September 2024 New Arrivals
Here are the latest books catalogued. They are listed high to low price, with the first book priced at $1200 and the last one at $12. Happy hunting!
A volume of John Gill, in a stunning signed American binding circa 1776, with the bookplate of Hezekiah Smith (1737-1805), American Baptist church leader, Revolutionary War Chaplain, one of the founders of Brown University.
Rev. Ethan Smith wrote A View of the Hebrews...&c. which many believe is the basis for Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon. Rev. Ethan Smith's rare pamphlet, A Key to the Figurative Language found in the Sacred Scriptures, in the form of Questions and Answers (1814), is included in this sammelband of five items.
A German Reformed minister teaching at Columbia College, NYC, publishes his textbook in 1795 as Natural Principles of Rectitude, for the Conduct of Man in all States and Situations of Life; Demonstrated and Explained in a Systematic Treatise of Moral Philosophy; Comprehending The Law of Nature - Ethics - Natural Jurisprudence - General Œconomy - Politics - and the Law of Nature.
In one of the most unusual interpretations of the Book of Revelation that we have seen, James Winthrop, former librarian at Harvard, finds in 1794 that it predicts States that have no established religion, and are quite similar to the new United States. Read all about it in An Attempt to Translate the Prophetic Part of the Apocalypse of Saint John into Familiar Language, by divesting it of the Metaphors in which it is involved.
Baptist adventures in the wilds of Western New York and Upper Canada, the Memoir of the late Rev. Lemuel Covell, Missionary to the Tuscarora Indians and the Province of Upper Canada; Comprising a History of the Origin and Progress of the Shaftsbury Baptist Association, up to the time of Mr. Covell's Decease in 1806.
James Darling, Cyclopaedia Bibliographica: A Library Manual of Theological and General Literature, and Guide to Books for Authors, Preachers, Students, and Literary Men; Analytical, Bibliographical, and Biographical (2 volume set). I don't think that we have ever said that a set was a "must have" for theological book collectors, but we will with this one. We bought our set twenty-five years ago and paid $600 for it, and it is falling apart from use. We consulted it several times while cataloguing the books on this list. Buy yours for $200 and you'll be glad that you did.
Ezra Stiles Ely (1786-1861), an Old School Presbyterian born in Lebanon, Connecticut, follows the outline of the Westminster Confession in his A Synopsis of Didactic Theology.
Theology as taught by evangelicals during the Great Awakening was written in 1750 by Joseph Bellamy, with an Introduction by Jonathan Edwards. The book, True Religion Delineated, was reprinted in 1804. Here is a copy for your collection.
The book that lit the match leading to the explosion between the Old School and the New School Presbyterians: George Duffield's Spiritual Life: or, Regeneration, illustrated in a Series of Disquisitions, relative to its Author, Subject, Nature, Means, &c. (1832).
One of Swedenborg's chief English proponents, the Anglican priest John Clowes and his Sermons on the Lord's Prayer and Ten Commandments (1820).
In 1841 the Roman Catholics were running amuck in the United States and threatening to overturn American liberties. At least that's what the Methodist Reverend Squire Chase believed, and in this scarce publication he warns us against the Doctrine, History, and Moral Tendency of Roman Catholic Indulgences.
A complete 5-vol set of Timothy Dwight, Theology Explained and Defended. Bindings are a bit battered, like some of the rest of us.
The Expediency and Proper Application of Sacred Music (1816), by the Massachusetts minister Rev. Samuel Willard (1776-1859).
John Brown of Haddington on the Metaphors of Scripture, the first American edition of 1812.
Baptist "New Lights" put their best hymns forward in this 1818 edition of A Selection of Hymns, from the Best Authors; By Elders Paul Himes and Jonathan Wilson.
A series of stories from real life intended to persuade young people to embrace the Gospel, by William Craig Brownlee, written in his 1837 title Lights and Shadows of Christian Life: Designed for the Instruction of the Young.
A Plain and Practical Review, of the Truth and Certainty of the Christian Religion (1810). Our anonymous author answers many questions regarding the veracity of the Bible and of Christian doctrine. It is a thorough treatment of Christian apologetics regarding both the Bible and its doctrine.
In 1825 the rector of St. Thomas' Church, South Carolina, presents the History of the Church of England from the Earliest Times to the Present Day.
Creeds are essential for a Pennsylvania Presbyterian pastor in 1826.
Western New York was called the "burned-over District" due to the many revivals that took place there. Here is the History of the East Genesee Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. We have two copies, by both and then you'll have two copies.
Russia and Turkey are at war in 1876; Russia said that it wanted to protect Orthodox Christians in the Balkans (sound familiar?). Linus Pierpont Brockett gives us a detailed report in his The Cross and the Crescent; or, Russia, Turkey, and the Countries adjacent, In 1876-7.
The Irish missionary priest John O'Hanlon was in Missouri from 1843 to 1853. He remembers, and he writes, in Life and Scenery in Missouri: Reminiscences of a Missionary Priest. There is an entire chapter on Mormons in Missouri.
Elder James S. Maple, (1824-1897), a member of the Miami [Ohio] Christian Conference, writes of The Names and Titles of Christ.
William Winans, D.D, (1788-1857), of the Mississippi Conference was a key figure in the formation of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Here he presents his Series of Discourses, on Fundamental Religious Subjects (1855).
William Taylor (1759-1836), "a Secession minister of the Erskine school" teaches us how to Sanctify the Sabbath in 1813.
The Literature of the Church of England, with biographies of the authors, makes up this two-volume set from 1844.
A study of twelve Early Christian Fathers (1844).
A "Christian" minister claims victory in a debate with a Presbyterian over the Trinity. Cover title: "Beach vs. Hickey on the Trinity."
The Oberlin professor Henry Cowles feeds us Gospel Manna for Christian Pilgrims: being Brief Comments on Rich Texts.
Musical Monitor, or New-York Collection of Church Musick, William Jarvis Edson (1786-1848) of Otsego, New York.
Life in the West; or, Stories of the Mississippi Valley. A glimpse of life in the Mississippi Valley right after the American Civil War, with accounts written to encourage emigration. Referenced in Flake for a chapter on Mormonism.
Roger Laurence (1670-1736) was a merchant who had been baptized by Dissenters. His own study of theology led him to renounce that baptism, publish his studies of that sacrament in Lay Baptism Invalid, and become rebaptized in Christ Church, Newgate Street, in 1708. He eventually became a Bishop with the Nonjurors, or at least with some of them.
Rev. John Moir, "Curate and Lecturer of St. Dionis Back Church," waxes Philosophical on the Christian Religion in 1807.
In interview with two Mormon missionaries is one of the chapters in Samuel Hanson Cox's reminiscences, published as Interviews: Memorable and Useful; from Diary and Memory Reproduced. This 1853 book also presents Drs. Chalmers and Emmons, as well as John Quincy Adams.
A very good copy of The Evangelical Magazine and Christian Eclectic, 1853-1854. This is volume one, numbers 1-12 of a short-lived Lutheran publication that was in print from 1853 to 1855.
Rev. Asahel Nettleton's 1820 revival preaching brought many new converts into the Albany-area churches, and Rev. Reuben Smith wrote a book of doctrine for them, entitled Truth without Controversy: A Series of Doctrinal Lectures, intended principally for Young Professors of Religion.
Abraham Jacobs was a common school teacher in Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania. His book is a daily devotional, composed of Bible verses and poems for every day in the year. It was published in 1848 as Spiritual Meditations, written in verse, on passages selected from the Sacred Scriptures.
Silas Gildersleeve Comfort, D.D. (1803-1868), a Methodist pastor and author, was not pleased with the poor showing of Rev. David Holmes in his debate with the Universalist minister Rev. John Austin. Rev. Comfort herein makes the argument that Holmes failed to make, in his book End of the Argument for Free Believing: A Review of Rev. Mr. Austin's Nineteen Arguments, in a Debate with Rev. Mr. Holmes, held in December and January, 1847-8.
The Constitution and Standards of the Associate-Reformed Church in North America was printed at Salem, NY, in 1827.
This book relates English Quaker history from the early 16th century to the early 18th century, about 200 years from 1536 to 1723. It was written by a medical doctor in New York City, William R. Wagstaff.
We present to you a near-fine copy of Elizabeth Fry: Life and Labors of the Eminent Philanthropist, Preacher, and Prison Reformer; Compiled from her Journal and other Sources.
Ideas for Infants; or, Answers in Verse to Scriptural Questions: adapted to the Understanding of Children, and Designed for the Use of Schools: with Scripture Proofs is a Methodist book from 1836, showing that the word "Infants" meant something different then.
Wright & Haweis. A Treatise on being Born Again & Communicant's Spiritual Companion (1813). This copy has some damage to the spine and is priced accordingly. There is a nicer copy here.
Thomas Halyburton's The Great Concern of Salvation (1815) comes with recommendations by Isaac Watts, John B. Romeyn, Alexander M'Leod, and James Richards.
William Craig Brownlee (1784-1860) gives his thoughts on Christian Baptism and Feet Washing.
The Dutch Reformed minister Rev. Amos W. Seely (1805-1865) shares his Practical Thoughts.
The Sabbath Tune Book: For the Service of Song in the House of the Lord. Lowell Mason's 1859 small oblong tune book.
Chas. G. Finney, the American Revivalist. A very good copy.
Polyhymnia; A Collection of Original Hymn Tunes, Anthems, Chants & Sentences, including a choice selection of Hymns in different Metres in Three Parts will have you humming a tune. It's an exceptionally nice copy of an oblong tune book.
We find the rejection of the doctrine of original sin to be a common starting point for the slide of a Protestant denomination toward modernism. Here are the Congregationalists on their way with Fitch's 1827 An Inquiry into the Nature of Sin.
This New School Presbyterian journal includes a denunciation of Charles Finney's theology and an account of the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands. The Biblical Repository and Classical Review: Third Series, 1849.
Accounts of Baptist revivals are prominent in A Sketch of the Christian Experience, Call to the Ministry, and Ministerial Labors of the Rev. John Peacock, Domestic Missionary.
Eleanor Read Emerson (1777-1808) was a school teacher who became the wife of the Rev. Joseph Emerson. She died at a young age. Here is her memoir, taken mostly from her own writings, and the funeral sermon preached by Samuel Worcester.
Maynard's Sabbath School Echo was intended as a hymnal for children - especially for boys. This 1863 printing has an illustration of street urchins on the front.
A 1969 reprint of the Ojibway Hymnal, A Collection of Chippeway and English Hymns, for the use of the Native Indians: Translated by Peter Jones, Indian Missionary.
Christus Consolator: A book of hymns or poems published right after the American Civil War as an aid to those who suffer and sorrow.
Addresses to Young Persons about to be Confirmed. By the evangelical Anglican Bishop of Calcutta, Daniel Wilson.
Peter M'Owan (1795-1870), a Wesleyan Methodist, offers Practical Considerations on the Christian Sabbath.
A friend of John Wesley and the president of Lady Huntington's seminary for men training for the ministry, Rev. Jean Guillaume de la Fléchère, aka Rev. John Fletcher (1729-85) was a Swiss-born native of Huguenot stock. Read all about it.
Here's why Rev. Worcester is not joining the Baptists who exhibit "disgusting quibbles, cants, or jeers, or insulting exclamations." Noah Worcester knows why and the reasons are Solemn (1810).
Rev. Bennet Tyler lets an arrow fly in the Old School-New School controversy with his A Vindication of the Strictures on the Review of Dr. Spring's Dissertation on the Means of Regeneration, in the Christian Spectator for 1829, in reply to the Reviewer and Evangelus Pacificus.
The Works of Lorenzo Dow will send you back to the camp-meeting-in-the-woods as you peruse the eccentricities of "Crazy Dow."
The History of Connecticut, from The First Settlement to the Present Time, by Theodore Dwight, Jr. (1840), one of the Harper & Brothers series.
A Sermon occasioned by the Death of the Hon. William Phillips, preached on the third of June, 1827. By Benjamin B. Wisner. Phillips was a politician and the President of the Massachusetts Bible Society and a Deacon in the Old South Church, Boston.
The English Baptist pastor Robert Hall (1764-1831) on the Discouragements and Supports of the Christian Minister (1812).
Henry Wilkes (1805-1886) was for fifty years "chief among those who sought to plant and foster churches of the Congregational order throughout the Provinces of British North America."
Sacred Plains as found in the Bible, by J. H. Headley.
A selection of Bible verses and prayers, for the sick, the dying, and for those who attend to them.
The sensational case that led to the first laws against abortion in the United States: Reverend Ammi Rogers (1769-1842), in his Memoir defends himself against the accusation of impregnating a young woman and then causing the abortion her child. The trial was published in 1820 as Report of the Trial of Ammi Rogers, for a high crime and misdemeanor, in a brutal and high handed assault on the body of Asenath Caroline Smith, of Griswold, Con...&c.
Sunday-School reading from 1844: The Martyr Missionary of Erromanga; or The Life of John Williams, who was Murdered and Eaten by the Savages in one of the South Sea Islands.
The Works of the Rev. John Wesley: Volume XII (1812). Includes An Earnest Appeal.
Bishop Whately's defense of the Church of England against the Romanizing Tractarianism that was inserting itself into the Anglican world of his day in The Kingdom of Christ (1842).
Socialize like its 1857 with The Presbyterian Social Psalmodist.
A Methodist Circuit Rider reveals all in The Rifle, The Axe, and The Saddle-Bags.
Illustrations of the Law of Kindness. This book is made up of actual examples - historical accounts - of how living as a Christian and being kind to others produces a happy and holy life.
1839 was The Centenary of Wesleyan Methodism.
The American Tract Society furnished 308 anecdotes for Family Reading Time.
Faith on the Son of God Necessary to Everlasting Life is the theme of Jacob Norton's 1810 Massachusetts Missionary Society sermon.
Adam Clarke was a Methodist scholar and the author of a valuable Bible commentary. Here is his autobiography in a tragically poor (but complete!) copy.
John Summerfield (1798-1825), born in England, died in America. “A distinguished divine and minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church.” – M’Clintock & Strong. His Memoirs.
A New Memoir of Hannah More; or Life in Hall and Cottage (1856).
The Golden Wreath, an oblong tune book (1857).
Thanks for taking a look! Steve & Susan, Haaswurth Books