Armitage, Isabelle. Yucca Valley, CA: Manzanita Press, 1961. Wraps. First Edition. Unpag. 4to. Gray, red, and blue printed design on heavy paper wraps with slight sunning at upper edge. Clean within. Heavily illustrated with black and white photographs of the Benidictine monastery and its residents.
A classic Armitage production using bold colors offset by black and white photographs. Photographs are by his wife, Isabelle. Very Good. More

Napolitano, P.G. Santa Fe, NM: Laboratory of Anthropology, 1946. Hardcover. First Edition. 139 pp. 8vo. Some sunning to dust jacket at spine and edges, now in mylar cover. Gray/green cloth boards with same titling as dust jacket reproduced on cover and spine. Hevily illustrated and clean within, housed in a custom gray cloth clamshell box. [Purcell 59].
Book is devote to santo making, the depiction of religious objects with painted panels and carved wood figures. This copy is signed at the colophn by E. Boyd and Merle Armitage. Fine / Very Good. More

France: [1790]. Hardcover. As. 46, [2], 19, [1] pp. 12mo. Two small pamphlets bound together in small blue paper covered boards with gold embossed titling to spine. Pamphlets have been trimmed. Clean within.
Two French imprints centering around the Knights of Malta and the Order of Saint Lazarus which was formed during the Crusades around 1119. This bound set bears the bookseller label of Raymond Clavreuil of Paris and the signature of James J. Algrant (1926-2018). Algrant was the author of "Military and Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem - An up-date to the History of the Order 1983 to 1987" and an historian of these religious/military fraternal organizations. Fine. More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898. Three Quarter Leather. xxiii, 373 pp. Second Printing, originally published in 1874. Brown leather spine and cover board corners, marbled paper insets on front and rear boards, top edge of text block gilded. Clean and crisp within.
First published in 1874, that was the first book to describe the negative impact of religion on the practice of science. The book was banned by the Catholic Church. Very Good. More

Bombay, India: The Trustees, Bai Vijibai Jivanlal Panalal Charity Fund, 1942. Hardcover. First Edition. xxvi, 104 pp. Red cloth boards with slight scuffing and wear, gold embossed titling to cover and spine. Small 7/8" pice of cloth missing along rear edge of spine. Interior very clean. Very Good. More

Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xi, 539 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More

Bourke-White, Margaret. New York: Farrar , Straus and Cudahy, 1956. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 236 pp. 8vo. Scuffing to dust jacket from shelf wear, small chips at edges, 1/2" tear at head of spine along front hinge of dust jacket, 1" tear at base of lower right corner along front flap, now in mylar cover. Very clean within.
Signed by both John LaFarge and Margaret Bourke-White on the first free endpaper. Inscribed additionally by Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) to Eliot Elisofon (1911-1973) on the second free endpaper in year of publication, "For Eliot and Joan Merry Xmas to my beloved Elisofon family. Peggy. Xmas 1956." Elisofon was active as a photographer from 1935 through his death in 1973 and was a staff photographer/correspondent for LIFE..... More

London: Reeves & Turner, 1894. Hardcover. First Edition. 138 pp. Brown cloth boards with bright gold embossed titling to cover and spine. Slight bumping to board corners, clean within. Very Good. More

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1867, 1870, Hardcover. First Edition. xxxiii, 379, 24 (ads); 356, 4 (ads); 520; viii, 581, 43 (ads) pp. 8vo. Green cloth publsiher's binding with gold embossed tooling to spine. Minor scuffing overall, bumping to corners of each volume. Each volume has dark brown endpapers, clean within.
Volume I: Essays on the Science of Religion; Volume II: Essays on Mythology, Traditions, and Customs; Volume III: Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities; Volume IV: Essays Chiefly on the Science of Language. Very Good. More

London: Charles Knight & Co., 1845. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. iv, 230 pp., iv, 294 pp. Three quarter leather with brown leather at spine and corners, four raised bands with gold embossed titling that has faded, volume numbers still somewhat bright. Wear and chipping to covers, losses at corners, marble paper insets on each volume scuffed as well. Front pastedown of each volume split at gutter, text block still attached to cover board by cords.
William Paley's famous and influential work, Natural Theology, with significant commentary. Published in four volumes, bound as two. Good. More

Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xxi, 317 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More

Philadelphia, PA: The Jewish Publication Society, 2007. Wraps. First Edition. 4to. Clean, crisp copies. Set still in original shrink wrap.
Volumes are titled: The Spring and Summer Holidays, The Winter Holidays, and The Fall Holidays. Fine. More