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Skeat, Walter, W., Rev.
Aelfric's Lives of Saints, Being a Set of Sermons on saints' Days Formerly Observed By the English Church
London, N. Trubner & Co.,
1881, First Edition ed, Three-Quarter Leather,
Condition: Very Good, Edited from manuscript Julius E. VII in the Cottonian collection, with various readings from other manuscripts. Preliminary Notice reads: "Alfric's Lives of Saints, now for the first trime printed, may practically be regarded as forming a 'third series' of Alfric's Homilies". Lives of Saints are arranged nearly in the order of the calendar, and are written, on the whole, in a more poetical and less didactic style. Written in English and Latin. 3/4 calf with brown cloth, ridged spine w/gilt title and decorations, spine rubbed, corners rubbed, rear upper edge rubbed, 1/2 rubbed area to lower spine. Marbled end papers in red, blue and yellow. Prior owners book plate to f.e.p. Text very clean, solidly bound. A beautiful copy of this scare book. tall 8 vo, 256 pp
(Alfric, S, Homilies, Third, Series, Lives, Of, Saints, Sermons, On, Saints, Roman, Catholic, Saints, Homilies, Of, The Anglo-Saxon, Church, Antique, Books, Anglo, Saxon, Sermons, Latin, Translations) Cat No. 2792.
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Skeat, Walter, W., Rev.
Aelfric's Lives of Saints, Being a Set of Sermons on saints' Days Formerly Observed By the English Church
London, N. Trubner & Co.,
1881, First Edition ed, Three-Quarter Leather,
Condition: Very Good, Edited from manuscript Julius E. VII in the Cottonian collection, with various readings from other manuscripts. Preliminary Notice reads: "Alfric's Lives of Saints, now for the first trime printed, may practically be regarded as forming a 'third series' of Alfric's Homilies". Lives of Saints are arranged nearly in the order of the calendar, and are written, on the whole, in a more poetical and less didactic style. Written in English and Latin. 3/4 calf with brown cloth, ridged spine w/gilt title and decorations, spine rubbed, corners rubbed, rear upper edge rubbed, 1/2 rubbed area to lower spine. Marbled end papers in red, blue and yellow. Prior owners book plate to f.e.p. Text very clean, solidly bound. A beautiful copy of this scare book. tall 8 vo, 256 pp
(Alfric, S, Homilies, Third, Series, Lives, Of, Saints, Sermons, On, Saints, Roman, Catholic, Saints, Homilies, Of, The Anglo-Saxon, Church, Antique, Books, Anglo, Saxon, Sermons, Latin, Translations) Cat No. 2792.
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Weizmann, Chaim.
Trial and Error, The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann
New York, Harper & Bros,
1949, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good/Very Good, Weizmann, Chaim (1874-1952). First President of the State of Israel.Scientist, president of the World Zionist Organization (WZO), and great humanitarian. From his birth in the Motol, a province of Minsk, one of the darkest corners of Russia to trusted friend of the world's great statesman. A maker of history who shaped not only Jewish history but that of England and its empire at a crucial moment in its existence, his the story of international politics. He discusses not only the current day situation in Palestine (1949), with its tensions, explosive passions and fierce rivalries, but the whole problem of the Middle East as it is bound up with the fortune of the world's great nations. Retracing the long road that led to the Balfour Declaration; telling the story of disillusionment under British Mandate; of the colonization of Palestine in the face of fearful odds; of the riots, the White Papers, the horrors of WWII; discussing the pros and cons of partition and the whole dynamite-laden question of Arab-Jewish relations. Dr. Weizman uses recalls his intimates and enemies during the past half century, with anecdotes and characterizations of famous people such as: Emir Feisal, Winston Chuchill, Einstein, Achad Ha-am, Paul Ehrlich, Mussolini, Stephen Wise, Lawrence of Arabia, Rothschild, Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau, Roosevelt, Lord Lothian, Isarel Zang-Orde and countless others. A compelling autobiography of a unique and dedicated man, revealing the powerful beginnings of Israel and the leaders and people of that time. Frontispiece, portrait of Weizman. Green cloth boards and spine, gilt lettering to spine. DW not price clipped, mild rubbing of all edges and spine ends, few tiny closed tears. First Edition. In protective mylar. tall 8 vo, 498 pp
(Chaim, Weizman, Autobiography, First, Edition, Autobiography, Palestine, 1940, S, Zionism, Balfour, Declaration, Emir, Feisal, Jewish-Arab, Relations, In Early, Palestine) Cat No. 2793.
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Weizmann, Chaim.
Trial and Error, The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann
New York, Harper & Bros,
1949, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good/Very Good, Weizmann, Chaim (1874-1952). First President of the State of Israel.Scientist, president of the World Zionist Organization (WZO), and great humanitarian. From his birth in the Motol, a province of Minsk, one of the darkest corners of Russia to trusted friend of the world's great statesman. A maker of history who shaped not only Jewish history but that of England and its empire at a crucial moment in its existence, his the story of international politics. He discusses not only the current day situation in Palestine (1949), with its tensions, explosive passions and fierce rivalries, but the whole problem of the Middle East as it is bound up with the fortune of the world's great nations. Retracing the long road that led to the Balfour Declaration; telling the story of disillusionment under British Mandate; of the colonization of Palestine in the face of fearful odds; of the riots, the White Papers, the horrors of WWII; discussing the pros and cons of partition and the whole dynamite-laden question of Arab-Jewish relations. Dr. Weizman uses recalls his intimates and enemies during the past half century, with anecdotes and characterizations of famous people such as: Emir Feisal, Winston Chuchill, Einstein, Achad Ha-am, Paul Ehrlich, Mussolini, Stephen Wise, Lawrence of Arabia, Rothschild, Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau, Roosevelt, Lord Lothian, Isarel Zang-Orde and countless others. A compelling autobiography of a unique and dedicated man, revealing the powerful beginnings of Israel and the leaders and people of that time. Frontispiece, portrait of Weizman. Green cloth boards and spine, gilt lettering to spine. DW not price clipped, mild rubbing of all edges and spine ends, few tiny closed tears. First Edition. In protective mylar. tall 8 vo, 498 pp
(Chaim, Weizman, Autobiography, First, Edition, Autobiography, Palestine, 1940, S, Zionism, Balfour, Declaration, Emir, Feisal, Jewish-Arab, Relations, In Early, Palestine) Cat No. 2793.
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Weizmann, Chaim.
Trial and Error, The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann
New York, Harper & Bros,
1949, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good/Very Good, Weizmann, Chaim (1874-1952). First President of the State of Israel.Scientist, president of the World Zionist Organization (WZO), and great humanitarian. From his birth in the Motol, a province of Minsk, one of the darkest corners of Russia to trusted friend of the world's great statesman. A maker of history who shaped not only Jewish history but that of England and its empire at a crucial moment in its existence, his the story of international politics. He discusses not only the current day situation in Palestine (1949), with its tensions, explosive passions and fierce rivalries, but the whole problem of the Middle East as it is bound up with the fortune of the world's great nations. Retracing the long road that led to the Balfour Declaration; telling the story of disillusionment under British Mandate; of the colonization of Palestine in the face of fearful odds; of the riots, the White Papers, the horrors of WWII; discussing the pros and cons of partition and the whole dynamite-laden question of Arab-Jewish relations. Dr. Weizman uses recalls his intimates and enemies during the past half century, with anecdotes and characterizations of famous people such as: Emir Feisal, Winston Chuchill, Einstein, Achad Ha-am, Paul Ehrlich, Mussolini, Stephen Wise, Lawrence of Arabia, Rothschild, Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau, Roosevelt, Lord Lothian, Isarel Zang-Orde and countless others. A compelling autobiography of a unique and dedicated man, revealing the powerful beginnings of Israel and the leaders and people of that time. Frontispiece, portrait of Weizman. Green cloth boards and spine, gilt lettering to spine. DW not price clipped, mild rubbing of all edges and spine ends, few tiny closed tears. First Edition. In protective mylar. tall 8 vo, 498 pp
(Chaim, Weizman, Autobiography, First, Edition, Autobiography, Palestine, 1940, S, Zionism, Balfour, Declaration, Emir, Feisal, Jewish-Arab, Relations, In Early, Palestine) Cat No. 2793.
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