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Uxor Ebraica, sue de Nuptiis et Divortiis ex Jure Civili, id eft, Divino & Talmudico, Veterum Ebraeorum, Libri Tres.
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJoannis Seldeni [John Selden]
Francofurti ad Oderam: Andr. Becmanus, 1673.Treatise on the Jewish laws of marriage and divorce by English polymath, jurist, and scholar of Jewish law John Selden (1584-1654). Bound (as usual) with a second separately titled work on Jewish law of succession, De Successionibus ad Leges Ebraeorum in Bona Defunctorum. Liber Singularis: In Pontificatum, Libri Duo.
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Ocean and Isle
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Edgar Geil
Melbourne: WM. T. Pater & Co., 1902.Accounts of Pacific missions by American evangelist, explorer, lecturer, photographer, and author William Edgar Geil (1865-1925). Illustrated with 100 full page engravings, technically 94 plates with 6 being double-paged. Geil is best known for his evangelistic travels, which took him to China, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific Rim and South Seas. He is considered one of the important explorers of his generation. In addition to his writings, Geil lectured extensively with numerous photographs of packed theatres present in this work. Geil married later in life and had no children. His widow, Constance, survived him until the late 1950s. In 1959 his estate was sold at public auction including the contents of his library, which was purchased by a Bucks County book dealer “Gus” Gustafson. It remained in his possession until shortly after his death in February of 2008.
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael D. Coogan
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.Authoritative reference overviews of biblical studies scholarship.
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Tragedia Slovenskych Zidov: Fotografie a Dokumenty
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLev Haas; Stefan Engel; Bedrich Steiner
: USZNO, 1949.The Tragedy of the Slovak Jews: Photographs and Documents. Primarily illustrations, depicting the horrors of the holocaust.
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Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames Picciotto
London: Trubner & Co., 1875.This copy from the collection of the Rabbi L. A. Falk Memorial Library of The Great Synagogue Sydney (deaccessioned), and with Falk’s bookplate.
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Neito’s Jewish Almanac for One Hundred Years
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAbraham H. Neito
New York: Burr Printing House for the Author, 1902.From New Year 5663/1902 to 5763/2002. Showing the New Moons, Festivals and Fasts, with the sections of th elaw as read in the synagogues every Sabbath in the year. Also the first and last days of the solar month, with their corresponding Hebrew dates and pages for family registers. With 3 leaves at rear for Births, Deaths, and Marriages, unmarked. This copy from the collection of the Rabbi L. A. Falk Memorial Library of The Great Synagogue Sydney (deaccessioned), and with the armorial bookplate of David James Benjamin, and inscribed by members of the Sydney Jewish community, Louis Phillips to Moritz Gotthelf.
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A Jewish Calendar for Sixty-Four Years, Detailing the New Moons, Festivals, and Fasts,
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartE. H. Lindo
London: L. Thompson, 1838.With the sections of the law as read in the synagogues every Sabbath during the year; also the days on which the hour for commencing Sabbath is altered; together with the corresponding Christian dates. To which are added tables for continuing the calendar to A.M. 6000-2240 C.AE. and A Chronological Table, forming a summary of Jewish history from the flood to the present time. With various other useful tables; by E. H. Lindo. This copy from the collection of the Rabbi L. A. Falk Memorial Library of The Great Synagogue Sydney (deaccessioned).
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Lights and Shadows of Church-Life in Australia: Including Thoughts on Some Things at Home
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartT. Binney
London: Jackson & Walford, 1860.To which is added, Two Hundred Years Ago: Then and Now. The second edition, published the same year as the first with an additional chapter. FERGUSON 7030, in a variant binding and with advertisements.
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Macumba: White and Black Magic in Brazil
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA. J. Langguth
New York: Harper & Row, 1975. -
The Ethics of Service
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrank Sewall
London: James Speirs, 1888.An essay on ethics read before the Ruskin Society of the Rose in Glasgow, January 1888, by the Swedenborgian clergyman Frank Sewall (1837-1915). Scarce, 3 copies recorded in OCLC.
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Chinese Buddhist Monasteries: Their Plan and its Function as a Setting for Buddhist Monastic Life
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. Prip-Moller
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1967.A labour of love originally published in 1937 by Danish architect Johannes Prip-Moller (1889-1943). Thoroughly researched and illustrated throughout with photographs, floor plans, and architectural illustrations, this tome is still regarded as the definitive work on the subject and provides invaluable insight into Chinese Buddhist monastic life.
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La Passion du Christ
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGeorges Rouault; D’Andre Suares
Tokyo: Editions Iwanami Shoten, 1975.The Japanese production of Rouault’s The Passion of Christ with 54 colour plates tipped on large sheets of handmade paper housed in a custom cloth folder with Andre Suares poems in the original French and 151 page book in Japanese with the Rouault’s wood engravings in the text. Limited to 900 numbered copies, of which this is 354.
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Into Your Hands: Essays Inspired by Mystic, Prophet, and Activist Michael Bernard Kelly
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAndrew Brown
Melbourne: Clouds of Magellan Press, 2022.Academic and personal tributes to the life and work of leading Australian gay activist and religious commentator Michael Bernard Kelly.
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The Erotic Contemplative: Reflections on the Spiritual Journey of the Gay/Lesbian Christian
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Bernard Kelly
Melbourne: Clouds of Magellan Press, 2021.“In 1994, Michael Kelly recorded six video lectures for the Erospirit Research Institute, charting a spirituality for gay and lesbian Christians grounded in the contemplative, mystical traditions of the church. Joseph Kramer, who commissioned the lectures, writes, “His powerful words … seemed to come straight from his heart and right into mine. I told Michael that he was offering transformative guidance, like Joseph Campbell did in his Hero’s Journey. ‘You have described the Mystic’s Journey for Gay and Lesbian Christians. The lectures, released in 1995, were digitised and re-released in 2020. Now this transcription of the lectures is published for the first time, and includes a study guide to the series prepared by Michael Kelly.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Where the Master Touched
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCongo Missionaries of the Unevangelized Fields Mission
London: Unevangelized Fields Mission, 1950.Stories and documentation of the Unevangelized Fields Mission work in Congo in the between 1931 and 1949. At the time UMF had offices in London, Toronto, Philadelphia, and Melbourne. In 2004 UMF changed its name to Crossworld and continues its missionary work around the world. Scarce, 4 copies recorded in OCLC.
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A Programme For Life
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Albert Hall
London: New-Church Press, 1927. -
An Introduction to the Word Explained: A Study of the Means by Which Swedenborg the Scientist and Philosopher Became the Theologian and Revelator
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlfred Acton
Bryn Athyn: Academy of the New Church, 1927.With reference to Emanuel Swedenborg’s The Word of the Old Testament Explained.
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Impressions of Mahayana Buddhism
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBeatrice Erskine Lane Suzuki; Daisetz Teitaro Suzuk
Kyoto and London: The Eastern Buddhist Society and Luzac and Company, 1940.Beatrice Erskine Lane Suzuki (1878-1939) was an American Theosophist and Buddhist scholar. In 1911 she married Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (D. T. Suzuki), the well known philosopher and Buddhist Scholar who popularized Zen in the west. She wrote extensively on Buddhism and Japanese culture, and following her death her husband compiled this book from her articles in various magazines in Japan, India, England and America.
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Beyond Gold: 150 Year of Memories, 1848-1998
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKen Treacy
Bright: The Catholic Parish of Bright and Mt. Beauty, No date.Incorporating a History of the Parish of Bright, Part 1 – The First Hundred Years, 1848-1948.
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Methodist Church of Australasia, New South Wales Conference: Reports to Synod, 1961
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMethodist Church of Australasia, New South Wales Conference
: Methodist Church of Australasia, New South Wales Conference, 1961.