Books by Kempis Thomas

Philadelphia, 1798, 306, 14pp., 24 mo. Full leather w/age stains & 1.5" split on right side. Author listed as John Wesley! End pagination is (10),(4)(ads). ... more information

Charlestown, [Mass.]: Printed by W.S. & H. Spear, for Asa Lyman, Bookseller, Portland, 1812. 8vo. [iv], 315; [3], 42pp. Contemporary tree calf, red leather spine label; covers with a few nicks and scrapes, some very light waterstaining, otherwise a very handsome copy, with the contemporary ownership inscription of "Rufus Horton, Jun. Portland". American Imprints 25712; not in Parsons . A very handsome copy of this piece of Catholic Americana, which first appeared in the Uhited States in Engli... more information

Philadelphia: Pr. by Joseph Crukshank for John Dickins, 1794. Contemporary sheep, binding overall showing scuffs and small cracks. Endpapers and fly-leaf with early inked ownership inscriptions; title-page verso institutionally rubber-stamped. Pages age-toned and spotted, with intermittent pencilled bracketing; a few leaves starting to separate.. 12mo (10.1 cm, 4"). 306, [14 (index & adv.)] pp. Early American printing of John Wesley's abridged version of the Imitatio Christi, following the... more information

LONDON, KNAPLICK, ET AL, 1738. FULL MODERN BROWN CALF TWELFTH EDITION VERY GOOD. ... more information

London: Printed 1744. Germantown: Re-Printed by Christopher Sowr, 1749. First American edition of "De Imitatione Christi". . Contemporary sheep, blind rules on covers, raised bands. Binding worn, small chips from head and foot of spine, joints starting, free endpapers missing, some leaves loosened, text browned. Bookplate of F.E. Maser. Library Company of Philadelphia "First American Editions" p. 9; Parsons "Catholic Americana" 6 ; PMM 13 (for 1473 edition); Shipton and Moone... more information