Latest Books 10 August 2007
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[471669] Westminster Assembly. The Confession of Faith; the Larger Catechism; the Shorter Catechism; the Directory for Public Worship; the Form of Presbyterial Church Government with References to the Proofs from the Scripture. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1948. Paperback. Average Plus . 187 pages, appears to be an official Church of Scotland edition. GBP 3.75
[471670] Miller, Eleanor C. Venture of Faith: The Life of D M Miller. London: Privately Printed, 1970. Paperback. Good . 111 pages. Life of Daniel Morrison Miller (1888-1965), Africa Inland Mission missionary in Congo and elsewhere. GBP 2.25
[471671] Philpot, J C [Joseph Charles]. Sermons By the Late Joseph Charles Philpot: Volume 1: Sermons 1-6. Luton: A J Watts, 1966. Cloth. Good Plus / Average Plus. ISBN: . . 128 pages. Uniform with the later Gospel Standard Publications printing. GBP 2.75
[471672] Philpot, J C [Joseph Charles]. Sermons By the Late Joseph Charles Philpot: Volume 2: Sermons 7-10. Luton: A J Watts, 1966. Cloth. Good Plus / Good. ISBN: . . 131 pages. Uniform with the later Gospel Standard Publications printing. GBP 2.75
[471673] Philpot, J C [Joseph Charles]. Sermons By the Late Joseph Charles Philpot: Volume 3: Sermons 11-17. Luton: A J Watts, 1966. Cloth. Good Plus / Good. ISBN: . . 118 pages. Uniform with the later Gospel Standard Publications printing. GBP 2.75
[471674] Philpot, J C [Joseph Charles]. Sermons By the Late Joseph Charles Philpot: Volume 4: Sermons 18-23. Luton: A J Watts, 1967. Hard Cover. Good Plus / Good. ISBN: . . 136 pages. Uniform with the later Gospel Standard Publications printing. GBP 2.75
[471675] Philpot, J C [Joseph Charles]. Sermons By the Late Joseph Charles Philpot: Volume 5: Sermons 24-30. Luton: Gospel Standard Trust Publications, 1968. Cloth. Good Plus / Good Plus. ISBN: . . 117 pages. GBP 2.75
[471676] Philpot, J C [Joseph Charles]. Sermons By the Late Joseph Charles Philpot: Volume 6: Sermons 31-37. Harpenden: Gospel Standard, 1969. Cloth. Good Plus / Good. ISBN: 0903556529. . 119 pages. GBP 2.75
[471677] Philpot, J C [Joseph Charles]. Sermons By the Late Joseph Charles Philpot: Volume 7: Sermons 38-44. Harpenden: Gospel Standard, 1970. Cloth. Good / Average. ISBN: 090355612X. . 120 pages. Top edges of pages, and dust jacket, a little foxed. GBP 2.75
[471678] Philpot, J C [Joseph Charles]. Sermons By the Late Joseph Charles Philpot: Volume 8: Sermons 45-51. Harpenden: Gospel Standard, 1972. Cloth. Good / Average Plus. ISBN: 0903556391. . 138 pages + index to all volumes. GBP 2.75
[471679] Rutherford, Samuel; Cousin, Ann Ross. Last Words of Samuel Rutherford. Belfast: Evangelical Bookshop, Leaflet. Average . 8 page small booklet containing the poem by Ann Ross Cousin based on the last utterances of Samuel Rutherford (starts - The Sands of Time are Sinking, and all verses end - In Immanuel's Land). Writing at top of front cover. GBP 0.55
[471680] Anderson, Jonathan Ranken. I am Not a Hypocrite. Glasgow: Blythswood Tract Society, Leaflet. Average . 8 pages, staples rusting. Deals with the excuse given by some against being particularly Christian - I am not a Hypocrite. GBP 0.55
[006651] Rutherford, Samuel; Martin, Hugh (ed). Selected Letters of Samuel Rutherfurd (A Treasury of Christian Books series). London: SCM Press Ltd, 1957. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Good / Average. . 127 pages, 71 letters plus glossary. GBP 2.25
[006652] New Testament, Gaelic (Scottish). Gaelic English New Testament and Metrical Psalms. Edinburgh: National Bible Society of Scotland, 1935. Cloth. Average . 717 + 240 pages. Gaelic New Testament and Psalter, with Authorized/KJV New Testament and 1650 Psalter in parallel columns. External hinges starting to wear through, slight stain to front cover. GBP 8.50
[006653] Lewis, C S [Clive Staples]. Beyond Personality: The Christian Idea of God. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1944. First Edition. Cloth. Good . 64 pages, page edges (especially top edges) slightly foxed; handwritten gift inscription to front endpaper. Presumably a first edition (says First Published 1944 on back of title page, with no other printing information). GBP 4.75
[006654] Coggan, Donald. Stewards of Grace. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1958. First Edition. Average / Average. . 127 pages; about preachers. The author was Bishop of Bradford at the time of publication. GBP 1.75
[006655] Cranfield, Charles Ernest Burland. The First Epistle Of Peter: RBC Edition No 74. London: SCM Press Ltd, 1950. First Edition. Hard Cover. Average . 128 pages. GBP 2.50
[006656] Various. British Historical and Political Orations from the 12th to the 20th Century. London: J M Dent: Everyman Series, 1929. Cloth. Average Plus . 351 pages. GBP 1.50
[006657] MacBeath, John. Lilies Among the Wheat: Talks to Young People. London: Pickering & Inglis Ltd, Cloth. Average / Average. . 160 pages, circa 1940s (War Economy Standard), spine faded, edges foxed, some pencil tick marks here and there throughout. GBP 2.75
[006658] Baker, Frank. The Story of Cleethorpes and the Contribution of Methodism Through Two Hundred Years. Cleethorpes: Trinity Methodist Church, 1953. Cloth. Good / Average. . 182 pages, illustrated. GBP 19.50
[006659] Smout, Thomas Christopher. A History of the Scottish People: 1560-1830.. London: Coll ins Fontana, 1977. Average Minus ISBN: 0006329543. . 540 pages, paper browned with age. GBP 1.00
[006660] Macartney, Clarence Edward Noble; Bodey, Richard Allen (ed). The Lamb of God: Previously Unpublished Sermons By Clarence E Macartney. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1994. Paperback. Good Plus ISBN: 0825421519. . 139 pages. GBP 1.75
[006661] Drummond, Lewis A (ed). Here They Stand: Biblical Sermons from Eastern Europe. London: Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 1976. Paperback. Average ISBN: 0551055391. . 186 pages. Sermons from Baptists in Poland, Romania, Russia, Hungary, Germany, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia. GBP 1.50
[006662] Hooykaas, Reyer. Religion and the Rise of Modern Science. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1972. Hard Cover. Good / Average. ISBN: 0701118350. . 162 pages. GBP 2.00
[006663] Maxwell, William D. The Liturgical Portions of the Genevan Service Book used by John Knox While a Minister of the English Congregation of Marian Exiles at Geneva, 1556-1559 (John Knox's Genevan Service Book 1556). London: The Faith Press, 1965. Hard Cover. Good / Good. . 222 pages, first 80 are notes and explanations, then 94 pages of text in English and Latin from the service book, with further notes, then 48 pages of appendices and index. GBP 9.50
[006664] Spurgeon, Charles Haddon. Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Vol 29: 1883. London: Passmore and Alabaster, Cloth. Poor . 708 pages, covers dilapidated, pages foxed, pen underlining found on one page. GBP 3.75
[006665] France, Richard Thomas. Jesus and the Old Testament: His Application of Old Testament Passages to Himself and His Mission. London: Tyndale Press, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good / Good. ISBN: 0851117279. . 286 pages. GBP 7.50
[006666] Noble, Vernon. The Man In Leather Breeches: The Life and Times of George Fox. London: Elek, 1953. Hard Cover. Good / Average. . 298 pages, edges foxed. GBP 2.50
[006667] Livingstone, William Pringle. Laws of Livingstonia: A Narrative of Missionary Adventure and Achievement. London: Hodder & Stoughton, Cloth. Good . 385 pages, good number of plates, fold out map. GBP 2.75
[006668] Whyte, Alexander. The Walk, Conversation and Character of Jesus Christ our Lord: Sabbath Evening Addresses. Edinburgh: Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, 1905. Cloth. Average Plus . 340 pages, top edges gilt, poems clipped from newspapers glued to endpapers, otherwise quite good. GBP 4.50
[006669] Whyte, Alexander. Lord Teach Us to Pray: Sermons on Prayer. London: Hodder & Stoughton, Cloth. Average . 292 pages, edges slightly foxed, spine a bit faded. GBP 3.50
[006670] Whyte, Alexander. Bishop Butler: An Appreciation: with the Best Passages of His Writings. Edinburgh: Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, 1903. Cloth. Good . 223 pages. GBP 4.75
[006671] Whyte, Alexander. Bible Characters: Adam to Achan. London: Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, 1903. Cloth. Average . 301 pages. GBP 3.75
[006672] Whyte, Alexander. Bible Characters: Gideon to Absalom. London: Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, Fourth Edition. Cloth. Average . 245 pages, newspaper cuttings of poems stuck to endpaper, a couple of insect holes showing in internal hinge. GBP 3.75
[006673] Whyte, Alexander. Bible Characters: Ahithophel to Nehemiah. London: Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, . Fourth Edition. Cloth. Average . 241 pages, covers a bit dampstained. GBP 3.75
[006674] Whyte, Alexander. Bible Characters: Our Lord's Characters. Edinburgh: Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, 1905. Cloth. Average . 311 pages. GBP 3.75
[006675] Whyte, Alexander. Bible Characters: Joseph and Mary to James the Lord's Brother. Edinburgh: Oliphants Ltd, . Sixth Edition. Cloth. Average . 245 pages. GBP 3.75
[006676] Whyte, Alexander. Bible Characters: Stephen to Timothy. Edinburgh: Oliphants Ltd, . Sixth Edition. Cloth. Average . 304 pages, edges foxed. GBP 3.75
[006677] Barbour, George Freeland. The Life of Alexander Whyte. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1923. Cloth. Average . 675 pages, large print, illustrated. Dr Whyte, a famous Free Church of Scotland/United Free minister was a strange combination of evangelical, mystic, and liberal. His biography gives an insight into the Scots presbyterianism of his day. Inscribed - To my very dear mother Isabel Knox in grateful remembrance of some Sunday evenings in Free St Georges when the saintky Dr Whyte reveled unto us some of the unsearchable riches of Christ - Christmas 1923. GBP 4.75
[006678] Sunday Service Book. Sunday Service Book: Services Authorized for Use in the Church of England from the Alternative Service Book 1980 and from the Book of Common Prayer: Together with the Parish Psalter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Leather. Very Good ISBN: 0191461563. . 489 pages. Includes parts of the ASB and the BCP, and the whole of the Parish Psalter: The Psalms of David Pointed for Chanting by Sydney H Nicolson (the words in this are those of the Prayer Book or Coverdale psalter). We do not guarantee that this is genuine leather - it may be bonded leather or some synthetic material that looks like leather. GBP 3.75
[006679] Gosse, Edmund. Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments. London: Evergreen Books, 1941. Paperback. Average ISBN: . . 251 pages, Evergreen Books No 35, paper somewhat browned with age. Edmund Gosse's account of his relationship with his Plymouth Brethren father, Philip Henry Gosse, and his rejection of his father's beliefs. Philip Henry Gosse and his beliefs on creation and evolution form a major section of John Rendle-Short's book "Green Eye of the Storm" published by the Banner of Truth Trust, which illustrates the development of evangelical thinking on evolution, also considering the beliefs of George Romanes, and the author and his own father Arthur Rendle-Short. GBP 1.50
[006680] Songs of Praise. Songs of Praise - Enlarged Edition [Melody Edition]. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969. Cloth. Good . 703 pieces, with the melody line (i.e. the top line, soprano or treble line) of music for each. GBP 1.75
[006681] Ursinus, Zacharias (Baer, Zacharias); Williard, George Washington (trans). The Commentary of Dr Zacharias Ursinus on the Heidelberg Catechism. Phillipsburg: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1985. Hard Cover. Average ISBN: 0875524540. . 659 pages, binding a bit shaken, edges foxed. GBP 5.75
[006682] Anon. The Gate Beautiful: The Church Service Simply Explained for Children. Edinburgh: Church of Scotland, Booklet. Average . 32 pages, in the form of 12 conversations between Marjorie and her Daddie. Foxed. Undated but probably early 20th century. Reprinted from Morning Rays Magazine for young children, after revision by the author. GBP 1.50
[006683] Knight, George Angus Fulton. I Am: This Is My Name: The God of the Bible and the Religions of Man. Grand Rapids: William B Eerdmans, 1983. Paperback. Good ISBN: 0802819583. . 90 pages. GBP 1.75
The following items were re-catalogued, mostly at reduced prices:
[490156] Ignatius; Polycarp; M'Culla, V [MacCulla, McCulla, Vigors]; Baley, John. The Epistles of Ignatius & Polycarp; Fragments: Or the Christian's Companion; A Letter to the Learned Mr J C Philpot. Leather. Average . 189 + 169 + 22 pages, some foxing, page edges browned. Three items bound together in a plain black leather cover which is rather worn. Epistles of Ignatius & Polycarp translated by W K Clementson, published by Baldwin Cradock & Joy and Robert Loder, Brighton, 1827. Fragments or The Christian's Companion being Sermons Meditations and an Essay on Patience also Letters Written to several friends by V M'Culla (British Library lists him as Vigors MacCulla and shows that he was involved in various Baptist/Calvinist controversy) - published by J Warren, Royston, 1825. A Letter to the Learned Mr J C Philpot by John Baley, Minister of the Gospel Whittlesea Isle of Ely, printed for the author and sold in Brighton, Catsfield, St Lawrence, Whittlesea, Chatteris, London. 1838. GBP 14.50
[300185] Short, Arthur Rendle. Wonderfully Made: Some Modern Discoveries About the Structure and Functions of the Human Body. London: Paternoster, 1953. Hard Cover. Good / Good Plus. . 159 pages. GBP 2.75
[300187] Smith, Edwin W. Tales of God's Packmen. London: BFBS, 1937. Cloth. Average+ . 133 pages, an illustrated book designed for children telling the interesting stories of Bible colporteurs all over the world. GBP 2.75
[001781] Smith, F Seymour. Build Your Own Library: The Project Club Project Book 104. London: Wolfe Publishing Ltd/The Dairy Industry, 1970. Booklet. Good ISBN: 0723402922. . 63 pages, one of a series of 200 Project Club Project Books produced by the Dairy Industry as promotional material, almost certainly associated with doorstep milk delivery. GBP 0.75
[30025 8] Short, Arthur Rendle. In the Days of the Prophet Isaiah. London: Marshall, Morgan and Scott, Cloth. Average . 103 pages. Bible background, largely written in a narrative form imagining ourselves to be onlookers at the time of Isaiah. GBP 2.25
[001787] Roy, James A. The Heart is Highland. ill. Bergman, H Eric. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 1947. Cloth. Average / Average. . 262 pages. Humorous autobiographical account of the author's time in Scotland with his little niece. GBP 3.75
[001791] Simpson, A A Le M [Alexander Adam Le Mesurier] - Ed. Peak in Darien: A Collection of Extracts from Accounts of Pioneering Exploits. London: G Bell & Sons Ltd, 1938. Cloth. Average . 224 pages, covers just a bit stained, front endpaper missing. An anthology of 24 contemporary accounts of travel and adventure through the ages. GBP 2.75
[300279] Zanchius, Jerome. Absolute Predestination. Grand Rapids: Sovereign Grace Publishers, 1971. Paperback. Average . 126 pages. Jerome Zanchius (1516-1590) was an Italian Reformation theologian who became a colleague of Ursinus at Heidelberg. GBP 2.75
[001869] Wills, William (Wills, Sir Alfred - ed). An Essay on the Principles of Circumstantial Evidence: Ilustrated By Numerous Cases. London: Butterworths, 1902. Fifth Edition. Cloth. Good . 458 pages. GBP 19.50
[001872] Clive, Eric M. The Law of Husband and Wife in Scotland. Edinburgh: W Green & Son Ltd, 1982. Second Edition. Cloth. Good+ ISBN: 0414006682. . 756 pages. GBP 9.50
[001898] Dornan, W Edward. One Hundred Eventful Years 1850-1950: An Outline History of the City of Belfast YMCA. Belfast: YMCA, 1950. Hard Cover. Average . 68 pages plus photos. Large format, spine damaged, "Evangelical Library" stamps to endpapers/title page. GBP 4.50
[001911] Bradford-Whiting, Mary. Wallaby Hill. London: Religious Tract Society, Cloth. Average . 128 pages, Victorian young people's fictional story of a school teacher in Australia, with illustrated cloth boards, large print. GBP 2.75
[001913] Macleod, John and Others. The Religion of the Bible: Papers Read at the 20th Annual Conference of the Sovereign Grace Union. London: Sovereign Grace Union, 1935. Cloth. Average . 102 pages. 12 papers read at the conference plus two items by Ryle and Tobitt. GBP 2.75
[001922] Berkouwer, G C [Gerrit Cornelis]. General Revelation: Studies in Dogmatics Series. Grand Rapids: Wm B Eerdmans, 1955. First Edition (American). Cloth. Average . 336 pages, spine splitting from front cover, ex "Evangelical Library". GBP 4.75
[001923] Berkouwer, G C [Gerrit Cornelis]. Faith and Sanctification: Studies in Dogmatics Series. Grand Rapids: Wm B Eerdmans, 1952. First Edition (American). Cloth. Average . 336 pages, spine splitting from front cover, ex "Evangelical Library". GBP 3.25
[001953] Walker, Allan Grierson; Walker, Norman MacDonald Lockhart. The Law of Evidence in Scotland. Edinburgh: William Hodge & Co, 1980. Cloth. Good . 493 pages. A reprinting of the original 1964 edition. GBP 5.75
[001955] Scots Statutes. The Scots Statutes, 1908 -1912. Edinburgh: William Green & Sons: Law Publishers, 1909. Average . Large volume, several annual or part annual sections in one. GBP 4.75
[001956] Henderson, R Candlish (ed). The Scots Digest of Scots Appeals in the House of Lords from 1707 and of the Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland: 1800 to 1873 (First Series): Set of 4 Volumes. Edinburgh: William Green & Sons/T & T Clark, 1912. Cloth. Average GBP 17.50
[001957] Sandeman, J Condie S Sandeman. The Scots Digest of the Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland and Reported on in the Various Series of reports: 1873 to 1904 (Second Series): Set of 2 Volumes. Edinburgh: William Green & Sons/T & T Clark, 1905. Cloth. Average - . Bindings worn. GBP 9.50
[001958] Maconochie, R H; Ballingall, J B. The Scots Digest: Digest of All the Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland and Reported on in the Various Series of Reports: 1905 to 1915 (or 1904 to 1914) (Complete in One volume). Edinburgh: William Green & Sons/T & T Clark, 1915. Cloth. Average . 1403 pages. GBP 4.75
[001959] Scots Digest. The Scots Digest: Digest of All the Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland and Reported on in the Various Series of Reports: Oct 1914 to July 1923 (Complete in One volume). Edinburgh: William Green & Sons/T & T Clark, 1924. Cloth. Average . 715 pages. GBP 4.75
[001960] Scots Digest. The Scots Digest: Digest of All the Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland and Reported on in the Various Series of Reports with Alphabetical Table of statutes: July 1923 to Oct 1930 (Complete in One volume). Edinburgh: William Green & Sons/T & T Clark, 1931. Cloth. Average . 538 pages. GBP 4.75
[001961] Scots Digest. The Scots Digest: Digest of All the Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland and Reported on in the Various Series of Reports with Alphabetical Table of statutes: Oct 1930 to Oct 1937 (Complete in One volume). Edinburgh: William Green & Sons/T & T Clark, 1938. Cloth. Average . 454 pages. GBP 4.75
[001962] Scots Digest. The Scots Digest: Digest of All the Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland and Reported on in the Various Series of Reports with Alphabetical Table of statutes: Oct 1937 to Oct 1944 (Complete in One volume). Edinburgh: William Green & Sons/T & T Clark, 1946. Cloth. Average . 317 pages. GBP 3.75
[001990] Smith, John Pye. The Scripture Testimony to the Messiah: An Inquiry with a View to a Satisfactory Determination of the Doctrine Taught in the Holy Scriptures Concerning the Person of Christ: Vol 1 (only, of 2). Edinburgh: William Oliphant & Co, 1859. Fifth Edition. Hard Cover. Average+ . Vol 1 (only, of 2). 520 pages, rebound, ex "Evangelical Library". GBP 9.50
[002016] Gee, Edward Prichard. The Wild Life of India. London: Collins, 1964. First Edition?. Hard Cover. Average / Average. . 192 pages, many photos, a few in colour. Foreword by Jawaharlal Nehru, first prime minister of India, with facsimile signature. GBP 1.00
[480358] Ewing, Juliana Horatia. Brothers of Pity & Other Tales of Beasts and Men. London: SPCK, 1890. Cloth. Average . 199 pages, illustrated animal stories, gilt illustrated green cloth (attractive but slightlly stained), corners a bit dented, some foxing and grubbiness. GBP 3.75
[480359] Hope, Eva (anonymously). Our Queen: A Sketch of the Life and Times of Victoria: Queen of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Walter Scott, 1887. Cloth. Poor . 360 pages. Colourful illustrated and gilt decorated red cloth boards; formerly in a Victorian Scottish public library (Halkirk); front endpaper missing, library label to title page, edges foxed, some grubby fingermarks. GBP 3.75
[480366] James, John Angell. The Young Man's Friend and Guide Through Life to Immortality. London: Hamilton Adams & Co, 1887. Cloth. Average . 376 pages, spine starting to tear away from back cover. Old Scottish library label inside front cover. GBP 4.75
[480368] Macadam, Stevenson. The Chemistry of Common Things. London: T Nelson & Sons, 1867. Cloth. Average . 184 pages, Nelson's School Series, illustrated, explains chemistry of the atmosphere, plants, foods, animals, the earth etc. Old Scottish library label inside front cover; some coloured pencil scribbling in Chapter 3. GBP 3.75
