Latest Books 26 July 2007
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[491390] Wallis, Arthur. Living God's Way: A Course for Discipling New Christians. Eastbourne: Kingsway, 1984. First Edition. Paperback. Average ISBN: 0860652807. . 127 pages, paper somewhat browned with age. GBP 1.00
[491391] Green, Wendy. Getting Things Done: Eva Burrows: A Biography. Basingstoke: Marshall Pickering, 1988. Paperback. Average ISBN: 0551017139. . 184 pages. GBP 2.00
[491392] Spurgeon, Charles Haddon. Only a Prayer Meeting!. Pasadena: Pilgrim Publications, 1976. Paperback. Good . 366 pages, edges slightly foxed. GBP 3.25
[491393] Motyer, Steve. Israel in the Plan of God: Light on Today's Debate. Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press, 1989. Paperback. Average ISBN: 0851106714. . 172 pages, paper slightly browned with age. GBP 9.50
[491394] Ryle, John Charles. Old Paths. London: Charles J Thynne, 1900. Fifth Edition. Cloth. Poor ISBN: . . 521 pages, covers damp-stained, first couple of pages loose. GBP 4.50
[491395] Chalmers, Thomas. Original Works: Vol 21: The Parochial System Without a Poor Rate, with Two Essays on Cognate Subjects. Edinburgh: Sutherland and Knox, 1851. Half-Leather. Average . 408 pages. Additional short articles are: On the Applicatioon of Statistics to Moral and Economic Questions; Distinction both in Principle and Effect between A Legal Charity for the Relief of Indigence and A Legal Charity for the Relief of Disease. External hinges have some wear, starting to split; endpapers etc foxed. GBP 25.00
[491396] Lawrence, Roy. How to Pray When Life Hurts. London: Scripture Union, 1995. Paperback. Good ISBN: 0862019699. . 123 pages. GBP 1.25
[491397] Philip, James. Christian Maturity: The Fact and Experience of Sanctification. London: Inter-Varsity Fellowship, 1964. Booklet. Average . 72 pages. GBP 1.00
[491398] United Free Church of Scotland. Manual of Practice and Procedure in the United Free Church of Scotland . Edinburgh: United Free Church of Scotland, 1905. Cloth. Average . 284 pages. GBP 4.75
[491399] Martin, William James. The Dead Sea Scroll of Isaiah. London: Westminster Chapel, 1954. Booklet. Average . 21 pages, covers grubby. GBP 2.25
[491400] Machen, J Gresham. The New Testament: An Introduction to Its Literature and History. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1976. First Edition. Cloth. Good / Good. ISBN: 0851512402. . 386 pages, edges slightly discoloured. GBP 3.75
[491401] Smeaton, George. The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1889. Second Edition. Cloth. Average . 418 pages. GBP 5.75
[491402] Black, John Sutherland; Chrystal, George. The Life of William Robertson Smith. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1912. Cloth. Good . 638 pages, spine rubbed. GBP 7.50
[491404] Polson, Alexander. Gairloch (The Book of Gairloch). Dingwall: George Souter, 1920. Cloth. Good . 72 pages. 58 pages of historical and descriptive material, 15 pages of World War I fatalities, 6 b/w plates from paintings by Finlay Mackinnon. Good condition, slight wear and tear to edges of covers, slight foxing. GBP 28.50
[491405] Murray, John. Christian Baptism. Phillipsburg: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1980. Paperback. Good ISBN: 0875523439. . 90 pages. GBP 2.25
[400447] Holt, Emily Sarah. Robin Tremayne of Bodmin: A Story of the Marian Persecution. London: John F Shaw & Co, 1887. New Edition. Cloth. Average Minus . 378 pages plus catalogue, blue cloth with gilt panels and black decoration; cloth spine tearing away from top 1½ inches of front cover; covers detached from book, internally pretty solid. GBP 3.75
[400448] Cooper, David L. Messiah: His First Coming Scheduled (Messianic Series: Volume 4). Los Angeles: Biblical Research Society, 1939. Cloth. Average . 555 pages. David L Cooper (1886-1965), founder of the Biblical Research Society, sought to show the Jewish people from the Scriptures and history that the Messiah has come. Dedicated to the memory of Dr Robert Dick Wilson. GBP 7.50
[400449] Moule, Handley Carr Glyn. Charles Simeon (English Leaders of Religion series). London: Methuen, 1892. Cloth. Average . 276 pages plus catalogue. Biography of a leader of the Evangelical Anglican movement in the early 19th century, particularly at Cambridge. Original edition from which the later IVF publication was slightly abridged. GBP 5.75
[400450] Carus, William; Simeon, Charles. Memoirs of the Life of the Rev Charles Simeon ... With a Selection from His Writings and Correspondence. London: J Hatchard & Son, 1848. Third Edition. Leather. Average . 600 pages. This edition omits 'the diary of Simeon's second journey to Scotland', and 'a few paragraphs in other parts of the work which appeared to be of little interest to the general reader'. Largely letters from and to Simeon. Frontispiece portrait, fold out sheet of facsimiles of Simeon's handwriting. Dark green leather with gilt decoration to spine and boards, front internal hinge detached. GBP 48.50
[400451] Cameron, Allan. The Church of Our Fathers: being Lectures on the History and Principles of the Scottish Church. Glasgow: David Bryce and Son, 1887. Third Edition. Cloth. Poor . 240 pages. It appears that Allan Cameron was a minister of the Free Church of Scotland, possibly in Govan. He addressed the lectures to his own congregation. Dilapidated and grubby, frontispiece missing. GBP 5.75
[400453] Bonar, Horatius. Light and Truth: or Bible Thoughts and Themes: The Gospels. London: James Nisbet, 1869. Cloth. Average . 422 pages. GBP 6.50
[400454] Boston, Thomas. A View of the Covenant of Grace from the Sacred Records; plus A Memorial Concerning Personal and Family-Fasting and Humiliation Presented to Saints and Sinners; Wherein Also the Nature of Personal Covenanting with God is Occasionally Opened. Glasgow: Robert Chapman and Alexander Duncan, 1784. Leather. Average Minus . 364 pages. Hinges weakened; some untidy pen underlining and annotation here and there throughout by D A MacFarlane, late Free Presbyterian minister of Dingwall. GBP 14.50
[400455] Mackintosh, Charles Calder; Taylor, William. Memorials of the Life and Ministry of Charles Calder Mackintosh, DD, of Tain and Dunoon. Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, 1871. Second Edition. Clot h. Poor . 295 pages, covers very worn, internally fair (just a little pen marking, some pages grubby). Uncommon book. Charles Calder Mackintosh (1806-1868) was the grandson of Charles Calder of Ferintosh, and son of Angus Mackintosh of Tain who he succeeded as minister there. He later served the Free Church at Tain, and, from 1854, at Dunoon. Book contains Sketch of Religious History of Northern Highlands, Biographical Sketch, and 23 sermons. Signed D McDougall, Stevenson [Street?], Oban, 12/2/76 and Rod Mackenzie, Oban, Aug 29th 1893. GBP 14.50
[400456] Sievewright, J (anonymously); Stewart, Alexander. Memoirs of the Late Rev Alexander Stewart, DD: To which are Subjoined, a Few of His Sermons. Edinburgh: William Oliphant, 1822. Second Edition. Leather. Good . 487 pages, 371 of memoirs and the rest sermons (6 sermons). Rebound in black leather; gilt edges; a few pages have pencil marking. Good sized print. Alexander Stewart (1764-1821) was successively minister of Moulin, Dingwall, and Canongate, Edinburgh. His conversion, at least partly under the influence of Charles Simeon, was the beginning of an awakening in the Pitlochry area and Stewart was influential in the renewal of the evangelical movement in the Church of Scotland at the beginning of the 19th century. He was the father of Alexander Stewart of Cromarty. GBP 65.00
[400457] McDougall, William Stewart; McPhail, John S. Memorial Sermons of the Rev W S McDougall of Fodderty and Contin, with a sketch of his life by the Rev John S McPhail, Benbecula. Edinburgh: Norman MacLeod, 1897. Cloth. Average Minus . 249 pages, preliminary pages loose, some pages loosened and inexpertly glued back. William Stewart McDougall (1814-1892) was Free Church of Scotland minister in Raasay, Appin, and Fodderty & Contin. GBP 9.50
[400458] Scottish Psalter 1650. The Scottish Psalmody (tonic sol-fa edition) plus Seann Fhuinn Nan Salm. Edinburgh: H & J Pillans & Wilson/Free Church of Scotland, 1910. Cloth. Average Minus . Split leaf psalter with sol-fa (do re mi) version of tunes; Supplement of the Old Gaelic Psalm Tunes taken down by T L Hately (1862) and F W Whitehead (1909). This is one of the older Free Church editions, before many of the tunes were conformed to the standard versions of the Scottish Psalter 1929. Binding shaken, spine taped. GBP 15.00
[400459] Fletcher, Eliza; Salmond, Charles Adamson. A Woman's Work: Being Memorials of Eliza Fletcher: With a Sketch of Her Life. Glasgow: J N Mackinlay, 1887. Cloth. Average . 127 page biography by Salmond, plus 176 pages of Bible class addresses, letters etc. Spiritual experiences of Eliza Fletcher, who conducted girls' classes in the Free Church of Scotland and was a friend of the Duchess of Gordon. Engravings of Rushden, Northamptonshire; Huntly Lodge; cameo portraits, with facsimile signatures, of the Duchess of Gordon and Eliza Fletcher. Covers a bit worn; pages foxed. GBP 19.50
[400460] Boston, Thomas. The Crook in the Lot: or the Sovereignty and Wisdom of God in the Afflictions of Men. Edinburgh: Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, Cloth. Average . 146 pages, probably a 19th century copy. GBP 3.75
[400461] Deissmann, Adolf; Strachan, R M (trans). The Philiology of the Greek Bible: Its Present and Future. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1908. Cloth. Average Minus . 147 pages. Considerable pen underlining and some annotation, mainly to first half of book. GBP 9.50
[400462] Love, Christopher. The Select Works of the Rev Christopher Love, Minister of St Laurence Jury, London: Volume 1 (only, of 2). Glasgow: David Shaw, 1806. Leather. Poor . Volume 1 (only, of 2). 512 pages, disbound, brown stain/discoloration to approx. 60 pages, some pen underlining and annotation here and there throughout by D A MacFarlane, late Free Presbyterian minister of Dingwall. Contains: Heaven's Glory (10 sermons); Hell's Terror (7 sermons); Treatise of Effectual Calling and Election (16 sermons); The Zealous Christian Taking Heaven by Holy Violence (8 sermons). Christopher Love (1618-1651), a Presbyterian Puritan was beheaded under Cromwell for involvement in an alleged plot to restore the monarchy. GBP 25.00
[400463] Bryan, Ruth. Letters of Ruth Bryan. London: James Nisbet & Co, 1865. Cloth. Average Minus . 358 pages, rather shaken, some pencil marking here and there. GBP 9.50
[400464] Tasker, Randolph Vincent Greenwood. The Gospel According to St John: An Introduction and Commentary: TOTC Tyndale New Testament Commentaries Series. London: Tyndale Press, 1960. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good . 237 pages. GBP 1.00
[400465] Macfarlane, Donald. Sermons on the Love of God and Cognate Themes. Inverness: Northern Counties, 1918. Cloth. Average . 300 pages, 30 sermons. Covers a bit worn/stained. GBP 2.75
[400466] Macfarlane, Donald. Memoir and Remains of the Rev Donald MacDonald Shieldaig, Ross-shire. Glasgow: John M'Neilage, 1903. Half-Leather. Signed by Author. Average . 224 pages. Presented to Mrs Macfarlane, School-house, Raasay, with the author's compliments. 12th August 1903. Front internal hinge weakened, spine rubbed, and worn at bottom, some grubbiness and foxing to pages. GBP 7.50
[400467] Henry, Philip; Lee, Matthew Henry (ed). Diaries and Letters of Philip Henry, MA, of Broad Oak, Flintshire, AD 1631-1696. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1882. Cloth. Average . 414 pages plus catalogue. Extracted from manuscripts 60 years after J B Williams edited Matthew Henry's life of his father Philip (as reprinted by Banner of Truth - note that The Lives of Philip and Matthew Henry does not include this material). Has a small amount of biographical text interspersed here and there. GBP 24.50
[400468] Anderson, Jonathan Ranken & Pitt, H B (ed). Life and Sermons of the Late Rev J R Anderson, Minister of the Gospel, Glasgow, 1834-1859. Glasgow: R W Anderson, 1934. Cloth. Average . 160 pages. This original volume has a slightly shorter version of the "Life" than "Volume 2" and different sermons (staring with The Spirit of Grace; The Ten Virgins). GBP 6.75
[400469] Andrews, Samuel James. The Life of Our Lord upon the Earth: Considered in its Historical, Chronological, and Geographical Relations. London: Alexander Strahan & Co, 1863. Cloth. Average Minus . 543 pages; considerable underlining and annotation to a selection of pages throughout, by D A MacFarlane, late Free Presbyterian minister of Dingwall; cloth spine tearing away from back cover. Samuel James Andrews (1817-1906) was a pastor of the Catholic Apostolic Church in Connecticut, USA. GBP 7.50

