Latest Books 4 October 2007
The list below contains the latest items we have catalogued in our offline database. If you are reading this the same day it was posted then they may well not yet have appeared on any of the websites on which we sell (we generally update sites every few days, not daily). Please email us to order books.
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[400547] Wright, Thomas. The Life of William Huntington, SS. London: Farncombe & Son, 1909. Cloth. Average . 316 pages, illustrated, good sized print. Binding shaken and inexpertly reglued, some foxing to edges. Uncommon book. GBP 45.00
[400548] Renwick, James. A Choice Collection of Very Valuable Prefaces, Lectures, and Sermons Preached Upon the Mountains and Muirs of Scotland in the Hottest Times of the Late Persecution. Glasgow: Samuel & Archibald Gardner/Niven, Napier & Khull, 1804. Hard Cover. Average . 643 pages; 9 lectures, 44 sermons, Mr Renwick's predictions, Form and Order of the admission of Elders as done by Renwick, Reply to Robert Langlan's letter to Gavin Wotherspoon, Testimony of James Renwick. Foxed/discoloured, title page badly so. Rebound at some point. Old style print. GBP 85.00
[400549] Shedd, William Greenough Thayer. A Critical and Doctrinal Commentary on the Epistle of St Paul to the Romans. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1879. Cloth. Poor . 439 pages, binding dilapidated, heavy pen and pencil underlining, marking and annotation throughout by D A MacFarlane, late Free Presbyterian minister of Dingwall. GBP 5.75
[400580] Brown, John (of Haddington). A Dictionary of the Holy Bible. London: A Fullarton & Co, 1857. Half-Leather. Average Minus . ... An historical account of the persons; a geographical and historical account of the places; and a literal, critical and systematic description of other matters natural, civil and religious: the whole comprising whatever important is known concerning the antiquities of the Hebrew nation and church of God forming a sacred commentary, a body of scripture history, chronology and divinity. "Original edition" with notes; illustrated with maps and plates and a memoir of the author. To which is added Brown's Concordance to the Bible. 814 pp, spine has two pieces missing and is taped to a non-original front board which is slightly too small, fold-out maps damaged/missing, otherwise internally fairly good. Fullarton's editions aimed for a good degree of accuracy, and do not have the dubious "improvements" of some other editions. GBP 12.50
[400581] Stewart, Alexander & Cameron, J Kennedy. The Free Church of Scotland: 1843-1910: A Vindication. Edinburgh: William Hodge & Co, 1910. Cloth. Average . 427 pages, presumed first edition of the book later published by Knox Press as "The Free Church of Scotland - the Crisis of 1900". Some pencil annotation by D A MacFarlane, late Free Presbyterian minister of Dingwall. GBP 9.50
[400550] Moncrieff, Henry Wellwood (Sir). The Free Church Principle: Its Character and History (Chalmers Lectures 1st Series 1880-81). Edinburgh: Macniven and Wallace, 1883. Cloth. Average . 344 pages. Some pencil marking, a bit shaken, a little wear to top and bottom of spine. GBP 15.00
[400551] Ellicott, Charles J. Critical and Grammatical Commentary on St Paul's Epistles: Volume 4: Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon. London: John W Parker and Son, Cloth. Poor . 268 pages. Cloth spine damaged, front cover and preliminaries (before preface) missing. Considerable pen marking and annotation by D A MacFarlane, late Free Presbyterian minister of Dingwall. GBP 2.75
[400552] Sumner, John Bird. Practical Exposition of General Epistles of James, Peter, John, and Jude. . Cloth. Average Minus . 501 pages. John Bird Sumner (1780-1862), an Evangelical Anglican, was later Archbishop of Canterbury. He produced expositions of most of the New Testament. Cloth spine missing and taped, preliminaries prior to contents pages missing, one page torn, some pen marking and annotation by D A MacFarlane, late Free Presbyterian minister of Dingwall. GBP 7.50
[400553] Philpot, Joseph Charles; Philpot, Sarah L; Clayton, William Clayton. Letters By the Late Joseph Charles Philpot with a Brief Memoir of His Life and Labours. London: J Gadsby, 1871. Half-Leather. Average . 560 pages, internal binding, especially front internal hinge shaken, leather worn, some foxing, 291 letters plus memoir etc. GBP 8.50
[400554] Romaine, William; Wills, Thomas (ed). Letters from the Late Rev William Romaine, AM, Rector of St Andrew Wardrobe, and St Ann Blackfriars, and lecturer of St Dunstan's in the West, to a Friend, on the Most Important Subjects, During a Correspondence of Twenty Years. London: Smith and Elder, 1822. Hard Cover. Poor . 274 pages, binding falling apart, some pen underlining here and there. GBP 9.50
[400555] Aiton, John. The Life and Times of Alexander Henderson, giving a History of the Second Reformation of the Church of Scotland, and of the Covenanters, during the Reign of Charles I. Edinburgh: Fraser & Co, 1836. First Edition?. Half-Leather. Good . 674 pages, frontispiece portrait with facsimile signature, fold out facsimile of King Charles' handwriting. Gilt decorated leather spine, marbled boards, endpapers, and page edges, some pencil marking/annotation here and there throughout, some page corners have been folded down, a little foxing, but in general this is quite a nice looking book, and uncommon. GBP 75.00
[400556] Gibson, James. Present Truths in Theology: Man's Inability and God's Sovereignty in "The Things of God," with their Relation to Gospel Doctrine and Moral Responsibility: Set of 2 Volumes. Glasgow: Thomas Murray and Son, 1863. Cloth. Poor . 446 + 456 pages. Heavy pen marking, underlining and annotation by D A MacFarlane, late Free Presbyterian minister of Dingwall, especially in Volume 2. Volume 2 has also suffered some past ingress of damp at front and back, with past slight mouldiness/damage to page edges at front and back. Uncommon item. James Gibson (1799-1871) took part in the Disruption of 1843 and became Professor of Systematic Theology and Church History in the Free Church of Scotland College, Glasgow. GBP 65.00
[400557] Bridges, Charles. Exposition of Psalm CXIX [119]: As Illustrative of the Character and Exercises of Christian Experience. London: Seeleys, 1849. Nineteenth Edition. Cloth. Poor . 453 pages, falling apart and with some pen marking and annotation by D A MacFarlane, late Free Presbyterian minister of Dingwall. GBP 3.50
[400558] Popham, James Kidwell. James Kidwell Popham: A Brief Biography and Addresses Delivered in Connection with the Sovereign Grace Union. London: Sovereign Grace Union, 1938. Cloth. Good . 53 pages. SGU publication No 260, endpaper signed D A MacF[arlane], this copy shows little sign of having been used. GBP 2.50
[400559] Love, John; Committee of Friends. Memorials of the Rev John Love, Late Minister of the Gospel at Anderston, Glasgow: Consisting of Diary, Reminiscences and Original Papers: Set of 2 Volumes. Glasgow: Maurice Ogle & Son (etc), 1858. Cloth. Average Minus . 464 + 512 pages, external hinges torn, binding shaken, a little pencil and occcasional pen underlining etc. Front endpapers signed D A MacFarlane, 1913. Author was a noted evangelical Presbyterian minister in London and Glasgow, and one of the founders of the London Missionary Society. GBP 65.00
[400560] Thatcher, Griffithes Wheeler. Arabic Grammar of the Written Language. Heidelberg: Julius Groos, 1910. Cloth. Average Minus . 461 pages, title page missing, therefore actual date of this printing unknown. GBP 2.00
[400561] Haldane, Alexander. The Lives of Robert Haldane of Airthrey and of His Brother James Alexander Haldane. Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, . Ninth Edition. Cloth. Average Plus ISBN: . . 659 pages. GBP 9.50
[400562] Bonar, Andrew A; Bonar, Marjory (ed). Andrew A Bonar: Diary and Life (The Diary and Life of Andrew Bonar). London: Banner of Truth Trust, 1960. Hard Cover. Good Plus / Average. ISBN: 0851514324. . 535 pages. GBP 4.75
