Note: The browser BACK (or ALT+BACK ARROW) feature will return the cursor to "Contents" when the user is located in any topical listing linked on this page. The entire website, lettermen2.com, about 75 pages, may be searched using "Local Search" in the tool bar found at the top on all webpages at this site. It gives the dialogue box for Google Advanced Search. Also, any webpage may be searched using the Windows SEARCH feature, CTL+F.Finding Books That are in Print
Directories exist for books in braille, CD-ROM books-in-print, books on tape, sermons on tape, free e-text, books-on-demand, giant print books, and so forth, and so on. See your Reference Librarian.
Amazon.com Books offers the following information: books-in-print, the International Standard Book Number (ISBN), (the Amazon.com 10-digit ASIN number is usually the ISBN), Publisher, reviews by Amazon.com staff, and reader's comments, other works by the same author (click on the author's name), other works purchased by individuals who bought the subject book, and so forth and so on. Also, used books may be purchased and sold at amazon.com.
The International Standard Book Number (ISBN). Books published before 1966 may not have an ISBN number unless they have been reprinted after 1966. The Amazon.com 10-digit ASIN number may be either the International Standard Book Number or the Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN). If the book has a 10-digit ISBN, then Amazon uses it as their ASIN number. If the book does not have a 10-digit ISBN then Amazon.com assigns a 10-digit, all-caps, alpha-numeric ASIN (a word of caution, sometimes the same edition of a book may have multiple ASIN numbers within the Amazon.com database). "The Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN) is a product identification number used by Amazon.com and its partners. Despite the name, it is not a 'standard' outside of Amazon.com, but is used consistently for referencing products within the Amazon network of sites. The words 'Amazon Standard' should therefore be read as 'standard internal to Amazon,' rather than 'external standard initiated by Amazon'."
http://www.amazon.com
Book Sources, from Wikipedia
"This page allows users to search for multiple sources for a book given the 10- or 13-digit ISBN number. In Wikipedia, numbers preceded by "ISBN" link directly to this page."
This is an extensive listing of links for finding books.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/
Bookface.com
"Getting best purchase prices from every marketplace out there in seconds."
http://www.bookface.com/
Books-a-Million
Includes listings for Ingram Book Company and Word Books.
http://www.booksamillion.com/
*Bowker, R.R., Books in Print, ISSN: 0068-0214.
Issued annually as a set of books and bi-monthly on CD-ROM. Full text of book reviews may be obtained as an option with the CD-ROM version.
The Bowker/Whitaker Global Books-in-print CD-ROM is the largest source of information on books in print. Large research libraries subscribe to this database on CD-ROM. Search here for books published abroad.
Bowker's Books-in-print
http://www.booksinprint.com/bip/
*Bowker, R.R., Forthcoming Books, ISSN: 0015-8119.
*Bowker, R.R., Religious Books, 1876-1982, ISBN: 0835216020 9780835216029 0835217396 9780835217392 0835217418 9780835217415 0835217426 9780835217422 0835217434 9780835217439.
Indexed by author and title and listed by Library of Congress Subject Headings. The author index gives the years the author lived.
Logos Research Systems, Inc., Biblical Counseling Library (29 Volumes), on CD-ROM, Libronix Digital Library System
"This 29 volume collection of Biblical Counseling titles is an amazing compilation of Christian counseling resources. THE BIBLICAL COUNSELING LIBRARY features some of Jay E. Adams' outstanding counseling titles, including THE CHRISTIAN COUNSELOR'S MANUAL, COMPETENT TO COUNSEL, and A THEOLOGY OF CHRISTIAN COUNSELING. It includes works from 20 different authors, including Steve Farrar, Elizabeth George, Jerry Bridges, and Lou Priolo.
"This collection includes informative studies on general Christian counseling, as well as very focused works on Women's and Men's counseling needs, counseling victims of sexual abuse, eating and diet issues, dating, working through struggles with sexual sin and anger, and developing a deeper walk with God. A fantastic resource for the library of a pastor or Christian counselor, the BIBLICAL COUNSELING LIBRARY adds a new dimension to your Logos Bible Software. These expert resources are combined with the tools of the Logos Bible Software system, including topical searching for studying specific areas of Biblical counseling, and linked references to other titles in your Libronix library." -- Publisher
http://www.logos.com/products/prepub/details/2482
*Martin, Robert P., A Guide to the Puritans: A Topical and Textual Index to the Writings of the Puritans and Some of Their Successors Recently in Print, 546 pages, ISBN: 0851517137 9780851517131.
"I owe an enormous debt to the Puritans, the most prolific and accurate expounders of the biblical principles upon which the Reformation was built. Their concern for vital godliness in every area of the Christian's experience has rightly earned for them the title 'theologians of the Christian life.' Their writings are a rich banquet table loaded with solid nourishment for God's people. . . .
"There are many more qualified to index the Puritans than I. Had someone more acquainted with the Puritans' works and more schooled in their history and theology undertaken this project, the end product would have been vastly superior. My primary qualification is that I have been willing to undertake the task. I will not be surprised if those who use this volume find many things which could be done better, especially in the topical index. My hope, however, is that those who find flaws will favor me with their suggestions for improvement, so that if future editions come from the press, the people of God will be served better than at present.
"In determining which writers and works to index, I have been guided and restrained by several principles. First, I have deliberately chosen a broad definition of the term Puritan. Instead of the narrow ecclesiastical sense, i.e., of referring only to those in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who desired reformation in the national church of England, I am using the term Puritan in the broader religious sense of those advocating the experimental, Calvinistic religion which the Puritans exemplified. Moreover, I have cast my net even farther to take in those who have looked to the Puritans as their nearest theological kin; thus including such men as Archibald Alexander, Charles Hodge, B.B. Warfield, W.G.T. Shedd, John Murray, and many other modern Puritans.
"Second, with reference to older writers, I have limited my efforts to recently republished works. Many valuable works, of course, have not reappeared in our day, but are available only in libraries and private collections. I have not tried to include any such items. A comprehensive index of the entire body of Puritan writings would be a wonderful resource, but it is quite beyond my ability to undertake such a project.
"Third, though I have tried to include all the older works currently available, I have indexed only a sampling of works from living writers. Some may question my choices or judge that I have overlooked important new works and authors in the Puritan mold. I sincerely regret overlooking any volume worthy of notice. My only defense is that my knowledge of living authors is much less than my awareness of the proven guides of the past. For the most part I have limited new works to those published by the Banner of Truth Trust, confident that these works have passed through a fine grid of review, and would not bear the Banner label if they were not clearly in the Puritan tradition.
"Fourth, doubtless some users of this index will be disappointed that several important precursors to the Puritans are missing. For example, except for the notice of a few well-known works, Calvin and Luther are not indexed. The same is true of Augustine. The contribution of these men to reformed and Puritan thinking cannot be overestimated. Including their works, however, was not possible, given my present constraints. I regret this greatly.
"Among nineteenth-century figures, the most prominent absence is that of C.H. Spurgeon. Spurgeon certainly is worthy of a place in this work; however, since a textual and topical index of his sermons already exists, I chose not to duplicate that work here.
"In our own century, the ministry of D.M. Lloyd-Jones has produced a large body of useful material in the Puritan tradition; however, unlike his contemporary, John Murray, no collection of Dr. Lloyd-Jones's writings is yet available. Much that Dr. Lloyd-Jones preached is now published in commentary form (e.g., his expositions of the Sermon on the Mount, Romans, Ephesians, etc.), and is not included in this index because of my decision not to index commentaries. I have indexed the Doctor's topical works that were available to me. Those wanting more information on Dr. Lloyd-Jones's writings should consult the bibliography found at the end of volume two of Iain Murray's biography. [LLOYD-JONES, D. MARTYN: THE FIGHT OF FAITH, 1939-1981 -- compiler]
"The Scripture Index was easy to produce. Where a specific text (or texts), of scripture served as the basis for a sermon or treatise, it is included in the Scripture Index at the appropriate place. This does not mean, however, that every work listed in the Scripture Index contains a detailed exegesis of the text to which it is attached. Often the Puritans used texts as the starting points for topical sermons or series. What follows is not so much an exposition of the text but an exposition of a theme which the text epitomizes. Such sermons do not always answer to the needs of the technical exegete, but they often serve as catalysts for doctrinal and practical observations on the text.
"A few whole commentaries are found in the Scripture Index. These are present only because they are included in an author's collected writings. Many more commentaries could have been included; however, those appearing before 1870 are catalogued already in Spurgeon's COMMENTING AND COMMENTARIES. Many fine commentaries in the Puritan tradition also have appeared since 1870; but I have made no effort to produce what would in fact have been an update of Spurgeon's work.
"The Topical Index was extremely difficult to construct. Two problems constantly intruded themselves into the process. First, when I began, no list of topics was ready at hand. My method therefore was to compile the list of topics as I went along. The end product doubtless is less accurate than if the topics had been set from the beginning. Second, Puritan sermons are not always capable of being reduced to one or two key ideas. Frequently the Puritans ranged across a wide field of related themes in a single sermon. Where this occurred, properly placing the sermon in the Topical Index was difficult. In most cases I was guided by either the author's title or his doctrine summary, i.e., a statement expressing the theme of the sermon. I have tried to exercise as much care as possible in indexing topically; however, those more familiar with individual sermons or treatises perhaps will question my decisions. Again, I hope that observations which may improve this work will be communicated to me. . . . I have included comments with some entries. It was not possible to do this for every entry. For the most part, I did this where I felt that a word was needed to clarify the emphasis of a given work. . . ." -- Robert P. Martin in the Preface, August 1996, Seattle, Washington
Walker and Company, a Division of Walker Publishing Co., Inc.
720 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY.
Some bestselling Christian books are available in large type from Walker Company. Write for a listing of publications.
http://www.walkerbooks.com/
WorldCat Guide
http://www.bsu.edu/library/media/pdf/instworldcatguide.pdf
WorldCat Searching Tips
http://library.up.edu/default.aspx?cid=9616&pid=53
WorldCat.org
Find a book in a library near you using WorldCat.org. This site enables the user to search the complete Online Computer Library Catalog (OCLC), the largest database of library catalogs in the world.
http://www.worldcat.org
See also: Combined interactive contents for the web edition of biblical counsel: resources for renewal, Books considered to be among the ten greatest in the english language, Christian classics, a short title listing, The best books in this bibliography, Reformed publishers and booksellers online, The covenanted reformation of scotland author/title listing, Reference works, Some complementary works, and so forth, and so on.
Book Sources from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"This page allows users to search for multiple sources for a book given the ISBN number.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ABookSources&isbn=
BookWeb.org
Directory of all independent bookstores with URLs and e-mail addresses.
http://www.bookweb.org/bookstores/
Reformed Publishers and Booksellers Online
http://www.lettermen2.com/refpub.html
Bear in mind that superior books often do not sell and go out of print. It is rewarding to search for them, and to find them.
*Darling, James (1797-1862), 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, 1854, 5245 pages. Available on the Puritan Hard Drive. Available on Reformation Bookshelf CD #12.
"An indispensable set for authors, researchers, serious students of Scripture, librarians, ministers, collectors, rare book dealers, etc. Contains much information that is either unavailable elsewhere or would have to be gleaned from several scattered volumes. Its ten volumes total 5245 pages. A phenomenal, theological, bibliographical resource of staggering comprehensiveness. The first section of this extremely rare set is a huge bibliography, organized by authors alphabetically. Most known Biblical and theological publications, to the author's day, are listed. Includes not only English listings, but Latin, French, and German also. The second part is a topical bibliography categorizing items under the headings of Universal Knowledge, Theology (including the major commentaries, sermons, articles and studies for just about every verse in the Bible), a listing of Scripture texts (Hebrew, Greek, and Latin), and an extensive index. The Morning Post calls this massive work 'the most copious, accurate, and well-arranged catalogue of works in theological and general literature which has as yet been published.' Brownson's Review noted that 'for practical utility we know of none that surpasses or approaches it.' Finally Bell's Messenger states, 'No clergyman or antiquarian should think it needless to possess a copy of this work. It will smooth many a day's hard toil, by diminishing the labour of research, pointing as it does, in an instant to works which it might have taken weeks, if not months, or years, to search after.' Don't miss this darling of a help, which will ease and aid all your theological studies!" -- Publisher
Cyclopaedia Bibliographica, full view
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005772440
Drew University Library, Pamphlets From the Drew University Library 19th Century Collection, [Presbyterian Church Pamphlet Collection]. Parts 2-6.
Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO)
"The Eighteenth Century Collections Online is the most ambitious single digitization project ever undertaken. It delivers every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
"Includes: 'Religion and Philosophy' -- From sermons, bibles and prayer books to moral and ethical debates and prescriptions for proper conduct."
Apparently ECCO does not, in general, include religious titles already scanned by EEBO.
http://www.gale.com/EighteenthCentury/
Gutenberg Online Book Catalog, Project -- Overview
See: Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog -- Overview
Hathi Trust Digital Library
https://babel.hathitrust.org/
Keen, Michael, The Finder: Combined Author/title Index to Three Reformed Sources: The Banner of Truth Magazine 1955-1999; Reformation Today 1970-1999; Westminster/Puritan Conference 1956-1999.
"Includes combined author/subject index to articles over one page. Correspondence, brief news items, and short book reviews have not been included." -- GCB
Banner of Truth Magazine Index
https://banneroftruth.org/media/flippingbook/BOTMagazineIndex/botmagazineindex.html#6
Banner of Truth Magazine
https://banneroftruth.org/us/magazine/
Libraries of Early America: Project Announcement, Monday, December 15, 2008
"Using the book-cataloging website LibraryThing.com, scholars from institutions around the country (including Monticello, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Boston Athenaeum, the Boston Public Library, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the American Philosophical Society and others), have begun the process of creating digital catalogs of early American book collections -- the project covers anyone who lived in America and collected primarily before 1825."
http://www.librarything.com/thingology/index.php
OCLC-RGL English Short Title Catalog (ESTC) Search
The English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), produced by the British Library, is the most comprehensive listing of literature published in the English language between 1473 and 1800. Only large research libraries, with an interest in early English literature, subscribe to this CD-ROM database. A comparison of WorldCat with ESTC shows that generally both databases include the same titles. In some cases the ESTC citations contain more information.
http://www.rlg.org/index.php
The Online Books Page
Archives and Indexes.
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/archives.html
The Online Books Page of the University of Pennsylvania
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
Post-Reformation Digital Library
"The Post-Reformation Digital Library is a collection of resources relating to the development of theology during the Post-Reformation/Early Modern era (c. 16th -- 18th centuries), hosted by the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies of Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary.
"The primary focus of this site is digital books available from Google Books as well as smaller digital libraries such as Internet Archive, which may have books not available on Google.
"All users are encouraged to contribute to this project by reporting new books with a note under 'Comments' at the bottom of the relevant page. Please also copy and paste any broken links in the relevant comments page so that the editorial board can investigate. (Nota bene: this site is limited insofar as it aims at only those works of the authors that have been digitized. In the vast majority of cases this will not be representative of the author's work as a whole and is no substitute for due bibliographic research.)"
http://libguides.calvin.edu/prdl
Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog -- Overview
The following works are available as free e-text through Project Gutenberg (4/19/07):
CHRIST: THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE by John Brown
New e-text of the BIBLE [King James Version]
JOHN KNOX AND THE REFORMATION by Andrew Lang
ACT, DECLARATION, AND TESTIMONY FOR THE WHOLE OF OUR COVENANTED REFORMATION,
THE AUCHENSAUGH RENOVATION OF THE NATIONAL COVENANT and by Presbytery
NOTES ON THE APOCALYPSE by David Steele
SAMUEL RUTHERFORD by Alexander Whyte
SKETCHES OF THE COVENANTERS by J.C. McFeeters
THE COVENANTS AND THE COVENANTERS by Various, Kerr, James, 1847-1905
THE DIVINE RIGHT OF CHURCH GOVERNMENT by Sundry Ministers of Christ Within the City of London
WORKS OF JOHN BUNYAN -- complete by John Bunyan
EXPOSITIONS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE by Alexander Maclaren
PASCAL'S PENSES by Blaise Pascal
PRIMITIVE CHRISTIAN WORSHIP by James Endell Tyler
LIFE OF WILLIAM CAREY by George Smith
FEMALE SCRIPTURE BIOGRAPHIES, Volume I by Francis Augustus Cox
FEMALE SCRIPTURE BIOGRAPHIES, Volume II by Francis Augustus Cox
DISCOVERY OF WITCHES by Thomas Potts
SALEM WITCHCRAFT, Volumes I and II by Charles Upham
THE GUTENBERG WEBSTER'S UNABRIDGED DICTIONARY by Project Gutenberg
STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS (1790-2001), BY UNITED STATES. PRESIDENTS.
http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/
ProQuest, Digital Vault
http://www.umi.com/cgi-bin/ShowItem?PID=P0100&market=cu&location=na
ProQuest Information and Learning
http://www.proquest.com/publisher/pub-history.shtml
"The services cover books from the 15th century to books as recent as last year. The books range from rare literary works, scholarly and technical research, and genealogical studies."
ProQuest (UMI Microfilm)
"The UMI microfilm vault constitutes the largest commercially available microform collection in the world. Its 2.2 billion page images deliver 500 years of information, drawn from thousands of literary, journalistic, and scholarly works. Every year we add millions of images of contemporary information.
"Today, UMI continues to produce many products in UMI microform and print, such as research collections, newspapers, and indexes."
http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/brands/pl_umi.shtml
Puritan Downloads, The Puritan Hard Drive
http://www.puritandownloads.com/swrb-puritan-hard-drive.html
Special Collections at the Princeton Theological Seminary Library
"Special Collections at the Princeton Theological Seminary Library comprise more than 75,000 printed works and over 5,175 linear feet of archival and manuscript material. Major collections include the Seminary archives, rare books and pamphlets, personal papers, records of organizations, research collections, and non-textual materials related to the history of the Presbyterian and Reformed traditions and ecumenical Christianity."
https://library.ptsem.edu/special-collections-overview
University of Michigan Digital Library
"You have reached a resource from the Early English Books Online -- Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP), at the University of Michigan, a restricted database.
"EEBO-TCP is a cooperative project between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), ProQuest Information and Learning, and the international academic community.
"EEBO-TCP endeavors to create structured SGML/XML text editions for 25,000 titles from the Early English Books Online (EEBO) database published by ProQuest.
"ProQuest's EEBO database contains images of over 125,000 titles published in England between 1473 and 1700.
"Upon completion, EEBO and EEBO-TCP will provide a powerful research and instructional tool of unquestioned enduring value."
For more information about the project:
http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/eebo
To see if your institution is part of the project:
http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/eebo/proj_stat/ps_partners.html
University of Michigan Digital Library
http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=eebo&page=simple&c=eebo
University of Michigan, Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP), Database Search
"You have reached a resource from the Early English Books Online -- Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP), at the University of Michigan, a restricted database.
"EEBO-TCP is a cooperative project between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), ProQuest Information and Learning, and the international academic community.
"EEBO-TCP endeavors to create structured SGML/XML text editions for 25,000 titles from the Early English Books Online (EEBO) database published by ProQuest.
"ProQuest's EEBO database contains images of over 125,000 titles published in England between 1473 and 1700.
"Upon completion, EEBO and EEBO-TCP will provide a powerful research and instructional tool of unquestioned enduring value."
For more information about the project:
http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/eebo
To see if your institution is part of the project:
http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/eebo/proj_stat/ps_partners.html
WorldCat.org
WorldCat, a product of the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), is the largest automated library card catalogs in the world. Large libraries subscribe to this online database. It may be used to locate libraries holding certain titles. Then Inter-library Loans can be arranged, in most cases. Fees may be high, especially for rare books. If the book you want can not be loaned, or if the fee is high, then search for a microform copy in collections such as Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP), Database, Early English Books, 1475-1640, Early English Books, 1641-1700, Early English Books II (Wing, STC II), 1641-1700, Thomason Tracts Collection, Early English Books Tract Supplement, and so forth. Both WorldCat and the English Short Title Catalog include information on microform copies.
http://www.worldcat.org
Advanced Book Exchange
"This is a database consisting of used books from over 8,400 independent used book dealers (which represents over 30 million books), and is by far the largest database of used books on The Internet . . . Useful site for individuals who are trying to locate hard-to-find out of print books, or who are simply trying to find a less expensive copy of a more commonly available book . . ." Use "the advanced search, which among a number of other options, allows the books found in a search to be placed in order by either lowest or highest price first."
http://www.abebooks.com/
Alibis: Used and Rare Books
http://www.alibris.com/
Amazon.com
Notice that Amazon.com also lists out of print books, offers a search service, and allows you to sell a used book on the same webpage for the new book.
http://www.amazon.com
Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America
http://abaa.org/
Biblio.com
"OCLC (WorldCat.org), has successfully implemented links to Biblio.com, one of the world's largest suppliers of used, rare, and out of print books from the WorldCat database on the OCLC FirstSearch service.
"Once this feature is enabled through the Linking section of the FirstSearch administrative module at http://firstsearch.oclc.org/admin, WorldCat users will be able to link from the detailed record of a book searched in WorldCat to the Biblio.com Web site to purchase that item.
"Additionally, when a book is not currently available on Biblio.com, customers will be linked to library holdings in WorldCat through the Open WorldCat program that makes records of library-owned materials in WorldCat available to Web searchers.
"Biblio.com joins the booksellers Abebooks.com, Alibris, Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, and Barnes and Noble.com in partnering with OCLC to provide this service to libraries and their users."
http://biblio.com/
Bibliofind.com
Bibliofind.com is a large combined listing of books for sale by antiquarian and used book dealers.
http://www.bibliofind.com
Bibliomania Book Search
http://bibliomania.net/Search.html
Bibliomania Book Searches gives links to many book-finding search engines. Links to the following:
Bookface.com
"Getting best purchase prices from every marketplace out there in seconds."
http://www.bookface.com/
BookFinder.com
http://www.bookfinder.com/
Chambal.com
"At Chambal.com we compare new and used book prices across major online booksellers in real time. Other services provided by us are:
1. Rare Book Search.
2. Audio Book Search (We will be adding e-books also shortly).
3. Searching prices from e-bay.
4. Spelling suggestions to users when they key in wrong spellings.
5. Search by both UPC code (13 digit), and ISBN (10 digit).
6. Search for multiple versions / releases of same title.
http://www.chambal.com/
ChooseBooks.com
"ChooseBooks.com is a worldwide marketplace for Used, Rare, Antiquarian and Out-of-Print Books, Autographs and Ephemera Items." Apparently they took over Zentrales Verzeichnis Antiquarischer Bücher [ZVAB])
http://www.choosebooks.com/SESSz100909867011183853112/gr2/en/index.html
Covenanted Reformed Presbyterian Publishing, Pottstown, PA
"Covenanted Reformed Presbyterian Publishing's reprinting of old Presbyterian writers, and selections from well-known Reformers was unsurpassed."
Online text.
http://www.covenanter.org
DealPilot.com
Book price comparison.
http://www.dealpilot.com/
Dissertations and Theses
"The Digital Dissertations database, available to the WMU community (ProQuest), indexes Master's theses and Doctoral dissertations. A search by keyword in this database will often provide a list of database records. Each record includes the full citation, an abstract, and information about the author, and the institution where the dissertation may be available."
http://www.wmich.edu/library/guides/find/dissertations.php
The Early Christian Fathers, 38 vols.
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/
Early Church Fathers Collection
A 38-volume electronic collection of writings from the first 800 years of the Church.
http://www.redbay.com/newbies/mag/ecfwh.htm
Early English Books Online, About
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/eebo.html
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
http://wwwlib.umi.com/eebo/
Early English Books Online: STC I and STC II Titles in Digital Format
http://www.umi.com/cgi-bin/ShowItem?PID=P0086&market=cu&location=na
Early English Books Online, Yale
http://www.library.yale.edu/pubstation/databases/EEBO.html
Early English Books Text Creation Partnership
http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/eebo/
Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO)
"Brief description: Full-text searchable facsimile page displays of approximately 150,000 books published in Britain and its colonies during the 18th century."
Language: English, French
Coverage: 1701-1800
"The final collection will match the resources of all but ten libraries in the world in holdings of 18th-century printed books . . . The Eighteenth Century Collection will create oases of research in scholarly deserts and bring instant relief to harassed teachers trying to construct courses around slim library resources . . ." -- Microform Review
http://www.galegroup.com/
The Evangelical Library
"The Evangelical Library (EL) is home to more than 80,000 evangelical books as well as an archive for many evangelical periodicals. The EL collection includes the very best that historic and contemporary evangelicalism has to offer. Our sections on church history, doctrine and devotional reading, to name but a few, form part of a unique and irreplaceable resource -- the very best in written evangelical spirituality.
"The Library was largely the vision of one man, Geoffrey Williams, who, in the 1930s, gave much prayerful thought to the legacy of Reformed and Puritan evangelical classics he had accumulated in his private collection -- a wealth of applied biblical wisdom. . . .
"The only site where you can access the Library's growing electronic catalogue of the best Evangelical Christian writings around!"
http://www.evangelical-library.org.uk/
ExBook Corporation: Search by ISBN
http://www.exbook.com/searchisbn.asp
Independent Online Booksellers Association
See the "Book Related Sites" webpage for a wide range of useful links, including storage, care and repair of books.
http://www.ioba.org/
Internet Archive
"Internet Archive is a non-profit dedicated to offering permanent access to historical collections that exist in digital format. Provides over 2.5 million free e-books to read, download, and enjoy."
http://www.archive.org
Internet Book Information Center
http://www.internetbookinfo.com/
JustBooks
JustBooks -- the premier British internet marketplace for used, out of print and antiquarian books.
justbooks.co.uk.links2go.com/more/www.fpcr.org/
LibraryThing
"LibraryThing is a new site for book lovers.
"It's basically two sites in one.
"LibraryThing helps you create a library-quality catalog of your books. You can do all of them or just what you're reading now.
"And because everyone catalogs online, they also catalog together. LibraryThing connects people based on the books they share."
http://www.librarything.com/
Master Book Vendor List, University of Indiana
http://www.indiana.edu/~libmps/order/alist.html
Monergism.com
An Reformed website with extensive resources including an author/alphabetical listing, a bookstore, and a listing of books available online as free e-text.
http://www.monergism.com/
Monergism Books
Reformed Books and Resources for Christians. Gives complete catalogs by publishers.
http://www.monergismbooks.com/
Free E-books at Monergism
http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/onsite/free-ebooks.html
Mount Olive Tape Library of Reformed Theology
This collection has been in the custody of the Greenville Presbyterian Seminary since 2006. It appears (September 8, 2016) that the Media Center at the Seminary have digitized practically none of the audio cassette and video tape addresses.
"The following listing was developed by George Calhoun, the founder of Mt. Olive Tape Library, over the course of some thirty years. This catalog reflects the personal quest of Mr. Calhoun for a balanced education in Reformed Theology. The speakers herein have been scrutinized for their faithfulness to the Bible. These tapes will enable students to pursue the study of Reformed theology at a minimum of financial expense."
"FOR YOUR INFORMATION . . . [from the introduction to the Mount Olive Tape Catalog -- compiler]
"The tapes included in this catalog are recordings of sermons and lectures given by various pastors, theologians, Bible teachers, and conference speakers who confess adherence to the broad perspectives of historic Reformed theology. We have diligently tried to screen all the materials as to their basic commitment to the Biblical perspectives reflected in the Reformed creeds and confessions.
"Since, however, no human interpreter of God's Word is infallible, it is the prayer of those responsible for sending forth these tapes that all who listen to them will cultivate the spirit of the Bereans, who 'searched the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.'
"Also, it should be emphasized that the tapes included in this catalog have been evaluated in terms of their basic content as they were originally given, and the inclusion of them in this catalog should not be construed as an unreserved approval of the men who originally gave them. Christians grow in grace and knowledge with the passing of time, yet it must be recognized that some turn aside from the norms of Scripture. It is our hope, therefore, that no one will attach himself to any of the men whose tapes are included in this catalog on the basis of the tapes alone. We are all commanded to be discerning toward those who would instruct us in the faith.
"Finally, it would be a tragic abuse of the intent in providing these sermons and lectures should they in any way cultivate a party spirit so clearly condemned by the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 3. Paul reminded the Corinthians that all things were theirs -- Paul, Cephas, and Apollos included. We, too, may recognize that the various servants of Christ whose voices are heard on these tapes are God's gifts to us and that we are to follow them only insofar as they follow Christ and the clear teachings of His holy and infallible Word! Since not all men have the same gifts, learn to drink from the gifts of many men -- not just one fountain."
Dr. C. Gregg Singer, Mount Olive Tape Library lectures (MP3 audio files), approximately 161 of 171
http://www.sermonaudio.com/search.asp?speakeronly=true&currsection=sermonsspeaker&keyword=Dr._C._Gregg_Singer
The Catalog of the Mount Olive Tape Library in PDF Format
http://www.lettermen2.com/olivecat.pdf
Mt. Olive Audio Library, Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
http://gpts.edu/media/index.php?currpage=1&sa_action=
Greenville Seminary and Mt. Olive
http://www.sermonaudio.com/source_detail.asp?sourceid=gpts
The Catalog of the Mount Olive Tape Library in PDF Format
http://www.lettermen2.com/olivecat.pdf
*Mt. Zion Chapel Library, a Ministry of Mount Zion Bible Church, Indexes to Literature, Periodicals (Free Grace Broadcaster), Courses, and Audio and Video
http://www.chapellibrary.org/broadcaster/fgb-index/
National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints: A Cumulative Author List Representing Library of Congress Printed Cards and Titles Reported by Other American libraries (London: Mansell, 1968-1980). 658 volumes.
"This invaluable work can be extremely helpful to the scholar researching retrospective material. It is organized by author or, if there is no author by title, so there is no subject access. Each entry consists of a photocopy of the card catalog card for a book or serial. Full bibliographic information is included on this card, as is a list of libraries that hold the book. Many of the titles in this catalog can not be traced through OCLC. This makes the National Union Catalog or NUC a very important source if you are trying to locate a title published before 1956 in this country. The retrospective cumulation, often referred to simply as Mansell, includes only pre-1956 imprints, as its title suggests.
"The later volumes, published from 1958-1978 in five year compilations can be more challenging to use. It is important for the user to keep in mind that the catalog registers books as they were acquired. That is the books listed in the compilation for 1963-1967 list those titles acquired by libraries in the United States during those years, regardless of their date of publications. Since materials from this period are often not available in online catalogs this is a useful source for those seeking U.S. library holdings of specific titles. This is a main entry catalog and given that the forms of entry used for many institutions have changed over the years using this source effectively does require a knowledge of library practice."
The Online Books Page
Archives and Indexes.
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/archives.html
The Online Books Page of the University of Pennsylvania
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
The Open Library
"One webpage for every book, featuring 23,044,231 books, including 1,064,822 with full-text."
http://openlibrary.org/
Post-Reformation Digital Library via Junius Institute
"The PRDL is a project of the Junius Institute for Digital Reformation Research of Calvin Theological Seminary. . . .
"The Institute is conceived as a forum to promote research into the Reformation and post-Reformation periods, covering the 16th to the 18th centuries, through the use of digital tools, skills, and resources. The Junius Institute will house the Post-Reformation Digital Library (PRDL), an electronic database covering thousands of authors and primary source documents on the development of theology and philosophy in these centuries. . . . Late medieval and patristic works printed and referenced in the early modern era are also included. . . .
"With the click of a few buttons, researchers can now download digital files with source material from hundreds of years ago. Before recent large-scale digitization efforts . . . access to these kinds of sources had been difficult, costly, or even impossible. In some cases sources were simply lost or unknown. (Nota bene: this site is limited insofar as it aims at only those works of the authors that have been digitized. In the vast majority of cases this will not be representative of the author's work as a whole, and is no substitute for due bibliographic research.)"
Junius Institute
http://www.juniusinstitute.org/blog/junius-launch/
Puritan Reformed Authors in the Post-Reformation Digital Library
http://www.prdl.org/authors.php?a_in=ALL&era=Early+Modern&tradition=Puritan
Preservation Resources
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/presres/index.htm
ProQuest, Digital Vault
http://www.umi.com/cgi-bin/ShowItem?PID=P0100&market=cu&location=na
ProQuest Information and Learning
http://www.proquest.com/publisher/pub-history.shtml
"The services cover books from the 15th century to books as recent as last year. The books range from rare literary works, scholarly and technical research, and genealogical studies."
ProQuest (UMI Microfilm)
"The UMI microfilm vault constitutes the largest commercially available microform collection in the world. Its 2.2 billion page images deliver 500 years of information, drawn from thousands of literary, journalistic, and scholarly works. Every year we add millions of images of contemporary information.
"Today, UMI continues to produce many products in UMI microform and print, such as research collections, newspapers, and indexes."
http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/brands/pl_umi.shtml
Puritan Reformed Audiobooks
Tom Sullivan, narrator.
http://www.puritanaudiobooks.net/
Reformed Books Online
"Our purpose is to promote Biblical, historic, Reformed Christianity by providing a collection of the best reformed books and articles available for free on The Internet."
http://reformedbooksonline.com/
Reformed Online Library
http://www.reformedonline.com/view/reformedonline/
Robarts Library, University of Toronto
http://archive.org/details/robarts
The Theological Commons Digital Library
"Princeton Theological Seminary has partnered with The Internet Archive to provide an online database called the Theological Commons digital library. It provides free, online access to over 50,000 theology and religion books from the PTS Library.
This digital collection also includes about 100 rare seventeenth-century theological books from the private library of the late Professor Thomas Torrance, the father of PTS president Iain Torrance."
http://commons.ptsem.edu/
The Trinity Foundation
"For those of you with access to the worldwide web, our website now has 215 audio lectures in MP3 format available for free listening and downloading, as well as more than 250 essays that may be read and printed." (January 2012)
http://trinityfoundation.org/
TrueCovenanter.com
Text related to the Scottish Covenanted Reformation.
http://www.truecovenanter.com/
The British Library Search
http://www.bl.uk/
Folger Shakespeare Library, Hamnet Catalog
http://shakespeare.folger.edu/
Hamnet: Folger Library Catalog
http://shakespeare.folger.edu/
Harvard University, Houghton Library
http://hcl.harvard.edu/houghton/
Hathi Trust Digital Library
https://babel.hathitrust.org/
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
http://www.huntington.org/LibraryDiv/LibraryHome.html
Library of Congress Catalogs
The Library of Congress now has a web interface catalog accessible 24 hours a day. While it does not contain as many citations as WorldCat and ESTC, it does offer resources not found elsewhere.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/catalog/online.html
Library of Congress Gateway to Other Libraries
http://www.loc.gov/z3950/
New College Edinburg Library -- Edinburgh University Library
http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/
Robarts Library, University of Toronto
http://archive.org/details/robarts
Speer Library, Princeton Theological Seminary
http://library1.ptsem.edu/
Union Theological Seminary, New York, Burke Library
http://www.uts.columbia.edu/lib/burke.html
University of London, Dr. William's Library
http://www.ull.ac.uk/ull/
Yale Divinity Library, Eureka
http://www.library.yale.edu/pubstation/databases/eureka.html
Christian Online Libraries
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/christian-opac.txt
LibDex
http://www.libdex.com/
LibraryThing
"LibraryThing is a new site for book lovers.
"It's basically two sites in one.
"LibraryThing helps you create a library -- quality catalog of your books. You can do all of them or just what you're reading now.
"And because everyone catalogs online, they also catalog together. LibraryThing connects people based on the books they share."
http://www.librarything.com/
Online Library Catalogs With World Wide Web Interfaces
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/morgan/alcuin/wwwed-catalogs.html
Reformed Layman
Online e-text.
http://reformedlayman.com/
Religious Libraries With Web-interface Catalogs
http://www.lights.com/webcats/libtypes/R.html
Books-on-Demand
http://www.books-on-demand.com/
Books-on-Demand Online Catalog, University of Michigan
http://wwwlib.umi.com/bod/search/basic
Early English Books Online: STC I and STC II Titles in Digital Format (EEBO)
http://www.umi.com/cgi-bin/ShowItem?PID=P0086&market=cu&location=na
Eerdman's Books-on-Demand
http://www.eerdmans.com/BOD.htm
Kessinger Publishing, LLC -- Rare Reprints
"Kessinger Publishing utilizes advanced technology to publish and preserve thousands of rare, scarce, and out of print books.
"We search worldwide for hard-to-find books and publish them in affordable editions. Once we place a title into print, it stays in print.
"Located near Glacier National Park in Montana, Kessinger Publishing is dedicated toward publishing and digitally preserving important literature for future generations.
"We kindly invite you to view our vast collection of literature."
http://www.kessinger.net/
Lightning Source -- The Digital Content Connection
http://www.lightningprint.com/
OCLC Preservation Services Centers
http://www.oclc.org/preservation
ProQuest, Digital Vault
http://www.umi.com/cgi-bin/ShowItem?PID=P0100&market=cu&location=na
ProQuest Information and Learning
http://www.proquest.com/publisher/pub-history.shtml
"The services cover books from the 15th century to books as recent as last year. The books range from rare literary works, scholarly and technical research, and genealogical studies."
ProQuest (UMI Microfilm)
"The UMI microfilm vault constitutes the largest commercially available microform collection in the world. Its 2.2 billion page images deliver 500 years of information, drawn from thousands of literary, journalistic, and scholarly works. Every year we add millions of images of contemporary information.
"Today, UMI continues to produce many products in UMI microform and print, such as research collections, newspapers, and indexes."
http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/brands/pl_umi.shtml
Puritan Books
"Puritan Books specializes in scanning and distributing Old English Language Christian writing, in particular, Puritan writing from prior centuries."
http://www.puritan-books.com/
Puritan Downloads, The Puritan Hard Drive
http://www.puritandownloads.com/swrb-puritan-hard-drive.html
Sprout Books-on-Demand
http://www.sproutinfo.com/default.asp
LOC Searching for Microforms
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/microform/searching.html
Norman Ross Publishing Inc., (BBM ROSS)
330 W. 58th Street
New York, NY 10019
http://www.nross.com
ProQuest (UMI Microfilm)
"The UMI microfilm vault constitutes the largest commercially available microform collection in the world. Its 2.2 billion page images deliver 500 years of information, drawn from thousands of literary, journalistic, and scholarly works. Every year we add millions of images of contemporary information.
"Today, UMI continues to produce many products in UMI microform and print, such as research collections, newspapers, and indexes."
http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/brands/pl_umi.shtml
University Press of America (BBM UPA)
Also known as "Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group" and "National Book Network."
University Press of America
15200 NBN Way
P.O. Box 191
Blue Ridge Summit, PA 17214-0191
http://www.univpress.com
This listing of sources of antiquarian and used books in its original form [recent additions may be identified by having a URL, generally -- compiler] is courtesy of the Westminster Theological Seminary Bookstore.
Undoubtedly most of the independent booksellers listed below are now selling books in online bookshops that are searched by ioba.org, Abebooks.com, Amazon.com, Bibliomania.com, Addall.com, ChooseBooks.com, Chambal.com, ibris.com, BookWeb.org, Book-Academy.com, Bibliofind.com, BookFinder.com, and so forth, and so on.
The Archives Bookshop
1387 East Washington
Pasadena, CA 91104
http://www.archivesbookshop.com/
Baker Book House
2668 East Paris Street
Grand Rapids, MI 49546.
http://www.bakerbooks.com/
Barbour and Company
James D. Walthour
P.O. Box 110
Greensberg, PA 15601.
Beinecke Rare Books Collection at Yale
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/
BiblicalBooks.com
Buy and sell used and antiquarian books.
http://www.biblicaltheology.org/booklist.htm
Book-Academy.com
Book Look
Credo Books
David C. Lachman, PhD., Antiquarian Theology -- Bibles -- Reformed and Puritan Theology
Dart Publications
Direct Textbook
DollarPuritans.com
Evangelical Bookshop
Ex Libris Theological Books
Haaswurth Books (formerly Wurth Books)
Half.com
Humber Books (A)
IndieBound.org
JustBooks
Kregel Books and Resources
David C. Lachman, PhD., Antiquarian Theology -- Bibles -- Reformed and Puritan Theology
Patrick Leahy
LibraryThing
Noah's Ark Book Attic
Puritan Downloads, The Puritan Hard Drive
Reformation Books: New and Used Books
Reformation Bookstore
Reformation Heritage Books
Reformed, Evangelical, Faith-based Used Book Store
Peter Reynolds Bookseller
Richard Owen Roberts
Rudd's Outlet
David Steele Reformed Presbyterian Library
Steven's Book Shop
See also: Reformed publishers and booksellers online, Reference works, and so forth, and so on.
Early English Books Online (About)
Early English Books Online: STC I and STC II Titles in Digital Format
Early English Books Online, Yale
Early English Books Text Creation Partnership
Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO)
The Mount Olive Tape Library Catalog of in PDF Format
Puritan Reformed Audiobooks
Reformed Publishers and Booksellers Online
Google Language Tools
SDL International
Translate an English Website in Urdu (Pakistan)
Search by "author name" in the WorldCat (OCLC) database to find foreign language translations and formats.
World's Top 10 Languages
Search by "Author Name" in the National Union Catalog pre-1956 imprints. Translations should have an entry there. This resource is not available in electronic format. Print copies may be found in a major university library, or in a large public library.
Some countries have published a National Directory which lists literature translated from, or into, that country's language. Search under the subject heading National Directories.
Biblioteca de Inglesia Reformada
China Reformation Publishers (China Christian Books)
Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL)
Dutch Reformed Translation Society
Index Translationum
Logos Bible Software en Espanõl
Logos Bible Software in Many Other Languages
Presbiterianos Reformados (Spanish translations of Reformed and Covenanter works.
Reformation Christian Ministries Bookstore
Reformation Translation Fellowship (Chinese translations of Reformed works)
Charles H. Spurgeon en Espanõl
Wycliffe Bible Translators
The Best Books in This Bibliography
Books Considered to be Among the ten Greatest in the English Language
Christian Classics: A Short Title Listing
Combined Interactive Contents for The Web Edition of Biblical Counsel: Resources for Renewal
English to Hindi Translation
Google Advanced Search
How to Find a Book
LibraryThing
Puritan Downloads, The Puritan Hard Drive
Puritan Reformed Audiobooks
Reference Works
Reformed Presbytery Books
Reformed Publishers and Booksellers Online
Special Listings in BIBLICAL COUNSEL: RESOURCES FOR RENEWAL
WorldCat.org
Web Layout -- Lettermen Associates
New, used, and antiquarian books in the United Kingdom. requests@book-academy.com
http://www.book-academy.com/
51 Maple Avenue
Awrwick, NY 10990
1540 Pinnacle East Drive SW
Wyoming, MI 49509
"The website has a very small selection of our stock, please send us an email if you have a wants list," or call David or Sarah at 215-887-0228.
Listings include theology, Bible, ephemera, and featured items.
127 Woodland Road
Wyncote, PA 19095.
http://www.davidclachman.com/
P.O. Box 322
Dowagiac, MI 49047
Buy and sell new and used books.
http://www.directtextbook.com/
http://www.dollarpuritans.com/
15 College Square East
Belfast BT1 6DD
Northern Ireland
http://www.epc.org.uk/page4.html
1022 College Avenue
Wheaton, IL 60187
Antiquarian and used book dealer.
http://www.amazon.com/shops/haaswurth
Used books.
http://www.half.com/
688 Beverly Road
Hull, North Humberside
England HU6 7JH
A community of independent local bookstores.
https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781640070974
JustBooks -- the premier British Internet marketplace for used, out of print and antiquarian books.
justbooks.co.uk.links2go.com/more/www.fpcr.org/
"As of March 1, 2002, a total of 163,589 titles of the over 200,000 books available from Kregel Used Books are listed in the online electronic catalog of used religious and out of print books. Books continue to turn over daily with approximately 2,000 volumes added monthly to the expanding catalog."
http://kregel.gospelcom.net/
"The website has a very small selection of our stock, please send us an email if you have a wants list," or call David or Sarah at 215-887-0228.
Listings include theology, Bible, ephemera, and featured items.
127 Woodland Road
Wyncote, PA 19095.
http://www.davidclachman.com/
"Check our
eBay listings: patter72 and sarah.milligan."
5 Wildwood Drive
East Haven, CT 06512
"LibraryThing is a new site for book lovers.
"It's basically two sites in one.
"LibraryThing helps you create a library-quality catalog of your books. You can do all of them or just what you're reading now.
"And because everyone catalogs online, they also catalog together. LibraryThing connects people based on the books they share."
http://www.librarything.com/
Large selection of antiquarian theological books.
http://www.noahsarkbookattic.com/
http://www.puritandownloads.com/swrb-puritan-hard-drive.html
http://www.reformationbooks.com/
http://www.reformationbookstore.com/
http://www.heritagebooks.org/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1014767005200656/about
http://www.peterreynoldsbooks.com/
P.O. Box 21
Wheaton, IL 60189
838 East Main Street
Santa Paula, CA 93060
141 North Walnut Street
Birdsboro, PA 19508-0000
http://www.covenanter.org
P.O. Box 1977
Wake Forest, NC 27580.
Related Weblinks
Bookface.com
"Getting best purchase prices from every marketplace out there in seconds."
http://www.bookface.com/
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/eebo.html
http://www.umi.com/cgi-bin/ShowItem?PID=P0086&market=cu&location=na
http://www.library.yale.edu/pubstation/databases/EEBO.html
http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/eebo/
"Brief description: Full-text searchable facsimile page displays of approximately 150,000 books published in Britain and its colonies during the 18th century."
Language: English, French
Coverage: 1701-1800
"The final collection will match the resources of all but ten libraries in the world in holdings of 18th-century printed books . . . The Eighteenth Century Collection will create oases of research in scholarly deserts and bring instant relief to harassed teachers trying to construct courses around slim library resources . . ." -- Microform Review
http://www.galegroup.com/
http://www.lettermen2.com/olivecat.pdf
Tom Sullivan, narrator.
http://www.puritanaudiobooks.net/
http://www.lettermen2.com/refpub.html
Tips on Buying Books
Translations
Digital Bible Society
"Did you know? There are over 7000 living languages in the world. And, Biblical Resources are available for more than 6000?
"We're here to help YOU secure those resources and share them."
https://dbs.org/
Translating This Website
Biblical Counsel: Resources for Renewal -- Foreign Language Translation of Website and Helps in Finding Foreign Language Translations of Reformed Works
http://www.lettermen2.com/transl.html
Free website translation. This service may be used to translate English text of Reformed works to a foreign language and visa versa.
http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
Free website translation. This service may be used to translate English text of Reformed works to a foreign language and visa versa.
http://www.freetranslation.com/web.htm
http://www.paktranslations.com/
Finding Foreign Language Translations of English Text of Reformed Works
Numerous foreign language translations may exist for Christian classics, Christian bestsellers, and Reformed works.
Rank | Language | Number of Worldwide Speakers
10. French, 129 million
9. Malay-Indonesian, 159 million
8. Portuguese, 191 million
7. Bengali, 211 million
6. Arabic, 246 million
5. Russian, 277 million
4. Spanish, 392 million
3. Hindustani, 497 million
2. English, 508 million
1. Mandarin Chinese, 1 billion plus
Online text of Reformed works in Spanish: Catechisms and confessions, The spanish bible, Churches, pastors, ministers, students and other resources, Reformed works (by title), over 1000, For more books, articles and other resources, Some libraries that we recommend, Links and resources in various languages and dialects, and so forth, and so on.
http://www.iglesiareformada.com/Biblioteca.html
Lists Reformed works translated into Chinese. Most are available on the web.
http://www.chinachristianbooks.org/
Besides containing many Christian Classics that have been translated into English, this database also contains "texts in six foreign languages, with most being in Latin or Russian. There is a particularly good collection of materials on the Russian Orthodox Church."
The reader could use free online translating software listed above to translated portions of these e-texts.
http://www.ccel.org/
Pieter Vander Meyden, President
Dutch Reformed Translation Society
946 Ball Avenue, NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Dutch Reformed Translation Society Books at Solid Ground Books
http://www.solid-ground-books.com/books_ClassicsOfReformedSpirituality.asp
Dutch Reformed Translation Society Books at Go Dutch! Christian Books (English translations of Dutch works)
http://www.godutch.com/store/index.php?cid=1
"The Index Translationum is a list of books translated in the world, i.e. an international bibliography of translations. [it does not appear to be exhaustive and we are unable to find most Christian Classics and Reformed titles -- compiler]. The Index Translationum was created in 1932. It celebrates this year its 75th anniversary.
"The database contains cumulative bibliographical information on books translated and published in about one hundred of the UNESCO Member States since 1979 . . . in all disciplines: literature, social and human sciences, natural and exact sciences, art, history, and so forth. It is planned to update the work every four months. . . .
"By publishing this list, to serve as a reference work, UNESCO provides the general public with an irreplaceable tool for making bibliographical inventories of translations on a worldwide scale. . . .
"The online edition of the Index Translationum contains some 1,600,000 references (from 1979 to now) on all subjects.
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=7810&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=-473.html
Index Translationum -- Bibliographic Search
http://databases.unesco.org/xtrans/xtra-form.shtml
"If you know someone who would like to study the Bible in Spanish with a large library of Spanish resources, either in a bilingual collection or an exclusively Spanish library, let them know that they can access the exact same software that you use in their own language. All the menu items, help files, tools, and interface features are in Spanish along with several large libraries of Spanish resources to choose from." -- Publisher
http://www.logos.com/es
"Logos Bible Software is also available in: Afrikaans, Basque, Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English (Australia), English (Canada), English (United Kingdom), English (New Zealand), English (South Africa), French, German, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.
If you would like to check out any of these alternate language interfaces go to:
http://www.logos.com/support/lbs/languages
"¡Aquí se encuentra el único lugar en la red dónde se ofrece los Estándares originales de Westminster en completo y sin alguna enmienda!
"Las metas de este sitio son tres.
"Primero, para proclamar el evangelio a todo el mundo, para que el mundo sepa que solamente hay salvación en Cristo y no en otro u otra cosa. El ser humano es corrupto y peca constantemente, el único que puede librarnos de tal corrupción que trae la condenación eterna es Jesucristo el Hijo de Dios, nuestro Rey y Señor. "Entre los cuales también todos nosotros vivimos en otro tiempo en los deseos de nuestra carne, haciendo la voluntad de la carne y de los pensamientos, y éramos por naturaleza hijos de ira, lo mismo que los demás . . . aun estando nosotros muertos en pecados, nos dio vida juntamente con Cristo . . . Porque por gracia sois salvos por medio de la fe; y esto no de vosotros, pues es don de Dios; no por obras, para que nadie se gloríe." Efesios 2:3, 5, 8-9.
"Segundo, para establecer y edificar el pueblo y la Iglesia de Cristo, de lengua española, en la fe verdadera encontrada en la doctrina calvinista, la expresión doctrinal del protestantismo más pura y fiel a la Palabra de Dios. También para buscar la unidad que existe en el amor establecido en la Verdad de la Palabra de Dios con nuestros hermanos en Cristo. No simplemente en amor, pero también en la Verdad. Unidos en una sola doctrina (como Dios ha mandado), en una sola forma de adoración hacia Dios (como Dios ha mandado), en una sola forma de gobierno-eclesiástica (como Dios ha mandado) y en una sola forma de disciplina (como Dios ha mandado). "No traspases los linderos antiguos que pusieron tus padres." Proverbios 22:28. "Así dijo Jehová: Paraos en los caminos, y mirad, y preguntad por las sendas antiguas, cuál sea el buen camino, y andad por él, y hallaréis descanso para vuestra alma." Jeremías 6:16
"Tercero, para llamar a nuestros hermanos protestantes, especialmente los que son presbiterianos y reformados, que regresen a la fe verdadera del protestantismo y que dejen por un lado las doctrinas que han adoptado de la Iglesia de Roma. Muchos protestantes han olvidado la doctrina que Dios dio a su Iglesia por medio de Su ministros que levantó en los siglos 16 y 17, tal como Juan Calvino, Juan Knox y los teólogos/ministros de la Asamblea de Westminster (del siglo 17) y la Iglesia de Escocia. La mayoría de presbiterianos y calvinistas de hoy dicen que siguen la doctrina de Calvino, de Knox y de los ministros de la Asamblea de Westminster cuando la realidad es diferente, esto se debe a la ignorancia de los escritos de estos ministros y por la corrupción doctrinal que ha entrado a la Iglesia de Cristo en varios niveles. "Pero en aquello a que hemos llegado, sigamos una misma regla, sintamos una misma cosa. Hermanos, sed imitadores de mí, y mirad a los que así se conducen según el ejemplo que tenéis en nosotros." Filipenses 3:16-17 "¿Andarán dos juntos, si no estuvieren de acuerdo?" Amós 3:3
"Nuestra oración es que su visita sea de mucho ánimo y edificación. Le invitamos a escribirnos para cualquier pregunta o comentario. Al navegar en nuestro sitio, encontrará sermones de pastores presbiterianos pactantes que hallará de mucha inspiración. O tal vez nuestro patrimonio doctrinal bíblico le sea de gran interés. Si desea más información de nuestra iglesia y doctrina bíblica, comuníquese con nosotros y le responderemos con mucho gusto."
http://www.presbiterianoreformado.org/
They list foreign language translations of Reformed titles.
http://www.refcm.org/bookstore/foreign.html
"During the past forty years writings by John Calvin, J.I. Packer, Loraine Boettner, Herman Bavnick, J.G. Vos, Charles Spurgeon, E.J. Young, A.W. Pink, Louis Berkhof, J. Gresham Machen, B.B. Warfield, John R.W. Stott, R.B. Kuiper, O.T. Allis, D.M. Lloyd-Jones, Charles Hodge, John Bunyan, and many others have been translated into Chinese. Books published recently by the RTF are CALLED TO THE MINISTRY by Edmond Clowney, THE HOLY SPIRIT by John Owen (the abridgement by R.J.K. Law), and EVERY THOUGHT CAPTIVE by Richard Pratt."
http://www.crts.edu/TRTF.pdf
Reformation Translation Fellowship, Australia
"RTF Australia is one part of an international fellowship which seeks to promote the Christian Gospel through the distribution of Reformed theological literature in the Chinese languages."
http://www.rtfa.com.au/
"El viejo evangelio para el nuevo siglo."
http://www.spurgeon.com.mx/
Probably the premier source of foreign language translations of the English Bible.
http://www.wycliffe.org/
Webpage Related Weblinks
Add Language Translation to your Website -- Tutorial
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http://www.lettermen2.com/bcrr1cha.html#tbbitb
http://www.lettermen2.com/tengreat.html
http://www.lettermen2.com/bcrr3ch.html#ccastl
http://www.lettermen2.com/combtoc.html
http://www.translatorscafe.com/cafe/PopSearch/English-to-Hindi-translation/
This feature may be used to search one specific domain/website. For example, to search for "John 3:16" in "lettermen2.com," (THE WEB EDITION OF BIBLICAL COUNSEL: RESOURCES FOR RENEWAL), enter the search terms on the search screen in "this exact word or phrase:" and "site or domain:".
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http://www.lettermen2.com/findbook.html
"LibraryThing helps you create a library-quality catalog of your books. You can do all of them or just what you're reading now.
"And because everyone catalogs online, they also catalog together. LibraryThing connects people based on the books they share."
http://www.librarything.com/
http://www.puritandownloads.com/swrb-puritan-hard-drive.html
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http://www.puritanaudiobooks.net/
Within this chapter see topical listings for: "Bibliography of Bibliography," "CD-ROM Libraries," "Online Digital Libraries," and so forth, and so on.
http://www.lettermen2.com/bcrr5ch.html
http://www.reformedpresbytery.org/books/index.html
http://www.lettermen2.com/refpub.html
Within chapter 3 see topical listings for: Works of jay adams, The christian counseling and educational foundation, Expository bible commentaries, Guides to commentaries, Christian classics, a short title listing, Soli deo gloria facsimile reprints, Online e-text by author, The complete works of various authors, Works by and about the pilgrims, Puritanism: works by and about puritans, Puritan paperback series from banner of truth, Works of john calvin, Works of gordon haddon clark, Works of john knox, Works of martin luther, Works of william perkins, Works of george gillespie, Works of samuel rutherford, Works of the reformed presbytery, Works of c.h. spurgeon, Works of william shakespeare, Resources in christian counseling series, and so forth and so on.
http://www.lettermen2.com/bcrr3ch.html
How to find a book in a library near you using WorldCat.org. This site enables the user to search the complete Online Computer Library Catalog (OCLC), the largest database of library catalogs in the world.
http://www.worldcat.org
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