J.D. Holmes, ABAA - ILAB

DEVIL WORSHIPPERS: Their Beliefs and their Sacred Books.

Mingana, Alphonse. · 1916

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Offprint from The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, July, 1916. FIRST EDITION. A FINE COPY in wraps as issued in a protective archival sleeve. This work is on the cult of the Yezidis. Octavo.

ANTHROPOLOGY AND ROMAN CULTURE: Kinship, Time, Images of the Soul.

Bettini, Maurizio. · 1991

$46.50 (€42.19 | £35.20 | ¥7,425)

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. FIRST EDITION. A Fine cloth volume in fine dust jacket. Translated by John Van Sickle. 334 pages with index. Tall 8vo.

ART OF THE CHRISTIAN WORLD, A.D. 200-1500: A Handbook of Styles and Forms.

Christe, Velmans, et al. · 1982

$27.00 (€24.50 | £20.44 | ¥4,312)

New York: Rizzoli, 1982. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Fine decorated cloth copy in the protective slipcase as issued. Translated from the French. Hundreds of illustrations and line drawings of Early Christian, Byzantine, Romanesque and Gothic Art. 504 pages. Small octavo.

CHRISTIANITY & PAGANISM IN THE FOURTH TO EIGHTH CENTURIES.

MacMullen, Ramsay. · 1997

$28.50 (€25.86 | £21.57 | ¥4,551)

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. FIRST EDITION. Fine premium cloth volume in fine dust jacket. 282 pages with index. Illustrations. Tall octavo.

THE ESSENE PROBLEM.

Black, Matthew. · 1961

$16.50 (€14.97 | £12.49 | ¥2,635)

London: Dr. Williams's Library, 1961. Pamphlet; A FINE COPY. The Williams Library is a Reformist research facility in London. Friends of Dr. William's Library Series, number 14. Excellent annotations. 28 pages. Octavo.

IS THERE LIFE ON EARTH? An Introduction to Gurdjieff.

Bennett, J.G. · 1973

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

New York: Stonehill, 1973. First Soft Cover Printing. In original French fold wraps; VERY GOOD+ Copy. Errata on half title, apprising readers that the footnote reference to the printing of the Third Series by Harper, was in error as negotiations were still going on, and it was...

THE FABLES OF AVIANUS.

Slavitt, David R. (tr.) · 1993

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. FIRST EDITION. Fine cloth volume in fine dust jacket. Avianus was a 5th century writer often compared to Aesop. Foreword by Jack Zipes, Illustrations by Neil Welliver. Herein the complete work of Avianus -- forty two elegiac fab...

CHRISTIANIZING THE ROMAN EMPIRE (A.D. 100-400).

MacMullen, Ramsay. · 1984

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984. A FINE CLOTH VOLUME 183 pages, indexed. Royal Octavo.

NINETY-NINE NAMES OF ALLAH.

Friedlander, Shems. · 1978

$22.50 (€20.41 | £17.03 | ¥3,593)

New York: Harper Colophon Books, 1978. FIRST EDITION. In wraps as issued; VERY GOOD+. Great graphics design and marvelous calligraphy by Hattat Hamid al-Amidi. 128 pages. Small 12mo.

GEORGE OF LYDDA: Soldier, Saint & Martyr.

Elder, Isabel Hill. · 1949

$23.75 (€21.55 | £17.98 | ¥3,793)

London: The Covenant Publishing Company, 1949. FIRST EDITION. A VERY GOOD+ cloth copy in dust jacket. 108 pages with index.

THE CHILDHOOD OF RELIGIONS: Embracing a Simple Account of the Birth and Growth of Myths and Legends.

Clodd, Edward. · 1875

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,170)

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1875. FIRST EDITION. Light rubbing along spine edge; name on end paper; else, A VERY GOOD+ or better copy. [viii], 288 pages, indexed, plus ads by Appleton. Small octavo.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST.

Finegan, Jack. · 1986

$23.50 (€21.32 | £17.79 | ¥3,753)

New York: Dorset Press, 1986. A FINE Cloth Copy. Excellent annotations. With 121 illustrations. 456 pages with index. Tall octavo.

THE HONEY AND THE HEMLOCK: Democracy and Paranoia in Ancient Athens and Modern America.

Sagan, Eli. · 1991

$22.50 (€20.41 | £17.03 | ¥3,593)

New York: Harper Collins, (Basic Books), 1991. A FINE cloth copy in fine dust jacket. 429 pages with index. Royal 8vo.

GODDESSES IN WORLD MYTHOLOGY: A Biographical Dictionary.

Imel, D.M. & Martha Ann. · 1995

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. In oversized premium wraps; A FINE VOLUME. Massive reference work on the ancient universal Goddess religion. [xx], 645 pages. Small quarto.

ASCETIC BEHAVIOR IN GRECO-ROMAN ANTIQUITY: A Sourcebook.

Wimbush, Vincent. (ed.) · 1990

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990. FIRST EDITION. A Fine Cloth Volume in fine dust jacket. 514 pages, indexed. Tall 8vo.

THE HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE. Three volumes.

Shulvass, Moses. · 1982

$56.50 (€51.26 | £42.77 | ¥9,022)

Chicago: Regnery Gateway, 1982. FINE CLOTH SET in fine dust jackets. Volume I: Antiquity. Volume II: The Early Middle Ages. Volume III: The Later Middle Ages. All three volumes fully indexed. Two additional volumes addressing the modern period were released. 836 pages. Tall o...

THE MAGIC MIRROR. A novel.

Suhr, Elmer G. · 1965

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

New York: Helios Books, 1965. Very good+ in dust jacket. Suhr is best known for his studies on the ancient Mysteries, but this novel is a departure. The story takes place in the 1930s in a hospital ward for the terminally ill. Signed and presented by Suhr on front free end pa...

SOPHIA: Aspects of the Divine Feminine, Past & Present.

Schaup, Susanne. · 1997

$19.75 (€17.92 | £14.95 | ¥3,154)

Nicolas Hays Publishing, 1997. Quality trade paper edition; FINE CONDITION. 235 pages. Octavo.

THE FACES OF THE GODDESS.

Motz, Lotte. · 1997

$22.50 (€20.41 | £17.03 | ¥3,593)

New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. FIRST EDITION. A FINE CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket. Well illustrated. 280 pages with index. Tall 8vo.

SANCTUARIES OF THE GODDESS: The Sacred Landscapes and Objects.

Streep, Peg. · 1994

$23.75 (€21.55 | £17.98 | ¥3,793)

Boston: Bulfinch Press, 1994. FIRST EDITION. In landscape quarto wraps; A FINE COPY. Illustrated by photos. 222 pages with index.