The King of Love (Meditations on the 23rd Psalm) by Deane, Rev. John - 1940

Melbourne: S. John Bacon, 1951. slight wear to covers and cover edges, otherwise book clean and tight. 2nd Impression. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Dehli, India: Gyan Book Pvt. Ltd., 2019. A sharp facsimile edition of this intriguing work. The rare original was written as a letter to Henry Ellis read December 13th, 1832; and, first published in 1834 as Dracontia or Observations On Circle and Serpent Worship. From John Bathurst Deane, author of: "The Worship of the Serpent Throughout the World - Attesting the Temptation and Fall of Man by the Instrumentality of a Serpent Tempter." In this treatise, Deane presented a full investigative and studied treatise into related patterns in cultures across the world. This is a letter or addendum to the highly illuminating 1833 study of snake worship, especially the serpent in the Book of Genesis that convinced Eve to eat of the fruit of 'The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil,' and then convinced Adam to do the same. A number of Gnostic texts and others referenced, expound on the idea of knowledge, and how the serpent gave this to humans. Deane includes mythical reptilian… Read More

J. Hatchard and Son, 1830. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Modern spine repair, of beige cloth colored in with an unfortunate shade of neon green, preserving the small title plate from original spine; brown papered boards. Moderate shelf-wear, heavy edgewear including frayed edges, cloth spine soiled. Inner hinges cracked but the repair retained the original endsheets, and the binding is solid through the text, with no loose or missing pages. Sticker ghost at front paste down, deep tanning to upper half of rear inner hinge, as though from a newsclipping used as a book marker. Pages foxed. Penciled notes to front paste down and FFEP, and with rare instances of same in the text. 391 pages.

London: James Clarke & Co.. Fair with no dust jacket. 1918. Third Edition. Hardcover. "Isabel 'Ida' Deane Mitchell (1879 – 1917) was an Irish Presbyterian medical missionary in China. She set sail for China in the autumn of 1905 to take up a post as missionary for the Women's Association of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. In November 1905 she reached the mission station in Fakumen, immediately taking up lessons in Mandarin. Upon her death from diptheria, a local Christian leader stated that 'Our doctor has given her life for us. For twelve years she has been at the call of any one who suffered. She was like a man in her strength, and rose at any hour of the night or day to help us. Her name is known and revered through all this country.'" - Wikipedia. "Composed chiefly of her private letters to her mother and her sister. These letters were not intended for publication. They are all the more revealing and intimate on… Read More

St. Paul's, and Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, London: J. G. & F. Rivington, 1833. Stated at title page: "Second Edition, Considerably Enlarged." Rare original material. Title continued: "Attesting the Temptation and Fall of Man by the Instrumentality of a Serpent Tempter." Dark blue-green full-cloth boards, gilt spine titles, light shelf wear; freshly rebound including grey endpapers. Pages very good; some toning to first few. Several impressive fold-out diagrams, illustration plates. Bind fine; hinges fully intact. A sharp rebound rare original edition of this intriguing work. Deane presents a full investigative and studied treatise into related patterns in cultures across the world. This is the original highly illuminating 1833 study of snake worship, especially the serpent in the Book of Genesis that convinced Eve to eat of the fruit of 'The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil,' and then convinced Adam to do the same. A number of Gnostic texts and… Read More

London: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1870. Rare first and only original edition. 1870 at title page; no other dates. Navy full cloth boards, gilt cover vignette, spine titles, ornate blind-stamped borders to covers, some edge wear, rub, spine wear. Front board displays ornate anchor w/coiling rope, gilt spine titles, ornamental bands, and two vignette designs. Antiquarian bookplates inside cover: "Presented by Lady Charnwood, Stowe House, Lichfield, September 1938". And, other states: "University Colllege Library Nottingham, Class Mark 'S/DA419 5D4', Book Mark '64.511'." University of Nottingham red stamp adjacent. Pages generally very good, bright. Original corrections slip tipped-in. Some neat, brief pencilled marginalia, bracketing variously throughout; couple blank endpapers w/small pencilled reference notes and page numbers at front. Bind intact; hinges reinforced. Few sections of large volume's bind starting. Features frontispiece and… Read More