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1. Robert Bolton,
A DISCOURSE ABOUT THE STATE OF TRUE HAPPINESSE / SOME GENERALL DIRECTIONS FOR A COMFORTABLE WALK WITH GOD
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Imprint: London, John Legett;- For Edmund Weauer, 1636 Binding: Hardcover Two volumes bound together. "Discourse" Is the Fifth Edition, corrected and revised. " Comfortable Walk" is the Sixth Edition with table added. Original boards, and rebacked spine. Rear endpapers have been removed. Occasional foxing and discoloration , otherwise a very fine book;- Bolton was a sinner and sceptic who lead a reformed life as a preacher and was adept at converting those with a tenuous relationship with the church. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 215+391 pages, and 5 pages of Tables. Very Rare in this condition as other been sold on the net are missing pages, this is missing none.

2. A Collection of Eighteen Papers
 Relating to the Affairs of Church and State, During the Reign of King James the Second (1689)
By Gilbert Burnet;
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Published by John Starkey 1689. Original binding with re-backed spine. Some foxing to the endpapers. Otherwise a very Rare book. Very Collectable. None available on the world-wide net. I offer this for above price including postage English bishop and historian, born in Edinburgh on the 18th of September 1643, of an ancient and distinguished Scottish house. He was the youngest son of Robert Burnet, who at the Restoration became a lord of session with the title of Lord Crimond. Robert Burnet had refused to sign the Scottish Covenant, although the document was drawn up by his brother-in-law, Archibald Johnstorie, Lord Warristoun. He therefore found it necessary to retire from his profession, and twice went into exile. He disapproved of the rising of the Scots, but was none the less a severe critic of the government of Charles I and of the action of the Scottish bishops.

3. The Sermons of M. John Calvin 
vpon the fifth booke of Moses, called Deuteronomie: 1585
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Translated by Arthur Golding. 1583 Faithfully gathered word for word as he preached them in open Pulpit; together with a preface of the Ministers of the Church of Geneva, and an admonishment made by the Deacons there: Also there are annexed two profitable Tables, one containing the chief matters, the other the places of Scripture herein alledged. Translated out of French by Arthur. Golding. Dedicated " To Syr Thomas Bromley Knight, Lord Chancelour of England, & c -- 21 Dec. 1582." H. Middleton, printer. Folio. London Printing in English 1583. Complete with title page and leather binding. ARTHUR GOLDING: Brief Biography ;- The prolific translator Arthur Golding (1536-1606) was a younger son born into a family of considerable substance, especially within the influential Puritan ranks. Although his older brothers had attained considerable wealth, Golding's life was one of financial insecurity, proof that literary fame during that period carried little commensurate monetary reward. Married, with seven children, the death of an older brother left him temporarily a wealthy man. The properties, however, had been mortgaged to the Queen; and other encumbrances finally drained the resources he had inherited. Notwithstanding a large body of work and a number of wealthy and influential patrons, Golding's finances reached a low ebb in 1593 when he was put into the Fleet Prison for debt. Possible help came from his family, and Louis Golding suggests that William Brooke, Lord Cobham (a close friend of Cecil), may have been of assistance [Golding, pp. 105-106]. Golding died in 1606, as noted in the Parish Register of Belchamp St.Paul's (May 13, 1606): "Mr. Arthur Golding, Esquire." This is a very Rare Book of the 16th. Century. An extremely scarce edition of a very important work. No copies are available on the world-wide web.

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8. Dialogues of the Dead 1760
by Lord George Lyttelton.
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  Published in  London: by W. Sandby, 1760.  320 pp. A collection of 28 composed dialogues between 'characters of remarkable persons' including Lord Falkland & Mr. Hampden, Louis le Grand & Peter the Great, Plato & Fenelon, Mr. Addison & Dr Swift, Ulysses & Circe, Mercury & An English Deullist & A North-American Savage, Pliny the Elder & Pliny the Younger, Fernando Cortez & William Penn, Marcus Portius Cato & Massalla Corvinus, Christina Queen of Sweden & Chancellor Oxenstiern, Titus Vespasianus & Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, Henry Duke of Guise & Machiavel, Virgil & Horace & Mercury, & Scaliger the Elder, Boileau & Pope, Octavia & Portia & Arria, Louise De Coligni & Frances Walsingham & Lady Sidney, Marcus Brutus & Pomponius Atticus, William the Third & John De Witt, M. Apicus & Darteneuf, Alexander the Great & Charles the Twelfth, Cardinal Ximenes & Cardinal Wolsey, Lucian & Rabelais, Pericles & Cosmo De Medicis, Locke & Bayle, Archibald Earl of Douglas & John Duke of Argyll and Greenwich, Cadmus & Hercules, Mercury & A Modern Fine Lady, Plutarch & Charon & A Modern Bookseller. The last three dialogues are by mrs. Elizabeth Montagu. 

Original binding with a few slight wear and bumps. Gilt lettering and decorations alone the spine;- A fine copy of an unusual book.

Lord Lyttelton was a friend and supporter to Alexander Pope in the 1730s and to Henry Fielding in the 1750s. James Thomson  addresses him throughout his poem The Seasons, and Lyttelton arranged a pension for Thomson. He wrote Dialogues of the Dead in 1760 with Elizabeth Montagu,  leader of the bluestockings,  and The History of the Life of Henry the Second (1767–1771). The former work is part of a tradition of such dialogues. Henry Fielding dedicated Tom Jones  dedicated to him. Lyttelton spent many years and a fortune developing Hagley Hall and its park which contains many follies. The hall itself, which is in north Worcestershire,  was designed by  Sanderson Miller  and is the last of the great Palladian houses to be built in England.

9. An Extract of the Christian's Pattern:
or A Treatise on the Imitation of Christ: written in Latin by Thomas A Kempis, 1735
by Rev. John Wesley.
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Published by C. Rivington;- London 1735;-  A frontispiece engraved and a few engravings throughout. re-bound in a beautiful red leather binding with gilt decoration to the bottom of the volume. This Edition is Rare. its very early, and scarce. The Christian pattern, or Treatise of the imitation of Jesus Christ, In Four Books. Written originally in Latin by Thomas a Kempis. Now rendered into English. T o which is added, Prayers and Mediations for sick persons, by George Stanhope. Compared with original and the translations by the Rev. Mr. Wesley, & and in several places amended. Fine condition, scarce and rare.

10. Hymns and spiritual songs, in three books. ...1793
By I. Watts, D.D
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Published in Coventry by M. Luckman 1793;- Two volumes in one, the second volume is 

‘A Collection of Hymns’ from various Authors intended as a Supplement by George Burder.

So two Indexes for both volumes. Original black leather binding with gilt lines to the border of the covers, gilt lettering in a gilt border to the spine. ; The copy is very rare & scarce because of the two volumes in one. Fine condition of this rare & scarce book

11. Horæ lyricæ.
Poems, chiefly of the lyric kind.
1840 Sacred. 
To devotion and piety.
To virtue, honour, and frindship
To the memory of the dead.
To which is added a supplement, containing translations of the Latin Poems: 1840
By I. Watts.
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Published in London: by Joseph Rickerby, Sherbourn Lane , 1840. LONDON : 1840. Horae Lyricae . Hardback;- With Frontispiece -   298 pages;-  Only one copy recorded in the UK - in Aberdeen;- Re-bound black cloth covers, a very fine copy;-

Isaac Watts (17 July 1674 - 25 November 1748) is recognized as the "Father of English Hymnody", as he was the first prolific and popular English hymnwriter, credited with some 750 hymns. Many of his hymns remain in active use today and have been translated into many languages. Born in Southampton, Watts was brought up in the home of a committed Nonconformist - his father, also Isaac Watts, had been incarcerated twice for his controversial views. At King Edward VI School (where one of the houses is now named "Watts" in his honour), he learned Latin, Greek and Hebrew. Watts, unable to go to either Oxford or Cambridge due to his Non-conformity, went to the Dissenting Academy at Stoke Newington in 1690, and much of his life centered around that village, then a rural idyll but now part of Inner London. He died in Stoke Newington and was buried in Bunhill Fields, having left behind him a massive legacy, not only of hymns, but also of treatises, educational works, essays and the like. His work was influential amongst independents and early religious revivalists in his circle, amongst whom was Philip Doddridge, who dedicated his best known work to Watts. On his death, Isaac Watts' papers were given to Yale University, an institution with which he was connected due to its being founded predominantly by fellow Independents (Congregationalists).

12. THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE MIND 
WITH A DISCOURSE ON EDUCATION 1815
by Isaac Watt
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Published in London 1815;- by  T Bensley;- London ;- Two Volumes;- A New Edition, and A Portrait of Isaac Watts as frontispiece to Vol. 1. Rebound in tan full leather covers with gilt lettering to the top of both spines. Fine two volumes of this collectable books.

13. Jehovah Our Righteousness
Or the Justification of  Believers by the Righteousness of Christ Only:
Asserted and Applyed in Several Sermons.
By Samuel Tomlyns,
A.M. a Minister of the Gospel in Marleborough 1696?
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Published by Tho. Parkhurst, London 1696? 1st. Edition;- Original brown leather binding, with re-bound leather spine, and gilt lettering to the top of the spine;- 423 pages with The Errata page to the last page. A scarce & rare Sermon book, no copies to be found anywhere on the world wide web. Fine condition , and complete.

14. The Theory Of Dreams in Which an Inquiry is Made Into the Powers
and Faculties of the Human Mind;-
By Robert Gray;-
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Publisher F. C. And J. Rivington 1808 Published 1st. Edition in Two Vols. In one. Rebound in leather spine and corners. A stunning Rare book. I offer this Rare book. Robert Gray (1762–1834) was an English bishop of Bristol. Born 11 March 1762, he was the son of Robert Gray, a London silversmith. Having entered St. Mary Hall, Oxford, he graduated B.A. 1784, M. A, 1787, B.D. 1799, and D.D. 1802. Soon after 1790 he was presented to the vicarage of Faringdon, Berkshire. In 1796 he was appointed Bampton lecturer, and his discourses were published the same year, under the title of 'Sermons on the Principles upon which the Reformation of the Church of England was established.' Through the favour of Shute Barrington, bishop of Durham, he was promoted, in 1800, to the rectory of Crayke, Yorkshire, and resigned Faringdon; in 1804 he was collated by Barrington to the seventh stall in Durham Cathedral, and again, in 1805, to the rectory of Bishopswearmouth, and resigned Crayke. He held this living, in which he had succeeded William Paley, until his elevation, in 1827, to the bishopric of Bristol. During the Bristol riots of 1831, when one of the minor canons suggested a postponement of divine service, since the rioters were masters of the city, Gray replied that it was his duty to be at his post. The 3rd Dragoon Guards violently suppressing the Bristol Riots of 1831. The service was held as usual, and he was himself the preacher. Before the close of the evening his palace was burned to the ground, and the loss which he sustained was estimated at £10,000. He died at Rodney House, Clifton, 28 Sept. 1834, and was buried in the graveyard attached to Bristol Cathedral. A marble monument by Edward H. Bayly was erected in the cathedral.

15. The Gospels in Art
Sparrow, W Shaw. (editor).
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1904.Hardcover, The Gospels In Art. The Life of Christ by Great Painters from Fra Angelico to Holman Hunt. the Text by Leonce Benedite, Henry Van Dyke, R. F. Horton and the Bishop of Derry & Raphoe;-Hardcover; Frontispiece: Madonna And The Child Jesus by Peter Paul Rubens, from A photograph by Franz Hanfstaengl, after the picture in the Brussel's Gallery. Six photogravure plates, thirty-two monochrome plates. ; The Art & Life Library; 288 pages. Original sackcloth covering, with decorations and black-lettering to the front and spine. A very fine copy of a beautiful book.

16. Gilbert Burnet;-
The Abridgement of the History
of the Reformation of the Church of England.
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 Published in London:  by J. D. for Richard Chiswell, at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1683;- The 2nd. Edition. 2 Volumes in one;- with an engraved frontispiece of four Reformation scenes as the frontispiece &  and four further pages of engraved portraits of principal characters in the history of the Reformation in part two of the book;- 319 pages in the 1st. half of the book & 384 pages in the 2nd. part of the book;- and 4 pages of ads for book printed & sold  by Richard Chiswell Publisher;- This scarce/rare book is complete;-

Gilbert Burnet was a Scottish theologian and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury. He was fluent in Dutch, French, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Burnet was respected as a cleric, a preacher, and an academic, as well as a writer and historian;-

Gilbert Burnet was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. in 1643. He studied in Aberdeen before joining the Church of Scotland. 

In 1669 Burnet became Professor of Divinity at Glasgow University. However, he resigned five years later after a disagreement with his patron, the Duke of Lauderdale. He now moved to  London where he became an active supporter of the Whigs In 1683 Bumet was accused of plotting against James II and he was forced to flee to Holland. When William of Orange became king he appointed Bumet as his royal chaplain. Later Burnet became Bishop of Salisbury. he died in 1715.

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