotting to endpapers; spine slightly faded and rubbed ; else very good.
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THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS FROM THIS WORLD; to That which is to Come. Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream; Wherein is Discovered the Manner of his Setting out His Dangerous Journey; and Safe Arrival at the Desired Country. By John Bunyan, The Thirty-third Edition., with Additions of New Cuts.
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THE SCAPEGOAT. Part VI of The Golden Bough.
London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1913. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. xiv, 453, [2 ad's] pages. Original green decorative cloth, gilt. Original printed dust-wrapper. Octavo. Third edition. Very slight wear to the head of spine; else a very good copy in like dust-wrapper.
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THE SEAMAN’S MONITOR: or, Advice to Sea-faring Men, with Reference to their Behaviour Before, In, and After their Voyage. With Prayers for their Use. And ana Address to the Officers and Seamen in His Majesty’s Royal Navy. With a Caution to Prophane Swearers. By Josiah Woodward, D.D. late Minister of Popler. To which is now added, A Seasonable Admonition against Mutiny and Piracy.
London: Printed and Sold by J. Downing, in Bartholomew-Close near Smithfield, 1723. vi, 75, [1 ad’[ pages. Possibly lacks a half-title. Disbound from a collection. Tiny corner lost from lower outer corner of title; title a little stained at inner margin; else very good.
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The Sunday School Teacher's BIBLE MANUAL. With illustrations and coloured maps.
London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1894. Hardback. vi, [2], 764 pages. Illustrated throughout. Folding, coloured map of The Holy Land in pocket at rear. Bound in half calf, gilt. Binding worn with a small split at head of spine; name on endpaper; else very good. This book is heavy and will incur extra postal charges. Please contact us directly for a shipping quote: info@davidmilesbooks.com
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VILLAGE DIALOGUES [between Farmer Littleworth, Thomas Newman, Rev. Mr. Lovegood and Others.] A New edition, abridged.
London: The Religious Tract Society, No date [1858]. 472 pages. No imprint or date on the title-page, but the engraved portrait frontispiece bears the imprint of The Religious Society, 1858. Contemporary half calf. The title-page is slightly smaller than the book-block, suggesting that this is a new title-page on old sheets. Spine a little faded; else a very good copy.
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