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Le Tableau de la Croix Represente dans les ceremonies de la Sainte messe ensemble le tresor de la devotion aux soufrancesde N.re I. C. le tout enrichi de belles figures
AU$4,500 Read MoreAdd to cartJean Collin; Francoise Mazot
Paris: Chez F. Mazot, 1651-52.First issue of this wholly engraved devotional work, with both text and illustrations engraved on copper rather than set in type. The engraved title, depicting Christ in the Garden of Olives, is signed by Jean Collin (1623-1701), the Reims engraver. 35 illustrated openings follow, each pairing a stage of the Mass with a corresponding episode from the Passion of Christ, the Mass scenes possibly deriving from earlier Continental devotional models while the ornamental borders are Collin’s own work, followed by four further single-page plates numbered 36 to 39. The volume continues with litanies, including engraved busts of Jesus Admirabilis and Mater Amabilis, the Litaniae de nomine Iesu signed by the engraver I. Durant, followed by the seven Penitential Psalms in historiated borders, additional prayers, and the engraved privilege dated 9 June 1651 and the imprint dated 20 September 1652. This collation identifies the book as the first issue of the first edition, preceding the later impressions bearing a 1653 privilege and the revised 1653 edition. Jeanne Duportal identified the work as one of three publications whose engravings best exemplify the character of French religious illustration in the mid-seventeenth century. The contemporary pointille gilt binding, decorated with fine dotted and curved tools and retaining its metal clasps, is entirely characteristic of luxury Parisian devotional bindings of the period.
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Hid in Prison Houses. An S.O.S. from the Women and Girls of Japan
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartJapan Rescue Mission
Birkenhead: Japan Rescue Mission, No date.Anti-prostitution fundraising pamphlet issued by the Japan Rescue Mission, founded in 1920 by Christine Penrod, formerly superintendent of the W.C.T.U.’s rescue home at Okubo, Tokyo. The Mission opened its own home in Tokyo the same year, supported by prayer bands in England, Australia, Africa and the United States (The Christian Movement in Japan, Korea and Formosa, 1923, p. 373). This copy carries a typescript imprint directing enquiries and donations to the Brisbane lay preacher William James Tunley, 228 Albert Street, evidence of the Mission’s fundraising network extending to Queensland. A single institutional holding recorded in OCLC, at the British Library.
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The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartSwami Vivekananda
Calcutta: Avaita Ashrama, 1972-9.The collected works of the great Indian monk and thinker. This edition complete in 8 volumes.
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Myth and Legend of Ancient Israel
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartAngelo S. Rappoport; J. H. Amshewitz
London: The Gresham Publishing Company, 1928.A collection of Jewish legend and Judaica compiled by Rappoport from biblical, Talmudic and midrashic sources, with colour plates by the painter J. H. Amshewitz.
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Gathered Leaves
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartElfrida Hill
Melbourne: The Australian Baptist Foreign Mission, 1934.Gleanings from an Adelaide born Baptist’s missionary work in India. This copy signed by Hill, and with some related clippings laid in.
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The Production of Entheogenic Communities in the United States
AU$35 Read MoreAdd to cartBrad Stoddard
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.Cambridge Elements: New Religious Movements. “The rise of entheogenic religion – that is, religions that involve the use of psychoactive drugs – has captured the attention of scholars and journalists. These studies tend to advance the interests of practitioners who advocate for the legitimacy of entheogens and of entheogenic religion more broadly. This Element breaks with these approaches as it offers a historical and critical analysis of entheogenic communities. It examines the production of entheogenic groups in the United States and considers the historical factors that have contributed to the rise in psychedelics more broadly. It also explores legal considerations and the impact of the law as a curator of entheogenic communities. This Element recognizes that these communities – like all imagined communities – are culturally conditioned, socially constructed, and historically contingent. By exploring these contingencies, we learn more about the broader sociocultural, historical, and economic frameworks that underlie the burgeoning association of psychoactive substances and religion.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Sermons, by John Pitcairn, Minister of the Relief Congregation, Kelso
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Pitcairn
Edinburgh: Ballantyne and Co., 1829.Sermons from the gifted preacher of the Scottish Presbytery of Relief published shortly after his death. Unrecorded in UK libraries, only 2 copies in OCLC, both in the United States.
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Religion, Altered States of Consciousness and Social Change
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartErika Bourguignon
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1973.This copy with the stamps of Japanese anthropologists Takie and William Lebra, and the bookplate of tribal arts dealer Philip Goldman.
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Candomble
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartJose Medeiros
Rio de Janeiro: Edicoes o Cruzeiro, 1957.Photobook on the Afro-Brazilian religion of Candomble, providing an intimate visual record of ritual and ceremony.
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The Wit and Wisdom of the Christian Fathers of Egypt
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartErnest A. Wallis Budge
London: Oxford University Press, 1934.The Syrian Version of the Apophthegmata Patrum by Anan Isho of Beth ‘Abhe translated by Sir Ernest A. Wallis Budge.
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Krishna: The Divine Lover: Myth and Legend through Indian Art
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartEnrico Isacco
Boston: David R. Godine, 1982. -
La Prima Missione Cattolica Nel Tibet
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartGiuseppe M. Toscano
Parma: Istituto Missioni Estere, 1951.The First Catholic Mission in Tibet.
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Records of Tho.ling: A Literary and Visual Reconstruction of the Mother Monastery in Gu.ge
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartRoberto Vitali
Dharamsala: High Asia, 1999. -
Tibetan Pilgrimage
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert B. Ekvall; James F. Downs
Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Language and Cultures of Asia & Africa, 1987.With an appreciation by James F. Downs and Shigeru Iijima.
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Perry: A Transformed Transexual
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartPerry Desmond; R. L. Hymers
Ironton: Metamorphis Books, 1978.First edition, first printing, of the self-told story of Perry Desmond (1936-1984), who worked as a male prostitute before opening an occult shop, transitioning, finding God, and detransitioning. This copy inscribed by Perry to the front flyleaf with another religious gift inscription to the same owner below.
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Further Links of Loving Kindness; or, Story of Our Home
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartC. S. Bagster
Leamington Spa: W. H. Smith, No date.A Record of Twenty-Five Years of Happy Service in Connection with Y.W.C.A. Home, Leamington Spa. Early history (late 19th century) of the Young Women’s Christian Association House in the English town of Royal Leamington Spa.
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Kagawa San: The Christian Prophet of Japan
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartMaurice Whitlow
London: The Religious Tract Society, No date.Short biography on the Japanese Evangelical and labour activist, Toyohiko Kagawa (1888-1960). Part of the The Little Library of Biography, c. 1930s.
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Journey to the Churches in Occupied Cyprus
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartIoannis G. Kassinis
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Studies in the Lankavatara Sutra
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartD. T. Suzuki
New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 2007.One of the most important texts of Mahayana Buddhism, in which almost all its principal tenets are presented, including the teaching of Zen.
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The Black Gentleman: Manifestations of the Devil in Estonian Folk Religion
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartUlo Valk
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2000.This empirical study of the Devil in the collections of the Estonian Folklore Archives, reflecting the world of belief inhabited by the Estonians in the 19th and 20th centuries, is also a book about suspicion and fear in everyday life. It describes how religious folklore has drawn borders between the human and the non-human, how it has modelled the Other, the supernatural and social evil. As a study of folk narrative, and legends in particular, it mainly discusses variation at the level of motif with special reference to the visual guises of the Devil. FF Communications No. 276 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Attitudes and Interpretations in Comparative Religion
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartRene Gothoni
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2000.What is the attitude of the scholar of Comparative Religion to religion and religiosity? What is the specific method in Comparative Religion? Does the study of religions differ from other corresponding disciplines? The present volyme tries to answer these questions on the basis of fieldwork among Sinhalese Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka and Orthodox monks and pilgrims on the Holy Mountain of Athos in Greece. Apart from refining a more perceptive view of religion and religiosity, study elucidates the definition of religion and the principles applied in the comparative study of religions by factual cases from these two cultural fields. FF Communications No. 272 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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A List of Motifs in the Lives of the Early Irish Saints
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartDorothy Ann Bray
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1992.An identifying, classifying and documenting list of the themes of early medieval Irish saint biographies. FF Communications No. 252 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Sammlung der neuesten Predigten gehalten in dem neuen Israelitischen Tempel zu Hamburg
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartEduard Kley; G. Salomon
Hamburg: J. Ahrons, 1826-7.Collection of the latest sermons delivered in the new Israelite temple in Hamburg by Eduard Kley and Gotthold Salomon.
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Symbolik des Mosaischen Cultus (2 Volumes)
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartKarl Christ. Wilh. Fel. Bahr
Heidelberg: J. C. B. Mohr, 1837-9.[Symbolism of the Mosaic Cult] by Karl Christian Wilhelm Felix Bahr.
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Die Religionsphilosophie Des Sohar und ihr Verhaltniss zur allgemeinen judischen Theologie.
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartD. H. Joel
Leipzig: C. L. Fritzsche, 1849.[The religious philosophy of the Zohar and its relationship to general Jewish theology: also a critical examination of Franck’s “Kabbalah”]. This copy with the bookplates of Sidney Edward Bouverie Bouverie-Pussey and Rabbi Leib A. Falk, with Falk’s call number to spine.
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Israelitisches Predigt- und Schul-Magazin (3 Volumes)
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartLudwig Philippson
Magdeburg: Creutz’sche Buchhandlung, 1834-36.Complete set in three volumes of the Israelite Sermon and School Magazine. This copy from the collection of the Rabbi L. A. Falk Memorial Library of The Great Synagogue Sydney (deaccessioned).
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Memoirs of Moses Mendelsohn, the Jewish Philosopher; including the Celebrated Correspondence, On the Christian Religion, with J. C. Lavater, Minister of Zurich
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartM. Samuels
London: Sainsbury and Co., 1827.Memoirs of the German-Jewish philosopher and theologian. Provenance: From the Rabbi Leib A. Falk Memorial Ibrary, The Great Synagogue, Sydney with plate, and ex libris plate of The Rabbi F. L. Cohen Collection.
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The Expected Good End, in Three Parts
AU$10,000 Read MoreAdd to cartS. M. Ish Yeminy
London: L. Alexander, 1800.Rare Anglo-Sephardi Judaica theological work linking Jewish messianic exegesis with Enlightenment-era cosmopolitanism. Part 1 (and the only published) of a planned three part work by the Sephardi rabbi and Freemason Solomon Mordecai Ximenes; Containing, The Birth of Jacob, his Dream of the Ladder, his Commandments, and his several prophetic Blessings to his Posterity; and various future Events promised by the Prophets. ROTH, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica p. 332 19a. Provenance: Signature and label of the Sydney lay preacher G. P. Beyfus, label of Mr. Pulver, library call number to spine matching others from the collection of the Rabbi L. A. Falk Memorial Library, The Great Synagogue Sydney (deaccessioned with no other library markings).
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Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartJanet Gyatso
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.A Translation and Study of Jigme Lingpa’s Dancing Moon in the Water and Dakki’s Grand Secret-Talk.
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The Message of the Buddha
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartK. N. Jayatilleke
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1975.A posthumous work edited by Ninian Smart.
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Awakening a Curate’s Library: The Rev. William Arderne Shoults (1839-1887): His Life, His Book Collection, and his Legacy to New Zealand
AU$65 Read MoreAdd to cartDonald Jackson Kerr
: The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2022.“This book is the first to provide an account of the life of Rev. William Arderne Shoults (1839-1887) and his book collecting. It is also the first detailed examination of a true survivor, his book collection of some 5600 items, including medieval manuscripts, incunables, books on ecclesiastical history and primitive church rites and rituals, philology, bibliography, science, travel, and Arabic and Persian texts. The contents cover Shoults’s early years at St. John’s College, Cambridge University, his work in some of the poorer ritualistic parishes of London, his association with the Rev. Joseph Leycester Lyne (1837-1908), the controversial, enthusiastic, revivalist known as ‘Father Ignatius’, his work on Latin hymns, his marriage, and his travel overseas, which included visiting the Vatican Library. After Shoults’s death at 48, his collection was gifted to Selwyn College, Dunedin, arriving in New Zealand in 1893. The survival of this collection is remarkable and it exists as a fine example of what a nineteenth-century curate could collect.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Brilliant Illumination of the Lamp of the Five Stages
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert A. F. Thurman
New York: The American Institute of Buddhist Studies, Columbia University Center for Buddhist Studies, 2010.(Rim Ing rab tu gsal ba ‘i sgron me) Practical Instruction in the King of Tantras, The Glorious Khapa Losang Drakpa. Introduction and Translation by Robert A. F. Thurman. Edited by Thomas F. Yarnall. Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences series. Tengyur Translation Initiative. Jey Yabsey Sungbum Collection.
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Memoirs and Reminiscences of the Late Prof. George Bush
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorge Bush; Woodbury M. Fernald
Boston: Otis Clapp, 1860.Being, for the Most Part, Voluntary Contributions from Different Friends, Who Have Kindly Consented to this Memorial of His Worth.
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The Glory of the Future Life
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartNorman S. Millar
Brisbane: Committee of the Norman Millar Memorial Fund, 1938.Sermon preached by The Rev. Norman S. Millar, B.A. at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Brisbane on 25th September, 1938.
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The Ethics of Service
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartFrank Sewall
London: James Speirs, 1888.An essay on ethics read before the Ruskin Society of the Rose in Glasgow, January 1888, by the Swedenborgian clergyman Frank Sewall (1837-1915). Scarce, 3 copies recorded in OCLC.
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Into Your Hands: Essays Inspired by Mystic, Prophet, and Activist Michael Bernard Kelly
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartAndrew Brown
Melbourne: Clouds of Magellan Press, 2022.Academic and personal tributes to the life and work of leading Australian gay activist and religious commentator Michael Bernard Kelly.
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Where the Master Touched
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartCongo Missionaries of the Unevangelized Fields Mission
London: Unevangelized Fields Mission, 1950.Stories and documentation of the Unevangelized Fields Mission work in Congo in the between 1931 and 1949. At the time UMF had offices in London, Toronto, Philadelphia, and Melbourne. In 2004 UMF changed its name to Crossworld and continues its missionary work around the world. Scarce, 4 copies recorded in OCLC.
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An Introduction to the Word Explained: A Study of the Means by Which Swedenborg the Scientist and Philosopher Became the Theologian and Revelator
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartAlfred Acton
Bryn Athyn: Academy of the New Church, 1927.With reference to Emanuel Swedenborg’s The Word of the Old Testament Explained.
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Impressions of Mahayana Buddhism
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartBeatrice Erskine Lane Suzuki; Daisetz Teitaro Suzuk
Kyoto and London: The Eastern Buddhist Society and Luzac and Company, 1940.Beatrice Erskine Lane Suzuki (1878-1939) was an American Theosophist and Buddhist scholar. In 1911 she married Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (D. T. Suzuki), the well known philosopher and Buddhist Scholar who popularized Zen in the west. She wrote extensively on Buddhism and Japanese culture, and following her death her husband compiled this book from her articles in various magazines in Japan, India, England and America.
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Touring Programme for the Australian Delegation to the 4th Asian Baptist Youth Conference, Thailand 1971-72
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartW. L. Hellier
[Canberra]: [Australian Baptist Youth Fellowship], [1971].Roneoed programme for a trip to Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand (where the Youth Conference was held), Hong Kong, Macao, Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines including flights, accommodation, eating arrangements and tours.