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Comparative Religion18837. Bloom, Harold: Omens of Millennium The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection. London: Fourth Estate, 1996. 255 pp. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. "a tour de force". £10.0016533. Budge, E. A. Wallis: Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1905. Books on Egypt and Chaldea Vol. I of the Series. Second edition. xii +198 pp., with 8 illustrations. 19 x 13 cm. Brown boards with black titling. Bookplate of D.D.A. Simpson, late Professor of Archaeology, Queen's University, Belfast, on the front pastedown, and revious owner's name on ffep, otherwise a very good, tight, clean copy. £40.0016545. Budge, E. A. Wallis: Egyptian Literature Vol II Annals of Nubian Kings, with a Sketch of the History of the Nubian kingdom of Napata. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1909. Books on Egypt and Chaldea. Vol. XXXIII of the Series. cxxxii + 176 pp. with 14 plates and illustrations. 19 x 13 cm. Brown boards with black titling, partly uncut, otherwise a very good tight, clean copy. Scarce. £40.0016544. Budge, E. A. Wallis: The Book of Opening the Mouth Volume I. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1909. Books on Egypt and Chaldea Vol. XXVI of the Series. The Egyptian Texts with English Translations. xx + 246 pp. with 1 plate and 56 illustrations. 19 x 13 cm. Brown boards with black titling. Bookplate of D.D.A. Simpson, late Professor of Archaeology, Queen's University, Belfast, on the front pastedown. Frontispiece plate missing, otherwise a very good tight, clean copy. £40.0016532. Budge, E. A. Wallis: The Book of the Dead Vol. II, chapters Ixv - clix. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1901. Books on Egypt and Chaldea Vol. VII of the Series, with an English translation of the Chapters, Hymns, etc, of The Theban Recension, with Introduction and notes. viii + 225-526 pp. and 420 vignettes. 19 x 13 cm. Brown boards with black titling. Bookplate of D.D.A. Simpson, late Professor of Archaeology, Queen's University, Belfast, on the front pastedown, and previous owner's name on ffep. A very good tight, clean copy in very good condition. The Book of the Dead was published in three volumes of which we have Vols I and II. £40.0016531. Budge, E. A. Wallis: The Book of the Dead. Vol. I Introduction, and chapters I-XV. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1909. Books on Egypt and Chaldea Vol. VI of the Series with an English Translation of the Chapters, Hymns, etc, of The Theban Recension, with Introduction and notes. Second edition, revised and enlarged. ccvi + 78 + xiii +698 pp., with 22 plates and four hundred and twenty vignettes. Coloured, folding, frontispiece. 19 x 13 cm. Brown boards with black titling. Bookplate of D.D.A. Simpson, late Professor of Archaeology, Queen's University, Belfast, on the front pastedown. A very good tight, clean copy, in very good condition. The Book of the Dead was published in three volumes of which we have Vols I and II. £40.004384. Klimkeit, Hans Joachim: Gnosis on the Silk Road. Gnostic Parables Hymns and Prayers from Central Asia. Harper: San Francisco 1993. xx+405 pp, d.w. in very good condition. The first ever English translation of these significant Manichaean texts from Central Asia £10.0017533. MacEoin, Denis and Ahmed al-Shahi, editors: Islam in the Modern World. Beckenham: Croom Helm, 1983. xv + 148 pp. 22 x 14 cm. Eleven essays. Index. Inscribed by Denis MacEoin on the ffep. Gold-blocked black boards. In very good condition, in a good dustwrapper. The spine of the dw is sun-faded. Based on a series of lectures given at the University of Newcastle in 1982. £20.0016250. Miller, William McElwee: What is the Baha'i Faith? Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1977. The book is an abridgement of the author's "The Baha'i Faith, its History and Teachings", abridged by William Wysham. 151 pp. 21 x 13 cm. There are no illustrations in this abridgement. Pictorial glazed card covers. Previous owner's name on ffep, otherwise very good. A bit dated now, but still interesting as a response to the Baha'i Faith. £8.0014388. Ragozin, Zenaide A.: Vedic India as embodied principally in the Rig-Veda. London: T. Fisher Unwin 4th imp. 1915. xii+457 pp. map, illustrations, red boards, no dustwrapper, the boards show some dampstaining and fading, internally tight and good £10.5018207. Soothill, Rev. W. E.: The Three Religions of China. London: Curzon Press, 1973. Third edition. Lectures delivered in Oxford, first published in this edition in 1929. 271 pp. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Index. Gold-blocked brown boards, in very good condition, in a very slightly worn dustwrapper. The top of the spine of the dw has been neatly repaired with peelable tape, and there is a bookplate on the ffep. £25.0019733. Spess, David L.: Soma The Divine Hallucinagen. Rochester: Vermont: Park Street Press, 2000. 198 pp. 23.5 x 16 cm. 13 figures. Purple-blocked cream boards, in very good condition, in a vg dustwrapper. £10.004466. Vaziri, Mostafa: The Emergence of Islam Prophecy, Imamate & Messianism in perspective. New York, Paragon House 1992. xxiii+212 pp, paper covers, an in depth historical account of the political origins of Islam and the emergence of Shi'ism. £12.00 |
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