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New York: Viking Press, 1955. (xv) 435 pp. Red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated with black and white plates and maps. Wear on the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks and short tears around the edges; price intact; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Part One: Discoveries and Discussions: The First Discoveries; Alarms and Excursions; Later Discoveries. Part Two: The Age of the Manuscripts: The Evidence of Archeology and Paleography; The Evidence of Text and Language. Part Three: The Dates of Composition: Historical Allusions in the Habakkuk Commentary: The Kittim; Historical Allusions in the Habakkuk Commentary: Dramatis Personae; Identifications of Persons and Events; Historical Alllusions in the Other Documents; Ideas Vocabulary and Literary Relations. Part Four: The Community of Qumran: Origin History and Organization; Beliefs; Identification. Part Five: The Importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Contributions to Textual Criticism Historical Grammar and Paleography; Contributions to the Study of Judaisim and Christianity; Summary. Part Six: The Damascus Document; The Habakkuk Commentary; The Manual of Discipline; Selections from The War of the Sons and Light With the Sons of Darkness; and Selections from the Thanksgiving Psalms; followed by a bibliography.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-. 8vo. archeology;. more information

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. (viii) 372 pp. Quarter-bound in purple cloth on lavender boards; brick red endpapers; headband; illustrated with maps, drawings and black and white plates. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price clipped; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Part One: In Which the Queen of Sheba Appears and Her Legend Unfolds: In the Monasteries of the East; I Kings; Songs of Sheba; The Desert Queen; With Eyes Shining As Stars; Touched by the Queen. Part Two: In Which We Seek Solomon and Sheba in the Holy Land: O Jerusalem; Looking for Solomon; Zabibi and Samsi. Part Three: In a Desert Oasis - An Unexpected Sheba: Further Suspects; The Caliph's Command. Part Four: In Which We Venture to a Land of Incense and Spices: To Far Arabia; A Trail of Ruins; City of Divine and Mysterious Pleasure; Chiseled in Stone; A Secret of the Sands. Part Five: A Journey Reveals the Power and Dominion of the Queen of Sheba: The Glory of Kings; The Holy City of Aksum; By Dhow from Djibouti; The Road to Sirwah; In the House of the South Wind; and Sheba and Solomon; followed by: Epilogue: Sheba's Tomb; and Appendix One: The Names of Sheba; Appendix Two: Chronology of the Sabean (Sheban) State; Appendix Three: Demon Sheba; Appendix Four: Alchemical Sheba; and an index. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0395952832. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. israel; ethiopia; red sea; ubar; rub al-khali;. more information

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London: Pan Books, 1959. 220 pp. Great Pan Book G304. Light edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the spine; not store stamped. Illustrated with black and white plates. The Chapters are: City of the Winged Bulls; Lost Cities of Babylonia; A Forgotten Empire; 1984 - BC; The Land Without Sorrow; Death of a City; The Resurrection of Pompeii; The Sacred Well of Chichen-Itza; The Tragedy of the Incas; and The Discovery of Vilcabamba; followed by a postcript, bibliography and an index. Scans are available for all books.. First Paperback Printing. Paperback. Very Good+. vintage paperback; collectible; babylon; nineveh; assyria; ur; chaldees; italy; maya mayan; mexico; macchu picchu; andes; anuradhapura; anurodgburro; hiram bingham; paul emilte botta; ceylon; cuzco; egypt egytpian egyptology ancient; africa africana african; genesis; harappa; hattusas; hittites; indus valley; seton lloyd; mohenjo daro; peru; pizarro; sumeria;. more information

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Belleville, Ontario: Essence Publishing, 1999. 388 pp. Signed on the half-title page by A. F. Davies. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; previous owner's name inside. Cover art by Martin Springett; illustrated with maps, diagrams and colour plates. The Chapters are: Biblical Weather; Job and Jesus; True Information from Various Disciplines; Terminology; Rediscovering the Weather of the Bible; Biblical Convictions about Weather; The Climatic and Geographic Background of Weather in the Bible; The Biblical View of the Atmosphere; The Global Scale of Atmospheric Motion; The Wind; Vertical Motion in the Atmosphere; Clouds; Precipitation; Biblical Weather Observing; Weather Interpretation - Forecasting - and Utilization of Weather Information in the Bible; Commentaries on Selected Biblical Weather Events; Using Biblical Weather Principles Today; Using Biblical Methods of Weather Interpretation Today; and Using Biblical Principles in Contemporary Weather Forcasting; followed by: Appendix One: Chronology; Appendix Two: Climate Change; Appendix Three: Archaeology from the Eastern Mediterranean to India; Appendix Four: How Egyptian and Biblical History Were Interwoven; Appendix Five: Quaternary Stratigraphy and Climate in the Mid-East; Appendix Six: Mid-East Weather During the Post-Glacial Temperature Optimun; Appendix Seven: Background Information for the 5000 BC - 4500 BC Period; Appendix Eight: Biblical Information Relative to 5000 BC - 4500 BC; Appendix Nine: Meteorological Considerations 5000 BC - 4500 BC - Charts for an Analogous Situation; Appendix Ten: Biblical Geography Information; Appendix Eleven: The Scientific Knowledge of Mesopotamian and Biblical People; Appendix Twelve: Precipitable Water; Appendix Thirteen: Ascending Motion in the Atmosphere; Appendix Fourteen: Cloud Classification; Appendix Fifteen: Contemporary Holy Land Snow Situations; Appendix Sixteen: Some Practical Single-station Solutions to Forecast Problems; Appendix Seventeen: The Interpretation of Satellite Pictures Obtained via the Internet; Appendix Eighteen: An Illustration of the Rapid Response of Water Level to Wind; A Dictionary of Meteorological Terms; and an index. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 1553060067. Signed by Author. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Illus. by Martin Springett;. 8vo. meteorology; weather; bible;. more information

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Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1972. 223 pp. Edgewear with creasing on the lower left of the back cover and some creasing on the spine; minor rubbing on the front cover; no interior markings. Profusely illustrated with colour plates and black and white photographs. The Chapters are: Return to the Past; The World of the Dead and Life West of Thebes; The Tomb; The Cradle of Tutankhaten; Tutankhaten and the Two Capitals; At Thebes Nebkheprure-Tutankhamen the King Who Spent His Life Making Images of the Gods; The Death of the King and Preparations for Immortality; The Dead God is Reborn; and The Thrice Married Queen and the Vengeance of Horemheb. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0140023518. Third Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 12mo. ancient egypt; egyptology; tutankhamen; pharaoh pharaohs; howard carter; lord carnarvon; royal burial chamber; pyramid pyramids; egyptian; africana;. more information

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London: Arrow Books, 1998. (xv) 349 pp. Light rubbing on the corners with minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white plates. Cover art by Greg Clark. The Chapters are: The Death of a Nation: A New Light on Old Beliefs; The Missing Years. The Secrets of Rosslyn: The Nine Knights; A Templar Shrine; The Line of Knowledge; The Knights of the Red Cross of the Babylonish Pass; The Secret of the Stones. The Missing History of Freemasonry: The Secrets of Freemasonry; The Power and the Glory; The Early Years; The First Grand Master Mason of Scotland; The Hidden Degrees. The Return of the Kings of God: A Thousand Years of Darkness; The Motive Uncovered; The Rex Deus Hypothesis; The Tarot and the Templars. The Holy Grail of the Templars: The Origins of King Arthur; The Hidden Meaning; The Rise of the Holy Grail. The Birth of the Second Messiah: The Last Crusades; The Troubles of Philip IV; The Battle of the Church's Finances; A French Pope; The Last Grand Master of the Templars. The Linen Enigma: Faith Is Blind; The History of the Shroud; What Is the Shroud; Some Origin Theories; The Strangeness of the Image; Reproducing the Face; The Evidence in Blood. The Blood and the Flames: The Holy Inquisition; The Interrogation in the Temple; The Confession of Jacques de Molay; The Final Denial. The Cult of the Second Messiah: A Time for Prophecy; Christendom in Need; The Battle of the Holy Image; The Templars Live On. And The Great Secret of Freemasonry: The Rex Deus Religion; The Missing Rituals; The Great Secret Reconstructed; Our Questions Answered; The End of the Shroud Enigma; and The Topology of the Past; followed by: Appendix One: The Time Line; Appendix Two: The Charter of Transmission of J. M. Larmenius; Appendix Three: The Chemical Process that Created the Image on the Shroud of Turin; and an index. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0099227320. Fourth Printing. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Greg Clark;. freemason; masons; masonic;. more information

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London: The Scientific Book Club - Robert Hale, 1962. 222 pp. Blue boards lettered in black on the spine. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. Illustrated with line drawings by Sally Mellersh. The Chapters are: The Nature and Heritage of Man; Prelude: The Old Stone Age; Fertility and Invention; Interlude: Ways of Thinking; River and Flood; Writing and Legend; The Old Kingdom; Sumer and Akkad; Spread to the Outskirts; Imperial Peoples; Minoans and Mycenaeans; First Megiddo; Minos Falls - Suppiluliumas Rises; The Preoccupied Emperor; Kadesh Exhausts; Assyrians Exodus and Troy; Dark Ages - Iron - and the Peoples of the Sea; Progress in the Outskirts; The Chosen People; The Intelligent People; and The Old World Is Young Again; followed by an index. Scans are available for all books.. Book Club Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Sally Mellersh;. 8vo. stone age; sumeria; ancient egypt; greece; babylon; crete;. more information

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New York: The New Press, 2001. (xlviii) 367 pp. First Thus. Light rubbing on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. The Chapters are: From Muhammad to the Political Islam of Today; Introducing a World; Introducing a Land; Birth of a Prophet; Birth of a Sect; The Prophet in Arms; Birth of a State; and Triumph Over Death; followed by Appendices: Table: The Lineage of Muhammad; Maps - Western Asia and Arabia A.D. 630; The Environs of Mecca and Medina; Explanatory Table of Arabic Worlds and Names of Individuals and Ethnic Groups; Interview with Maxime Rodinson from Le Figaro; and an index. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 1565847520. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. 8vo. islam; islamic; moslem;. more information

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London: Routledge, 2002. (xiii) 170 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Evidence; A Sketch of Roman Society; Case Study One: Tullia; Case Study Two: How Holy Was the House; and How to Get Further into the Subject; followed by Appendix One: Sources on Tullia; Appendix Two: Select List of Translations; and an index. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0415195225. First Softcover Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. 12mo. rome; social;. more information

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Middlesex, England: Pelican Books - Penguin Books, 1951. 262 pp. Pelican Book A217. Light rubbing on the corners with a faint crease on the spine and an original North American price stamped on the front cover; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white plates and maps. The Chapters are: The Historical Background; The Wars; The Peace with Persia; The Bureaucracy; Church and Circus; The Laws; The Writers; Theodora - Antonina - and John the Cappadocian; The Buildings; and The Achievement and Its Limitations. Scans are available for all books.. First Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. vintage paperback; constantinople; byzantium;. more information

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London: Pan Books, 1958. 208 pp. Great Pan book GP94. Illustrated with black and white plates. Light edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings.. First Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. archaeology; museum; society antiquaries; british academy; world war i 1 one first; essex; wales; lydney; verlamium; maiden castle; northern france; world war ii 2 two second; india; pakistan; vintage paperback;. more information

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