London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1950. No. 204 of a Limited Edition of 370 copies. Cloth Hardcover. Comenius, a visionary in education, was a Moravian Protestant bishop, a refugee, and an early advocate of universal education, earning him the title "Father of Modern Education."His book, "The Labyrinth of the World and.....

New York: George Braziller, 1976. Hardcover in an Illustrated Slipcover. Croatian artist Giulio Clovio, nicknamed "new Michelangelo" or "Raphael of miniatures," illuminated the renowned Farnese Hours, an intimate prayer book for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (1520-1589), a prominent patron of the arts in Renaissance Rome, who hailed from the influential Farnese.....

New York: George Braziller, 1974. Hardcover in an Illustrated Slipcover. The Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry, or Belles Heures of Jean de Berry (The Beautiful Hours) is an early 15th-century illuminated manuscript book of hours containing prayers to be said by the faithful at each canonical.....

London: The Paternoster Press, 1960. Illustrations by Graham Wade. Fourth Printing. Very Good in a Good Dust Jacket. Jungle Doctor becomes ill himself and has to rest and then recover by traveling to another part of Tanganika. Mboga, his assistant tries to be helpful but often with rather disastrous but.....

New York: G. & C. Carvill, 1827. Second Edition. Marriage to a deceased wife's sister caused a notable stir in 19th century England, given the prevailing religious and societal norms of the time. The Victorian society grappled with considerations that were both religious and moral in nature, along with social.....

London, Printed for W. Bower and F. Rivington et. al.:, 1771. 11th Edition. Full Calf Hardcovers. Samuel Clarke was an English philosopher and Anglican clergyman. He is considered the major British figure in philosophy between John Locke and George Berkeley.Clarke's altered, Nontrinitarian revision of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.....

Paris: Auguste Vaton, Libraire, Avignon, 1841. First Edition, First Printing. Quarter Leather. Aiguebelle Abbey is a Trappist monastery located in Montjoyer and Réauville, in the Drôme region of France, near the borders of Dauphiné and Provence.Initially, this site held a Benedictine monastery established in 1045 by Hugues Adhemar, who was.....