This Week's Acquisitions

Collection of fifteen lectures and sermons on Catholic Emancipation, published in 1828 and 1829. The owner collected these pamphlets and then, at some point, had them bound together--creating a personalized anthology, as it were.
Thomas N. Burke, Lectures and Sermons Delivered by the Very Rev. Thomas N. Burke, O.P., Since His Departure from America..., ed. the Very Rev. J. A. Rochford, O.P., 3rd ed. (P. J. Kennedy, 1884). A combination of sermons and popular addresses by an Irish priest, about whom more here.
Morris Joseph, The Ideal in Judaism and Other Sermons by the Rev. Morris Joseph, Preached During 1890-91-92 (Nutt, 1893). Joseph, a well-known figure in the history of Reform Judaism, headed the West London Synagogue of British Jews; there's some discussion of his thought in an article by Jonathan Romain.
Lynda Mugglestone, Lost for Words: The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary (Yale, 2005). Yet another history of the OED.