Cambridge: W. Heffer, Ltd., 1931-1932. First Edition. Wrappers. 10 fascicles, square 8vos (8 1/4" x 6 5/8"), sewn green wrappers with lithograph of an ever-green spreading Yew tree, No. One "Bast," 60pp.; No. Two "Josephus and his Testimony," 35pp.; No. Three "The Magi," 32pp.; No. Four "Nicodemus," 22pp.; No. Five..... More
New York: AMS Press / Extra Vol. 4, 1974. Reprint of 1922 Edition. Cloth. 8vo, dark green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover, 368 pages + folding map. The Soma Sacrifice in ancient India involved an unidentified plant the juice of which was a fundamental offering of..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd, 1907. Popular Edition. Cloth. 8vo, russet cloth with gilt lettering, xlviii + 428 pages. "Fourth Edition edited and enlarged by E. W. West, Ph.D., To which is also added, A Biographical Memoir of the Late Dr. Haug by Professor E. P. Evans."..... More
Jerusalem Tel-Aviv: Published by "Massadah" and "Alumoth" 1960. Later printing - Hebrew & English text. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. 8vo, black cloth with gilt spine and chalice motif on both covers, profusely illustrated in color with gilt embellishments by Arthur Szyk, text in Hebrew with bracketing English, Mylar-sleeve, unnumbered pages..... More
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New York: Bloch Publishing Company, 1969. Saul Raskin. First Edition Illustrated by Saul Raskin - Hebrew & English text. Cloth. Folio, Navy blue cloth with white lettering on spine and gold title in English & Hebrew on cover, profusely illustrated with full page B&W etchings by Saul Raskin, text in..... More
New York: Riverhead Books, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Small 4to (5 3/4" x 9 1/2"), green quarter cloth with gold lettering over gray boards with embossed Buddhist symbol in gold, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a tree in water with superimposed red cross, green..... More
New York: Berman House, Inc., N.D. [c.1996]. American Edition Reprinted from R. Joseph Hertz's edition of the Authorized Daily Prayer Book. Boards. 8vo, black boards with gold lettering on spine and an ivory-colored panel with particulars on front cover, 128 pages. Rabbi Joseph Hertz (1872-1946) was a Hungarian-born Conservative rabbi..... More
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1969. First Edition. Cloth. Small 4to, tan cloth with gold lettering on spine and cover, xii + 148 pages. E. O. James was a superlative scholar of comparative religion. VG+ almost NF Copy: internally very clean, tight, bright. Bookplate on front pastedown rudely removed leaving residue; small 1"..... More
London Edinburgh Glasgow New York Toronto Melbourne Bombay: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1915. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo maroon cloth, xxxii + 574 pages + Errata leaf + [16] Advertisements. Scarce study by an important scholar who "wrote the book" on comparative religion. Cloth somewhat rubbed with a bit of..... More
London: Williams and Norgate, 1876-1883. First English Edition. Blind-stamped cloth. 6 vols., 8vos, publisher's brown original embossed cloth with gilt spine lettering and blind-stamped rules and embellishments on front covers, Vol. I: 4 [prospectus], [i-v]-xii, [1]-404, [xii ads] pp. + Vol. II: 4 [prospectus], [i-v]-viii, [1]-403, [blank detached] + Vol..... More
London: Published for the British Academy by Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1910. First Edition. Cloth. Small 4to, black cloth with gilt spine lettering and blindstamped rules along edges, vi + 94 pages. An excellent scholarly study delivered as three lectures by the Regius Professor of Hebrew, Queen's College, Cambridge..... More
Cambridge: at the University Press, 1939. First Edition. Cloth. Tall 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine and cover, [xi] + 261 pages. Companion volume to Canon Knox's equally important St. Paul and the Church of Jerusalem. Chapters include comparisons of the Wisdom of Solomon to Orthodox Judaism; From..... More
London: Published for the British Academy by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1944. First Edition. Cloth. Small 4to, black cloth with gold lettering on spine, Mylar-protected dust jacket, [vi] + 108 pages. Knox is an excellent scholar who was much influenced by greats like F.C. Burkitt and C.H. Dodd. This..... More
Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions, 2004. B&W & color Kabbalistic drawings. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Small quarto [4to] (8 3/4" x11 1/4"), black one eighth cloth with gold lettering on spine over red boards, illustrated with several B&W & colour Kabbalistic "Sabbath Star" & related diagrams: 25 color..... More
London: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1989. B&W maps & photographs. First Edition. Cloth. Small 4to, black cloth with gold lettering on spine, 6 figures in text & 8 B&W photographic plates, xiii + [170] pages. The Schweich Lectures had contributions from the finest scholars, as..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1951. First Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. 8vo (8 5/8" x 5 3/4"), black cloth with gold lettering & devices on spine & Chi-Rho emblem on front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting red stylized flames, then white; B&W photographic endpapers depicting..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956. First Printing. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. 8vo (8 1/4" x 5 3/8"), light blue cloth with gold lettering on spine & Chi-Rho emblem on front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) depicting an early Christian mosaic depicting an angel consecrating the Eucharist..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1959. First Edition. Cloth and boards. 8vo, red cloth over black textured boards with Ogata's chop blindstamped in Japanese on the front cover, B&W frontispiece and 4 illustrations, Mylar-protected black, white, & red lettered (unclipped) dust jacket, 182 pages. An Excellent and Lucid introduction to..... More
New York: Jason Aronson Inc., 1988. First Edition. Cloth. Thick 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering and mystical hand on spine with gilded lettering on cover, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with mystical hand in black & gold, translations from several languages by Raphael Patai, li + 807 pages. SCARCE..... More
Leiden New York Köln: E. J. Brill / Supplements to Novum Testamentum Volume XXV, 1994. First Edition. Cloth. PRESENTATION COPY to R. M. Grant from the Author William L. Petersen ("W.L.P."), small quarto (9 3/4" x 6 1/2"), blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover, Mylar-protected blue..... More
New York, N.Y. HarperOne, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Boards. Tall 8vo, brown boards with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with two "One Way" signs, ix + 388 pages. Stephen Richard Prothero (born 1960) is an American scholar of religion at Boston University who has..... More
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Small thick quarto (9 1/4" x 7 1/4"), pale gold quarter cloth with black lettering over black boards, Preface by the translator, Mylar-protected black photographic dust jacket (unclipped) by Marcus Haydock, xiii + 680 pages + [2] About the Author..... More
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. First Paperback Edition. Glossy pictorial wrappers. 4to (11" x 8"), glossy color photographic wrappers, Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, profusely illustrated with 34 glossy color plates and 59 B&W figures (many photographic), with contributions by Raymond Allchin and Mark Bernard, xx +..... More
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1911. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, olivine cloth with gold ruling along margins and gold spine lettering, [i] plates & frontistpiece, xxvii + 456 pages. Major study! Contents: Bible. N. T. Gospels: Criticism, interpretation...; Bible. N. T. Gospels: Criticism, Textual - Synoptic problem. Includes essays by..... More
London: Elek Books Limited, 1959. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, blue textured cloth, Mylar-protected blue-white-yellow calligraphic dust jacket (price-clipped), 104 pages. A fine translation with extensive commentaries. Schonfield pioneered with several important studies of Judaism, Jewish Christianity, and--notoriously--The Passover Plot. Exceptional Condition! SCARCE and very useful translation. More