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Zustand: Good. Reprint. Little wear to boards. Content is clean with slight toning. Good DJ with little wear and faded spine.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. A uniformly bound four volume set of the Scweich Lectures from 1913-1918, with folding maps and illustrations. A four volume set. Uniformly bound full green cloth. A set of the Scweich Lectures from 1913-1918. The are a series of lectures related to the archaeology, art, history, languages and literature of Ancient Civilization with reference to Biblical Study. Delivered and published under the auspices of the British Academy. This set comprises: (1914) Jewish and Christian Apocalypses. By F. Crawford Burkitt. The Schweich Lectures 1913. The first impression. With one plate. (1919) 'Israel's Settlement in Canaan: The Biblical Tradition and its Historical Background'. By the Rev. C.F. Burney. The Schweich Lectures 1917. The second edition. With six folding maps. Collated, complete. (1920) 'Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition'. By Leonard W. King. The Schweich Lectures 1916. The third impression. (1920) 'The Hittites'. By A.E. Cowley. The Schweich Lectures 1918. The first impression. With a frontispiece map and in text illustrations throughout. In full cloth bindings. Externally, smart. Slight fading to spines, with light bumping to the heads and tails. Light rubbing to joints. Odd faint mark to boards. Ex library, with a City of Cardiff public library bookplate to front paste downs. Offsetting to free endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with light spotting to the front and rear. Ink inscription and stamp to rear of title page to all volumes. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book. …

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. Pages 502-598, plus 28 pages of vintage ads. Features: The Hunting Down of Tiburcio Vasquez, the Dick Turpin of California; "Red Fagen" - a veteran shipmaster's story of the undoing of a villainous 'crimp'; A Cycling Tour Through Central Africa (part II) - photo-illustrated adventures on the way from Rhodesia to Egypt; The Spectre of Mekeo - a supernatural tale from British New Guinea; Spiders; The Javelin Throwers - an exciting adventure with Venezuelan savages; Following the Fur Trails - photo-illustrated article of a Canadian government naval survey crew's winter on the ice-bound shores of Hudson Bay; Lost in an Underground Labyrinth - photo-illustrated account of a man who was thrown into the sewers of Milan and lost for many days; The Eagle's Nest - the mountaintop town of Peillon in the South of France - article with many photos; The Mystery of Fraser Island - a strange sequence of events on an island where the Queensland 'dumped' troublesome blacks; Our Lunatic; A Matter of Business - a West African trader is charged with removing stock from stations set to be closed - despite native objections; The "Crooked House" - at Kingswinford, near Birmingham; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Covers detached as one but present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Somerfield, Thomas; Hodgson, E.S.; Coller, Henry; Holmes, Fred; Wigfull, W.E.; Reynolds, Warwick; Evison, G. Henry; Simmons, Graham; Webb, Arch. (illustrator).…