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Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine.

Softcover. Etat : Near fine condition. First edition. [6] 186pp., 21 plates, 1 CD. Original glossy stiff white photo-illustrated wraps with black lettering on cover and spine. Contains text and photo-illustrations of the holdings of scarabs, scaraboids, and plaques in the Baltimore's Walter Art Museum. "With 142 examples the collection of scarabs in the Walter Art Museum is not the most extensive of its kind, but yet offers a comprehensive view of the general development of this object class." (Preface). Illustrated with in-text drawings, 21 plates of b/w photographs and a CD attached to inside back cover, as issued. Minor wear.…

Etat : Very Good.

Etat : good. no dustjacket. 8vo pp.156, previous owners name on half title page. book.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good Plus. First Edition. 1984. [vii], 131pp. 15 B&W plates to rear. Light foxing to edges. Previous owner's paper label with hand written title to spine. Otherwise in excellent condition with no inscriptions. "The letters written by Hekanakhte are some of the outstanding documents of ancient Egypt, providing us with an unparalleled insight into the texture of daily life with its problems and tasks. Due to the frailty of the writing meterial very few texts of similar nature have survived, especially from a comparably early date. This makes them all the more important, but also causes considerable difficulties in their understanding. They are further increased by the very nature of letters in general, which take information shared by the communicating parties for granted, while the outsider has to do all he can to bridge the prevailing information gap.".…

Imperial octavo, cream light card covers, black lettering to front cover only, xi + 68pp, illus to rear, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers).

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. Publisher - Halgo, Baltimore, MD, 1987. 1st ed. Near fine condition, mild edge wear to card covers. Egyptian Gnostics of the early centuries of the Christian era created doctrines that were profoundly different from Christian beliefs today. Even in their time the Church declared their doctrines heretical and burned their books. But a few copies, carefully hidden away in the Egyptian desert, were preserved and discovered in modern times. These texts have previously only been available in difficult translations. Howard Bream has made the clearest translations to date of several of these documents and his commentary on The Apocryphon of John probably resembles the lost explanation given to the Gnostic initiates.…

Etat : New. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.

Paperback. Etat : New.