17735 COMBE (George) on the relation between Science and Religion, 8vo. cloth, 2s 6d Edinb. 1857 17736 [DELOLME (J. L.)] Memorials of Human Superstition, imitated from the Historia Flagellantium of the Abbé Boileau, 8vo, frontispiece, hf. bd. 128 1785 17737 ECCE HOMO! or a critical enquiry into the history of Jesus Christ, 8vo. hf. calf, £2. 2s 1813 "Written by Mr. Houston, for which he was fined £200 and two years' imprisonment.' Thus runs a note on the title-page, but Lowndes says that the author was a certain John Webbe. Whoever he was, the book is very clever and vigorous. 17738 THE GOSPEL HISTORY and doctrinal teaching critically examined, by the author of "Mankind" [A. D. THOMSON], 8vo. cloth, 58 1873 17739 M[ARÉCHAL] (Sylvain) pour et contre la Bible, 8vo. hf. bd. uncut, Jerusalem [Paris], 1801 17740 [MITCHELL (L.)] the Christian Mythology unveiled, 8vo. hf. calf, Printed privately (1842) scarce 25s A rationalistic work, in which the word "priestcraft" frequently occurs. 17741 SUPERNATURAL RELIGION: an enquiry into the reality of Divine Revelation, complete edition in 3 vols. 8vo. cloth, 24s 1872 A book well worth study by any one who is dissatisfied with the evidences of Christian revelation. 17742 TOLAND (John) Nazarenus, or Jewish, Gentile, and Mahometan Christianity, 2 vols. 1718-Mangey (Thomas) Remarks upon Nazarenus, 1719-3 vols. in 1, 8vo. cloth, 10s 17743 1718-19 Adeisidaemon, sive Titus Livius a superstitione vindicatus; Origines Judaicæ; 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. calf, 7s 6d Hago Com. 1708-9 3. WORKS ON THE SOUL; METAPHYSICAL PHILOSOPHY. 17744 ALGER'S (William Rounseville) Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life, 8vo. cloth, 6s Philadelphia, 1864 17745 the same, New Edition (the tenth revised), with six new chapters on the Destiny of the Soul; and a complete Bibliography of the subject, comprising 4977 books, the titles classified and arranged chronologically, with notes and indexes of authors and subjects, by EZRA ABBOT, Librarian of Harvard College, large 8vo. 1017 pp. (pub. at 18s), cloth, 12s 6d 1878 One of the most important works ever written on the Immortality of the Soul. 17746 BOETTCHER (Frid.) de Inferis rebusque post mortem futuris, ex Hebræorum opinionibus, roy. 8vo. cloth, 6s Dresdo, 1846 17747 FICINI (Marsilii) PLATONICA Theologia de immortalitate animarum, stout sm. folio, old calf, £3. 10s Florentie, Ant. Miscominus, 1482 EDITIO PRINCEPS: rare. It contains 318 ll. in all (instead of 316, as Brunet says). Ficinus was certainly more a pagan than a Christian, although he also wrote a work on the Christian religion. The story runs that he appeared after his death to his friend and fellow-Platonist, Mercatus, to bear testimony to the truth of his arguments for the immortality of the soul. 17748 PLATO'S Dialogues translated into English, with analysis and introductions, by B. Jowett, 4 vols. 8vo. cloth, £2. 8s 1871 17749 ROSMINI (Antonio) Philosophical System, translated, with the author's life, a bibliography, and notes, by Thomas Davidson, 8vo. (pub. 16s), cloth, 10s 17750 1882 the Origin of Ideas, translated, 2 vols. 8vo. (pub. 32s), cloth, 188 1883 17751 SPINOZA. LA VIE de feu Monsievr de Spinosa-L'ESPRIT de Monsieur de Spinoza, c'est à dire ce que croit la plus saine partie du monde-2 parts in 1 vol. sm. 4to. neat MS. on paper, manifestly intended for publication, Dutch calf gilt, gilt edges, £5. About 1690-1700 From internal evidence, this is the work of a personal friend of Spinosa, whose name I have not been able to learn. Although it is in fluent French, there are errors which show the author was not a Frenchman, but a Dutchman. 4. RELIGIONS OF WESTERN ASIA. Ancient Chaldee: 17752 SMITH (George) the Chaldean account of Genesis, containing the description of the Creation, the Fall of Man, the Deluge, the Tower of Babel, the times of the Patriarchs, and Nimrod, new ed. by Sayce, 8vo. plates and woodcuts, cloth, 9s 17753 1876 Chaldäische Genesis, autorisirte Uebersetzung von Hermann Delitzsch, nebst Erläuterungen von Friedrich Delitzsch, engravings, 8vo. sd. 4s 6d Leipzig, 1876 17754 LAYARD (A. H.) Nineveh and its remains, 2 vols. 1850— Discoveries in the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, 1853-together 3 vols. 8vo. many plates and cuts, cloth, £2. 88 17755 17756 1850-53 MONUMENTS OF NINEVEH, from drawings made on the spot, the two series in 1 vol. imp. folio, 71 plates, some coloured and tinted, hf. red morocco gilt, gilt edges, £12. 12s 1853 the same, LARGE PAPER, one volume oblong roy. fol. hf. bd. the other roy. folio, morocco, £15. 15s 1853 17757 BEROSE, Fragments cosmogoniques, essai de commentaire d'après les textes cunéiformes par Fr. Lenormant, 8vo. sd. 7s Paris, 1872 Hala, 1839-40 17757*THILO de Coelo empyreo [comment. de cosmologia Chaldaica], 3 parts in 1 vol. 4to. cloth, 5s Syrian, Phoenician: 17758 ASTORII dissertatio de Djs Cabiris, 12mo. sd. 2s 6d Venet. 1703 FABER'S Cabiri Mysteries-see ante No. 17688. 17759 MOVERS (F. C.) die Phönizier: das Phönizische Alterthum, I-III pt. 1 (all published), 3 vols. in 4, Berlin, 1841-56-MOVERS, Phönizischen Texte, 2 vols. in 1, plates, Breslau, 1845-47— HITZIG (F.) Urgeschichte und Mythologie der Philistäer, Leipzig, 1845-6 vols. in 5, 8vo. cloth, £5. 1841-56 17760 MÜNTER (Fr.) Religion der Karthager, sm. 4to. 2 plates of coins, bds. 28 6d NEUHÄUSER- Kopenhagen, 1821 17761 SCHELLING (F. W. J.) über die Gottheiten von Samothrace, square 12mo. sd. 2s 6d Stuttgart, 1815 17762 SELDEN (Joannes) de Dîs Syris, editio locupletata operâ M. A. Beyeri, 12mo. portrait, calf, 5s Sabians: Lipsia, 1672 17763 CODEX "NASAREUS, LIBER ADAMI appellatus, Syriace transcriptus Latineque redditus, à Matth. Norberg cum Lexidio et Onomastico, 5 vols. sm. 4to. calf, £2. 17764 17765 Hafnia (1815-16)-Lond. Goth, 1817 the same, 5 vols. in 1, thick sm. 4to. vellum, £2. 10s 5 vols. in 2, sm. 4to. olive morocco extra, gilt (1815-17) the same, edges, £4. 4s The sacred book of the Mandæans, Mendæites, Nasaræans, or Disciples of John the Baptist, also called Sabians or Sabæans, is written in a language closely akin to Chaldee. The religion is of Gnostic origin, and anti-Christian (although based to some extent upon the Bible). Its followers were, however, formerly called Johannite Christians. 17766 CHWOLSOHN (Dr. D.) die Ssabier und der Ssabismus, 2 vols. thick 8vo. and Index, sewed, 20s St. Petersburg, 1856 An exhaustive and admirable work, which must remain the chief and standard source of information concerning everything that relates to the Sabians of Harrân (a survival of the ancient Græco-Syrian heathens, who have been wrongly identified with the Mendæite Sabians of Mesopotamia, and the Himyarite Sabæans of Arabia, although they have little in common beyond the name). 17767 SIOUFFI, Etudes sur la Religion des Soubbas ou Sabéens, 8vo. cloth, 8s 6d Paris, 1880 These Sabæans are the modern Mendæites, Mandæans, Nazaræans, or Christians of St. John. Mohammedans: 17768 THE KORAN 17769 translated into English from the Arabic, with notes and a preliminary discourse, by George Sale, 4to. first edition, LARGE PAPER, map and plates, calf, from the Sunderland library, £2. 2s the same, 2 vols. 8vo. hf. morocco, 12s 17771 and plates, calf gilt, 6s 1734 1825 Hodgson (about 1830) the same, with memoir of the translator, 8vo. map 1857 MOHAMMEDANS-continued. 17772 THE KORAN, translated from the Arabic, the Suras arranged in chronological order, with notes and index, by J. M. Rodwell, 8vo. cloth, 12s 17773 1876 The arrangement is quite different from that of Sale, who followed the usual order of the MSS. Selections from the Kuran by Lane, in English, new edition with introduction by Stanley Lane Poole, 8vo. cloth, 68 1879 17774 For the Arabic text, see Catalogue of Oriental books, 17775 DABRY DE THIERSANT, le Mahométisme en Chine et dans le Paris, 1878 Turkestan, 2 vols. 8vo. sd. 15s 17776 GALLAND, Recueil des Rits et Cérémonies du pélerinage de la Mecque, 12mo. calf, 3s 6d Amst. 1754 17777 GARCIN DE TASSY, l'Islamisme d'après le Coran, 8vo. sd. 5s Paris, 1874 17778 HIGGINS (Godfrey) Apology for the life and character of Mohamed, or the Illustrious, 8vo. bds. 10s 1829 17779 JAFFUR SHURREEF, Qanoon-e-Islam, or the customs of the Moosulmans of India, a full and exact account of their various rites and ceremonies, translated by Herklots, 8vo, frontispiece and plates, cloth, 25s 1832 17780 MISHCAT-UL-MASABIH, or a collection of the most authentic Traditions regarding the actions and sayings of Muhammed, translated from the Arabic by Capt. A. N. Matthews, 2 vols. roy. 4to. cloth, uncut, £3. 158 Calcutta, 1809 17781 RABADAN (Mahomet) Mahometism fully explained, written in Spanish and Arabick in 1603, translated from the MS. by Mr. Morgan, 2 vols. 8vo. plates, calf, 10s 1723 17782 RELANDI (Hadr.) de Religione Mohammedica libri duo, 12mo. portrait, calf, 2s 6d Trajecti, 1717 17783 SPRENGER (A.) das Leben und die Lehre des Mohammed nach bisher grösstentheils unbenutzten Quellen, 3 vols. 8vo. hf. calf, Berlin, 1861-65 17784 288 sd. 7s 6d Life of Mohammed, from original sources, 8vo. 210 pp. No more was ever printed than these 210 pp. which leave the Prophet at Medina in A.D. 622. A preliminary study of the subject exhibits Dr. Sprenger's learning at its best. 17785 GUYARD (S.) Fragments relatifs à la doctrine des Ismaélis, Arabe et Français, 4to. sd. 10s Paris, 1874 Druzes: 17786 SACY (Silvestre de) Exposé de la Religion des Druzes, tiré des livres religieux de cette Secte, et précédé d'une introduction et de la vie du Khalife Hakem, 2 vols. 8vo. half bound, £2. Paris, 1838 17787 GUYS (Henri) Théogonie des Druses, ou abrégé de leur système religieux, trad. de l'Arabe, 8vo. sd. 5s 17788 WOLFF (Philipp) die Drusen und ihre Vorläufer, 8vo. bds. 5s Paris, 1863 Leipzig, 1845 5. ANCIENT PERSIA. 17789 AVESTA: die heiligen Schriften der Parsen aus dem Grundtexte übersetzt von Friedrich Spiegel, 3 vols. 8vo. sd. 30s Leipzig, 1852-63 17790 AVESTA: the Religious Books of the Parsees, from Professor Spiegel's German Translation of the Original Manuscripts by A. H. Bleeck, 3 vols. in 1, 8vo. cloth, rare, £1. 8s 1864 17791 ZEND-AVESTA, ouvrage de ZOROASTRE, contenant ses idées théologiques, physiques et morales, le culte religieux qu'il a établi, traduit en Français sur l'original Zend, par ANQUETIL DU PERRON, 2 vols. in 3, 4to. plates, bound, £2. 2s; or, a fine copy in old French calf gilt, £2. 12s 6d Paris, 1771 Anquetil's discoveries and labours with regard to the Avesta were chiefly instrumental in leading to the formation of the new school of Comparative Philology. 17792 ZEND AVESTA, Zoroasters lebendiges Wort, aus dem Franz. verdeutscht von KLEUKER, 3 vols. plates, 1777-1786-ANHANG zum Zend-Avesta, 5 parts, 1781-together 8 vols. in 5, 4to. calf neat, fine copy, 30s Riga, 1777-86 The Anhang is a new work, added to the translation, and contains pieces by Duperron, Foucher, and Kleuker, relative to the ancient literature of Persia, and the Zend writings. 17793 ANHANG zum Zend Avesta, von J. Fried. Kleuker, 5 parts in 2 vols. 4to. hf. bound, 12s Leipzig und Riga, 1781-83 17794 BURNOUF (Eugène) Commentaire sur le YAÇNA, l'un des livres religieux des Parses, Zend avec la version Sanscrite de Nériosengh, 2 vols. 4to. sd. £2. 10s; or, 2 vols. in 1, hf. calf, £3. 8s Paris, 1835 17795 BOOK OF ARDA VIRAF, Pahlavi and English by Hoshangji Jamaspji Asa, M. Haug and E. W. West, with introduction and appendix, 8vo. sd. 10s Bombay, 1872 17796 DESATIR (The) or Sacred Writings of the Ancient Persian Prophets, in the original tongue, with the ancient Persian version of the Fifth Sasan, Glossary and English translation, 2 vols. in 1, 8vo. hf. bound, 24s Bombay, 1818 An extremely curious book, formerly held to be a modern forgery, but now known to be comparatively ancient, and derived in great measure from older documents now lost. 17797 DINKARD (The) original Pehlwi text, in both Pehlvi and Zend characters, and in Gujrati and English, with Glossary, by Peshotun Behramjee Sunjana, 2 vols. 8vo. cloth, 258 Bombay, 1874-76 17798 DARMESTETER (James) Ormazd et Ahriman, leurs origines et leur histoire, 8vo. sd. 6s Paris, 1877 17799 FRANCK and OPPERT, Views of Zoroastrianism, translated from French, 12mo. sd. 2s Bombay, 1868 17800 HAMMER (Joseph de) Mithriaca ou les Mithriaques, memoire sur le culte solaire de Mithra, publié par Spencer Smith, avec ATLAS, 2 vols. 8vo. 24 plates, sd. 25s Caen, 1833 |