Catalogue of the first portion of the theological & miscellaneous stock of Mr. C.J. Stewart
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Politics and Society; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Politics and Society
Publisher: Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
Published: 1882
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 240
Notes: 3941 lots.

Consignor's name from BM English book sales, p. 380.

"A very complete, extensive & valuable collection of English & Foreign theology, comprising the Holy Scriptures in critical editions of the original text, Biblical Codices, Polyglotts, Ancient and Modern Versions, and scarce English and Foreign Editions; Commentators, Ancient, Modern and Rabbinical, and numerous works in all classes of Sacred Criticism; Liturgies, Service Books, Monastic uses, Breviaries. Missals, and Rituals; Benedictine, and other valuable editions of the Fathers; Middle-age authors, schoolmen and their commentators; Ecclesiastical and Monastic histories, Biographies, Antiquities, and works on church architecture; Councils, Synods, Canon and civil law; Dogmatic, Mystical, and Moral theology; Historical works on the Papacy and the Temporal power; scarce editions of Indices Libb. Prohibitorum; Confessions of faith, and other early and scarce works on the Reformation; Religious orders, and the inquisition; works of the Reformers, and Puritan divines; and numerous authors in all branches of Controversial, Spiritualistic, Speculative, and Practical theology."

"The miscellaneous portion includes scarce English, Scotch, & Irish historical biographical & topographical books & tracts; publications of the Bannatyne, Maitland, and Spalding clubs, and other society books; historical collections; ballads, early poetry, plays, linguistic works, &c. &c. &c."

Reproduction of the original from the Pusey House Library St Giles.

Place of sale: London.