Best, Elsdon.

The Whare Kohanga (the ‘Nest House’) and its Lore. Comprising data pertaining to procreation, baptism, and infant betrothal, &c.; contributed by members of the Ngati-Kahungunu Tribe of the North Island of New Zealand. ‘He puta taua ki te tane, he whanau tama ki te wahine.’

First published 1929. Wellington, New Zealand, A.R. Shearer, Government Printer, 1975. 25 cm x 15.5 cm. 93 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. A very small tear in front of dustjacket. Rare !

[Bible] Brown, Rev. John.

Self-Interpreting Family Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments; to which are annexed an extensive introduction, copious marginal references, marginal readings, and illustrations. With an exact summary of the several books and an analysis of the contents.

London, Thomas Kelly, 1847. 22 x 28.5cm. Part One: 1047 pages / Part Two: 501 pages, with illustrations from steel engravings. Original leatherbound hardcover with gilt lettering and marbled endpapers and edges. Stronger signs of external wear to spine and edges but binding solid and internal text and illustrations in very good condition.

Black, Alan W.

Religion in Australia: Sociological Perspectives.

Sidney, Allen & Unwin, 1991. 8°. IX, 222 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent, close to new condition. Very rare Reader !

Black, Matthew / Best, Ernest / Wilson, R. Mc L.

Text and Interpretation: Studies in the New Testament presented to Matthew Black. Edited by Ernest Best and R. Mc L. Wilson.

Cambridge / London / New York / Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1979. 14 x 22cm. Frontispiece, (15), 268 pages. Original hardcover with silver lettering. Excellent condition, other than very mild foxing to top edges. Previous owner’s bookplate affixed to front endpaper.

39. Blackwall, Anthony.

The Sacred Classics Defended and Illustrated: Or, an Essay Humbly offer’d towards proving the Purity, Propriety, and True Eloquence of the Writers of the New Testament. In Two Parts. In the First of which Those Divine Writers are vindicated against the Charge of barbarous Language, false Greek, and Solecisms. In the Second is shewn, That all the Excellencies of Style, and sublime Beauties of Language and genuine Eloquence do abound in the Sacred Writers of the New Testament. With an Account of their Style and Character, and a Representation of their Superiority, in several Instances, to the best Classics of Greece and Rome. To which are subjoin’d proper Indexes. [The Second and Last Volume – In Three Parts. Containing: I. A farther Demonstration of the Propriety, Purity and sound Eloquence of the Language of the New Testament Writers. / II. An Account of the wrong Division of Chapters and Verses, and faulty Translations of the Divine Book, which weaken its Reasonings, and spoil its Eloquence and Native Beauties. / III. A Discourse on the Various Readings of the New Testament. With a Preface, wherein is shewn the Necessity and Usefulness of a New Version of the Sacred Books. By the late Reverend and Learned A.Blackwall, A.M. – AUthor of the First Volume. To which is annex’d a very copious Index.].

The Second Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). London, Printed for C.Rivington, 1727. Octavo. 432, [16], Portrait-Frontispiece of A. Blackwall by G.Vertue, XXXI, 359, [24] pages. Original Hardcover / 18th-century full leather with new spine-labels in the style of th eperiod. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

Blaikie, W.B.

Thomas Graves Law [Including an Appendix with: “A Bibliography of the Principal Writings and Editions of Thomas Graves Law”].

No Place of print Given, Privately Printed, 1904. 13.5 cm x 19.5 cm. Frontispiece (Black and white photograph of Thomas Grave Law). 39 pages. Original Softcover. Stiff card covers. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Foxing to endpapers and some isolated occurances to internal pages. Pencil marking by previous owner on endpaper.

Bloomfield, Rev. S.T.

The Greek Testament, with English notes, Critical, Philological, and Exegetical, Partly selected and arranged from the best commentators, ancient and modern, but chiefly original. The whole being especially adapted to the use of academical students, candidates for the sacred office, and ministers : though also intended as a manual edition for the use of theological readers in General.

Second Edition, corrected, greatly enlarged and considerably improved. Two Volumes (complete set). London, Longman, Rees & Co., 1836. Octavo. XXXI, 656, 672 pages. Hardcover / Original Half leather with gilt lettering on spine. Few pages with dogears. Binding a little rubbed but overall in very good an firm condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Breckensiek, Marne.

Adam’s Apple and Other Stories. As told by tennagers.

Missouri, Liguorian Books, 1970. 10.5 cm x 17.5 cm. 86 pages. Black and white pencil drawings throughout. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Internal pages clean and bright.

Brégy, Katherine.

The Story of St. Francis de Sales, Patron of Catholic Writers.

Dublin / London, Clonmore & Reynolds Ltd. / Burns Oates & Washbourne, 1960. 12.5 x 19cm. (10), 85 pages. Original hardcover. Minor signs of external wear, otherwise very good condition.

Brinkworth S.J., Guy.

Take, O Lord: A D.I.Y. Manual for Private Retreats or Prayerful Reading, at Home or Elsewhere, Full-time or Part-time.

Ramsgate, Mater Dei Press, 1972. 14.5 cm x 21 cm. 127 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Signed by the author.