The Origins of the Druze People and Religion with Extracts Frorm Their Sacred Writings by Hitti, Philip K - 1928

Baltimore: Privately Printed, 1845 Two volumes bound in full leather with minor wear, some foxing, smudges. (iv) 5- 76 pgs. (vi) 3 letters, 116 pgs. List of Osbourn's Works. Very scarce OCLC lists 1 holding. James Osbourn 1780- 1850 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. First Edition.. Full-Leather. Very Good.

Self-Published. Good+. 1997. 5th Revised Edition. Softcover. Both volumes have rubbing to edges of covers w/several creases and several small tears to spine corners, light toning to rear covers, red ink writing and underlining to text .

305 pages with illustrations, tables (some fold out), diagrams, maps (some fold out) and figures. Small quarto (10 1/4" x 7 1/4") issued in wrappers. INAH Archeology Series. First edition.Contents: Los juegos de pelota en las Tierras Bajas Mayas del Norte by Ruben Maldonado C, Edward B Kurjack and Merle Green Robertson; Las turquesas de un lago by Angelina Marcias Goytia and Katina Vackimes Serret; Una sobrevista del patron de asentamiento de Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico by Loraine A Fletcher, Jacinto May Hau, Lynda M Florey Folan and William J Folan; Sistemas constructivos en Tula arqueologica by Noemi Castillo Tejero; Material arqueologico encontrado en una parte de la cimentacion del nuevo Museo Nacional de Antropologia by Francisco Gonzalez Rul; La Cultura Tlaxco o Senorio de Tliliuquitepec en el norte de Tlaxcala by Angel Garcia Cook and B Leonor Merino Carrion; Los tlatelolcas prehispanicos, origen y cultura by Roberto Garcia Moll, Patricia Ochoa Castillo y Marcela Salas Cuesta; Los sitios… Read More

London: W. Mallalieu & Co.. Good+. 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. Embossed blue cloth Has gilt title on spine. Portrait frontispiece. Text's interior is tight, clean and intact. Fraying at the spine ends and front corners. Folded down page corners. Inscription, "George C. Westphal from Bishop Levering's Library. Spine is slightly age darkened. Rear internal hinge re-glued. Uncommon copy. Religion; Portrait frontispiece.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 414 pages .

First edition. Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor for the London Unitarian Society. London. 1815. Octavo. xvi, 493pp. 3pp publisher's adverts. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Rubbed with to extremities. Some browning/foxing, mainly to endpapers. Occasional light marginal pencil lining. Adhesive residue to fep. with bookplate of G. P. Burns, and his signature to ffep.
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) British Enlightenment polymath. Scientist, theologian, philosopher he was the first to identify oxygen and other core gases. He invented soda water. In 1794 he emigrated to Pennsylvania where was befriended by Thomas Jefferson as 'one of the few lives precious to mankind'. His achievements have only recently begun to be acknowledged. His metaphysical works influenced Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Herbert Spencer.
Thomas Belsham (1750-1829) Nonconformist author. Successor to Priestley at Hackney.
The Priestley v. Horsley, Unitarian v. Trinitarian controversy documented for the first time.… Read More

Baltimore: Privately Printed, 1845 Two volumes bound in full leather with minor wear, some foxing, smudges. (iv) 5- 76 pgs. (vi) 3 letters, 116 pgs. List of Osbourn's Works. Very scarce OCLC lists 1 holding. James Osbourn 1780- 1850 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. First Edition.. Full-Leather. Very Good.

New Dehli: Gita Publishing House. 2nd ed.. Trade paperback. Very good. Rounding of corners and edges. Complaints, criticism, passing the buck, shifting the blame onto others...Has this not become a way of life for many of us? We find one thousand things that are wrong with life and people and the way the world functions. Oh yes, we are very good at judging, evaluating, criticising and finding fault with everything, everyone and the system! Allow us a little rope, and we can actually lecture to God and what is wrong with His plan and His management of our world! --excerpt from back cover .

Bethlehem, Pa.: Comenius Press. Very Good. 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean black cloth. Text's interior is tight, clean & intact. Inscription on front endpaper by Charles B. Michael who was a Moravian Missionary working in the Kuskokwim Valley in the 1930's. Religion, Alaska, Eskimo Language ; Thin 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 103 pages .

Author's photo on the frontis of this second of his three volume autobiography. The green cloth cover boards are showing some wear on the corners. The dust jacket in a mylar cover is unclipped and has some chips on the top and bottom of the spine. The binding is secure and the text block is clean, unmarked mildly foxed. There is an "A" and the publisher's colophon on the publication page. 187 pp

Blending science, sociology, and personal experience, this book is an exploration into how hunger works. It is inscribed and autographed by the author.