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London: William Baynes 1809, 3rd edition. (Hardcover) 389pp. Very good. Rebound in a 19th century leather binding. Engraved frontispiece portrait, index. The spine and covers are lightly rubbed and edgeworn, the margins have been trimmed and the edges spackled, there is a previous owner's bookplate, the pages are quite clean except for the frontis which has some spotting. With a short account of the Ancient and Modern Samaritans. The whole much enlarged from the principal writers on Jewish Antiquities by Adam Clarke, LL.D. The Third Edition, with many additions and improvements. Edited by Adam Clarke. (History--Ancient, Jews, Religion).
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The Manners of the Ancient Israelites; Containing an Account of Their Peculiar Customs, Ceremonies, Laws, Polity, Religion, Sects, Arts and Trades, Division of Time, Wars, Captivities, Dispersion, and Present State.
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Paradise Lost, A Poem
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On the Antiquity of Intellectual Man, From A Practical and Astronomical Point of View
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Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1868. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1868. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/no dust jacket . First Edition, complete with errata slip. Clean blue boards with gold decoration and lettering on cover, gold lettering on spine. Slight darkening to spine. Small spots of wear-through to cloth at spine ends. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with gilt top edges. Clean chocolate brown endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. Frontispiece "Chronological Chart of still existing early contemporary architectural testimony" with clean tissue guard. Preface by the author, followed by errata slip. 512 pages with index + 3 page promotion of same author's book, "Life and Work at The Great Pyramid.".
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Envisioning the Temple: Scrolls, Stones and Symbols
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Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 2003. English language edition. Very slight creasing to top edge of dustwrapper and some scratching to back panel of same. Original owner's gift message (blacked out) takes up most of f/ep, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Issued to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at the Spertus Gallery in 2003-04, deals with the Temple at Jerusalem, and with the ''Temple Scroll'' which was one of the Dead Sea Scrolls. 167pp, illustrated throughout, mostly in colour.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Empires of the Nile
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Dictionnaire Raisonné Universel D'Histoire Naturelle: contenant L'Histoire des Animaux, des Vegetaux et des Mineraux
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This is a First edition thus of the "Quatrième Edition, revue & considérablement augmentée", printed in 1780. New articles are starred (*) to differentiate from those which had appeared in previous editions of this momumental work. This a complete 12-volume set, with each volume between 500 and 600 pages. Later bindings are still tight and text remarkably free from foxing, fading or other blemishes, BUT it is in places rather heavily underlined in pencil and/or ballpoint. This concerns maybe 1% of the text and does not impact its readability. See photos.
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Indiculus Universalis Rerum Fere' Omnium, Quae in Mundo Sunt, Scientiarum Item, Artiumque Nomina, Apte, Breviterque Colligens
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Limoges: Pierre Barbou. Good; Boards splayed, leather cracked and worn, outer joints cracked, some . minor foxing, pages toned, letterpress "C" on front pastedown, neat . inscription in Latin on title page (en bibliotheca collegig minimorum . caledenficem? ) , pages 209-212 missing (not ripped out, but not bound in).. 1698. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Mottled calf with five raised bands on spine, gilt lettering and tooling in spine compartments. [20], 1-336pp. Text in French and Latin. An abbreviated compilation of information tidbits and lists of animals, earth science, plants, crimes, and all kinds of information describing the natural and human world. The author was a French Jesuit scholar (1618-1673). Measures 6.25 x 3.75 inches. .
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The Glory that was Greece
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A Survey of Hellenic Culture & Civilisation. xxv+289 pp.+91 illustrations, 2 photogravures and 1 plate in colour, h.t. 27x19 cm. Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., London, 1911. Ex libris W. E. Stanley Merrett. --- Blindstamped cloth gilt (publishers cloth). Edgewear and many spots at covers. Top-edge gilt, fore-edge and bottom edge untrimmed. Dedication written on first blank page. Very tight binding, pages clean. No foxing. Many illustrations in the text. Some holes by bookwork (inactive) at the bottom of 10 first pages.
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Histoire ancienne des peuples de l’Orient
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Ouvrage contenant neuf cartes et quelques spécimens des écritures hiéroglyphiques et cunéiformes. 6ème édition. vii+659 pp.+9 cartes h.t. Librairie Hachette et Cie, Paris, 1878. --- Six compartments leather spine, with gilt lettering and decoration. Marbled covers and endpapers. Ligth edgewear. Some foxing on first and last pages. Very tight binding, 9 folding maps.
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The Private Life of the Romans
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London: T. Durham, 1764. Manners and customs of the ancient Romans; D'Arnay was Professor of the Belles Lettres at Lausanne, Switzerland. Hardcover, full patterned calf, red spine label. General wear, corners bumped & rubbed, spine chipped & darkened; old ink price & note partly effaced on free endsheet; minor tanning and a few stains to some pages. Text clean; v, blank, 306 pages.. Second Edition. Full Calf. Good/No Jacket. 4¼" by 7".
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The Private Life of the Romans.
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Edinburgh: Printed By A. Donaldson and J. Reid. For the Translator, and A. Donaldson., 1761 Banded leather spine. Missing both front and rear boards. Advertisment a2 v. Chap. I. - Chap. VI. Pgs. 1- 378. (2) Rare first edition in need of rebind. OCLC finds one copy in Switzerland Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. First Edition.. Half-Leather. Good-fair.
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The Polynesian Triangle
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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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Wrack and Rune
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Signed 1st Ed. w/DJ) WRACK AND RUNE: A PETER SHANDY MYSTERY BY FAMED CANADIAN AUTHOR CHARLOTTE MACLEOD. Publisher: Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1982. Used First printing SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by author on title page. Good Condition/ Good condition unclipped Dust Jacket, $10.95 original price. Will ship from United States.
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Ban and Arriere Ban: A Rally Of Fugitive Rhymes
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Andrew E. Lang , a rare book of his poetry. Ban and Arriere Ban USED. 1st Edition, 1894, Longman's Green and Co. Deckle edge, tanning. Beveled green boards with gold gilt ornamentation. The Author's name appears in gold at the front lower right.board. . 118 pages. Illustrated by Henry Justice Ford. illustrator of the Fairy Books. Per wiki "Arrière-ban, in French customs, is a general proclamation whereby the king summons to war all his vassals and their vassals. To the Provost of Paris belongs the convoking and commanding of the arrière-ban. In the Medieval usage, arrière-ban denoted a general levy, where all able-bodied males were summoned into arms. List of contents available upon request.: ."Many of the verses of this collection appeared in magazines prior to appearing here". INCLUDES ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION PUBLISHERS STATEMENT, 4 3/8 x 2 3/8: "Messrs Longmans intend this book to be sold to the Public at the advertised price and supply it to the Trade on terms which will not allow discount."…
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Mourning Becomes Electra, A Trilogy
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O'Neill, Eugene: Mourning Becomes Electra, A Trilogy (1931 First Edition, Horace Liveright, Inc. w/Dj) DRAMA. Three Plays, or parts: Homecoming, The Hunted, The Haunted. RARE. Used. Very Good Condition/ Good- Original unclipped dust jacket. Original Cover Price is $2.50. Jacket has some loss at the spine. Now protected by mylar wrap. Please see our photos. Plot Summary: "Mourning Becomes Electra is a story styled after the Greek legend and the title refers to how the lead character is condemned to a life of mourning the disasters that befall her family. In the Greek legends, Electra is the sister to Orestes, and they are the children of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon."
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What Are These Wounds: The Life of a Cistercian Mystic, Saint Lutgarde of Aywières
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Thomas Merton. What Are These Wounds: The Life of a Cistercian Mystic, Saint Lutgarde of Aywières. FIRST EDITION. RARE. Copyright 1950, February 17, 1948 First Printing Thus, The Bruce Publishing Company, Milwaukee. Written by respected Trappist author THOMAS MERTON. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/GOOD- CONDITION $2.50 UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. Top portion of dust jacket spine is missing. 190 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ½.
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Ancient Hunters and Their Modern Representatives. Second Edition
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London: Macmillan, 1915. Second Edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published London: Macmillan, 1915. 8vo., xxiii+591pp., illustrated with numerous b/w photo plates and reproductions, maps. Blue cloth with gilt spine decoration and titles, top edge gilting. Some moisture indications along front edge of covers, else very good, clean, bright. . Hard. Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo.
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The Legendary History of Britain in Lope Garcia de Salazar's Libro de Las Bienandanzas e fortunas
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Collectible Fine First Edition 1979 Hardcover Clean 151 pp. Brown Leatherette Hardcover. Study of Lope Garcia De Salazar's Libro De Las Bienandanzas E Fortunas Textual commentary in Spanish and English. Fascinating journey to find Arthur's exploration of Hy Brazil and Avalon where the material Spanish mystery of Arthur in Avalon and Brazil touches the literary and Spiritual and Geoffrey of Monmouth Merlin and post Vulgate. NOT a library copy. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans The shadow on gold script is the glittering from camera! Fine condition
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The Ephebic Inscriptions of the Fourth Century B. C.
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Leiden: E. J. Brill. Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, usual library stamps and . de-accession markings.. 1971. Hardcover. 9004014764 . Olive green library reinforced cloth binding. xi, 173pp + xxxi black and white photo plates. Foreword, bibliography, index of ancient authors and sources, index of inscriptions, index of names, general index. Scholarly study of classical inscriptions of the citizenship oath sworn by Athenians in the 4th century BCE. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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La Ciudad Canals: A Study of Hohokam Irrigation Systems at the Community Level
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Phoenix, Arizona State University, Department of Anthropology, Office of Cultural Resource Management, 1985, bound paperback draft report (8.5" x 11"), ix-169 pp, Very Good condition, no dustjacket as issued. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light bumps to cover corners and edges. An in-depth study of the ancient irrigation systems developed, built, and used by the prehistoric Hohokam people in the Salt River Valley where today we find the modern cities of Phoenix, Tempe, Mesa, and other Anglo communities. Profusely illustrated throughout with drawn figures, graphs, charts, maps, and photographs. Appended: References Cited.
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