2003, ISBN: 9781593860134

Tokyo 1944, F.A.A.J. Blue buckram, clean ex-library copy, minimal marks, blind stamped, spine clean, Jan.-June,vol.13 #'s 1-6, 6 issues bound in one vol., pp.1-625, color & b. w. … More...

Tokyo 1944, F.A.A.J. Blue buckram, clean ex-library copy, minimal marks, blind stamped, spine clean, Jan.-June,vol.13 #'s 1-6, 6 issues bound in one vol., pp.1-625, color & b. w. photos, signatures stamped, 16 x 24 cm. FIRST & ONLY EDITION This is an important World War II group of "official policy" declarations by the Japanese government. Much can be also stated to be "propaganda" for the benefit of the Japanese military and their war on America, Britain, China, Singapore, Thailand & Vietnam. Also contains many documents expounding the official Japanese text of various agreements, complaints and other official comments, often by famous Japanese politicians and later to be convicted "War Criminals," some of who were hanged by the tribunal after the war ! . Being entirely in English, the Japanese surely directed their comments to the enemy English-speaking world for the most effect. It was a huge "propaganda" effort to translate each month's political position papers, documents and other artistic essays, one is at a loss to understand the Japanese concept of engaging in a war with America and Britain, while still providing artistic, articles on Japanese art, culture and other non-war related essays in English. . During 1942 was a "watershed" and historic group of actions that reflected the temporary strength of the Japanese, the fall of Singapore, sinking of famous British war ships, the evacuation of America's west coast Japanese and other actions by the Japanese military in China. A year full of important war history and facts. *** THIS ITEM COVERS JULY-DECEMBER 1942, the height of Japanese success during the China, Pacific and South-Pacific War. . Articles: July 1942: MARCH OF EVENTS . MODERN LAW OF NATIONS by Thomas Baty. . THEIR LATEST DIPLOMATIC BURLESQUE by Katsuji Inahara. . OUR POPULAR SOLDIER-STATESMAN ABE by Rikuro Takaghi. . THE "DEMOCRACIES" GO WEST BY Rihachiro Banzai. . PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S "FREEDOM" WAR. . MODERN ARCHITECTURE OF JAPAN by Hideto Kishida. . THE EVOLUTION OF JAPANESE DESIGNS by Tamezo Ohsumi. . THE HISTORIC FALL OF SINGAPORE by Naosada Takabatake. . Documentary Material, Loan of 200 million yen to Thailand. *** August MARCH OF EVENTS . JAPAN'S WAR ON BRITISH SHIPPING by Masakazu Sumita. . CHOU EN-LAI AND YEN-AN'S ATTITUDE by Kenichi Hatano. . GERMAN-SOVIET WAR by Yahei Ohba. . OUR GENTLEMAN-GENERAL COUNT TERAUCHI by Kanichi Yamaura. . REORGANIZATION OF JAPAN'S AGRICULTURE 1: by Takeo Ono . SOME ASPECTS OF JAPANESE FEUDALISM by F. Jouon Des Longrais. . THE CHINESE WAY OF LIFE by Tsuneo Yonayama. . TORII AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE by Gaijiro Fujishima. . JAPAN'S PERIODICALS EXTRACTS: Code of Economic Morality. Significance of the China Affair. Italian immigrants in Brazil. . BOOK REVIEWS . CHRONICLE OF CURRENT EVENTS. . DOCUMENTARY MATERIAL: Japan-Indo-China Agreement July 18, 1942. 100 Million Yen Loan to Nanking, July 28, 1942. *** September: MARCH OF EVENTS . THE AXIS PROJECT OF WORLD ORDER by Shigetomo Sayegusa. . THE PROSPECT OF SECOND FRONT by Yoshitaro Kusuyama. . INDIA SEEKS ITS FREEDOM by Katsuji Inahara. . COLLAPSE OF CHUNKING'S CURRENCY by Shigheo Imura. . SNAPSHOT OF JAPANESE MUSIC by Keizo Horiuchi. . AUSTRALIA AND GREATER EAST ASIA by K. Takashi Itoh. . REORGANIZATION OF JAPAN'S AGRICULTURE by Takeo Ono. . ISSUE OF SOUTH AFRICAN INDEPENDENCE by Hideo Miyashita. . JAPAN'S PERIODICALS EXTRACTS: Japanese culture and national virility. Features of East Asiatic economy. Whither Argentina & Mexico. . BOOK REVIEWS. . CHRONICLE OF CURRENT EVENTS. . DOCUMENTARY MATERIAL: Special Ambassadors to Nanking, Aug. 28, 1942. *** October: . MARCH OF EVENTS . JOHN DOUGH'S DESIGN ON AFRICA by Tohmin Suzuki. . CLASSICAL BUNRAKU DOLL PLAY by Shutaro Miyake. . OFFICIAL FORMULA AND SCHOOL REFORM by Yasushi Sekiguchi. . THE ROLE OF NEWSREELS IN WAR [The Bombing of Pearl Harbor; Sinking of the Prince of Wales & the Repulse off Kuantan in Malaya; Mechanical corps speeding toward Johore Bharu; with Japanese b.w. photos !!] by Tatsuo Hoshino. Showing Japan's sense of "pride" in taking British and American assets and loss. . OUR LANGUAGE AND GREATER EAST ASIA by Takeshi Yaghi. , TECHNOLOGICAL CULTURE OF THE SOUTH by Soshu Watanabe. . JAPAN'S PERIODICALS EXTRACTS: New order in Japanese officialdom. Reform of the Japanese language. Press control & reform. . BOOK REVIEWS. . CHRONICLE OF CURRENT EVENTS. . DOCUMENTARY MATERIAL: American ill-treatment of Japanese evacuees, Sept. 11, 2-1942 [California evacuation of Japanese]. Press interview by Foreign Minister Masayuki Tani Sept. 17, 1942. Brazilian maltreatment of Japanese statement by T. Hori, Sept. 26, 1942. Premier Toho's speech on the Tripartite Alliance, Sept. 27, 1942. British mistreatment of Japanese statement by T. Hori, Oct. 5, 1942. *** November: . MARCH OF EVENTS . WAR IN THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC by Chu Saito. . CULTURAL TRAITS OF EAST AND WEST by Ina Metaxa. . OUR GREATER EAST ASIA MINISTER AOKI by Tatsuichi Hachiyama. . HIROSHIGE'S LANDSCAPE PRINTS by Seiichiro Takahashi, with many color examples. . MANCHOUKUO IN CO-PROSPERITY SPHERE by Bunroku Yoshioka. . BUDDHIST FRESCOES OF THE HOHRYUJI by Momoo Kitagawa, with many color photos. . CHIANG'S NORTHWESTERN GUN ROAD [Chiang Kai-shek/Jiang Jieshi] by Goro Oguchi, large folding map . NEW SOUTHERN PAINTINGS OF JAPAN by Takachiyo Uyemura, pictures of paintings and drawings of peoples & places in Southeast Asia. . JAPAN'S PERIODICALS EXTRACTS: Economic aspect of the Greater East Asia ministry. Occident and Japanese fine art. The decline of English literature. . BOOK REVIEWS. . CHRONICLE OF CURRENT EVENTS. . DOCUMENTARY MATERIAL: Crews of American airplanes punished Oct. 19, 1942. Cultural agreement between Japan & Thailand, Oct. 28, 1942. Protests to the United States & Canada concerning treatment of prisoners of war Nov. 6, 1942. *** December: . MARCH OF EVENTS . ONE YEAR OF THE PACIFIC WAR by Yusai Takahashi. . LIMIT OF SOVIET "DEMOCRATIC" UNITY by Shozo Mori. . THE OFF-SEASON ELECTION IN AMERICA by Katsuji Inahara. . WAR SITUATION IN NORTH AFRICA by Tohmin Suzuki. . GREATER EAST ASIA INTER-NATIONAL LAW by Masatoshi Matsushita. . READJUSTMENT OF SMALLER CONCERNS by Tanzan Ishibashi. . JAPANESE-THAI CULTURAL ACCORD by Takeshi Yanaghisawa. . CHARACTERISTICS OF JAPANESE WOMEN by Toshiko Ifukube. . OUR SOUTHERN RECONSTRUCTION POLICY by Chihiro Tsutsui . BOOK REVIEWS. . JAPAN'S PERIODICALS EXTRACTS: Japan's objective in historical light. Revisions in the conscription system. Our modern women. . CHRONICLE OF CURRENT EVENTS. . DOCUMENTARY MATERIAL: Protest of the Japanese government to the British and Indian governments in regard to maltreatment of Japanese interned at New Delhi, Nov. 11, 1942. Second anniversary of the conclusion of the Sino-Japanese basic treaty, Nov. 30, 1942, Premier Tohjo's address. *** CONDITION: The title pages are bound in, complete 6 months issues bound on one volume. Clean ex-library "Army library" copy stamps on signatures, blind-stamped covers, and a few here and there, else clean, no other marks, spine very clean. *** FOR CONTENTS OF OTHER ITEMS PLEASE INQURE FOR A LIST. *** January-June 1944: Vol.13: This is another group of 6 issues during World War II. With highlights of articles about the war, America, Britain, Russia, China and related. . This is a brief list, if you need the full list please inquire. . [Brief] CONTENTS: WORLD ANGLE IN JOINT DECLARATION, EVENTFUL YEAR 1943. WAR IN SOUTHERN PACIFIC. WAR STRUCTURE OF AMERICA. WARTIME MASS PRODUCTION. CHURCH REVIVAL IN MOSCOW. WAR AND JAPANESE WOMEN. MOSCOW'S DIPLOMATIC OFFENSIVE. WARTIME ROLE OF MANCHOUKUO. PACIFIC CHARTER. BRITAIN VIEWS HER FUTURE. WAR BUDGET AND FINANCIAL RESOURCES. FILIPINO AMBASSADOR VARGAS. ADMINISTRATION COMMAND CO-ORDINATION. NEW CHINA MARCHES ON. GLIMPSE OF WARTIME GINZA. ANGLO-AMERICAN APPETITE AND JAPAN. WAR IN THE PACIFIC. WHAT WASHINGTON WANTS? LATIN AMERICA AND ROOSEVELTIAN LEGALISM. TREND OF CURRENCY INFLATION. PROBLEMS OF WARRING AMERICA. . To the above add as usual: BOOK REVIEWS. . JAPAN'S PERIODICALS EXTRACTS: . DOCUMENTARY MATERIAL . *** 1958: No. 2, April, vol. 25: Articles: Free Indonesia, S.E. Asia & Japanese Economic Diplomacy, Prospects for trade with China, Japan in Manchuria, Shinto influence on Japanese life, Hiroshige a landscape artist &c. . * ., 0, Harwich Port: Clock & Rose Press, 2003. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. New. Cloth. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harwich Port: Clock & Rose Press, 2003. Reprint of 1850 first edition, published by A. Hart in Philadelphia. 8vo. Brown cloth binding, gilt titles. Limited edition. 520 pp. 25 illustrations, including a large fold-out geographical map of Palestine. Fierce contention over the land of Palestine is not news. Fought over millennia by religious, tribal and national factions - Jews, Muslims, Christians, Assyrians, Romans, Persians, Turks and currently the Israelis and the Palestinians - the rights to Palestine, now Israel and the "West Bank", remain a burning issue. The answer to 'who owns the land' lies in a volatile mix of politics, history and religion. The Descriptive Geography of Palestine, by Rabbi Joseph Schwarz (1805-1865), a German Jew and Zionist, while written from the Jewish perspective, utilizes a wide variety of ancient sources not commonly available, and thus provides added perspective for this ongoing, bloody debate. Prior to the Rabbi's work, descriptions of Palestine familiar to the West had been written by Christian travelers, who did not have the linguistic ability to compare and utilize the record of the Hebrew Scriptures and other ancient works. "For instance, " Rabbi Schwarz writes, "no one could hitherto indicate where to look for the Mount Hor, in Northern Palestine; Riblah, Kadesh-Barne?, Azmon, Katath, Nahallal, Shimron, Rakkath, &c.; since all the learned were unacquainted with the circumstance, that all these names were changed at a later period, as we see mentioned in Talmud Yerushalmi, and since the names into which they were changed are existing to this day. In this way, therefore, being able to draw from the source indicated, I have been permitted to discover nearly a hundred names which had hitherto remained unknown." The Descriptive Geography of Palestine is both geography of Palestine and a commentary on the relevant geographic passages in the Hebrew Scriptures, the entire Bible canon, Roman literature, and Arabic and Persian sources. It covers the boundaries of Palestine; an explanation of the seas, rivers, mountains, and valleys of Palestine; division of Palestine according to the twelve tribes; Palestine beyond Jordan; Jerusalem; animals, vegetables and minerals of Palestine; climate; and contains a short history of Palestine to 1850. "An uncommon degree of interest has been excited in modern times towards Palestine, to an extent scarcely ever before attained. It issues forth, as it were, out of its devastation of more than eighteen centuries standing; and people seek to reanimate it through their investigations and discoveries. The learned contend for the prize of contributing the most to its elucidation by discovering and tracing out the vestiges of antiquity which it offers; and it is therefore constantly visited and travelled over by the well-informed of all nations. How much more ardently, then, must the erudite man belonging to the house of Israel feel on the subject! For should not Israel march in the advance, and serve in this matter as an example to other nations? or shall it, to whose ancestor God said (Gen. 13. 15), "For the whole land which thou seest I will give unto thee and thy seed for ever," receive an account of its possessions-for its property the land remains, long as the time may be that its claim is not acknowledged, and its rights usurped by the hand of power from the mouth of others?" Who shall inherit Palestine, the Land of Israel? New in new dustjacket.., Clock & Rose Press, 2003, 6<

2008, ISBN: 9781593860134

Hardcover

Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. Sketches of the new religious life - Jewish and Christian - springing up in the bright Israeli sun alongside the ancient forms. J… More...

Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. Sketches of the new religious life - Jewish and Christian - springing up in the bright Israeli sun alongside the ancient forms. Jacket rubbed and chipped with edgewear, not price clipped. Boards have only light wear. Pages are clean. Prior owner name on fep. Text has no markings, binding is sound. . Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Libris., Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961, 2.5, New York, NY: Modern Library, 2000. Reprint. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. xxxiv, [2], 222, [12] p. Maps. Chronology. Key FIgures; Glossary. Notes. Suggestions for Further Reading. Index. One of the world's foremost historians and thinkers on religious affairs writes on the history and destiny of the world's fastest-growing but most misunderstood religion: Islam. From WIkipedia: "Karen Armstrong FRSL (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator known for her books on comparative religion. A former Roman Catholic religious sister, she went from a conservative to a more liberal and mystical Christian faith. She attended St Anne's College while in the convent and majored in English. She would become disillusioned and leave the convent in 1969. She first rose to prominence in 1993 with her book A History of God: The 4, 000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Her work focuses on commonalities of the major religions, such as the importance of compassion and the Golden Rule. Armstrong received the $100, 000 TED Prize in February 2008. She used that occasion to call for the creation of a Charter for Compassion, which was unveiled the following year. Armstrong was born at Wildmoor, Worcestershire, into a family of Irish ancestry who, after her birth, moved to Bromsgrove and later to Birmingham. In 1962, at the age of 18, she became a member of the Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus, a teaching congregation, in which she remained for seven years. Armstrong claims she suffered physical and psychological abuse in the convent, according to The Guardian newspaper: -Once she had advanced from postulant and novice to professed nun, she enrolled in St Anne's College, Oxford, to study English. Armstrong left her order in 1969 while still a student at Oxford. After graduating with a Congratulatory First, she embarked on a DPhil on the poet Tennyson. According to Armstrong, she wrote her dissertation on a topic that had been approved by the university committee. Nevertheless it was failed by her external examiner on the grounds that the topic had been unsuitable. Armstrong did not formally protest this verdict, nor did she embark upon a new topic but instead abandoned hope of an academic career. She reports that this period in her life was marked by ill-health stemming from her lifelong but, at that time, still undiagnosed temporal lobe epilepsy. In 1976, Armstrong took a job as teaching English at a girls' school in Dulwich while working on a memoir of her convent experiences. This was published in 1982 as Through the Narrow Gate to excellent reviews. That year she embarked on a new career as an independent writer and broadcasting presenter. In 1984, the British Channel Four commissioned her to write and present a TV documentary on the life of St. Paul, The First Christian, a project that involved traveling to the Holy Land to retrace the steps of the saint. Armstrong described this visit as a "breakthrough experience" that defied her prior assumptions and was the inspiration for virtually all her subsequent work. In A History of God: The 4, 000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam (1993), she traces the evolution of the three major monotheistic traditions from their beginnings in the Middle East up to the present day and also discusses Hinduism and Buddhism. As guiding "luminaries" in her approach, Armstrong acknowledges (in The Spiral Staircase and elsewhere) the late Canadian theologian Wilfred Cantwell Smith, a Protestant minister, [5] and the Jesuit father Bernard Lonergan. In 1996, she published Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths. Armstrong's The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions (2006) continues the themes covered in A History of God and examines the emergence and codification of the world's great religions during the so-called Axial age, identified by Karl Jaspers. In the year of its publication Armstrong achieved the distinction of being invited to choose her eight favourite records for BBC Radio's Desert Island Discs programme. She has made considerable appearances on television, including appearances on Rageh Omaar's programme The Life of Muhammad. She was., Modern Library, 2000, 3, Rochester NY, 1906. Hardcover. Poor/No Dust Jacket. 8 x 10. POOR / NO DUST JACKET. 637 pages. Inscribed by the Bishop of Rochester on the inside title page. Text and B/W illustrations are clean and unmarked. Prior owner's stamp on the inside front cover page. Purple illustrated board with gold lettering. Cover is edge worn with some rubbing. Front and back hinges are loose, the binding is separating from the cover. A couple pages in the front index are loose., 1906, 1, Chautauqua, NY: The Chautauqua Press, 1928. Fourth printing [stated]. Hardcover. Good. Folding map at frontis. xiii, [3], 332, [4] pages. Footnotes. A Selected Bibliography for the Traveler. Index of Scriptural References. Index of Subjects and Proper Names. Cover has some wear and soiling. Page xiii is bound in prematurely, prior to page vii. Some endpaper and page discoloration and foxing. Harry Emerson Fosdick (May 24, 1878 - October 5, 1969) was an American pastor. Fosdick became a central figure in the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy within American Protestantism in the 1920s and 1930s and was one of the most prominent liberal ministers of the early 20th century. Although a Baptist, he was called to serve as pastor, in New York City, at First Presbyterian Church in Manhattan's West Village, and then at the historic, inter-denominational Riverside Church in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. Fosdick's sermons won him wide recognition. His 1933 anti-war sermon, "The Unknown Soldier", inspired the British priest Dick Sheppard to write a letter that ultimately led to the founding of the Peace Pledge Union. His Riverside Sermons was printed in 1958, and he published numerous other books. His radio addresses were nationally broadcast; he also wrote the hymn "God of Grace and God of Glory". Fosdick's book A Guide to Understanding the Bible traces the beliefs of the people who wrote the Bible, from the Hebrews (which he regarded as practically pagan) to the faith and hopes of the New Testament writers. Fosdick was a member of the American Friends of the Middle East, a founder of the Committee for Justice and Peace in the Holy Land, and an active "anti-Zionist". Dr. Fosdick has put his pilgrimage to Palestine in a category by itself by making it a simply amazing pageant of historical associations, an exhibit of the ramifications between the geographical features of Palestine and the contents of the Bible which is most illuminating. Often his method conveys to his reader such a sense of the veracity of Biblical records that the scene in question seems to rise up before him like a speaking apparition from the dead past. Contents: The Lie of the Land; The Background of History; The Impressiveness of Sinai; The Hebrew Invasion; The City of David; From Gilgal to Galilee; Journeys to the Prophets' Homes; With the Master in Nazareth; The Galilean Ministry; Going Up to be Crucified; Christ and Christianity in Palestine; and Palestine Tomorrow., The Chautauqua Press, 1928, 2.5, Harwich Port: Clock & Rose Press, 2003. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. New. Cloth. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harwich Port: Clock & Rose Press, 2003. Reprint of 1850 first edition, published by A. Hart in Philadelphia. 8vo. Brown cloth binding, gilt titles. Limited edition. 520 pp. 25 illustrations, including a large fold-out geographical map of Palestine. Fierce contention over the land of Palestine is not news. Fought over millennia by religious, tribal and national factions - Jews, Muslims, Christians, Assyrians, Romans, Persians, Turks and currently the Israelis and the Palestinians - the rights to Palestine, now Israel and the "West Bank", remain a burning issue. The answer to 'who owns the land' lies in a volatile mix of politics, history and religion. The Descriptive Geography of Palestine, by Rabbi Joseph Schwarz (1805-1865), a German Jew and Zionist, while written from the Jewish perspective, utilizes a wide variety of ancient sources not commonly available, and thus provides added perspective for this ongoing, bloody debate. Prior to the Rabbi's work, descriptions of Palestine familiar to the West had been written by Christian travelers, who did not have the linguistic ability to compare and utilize the record of the Hebrew Scriptures and other ancient works. "For instance, " Rabbi Schwarz writes, "no one could hitherto indicate where to look for the Mount Hor, in Northern Palestine; Riblah, Kadesh-Barne?, Azmon, Katath, Nahallal, Shimron, Rakkath, &c.; since all the learned were unacquainted with the circumstance, that all these names were changed at a later period, as we see mentioned in Talmud Yerushalmi, and since the names into which they were changed are existing to this day. In this way, therefore, being able to draw from the source indicated, I have been permitted to discover nearly a hundred names which had hitherto remained unknown." The Descriptive Geography of Palestine is both geography of Palestine and a commentary on the relevant geographic passages in the Hebrew Scriptures, the entire Bible canon, Roman literature, and Arabic and Persian sources. It covers the boundaries of Palestine; an explanation of the seas, rivers, mountains, and valleys of Palestine; division of Palestine according to the twelve tribes; Palestine beyond Jordan; Jerusalem; animals, vegetables and minerals of Palestine; climate; and contains a short history of Palestine to 1850. "An uncommon degree of interest has been excited in modern times towards Palestine, to an extent scarcely ever before attained. It issues forth, as it were, out of its devastation of more than eighteen centuries standing; and people seek to reanimate it through their investigations and discoveries. The learned contend for the prize of contributing the most to its elucidation by discovering and tracing out the vestiges of antiquity which it offers; and it is therefore constantly visited and travelled over by the well-informed of all nations. How much more ardently, then, must the erudite man belonging to the house of Israel feel on the subject! For should not Israel march in the advance, and serve in this matter as an example to other nations? or shall it, to whose ancestor God said (Gen. 13. 15), "For the whole land which thou seest I will give unto thee and thy seed for ever," receive an account of its possessions-for its property the land remains, long as the time may be that its claim is not acknowledged, and its rights usurped by the hand of power from the mouth of others?" Who shall inherit Palestine, the Land of Israel? New in new dustjacket.., Clock & Rose Press, 2003, 6<

2011, ISBN: 9781593860134

Hardcover

Cambridge University Press: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2000. first edition,1p; 13579108642pt line. HARDCOVER. 6x9" 2" THICK. VERY GOOD CONDITIO… More...

Cambridge University Press: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2000. first edition,1p; 13579108642pt line. HARDCOVER. 6x9" 2" THICK. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(NOPR ICE) DUST JACKET, CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT...APPEARS TO BE NEW..; 656pg heavy pages; Part I discusses theoretical issues and gives an overview of the history of translation into English. Part II, the bulk of the work, arranged by language of origin, offers critical discussions, with bibliographies, of the translation history of specific texts (e.g. the Koran, the Kalevala), authors (e.g. Lucretius, Dostoevsky), genres (e.g. Chinese poetry, twentieth-century Italian prose) and national literatures (e.g. Hungarian, Afrikaans). ., Oxford University Press, 2000, 3, Chautauqua, NY: The Chautauqua Press, 1928. Fourth printing [stated]. Hardcover. Good. Folding map at frontis. xiii, [3], 332, [4] pages. Footnotes. A Selected Bibliography for the Traveler. Index of Scriptural References. Index of Subjects and Proper Names. Cover has some wear and soiling. Page xiii is bound in prematurely, prior to page vii. Some endpaper and page discoloration and foxing. Harry Emerson Fosdick (May 24, 1878 - October 5, 1969) was an American pastor. Fosdick became a central figure in the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy within American Protestantism in the 1920s and 1930s and was one of the most prominent liberal ministers of the early 20th century. Although a Baptist, he was called to serve as pastor, in New York City, at First Presbyterian Church in Manhattan's West Village, and then at the historic, inter-denominational Riverside Church in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. Fosdick's sermons won him wide recognition. His 1933 anti-war sermon, "The Unknown Soldier", inspired the British priest Dick Sheppard to write a letter that ultimately led to the founding of the Peace Pledge Union. His Riverside Sermons was printed in 1958, and he published numerous other books. His radio addresses were nationally broadcast; he also wrote the hymn "God of Grace and God of Glory". Fosdick's book A Guide to Understanding the Bible traces the beliefs of the people who wrote the Bible, from the Hebrews (which he regarded as practically pagan) to the faith and hopes of the New Testament writers. Fosdick was a member of the American Friends of the Middle East, a founder of the Committee for Justice and Peace in the Holy Land, and an active "anti-Zionist". Dr. Fosdick has put his pilgrimage to Palestine in a category by itself by making it a simply amazing pageant of historical associations, an exhibit of the ramifications between the geographical features of Palestine and the contents of the Bible which is most illuminating. Often his method conveys to his reader such a sense of the veracity of Biblical records that the scene in question seems to rise up before him like a speaking apparition from the dead past. Contents: The Lie of the Land; The Background of History; The Impressiveness of Sinai; The Hebrew Invasion; The City of David; From Gilgal to Galilee; Journeys to the Prophets' Homes; With the Master in Nazareth; The Galilean Ministry; Going Up to be Crucified; Christ and Christianity in Palestine; and Palestine Tomorrow., The Chautauqua Press, 1928, 2.5, Ankara: TDK, 2011. Hardcover. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Original bdg. HC. In Italian, Arabic, and Turkish. 271 p. Color and b/w ills. Pietro Della Valle was born in Rome on 2 April 1586, to a wealthy and noble family. His early life was spent in the pursuit of literature and arms. He was a cultivated man, who knew Latin, Greek, classical mythology, and the Bible. He also became a member of the Roman academy of the Umoristi, and acquired some reputation as a versifier and rhetorician. When Pietro was disappointed in love and began to consider suicide, Mario Schipano, a professor of medicine in Naples, suggested the idea of traveling in the East. It was Schipano who received a sort of diary in letters from Pietro's travels. Before leaving Naples, Pietro took a vow to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. He left Venice by boat on the 8th of June 1614 and reached Constantinople; he remained there for more than a year and acquired a good knowledge of Turkish and a little Arabic. On the 25th of September, 1615, he went to Alexandria. Because he was a nobleman of distinction, he traveled with a suite of nine persons, and with every advantage due to his rank. From Alexandria he went on to Cairo, and, after an excursion to Mount Sinai, left Cairo for the Holy Land. He arrived there on the 8th of March, 1616, in time to take part in the Easter celebrations at Jerusalem. After visiting the holy sites, Pietro traveled from Damascus to Aleppo. After seeing a portrait of the beautiful Nestorian Christian Sitti Maani Gioerida (of mixed Syrian and Armenian descent), he went to Baghdad and married her a month later. While in the Middle East, he made one of the first modern records of the location of ancient Babylon and provided "remarkable descriptions" of the site. He also brought back to Europe inscribed bricks from Nineveh and Ur, some of the first examples of Cuneiform available to modern Europeans. At that time Baghdad was at war with Turkey, so he had to leave Baghdad on the 4th of January, 1617. Accompanied by his wife Maani, he proceeded by Hamadan to Isfahan. Afterward, he visited Persia. (The first documented ancestors of the Persian cat were imported from Persia into Italy in 1626 by Pietro Della Valle.) In the summer of 1618, he joined Shah Abbas in a campaign in northern Persia. Here he was well received at court and treated as the shah's guest. On his return to Isfahan he began to think of going back home through India, rather than endanger himself again in Turkey. However, the state of his health and the war between Persia and the Portuguese at Ormuz generated problems. In October 1621 he left Isfahan, visited Persepolis and Shiraz and made his way to the coast. But it was not until January 1623 that he found a passage for Surat on the English ship Whale, Captain Nicolas Woodcock. He sojourned in India until November 1624, his headquarters being Surat and Goa. In India Pietro Della Valle was introduced to the King Vekatappa Nayaka of Keladi, South India by Vithal Shenoy, the chief administrator of those territories. The accounts of his travels are one of the most important sources of history for the region. He was at Muscat in January 1625, and at Basra in March. In May he started by the desert route to Aleppo, and boarded on a French ship at Alexandretta. He reached Cyprus and finally Rome on the 28th of March 1626. There, he was received with many honors, not only in literary circles, but also from Pope Urban VIII, who appointed him a gentleman of his bedchamber. The rest of his life was uneventful; he married his second wife, Mariuccia (Tinatin de Ziba), a Georgian orphan of a noble family. She had been adopted by his first wife as a child, had traveled with him, and was the mother of fourteen children. He died in Rome on the 21st of April 1652, and is buried at his family's burial vault at Santa Maria in Aracoeli. By 1665 the portion of his "Travels" dealing with India and with his return had been translated into English. They contain accounts of his discussions with, TDK, 2011, 6, Harwich Port: Clock & Rose Press, 2003 Harwich Port: Clock & Rose Press, 2003. Reprint of 1850 first edition, published by A. Hart in Philadelphia. 8vo. Brown cloth binding, gilt titles. Limited edition. 520 pp. 25 illustrations, including a large fold-out geographical map of Palestine. Fierce contention over the land of Palestine is not news. Fought over millennia by religious, tribal and national factions - Jews, Muslims, Christians, Assyrians, Romans, Persians, Turks and currently the Israelis and the Palestinians - the rights to Palestine, now Israel and the "West Bank", remain a burning issue. The answer to 'who owns the land' lies in a volatile mix of politics, history and religion. The Descriptive Geography of Palestine, by Rabbi Joseph Schwarz (1805-1865), a German Jew and Zionist, while written from the Jewish perspective, utilizes a wide variety of ancient sources not commonly available, and thus provides added perspective for this ongoing, bloody debate. Prior to the Rabbi's work, descriptions of Palestine familiar to the West had been written by Christian travelers, who did not have the linguistic ability to compare and utilize the record of the Hebrew Scriptures and other ancient works. "For instance, " Rabbi Schwarz writes, "no one could hitherto indicate where to look for the Mount Hor, in Northern Palestine; Riblah, Kadesh-Barne?, Azmon, Katath, Nahallal, Shimron, Rakkath, &c.; since all the learned were unacquainted with the circumstance, that all these names were changed at a later period, as we see mentioned in Talmud Yerushalmi, and since the names into which they were changed are existing to this day. In this way, therefore, being able to draw from the source indicated, I have been permitted to discover nearly a hundred names which had hitherto remained unknown." The Descriptive Geography of Palestine is both geography of Palestine and a commentary on the relevant geographic passages in the Hebrew Scriptures, the entire Bible canon, Roman literature, and Arabic and Persian sources. It covers the boundaries of Palestine; an explanation of the seas, rivers, mountains, and valleys of Palestine; division of Palestine according to the twelve tribes; Palestine beyond Jordan; Jerusalem; animals, vegetables and minerals of Palestine; climate; and contains a short history of Palestine to 1850. "An uncommon degree of interest has been excited in modern times towards Palestine, to an extent scarcely ever before attained. It issues forth, as it were, out of its devastation of more than eighteen centuries standing; and people seek to reanimate it through their investigations and discoveries. The learned contend for the prize of contributing the most to its elucidation by discovering and tracing out the vestiges of antiquity which it offers; and it is therefore constantly visited and travelled over by the well-informed of all nations. How much more ardently, then, must the erudite man belonging to the house of Israel feel on the subject! For should not Israel march in the advance, and serve in this matter as an example to other nations? or shall it, to whose ancestor God said (Gen. 13. 15), "For the whole land which thou seest I will give unto thee and thy seed for ever," receive an account of its possessions-for its property the land remains, long as the time may be that its claim is not acknowledged, and its rights usurped by the hand of power from the mouth of others?" Who shall inherit Palestine, the Land of Israel? New in new dustjacket., Clock & Rose Press, 2003, 6<

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New York : Wm. H. Wise & Co, Copyright 1883, 1888. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. THREE VOLUMES ONLY. Volumes cover the old pagan civilizations through to the Renaissance and Refor… More...

New York : Wm. H. Wise & Co, Copyright 1883, 1888. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. THREE VOLUMES ONLY. Volumes cover the old pagan civilizations through to the Renaissance and Reformation. Hardbound tan publishers cloth with embossed cover design, black title on spines. Volume I: Part I-The Old Pagan Civilizations; Part II-Jewish Heroes and Prophets. Introduction, Contents, 453 pp. Volume II: Part I-Ancient Achievements; Part II-Imperial Antiquity. Contents, List of Authorities, 395 pp. Volume III: Part I-The Middle Ages; Part II-Renaissance and Reformation. List of Authorities, 463 pp. <br><br>CONDITION: Binding tight, shelf wear to edges, rubbed, soiled. Previous owners' stamp and names on front endpaper. Pages are free of writing. Very good. Full refund if not satisfied., Wm. H. Wise & Co, 3, Harvard University Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0674643631 . Very minor shelfwear to book. DJ spine sunned with very minor chipping. ; Revealing Antiquity 5; 238 pages; The rich and splendid culture of the ancient Greeks has often been described as emerging like a miracle from a genius of its own, owing practically nothing to its neighbours. Walter Burkert offers an argument against that distorted view, pointing toward a balanced picture of the archaic period "in which, under the influence of the Semitic East, Greek culture began its unique flowering, soon to assume cultural hegemony, in the Mediterranean". Burkert focuses on the "orientalizing" century 750-650 B.C., the period of Assyrian conquest, Phoenician commerce, and Greek exploration of both East and West, when not only eastern skills and images but also the Semitic art of writing was transmitted to Greece. He tracks the migrant craftsmen who brought the Greeks new techniques and designs, the wandering seers and healers teaching magic and medicine, and the important Greek borrowings from Near Eastern poetry and myth. Drawing widey on archaeological, textual and historical evidence, he demonstrates that eastern models significantly affected Greek literature and religion in the Homeric age. ., Harvard University Press, 1992, 4, Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1999. Hardcover Octavo. Hardcover. Very good. illustrated red boards, 348 pp Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders., Eisenbrauns, 1999, 3, Toronto: Anglican Book Centre. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1988. First Edition. Softcover. 091989190X . 164 pp. Edgewear. Inscribed and dated by the editor on the half-title. A collection of writings providing a study of the contribution of the Oriental and Orthodox churches to Christendom. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Editor ., Anglican Book Centre, 1988, 3, Munich: Biederstein Verlag, 1949. Third revised. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. xii.207pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Grammar of an Ancient Babylonian-Assyrian language. Age wear to binding. Hinges starting. Pen writing to free front endpaper, with pencil notes throughout, mainly at margins. Inside clean and tight. In German. Very good condition., Biederstein Verlag, 1949, 3, Harwich Port: Clock & Rose Press, 2003. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. New. Cloth. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harwich Port: Clock & Rose Press, 2003. Reprint of 1850 first edition, published by A. Hart in Philadelphia. 8vo. Brown cloth binding, gilt titles. Limited edition. 520 pp. 25 illustrations, including a large fold-out geographical map of Palestine. Fierce contention over the land of Palestine is not news. Fought over millennia by religious, tribal and national factions - Jews, Muslims, Christians, Assyrians, Romans, Persians, Turks and currently the Israelis and the Palestinians - the rights to Palestine, now Israel and the "West Bank", remain a burning issue. The answer to 'who owns the land' lies in a volatile mix of politics, history and religion. The Descriptive Geography of Palestine, by Rabbi Joseph Schwarz (1805-1865), a German Jew and Zionist, while written from the Jewish perspective, utilizes a wide variety of ancient sources not commonly available, and thus provides added perspective for this ongoing, bloody debate. Prior to the Rabbi's work, descriptions of Palestine familiar to the West had been written by Christian travelers, who did not have the linguistic ability to compare and utilize the record of the Hebrew Scriptures and other ancient works. "For instance, " Rabbi Schwarz writes, "no one could hitherto indicate where to look for the Mount Hor, in Northern Palestine; Riblah, Kadesh-Barne?, Azmon, Katath, Nahallal, Shimron, Rakkath, &c.; since all the learned were unacquainted with the circumstance, that all these names were changed at a later period, as we see mentioned in Talmud Yerushalmi, and since the names into which they were changed are existing to this day. In this way, therefore, being able to draw from the source indicated, I have been permitted to discover nearly a hundred names which had hitherto remained unknown." The Descriptive Geography of Palestine is both geography of Palestine and a commentary on the relevant geographic passages in the Hebrew Scriptures, the entire Bible canon, Roman literature, and Arabic and Persian sources. It covers the boundaries of Palestine; an explanation of the seas, rivers, mountains, and valleys of Palestine; division of Palestine according to the twelve tribes; Palestine beyond Jordan; Jerusalem; animals, vegetables and minerals of Palestine; climate; and contains a short history of Palestine to 1850. "An uncommon degree of interest has been excited in modern times towards Palestine, to an extent scarcely ever before attained. It issues forth, as it were, out of its devastation of more than eighteen centuries standing; and people seek to reanimate it through their investigations and discoveries. The learned contend for the prize of contributing the most to its elucidation by discovering and tracing out the vestiges of antiquity which it offers; and it is therefore constantly visited and travelled over by the well-informed of all nations. How much more ardently, then, must the erudite man belonging to the house of Israel feel on the subject! For should not Israel march in the advance, and serve in this matter as an example to other nations? or shall it, to whose ancestor God said (Gen. 13. 15), "For the whole land which thou seest I will give unto thee and thy seed for ever," receive an account of its possessions-for its property the land remains, long as the time may be that its claim is not acknowledged, and its rights usurped by the hand of power from the mouth of others?" Who shall inherit Palestine, the Land of Israel? New in new dustjacket.., Clock & Rose Press, 2003, 6<

2003, ISBN: 9781593860134

Harwich Port: Clock & Rose Press, 2003. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. New. Cloth. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harwich Port: Clock & Rose Press, 2003… More...

Harwich Port: Clock & Rose Press, 2003. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. New. Cloth. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harwich Port: Clock & Rose Press, 2003. Reprint of 1850 first edition, published by A. Hart in Philadelphia. 8vo. Brown cloth binding, gilt titles. Limited edition. 520 pp. 25 illustrations, including a large fold-out geographical map of Palestine. Fierce contention over the land of Palestine is not news. Fought over millennia by religious, tribal and national factions - Jews, Muslims, Christians, Assyrians, Romans, Persians, Turks and currently the Israelis and the Palestinians - the rights to Palestine, now Israel and the "West Bank", remain a burning issue. The answer to 'who owns the land' lies in a volatile mix of politics, history and religion. The Descriptive Geography of Palestine, by Rabbi Joseph Schwarz (1805-1865), a German Jew and Zionist, while written from the Jewish perspective, utilizes a wide variety of ancient sources not commonly available, and thus provides added perspective for this ongoing, bloody debate. Prior to the Rabbi's work, descriptions of Palestine familiar to the West had been written by Christian travelers, who did not have the linguistic ability to compare and utilize the record of the Hebrew Scriptures and other ancient works. "For instance, " Rabbi Schwarz writes, "no one could hitherto indicate where to look for the Mount Hor, in Northern Palestine; Riblah, Kadesh-Barne?, Azmon, Katath, Nahallal, Shimron, Rakkath, &c.; since all the learned were unacquainted with the circumstance, that all these names were changed at a later period, as we see mentioned in Talmud Yerushalmi, and since the names into which they were changed are existing to this day. In this way, therefore, being able to draw from the source indicated, I have been permitted to discover nearly a hundred names which had hitherto remained unknown." The Descriptive Geography of Palestine is both geography of Palestine and a commentary on the relevant geographic passages in the Hebrew Scriptures, the entire Bible canon, Roman literature, and Arabic and Persian sources. It covers the boundaries of Palestine; an explanation of the seas, rivers, mountains, and valleys of Palestine; division of Palestine according to the twelve tribes; Palestine beyond Jordan; Jerusalem; animals, vegetables and minerals of Palestine; climate; and contains a short history of Palestine to 1850. "An uncommon degree of interest has been excited in modern times towards Palestine, to an extent scarcely ever before attained. It issues forth, as it were, out of its devastation of more than eighteen centuries standing; and people seek to reanimate it through their investigations and discoveries. The learned contend for the prize of contributing the most to its elucidation by discovering and tracing out the vestiges of antiquity which it offers; and it is therefore constantly visited and travelled over by the well-informed of all nations. How much more ardently, then, must the erudite man belonging to the house of Israel feel on the subject! For should not Israel march in the advance, and serve in this matter as an example to other nations? or shall it, to whose ancestor God said (Gen. 13. 15), "For the whole land which thou seest I will give unto thee and thy seed for ever," receive an account of its possessions-for its property the land remains, long as the time may be that its claim is not acknowledged, and its rights usurped by the hand of power from the mouth of others?" Who shall inherit Palestine, the Land of Israel? New in new dustjacket.., Clock & Rose Press, 2003, 6<