Hellenbroek Rev (2 results)

Condition: Very good. Philadelphia edition of this immensely popular book of questions and answers based around the teachings of the Reformed Dutch Church. A SPECIMEN OF DIVINE TRUTHS was first published in Dutch in 1706, with the first in English appearing in 1765. The title was published in many places across the US; the present copy is quite a scarce edition, with no holdings located in OCLC. 12mo. 5.5'' x 3.25''. Original coarse cloth-backed pictorial boards. 72 pages, collated complete. Contemporary pencil inscription "Mary White Her Book / Bought in the year of our lord / one thousand eight hundred," repeated twice. Binding with edgewear, soil and staining; a bit of scuffing to front board. Leaves with light foxing, some soil. A solid copy.

Softcover. Condition: Good. 12mo. Original printed salmon wrappers. 48pp. Wraps splitting along spine's length, general soiling; shaken, else good. An 1828 edition of a popular child's catechism that appeared from New York presses as early as 1765, has an appealing ornamental border along the upper cover. It was also heavily annotated in a contemporary hand in ink with numbers to the margins, a few scattered corrections to the text, and occasional comments and questions: "How will the saints employ in Heaven?" This copy was possibly used for editorial corrections for a subsequent and revised edition. [OFFERED WITH:] Laid in with this copy is a lovely period bookmark of blue silk and an applied and embossed paper die cut, stamped "Windsor" at the bottom, which shows a large, wreathed cross with allegorical images of two women on either side. The one woman leans on a large ship's anchor. The other woman nurses a baby with a child at her side. Hand-applied, within the cross on the paper screen, are the words "No Cross No Crown," presumably in reference to William Penn's famous work of the same title. This edition, or an edition with this imprint, not found in *OCLC. American Imprints* 33519.