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The Dwellers on the Nile Chapters on the Life, History, Religion and 
Literature of the Ancient Egyptians, by Budge, Sir E. A. Wallis, The 
Religious Tract Society, London, 1926: Famous Egyptologist Sir Wallis 
Budge's detailed history of the Egyptians and their life. Chapters on the 
Life, History, Religion, and Literature of the Ancient Egyptians. Covering: 
old kingdom; middle kingdom & new kingdom; list of the principal Kings of 
Egypt whose names have been recovered from the momenuments; the cry of the 
oppressed Egypt; mother, family, the home & school; Egyptian house, 
furniture, food & drink; Pharaoh and his subjects; Egyptians at work & play; 
Temples, Gods & Priests, writings; wisdom of the Egyptians; religion; 
literature; Egyptian Dead, Heaven, Hell, future life; note on the bull. 
Bibliography. With 11 plates and 38 illustrations in the text.  Budge, was 
Keeper of the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British 
Museum from 1894 to 1924; and translator of the Egyptian Book of the dead. 
Knighted in 1920.  Best known for his numerous translatory works, Budge 
collected a large number of Coptic, Greek, Arabic, Syriac, Ethiopian, and 
Egyptian Papyri manuscripts. He was also involved in numerous archaeology 
digs in Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Sudan. Bright blue cloth boards and 
spine, title and author blind stamped to front board, gilt to spine. Mild 
rubbing of spine ends and edges. DJ, price clipped, white pictorial, spine 
darkened, chips to spine ends, edges  and corners, closed tear from lower 
corner 3 1/2 inches, taped on reverse side. In protective mylar wrapping. 
Mild light random foxing of few pages, and spotty foxing page edge. Text 
clean, heavy weight paper, solidly bound. 326p sm 8vo. Chapters on the Life, 
History, Religion, and Literature of the Ancient Egyptians. $60.00 #880

Carthage and the Carthaginians, by Smith, Bosworth R., MA., Published by 
Longmans, Green and Company, London 1879, Three-quarter leather, Second 
Edition:  A scholarly study of Carthage and two of her greatest citizens; 
Hamilcar Barca and Hannibal. The two opening chapters provide a general 
sketch of the Carthaginian influence and civilization; continuing with the 
difference between Carthage and Rome and covering the First and Second Punic 
Wars. From the 8th century till the 3rd century BCE, Carthage was the 
dominating power of the western half of the Mediterranean. Carthage had been 
founded in the 9th century by Phoenician traders of Tyre. Carthage had two 
first class harbors, and therefore an advantage with the most efficient 
means of communications of those days, the sea. We have few sources to 
everyday life of the Carthaginians. Their religion had Baal and Tanit as 
central gods, but there were also elements from Greek religion, with the 
goddesses of Demeter and Persephone. The religion of the Carthaginians 
involved rituals with human sacrifice. Frontispiece, Remains of Ancient 
Harbors at Carthage; 9 additional illustrations including fold out make in 
color of the Carthaginian Empire. sm 8 vo, 488 pages. Mild rubbing of edges 
all else Very clean, tightly bound. $75.00 -#2009

A History of the English Church, 8 Volumes, by Cornish, F. Warre; Hunt, 
William; Stephens, W.R.W.; Capes, W.W.; Gairdner, James; Hutton, W.H.; 
Overton, John H. And Relton, Frederic, Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 
1900: A scholarly in depth History of the English Church reflecting the 
profound influence on the History of the English people. 1. From its 
Foundation to the Norman Conquest (597-1066) (erratum page 300) beginning 
with Gregory the Great); 2. The Norman Conquest to the Accession of Edward 
I, (1066-1272), fine fold-out map of England & Wales Dioceses & Principal 
Monastic Houses; 3. In the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century, beginning with 
the Primacy of Peckham, covering the Black Death, Wycliffe, etc.; Appendix 
II List of Kings of England, Archbishops of Canterbury, Archbishops of York, 
and Popes; 4. In the Sixteenth Century from Henry VIII to Mary; beginning 
with the Church under Henry VII, alliance of the Holy League, including the 
Case of Richard Hunne, (Map of England under Henry VIII showing Dioceses, 
old and new, and houses of Religion), etc.; 5. Accession of Charles I. to 
The Death of Anne (1625-1714), fold out map of England in Dioceses during 
the 17th Century (controversy with Rome, the Rise of Laud, Puritan and 
Romanist, Church and the Clergy before the Civil War, Civil War years, Reign 
of Queen Anne, final chapter Church in Wales; 6. Accession of George I to 
The End of XVIII Century 1714-1800, beginning with the Bangorian 
Controversy, answer to Deism, Jabites, early phases of the Wesleyan 
movement, etc. 7. & 8. Two volumes The English Church in the Nineteenth 
Century. Maroon cloth boards and spine, gilt to spine. All volumes very 
clean, maps near fine, tightly bound. Volumes dated from 1901 to 1910, sm 8 
vo. $250.00 -#2003

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