1796 Glasgow (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. GILLIES, Rev. JOHN, D.D. (1712-1796) Minister, Glasgow. Historical Collections of Accounts of Revival. Edinburgh : Banner of Truth Trust. 1981. Tall 8vo. 582 pp. First published in 2 volumes in 1754 as 'Historical collections relating to remarkable periods of the success of the gospel / compiled by the Rev. John Gillies ; published originally in 1754, and now reprinted in 1845 with a preface and continuation to the present time by the Rev. Horatius Bonar, with a third volume supplement'. Original grey cloth covers with red label and gilt title on spine. Near fine condition. Dustjacket also in very good condition (unclipped). Contents clean, crisp and unmarked apart from a neat previous owner's label on the ffep. A handsome volume.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 3rd Edition. GILLIES, Rev. JOHN, D.D. (1712-1796) Minister, Glasgow. Historical Collections of Accounts of Revival. Edinburgh : Banner of Truth Trust. 1981. Tall 8vo. 582 pp. First published in 2 volumes in 1754, with a third volume supplement, and in 1845 with a preface and continuation to the present time by the Rev. Horatius Bonar. Dustjacket and boards are fine. Contents also fine. As new. "Contains a fuller and more complete history of the wonderful doings of the spirit of God than any other extant." - Horatius Bonar. Additional postage required for overseas.…

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7pp, 32mo. On two bifoliums, stitched together. In good condition, lightly aged. Signed 'Agnes Strickland'. A nice letter with interesting content. Begins: 'Feeling all the kindness of most friendly invitation so sensibly as I do, it gives me the greater regret to be compelled to forgo the pleasure you offer me, of joining my friends Mr. & Miss Mackinnon in your charming home on the 8th of Octr. I have been tempted to linger on, in this delightful and hospitable land from day to day and week after week till the very day you have named is, by some strange fatality, that appointed for my imbarkation at Ardrossan with my young friend Lady Augusta Bruce, [(1822-1876), daughter of the Earl of Elgin, later Lady Augusta Elizabeth Frederica Stanley] the sister of Lady Matilda Maxwell, with whom I am at present staying.' She reports that she is going to spend a few days with her sister Mrs Gwillym at Ulverstone, and then I proceed home as quickly as I can via Lincolnshire and Norfolk, to my own home, where I shall have to write at the rate of ten hours a day to make up for all the time I have spent, in endeavouring to gather more information illustrative of the personal history of the Queen of James 2nd Mary D Esté. | The vol in which she makes her appearance must be out early in the new year. This ties me imperatively to time, and compels me to do violence to my own inclinations, when I give up, or rather, I hope I may be permitted to say postpone a visit to Hardwicke Hall in consequence'. She ends with compliments to Sir Thomas Cullum, and 'hoping one day to renew and improve our acquaintance so agreeably commenced'.…