Religion And Mythology from Duck Cottage Books

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1934. First edition. Hardback. Good/Good. 1077 8vo. From the front cover: "...a complete handbook to the religions of the world from the point of view of one who believes in the Incarnation.". Cream-coloured dust jacket, maroon cloth-covered boards, 698 pages including index. Condition notes: Dust jacket soiled and chipped, with foxing… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann, 1909. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 684 8vo. Ex library (Dagenham Public Library). Translated from the French by Florence Simmonds. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine and front board, with decoration to front board, coloured frontispiece, title page red and black text, 439 pages. Condition notes: Boards very worn, external page edges… Read more about this item

London: Fisher Unwin Ltd, 1923. First edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 815 8vo. Brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 388 pages including glossary and index, illustrations. Condition notes: An ex-library copy, with fragments of the Boots Lending Library label on the front board and a number to the spine as well as rather messy library traces of Norfolk… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 1726 Folio. A generously illustrated, large format book (approximately 13" x 10"). Each section includes coloured maps indicating the spread of religion covered. Condition notes: There is some bumping to the edges of the dust jacket, and a little nIck at one of its folds. … Read more about this item

Basildon: FFM, 2006. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 138 12mo. FFM (Fellowship of Faith for the Muslims) is a prayer Fellowship that seeks to encourage Christians to pray for the Muslim World and so to this end publishes a regular prayer bulletin. This little book is intended as a handbook of information for this programme, but may well be… Read more about this item

London: Inter-Varsity Fellowship, 1952. First Edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 222 8vo. . Condition notes: Dust jacket grubby and rubbed, foxing/spotting to external page edges ; a sound study copy. Boards bright and clean.

Edinburgh: Bell and Bradfute, 1903. Revised Edition. Leather. Very Good/None. 1442 4to. Revised and in parts recast or rewritten by Christopher N. Johnson, K.C. 750 pages including index. Handsome calf prize binding, all edges gilt, spine gilt in compartments, stamp of University of Edinburgh to front cover and prize label to front paste down. Prize awarded… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co., 1907. 2nd edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 1158 . Complete in one volume, divided into three books: Book First Adonis, pp 1-216, Book Second Attis pp 217-265, Book Third pp Osiris 267-400, Appendices pp 401-438, index pp 439-452. Condition Notes: Green boards, rebacked, with original spine relaid, resulting in a sound copy, but with corners… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co., 1909. 3rd edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 576 8vo. Gift inscription to front free end paper, private ex-libris label to front paste down. 347 pages plus index and a separate (albeit brief) Greek index. Condition Notes: Some soiling to external page edges, internally clean, binding firm and sound.

New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1946. Hardback. Very Good/Fair. 776 8vo. Revised by W. H. Klapp. This is the 1946 reprint of the 1935 AMERICAN edition and so contains extra material on Eastern and North European mythology not present in earlier UK editions. Two hundred illustrations, 408 pages plus index. Condition notes: Dust jacket very worn but… Read more about this item

London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1831. Hardback. Good/None.. 268 8vo. To quote from the preface: "Much important information has recently been obtained from the travels of Burckhardt and others". Twenty-six maps and a 32 page index. Marbled-paper covered boards, half leather. Includes contemporary hand-written examination answers on a loose sheet; carefully-lettered name of previous owner: Catherine… Read more about this item

Geneva: Minerva, 1980. Hardback. Good/Good. 752 4to. Translated by David Macrae. Many beautiful photographs, and a text that ranges over the very many stories people have told and beliefs that that they have or have had about the sea. Condition notes: Dust jacket a little grubby sound. Book clean and sound internally, but with traces of staining or… Read more about this item