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Oregon Trail

March 5, 2009 Collectible 1 Comment

Francis Parkman-Oregon Trail/Conspiracy Of Pontiac

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The Oregon Trail

The Conspiracy Of Pontiac

Francis Parkman

1991 Stated First Printing For The Library Of America

Double Volume Cloth Hardcover Slipcased

Nice, Very Nice

Near Fine In A Very Good Or Better Clean Entrance And Interior Slipcase

Illustrated + Mapped

The Volume Is Bound In Brown Woven Cloth Hardcover

Gilt Lettering At The Spine

Decorated Pastedowns And Endpapers

Brown Silk Pagemarker Bound-In

951 Numbered Pages Complete Contents, (2 Volumes In 1) + Ads At The Rear, Printed On Thin Paper

8 Inches High

Housed In An Ivory Gilt Stamped Slipcase

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Library Of America

December 29, 2008 Collectible No Comments

Francis Parkman-France & England In North America

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France And England In North America

Francis Parkman

Complete Two Volume Hardcover Set Slipcased

1983 Stated First Printings For The Library Of America

A Beautiful Complete Edition, Illustrated

2 Volumes Housed In Individual Clean Entrance And Interior Slipcases

Near Fine Volumes In Very Good Or Better Slipcases

Illustrated

Uniform Volumes Bound In Brown Woven Cloth Hardcover

Gilt Lettering At The Spine

Decorated Pastedowns And Endpapers

Brown Silk Pagemarkers Bound-In

3124 Total Numbered Pages Complete Contents Printed On Thin Paper

Uniform At 8 Inches High

Housed In Ivory Gilt Stamped Slipcases

Volume One. Pioneers Of France in The New World

The Jesuits In North America In The Seventeenth Century

La Salle And The Discovery Of The Great West

The Old Regime In Canada

Volume Two. Count Frontenac And New France Under Louis XIV

A Half Century Of Conflict

Montcalm And Wolfe

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Ten Thousand Dreams

December 1, 2008 Collectible 3 Comments

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Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted

Or What’s In A Dream

A Scientific And Practical Exposition

Gustavus Hindman Miller

1931 First Edition Published By M. A. Donohue & Co., 1931 Only Date/No Others

“In A Dream, In A Vision Of The Night, When Deep Sleep Falleth Upon Men, In Slumberings Upon The Bed; Then He Openeth The Ears Of Men And Sealeth Their Instruction That He May Withdraw Man From His Purpose, And Hide Pride From Man.”

12mo In Full Cloth Hardcover,Black Stamped Lettering At The Front Cover And Spine, 617 Pages Complete Contents + 17 Page Index Folioed In Roman Numerals At The Rear

In Better Than Good Condition,No Dustjacket

In Toned Down Cloth Lightly Worn At The Extremites, Long Tear At The Spine/Spine Crease, A Mildly Agetoned Contents,A Few Loose Still Bound Pages,Owner Label At The Upper Verso Half Title No Writing In Book And Not Ex-Library

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Occultism

October 3, 2008 Collectible No Comments

Occultism-Lewis Spence-2500 Entries And Articles

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An Encyclopaedia Of Occultism

A Compendium Of Information On The Occult Sciences, Occult Personalities, Psychic Science, Magic, Demonology, Spiritism, Mysticism And Metaphysics

The Comprehensive Illustrated Treasury Of Occult Knowledge From All Times And Places

More Than 2500 Entries And Articles

Lewis Spence

A 1960 Reprint Hardcover Edition Slipcased

Verbatim Of The 1920 First Edition

Published By University Books

Read A Short Biography About The Author:

James Lewis Thomas Chalmbers Spence (November 25, 1874 – March 3, 1955) was a Scottish journalist, whose efforts as a compiler of Scottish folklore have proved more durable than his efforts as a poet and occult scholar.

After graduating from Edinburgh University he pursued a career in journalism. In 1899 he married Helen Bruce. He was an editor at The Scotsman 1899-1906, editor of The Edinburgh Magazine for a year, 1904-05, then an editor at The British Weekly, 1906-09. In this time his interest was sparked in the myth and folklore of Mexico and Central America, resulting in his popularization of the Mayan Popul Vuh, the sacred book of the Quiché Mayas (1908). He compiled A Dictionary of Mythology (1910 and numerous additional volumes).

Turning his interest closer to home, he investigated Scottish folklore. An ardent Scottish Nationalist, he unsuccessfully contested a parliamentary seat for North Midlothian in 1929. He also wrote poetry, collected in 1953. He wrote about Brythonic rites and traditions in The Mysteries of Britain (1905). In this book, Spence theorized that the original Britons were descendants of a people that migrated from Northwest Africa and were probably related to the Berbers and the Basques-this claim is being supported by recent DNA studies.

Spence’s researches into the mythology and culture of the New World, together with his examination of the cultures of western Europe and north-west Africa, led him almost inevitably to the question of Atlantis. During the 1920s he published a series of books which sought to rescue the topic from the occultists who had more or less brought it into disrepute. These works, amongst which were The Problem of Atlantis (1924) and History of Atlantis (1927), continued the line of research inaugurated by Ignatius Donnelly and looked at the lost island as a Bronze Age civilization, that formed a cultural link with the New World, which he invoked through examples he found of striking parallels between the early civilizations of the Old and New Worlds: the historian of science George Sarton remarked, in reviewing Spence’s Introduction to Mythology in 1921, “Prof. Smith, it may be recalled, is the chief supporter of the pan-Egyptian theory; he finds traces of Egyptian influence everywhere, even in America”. Spence’s erudition and the width of his reading, his industry and imagination were all impressive; yet the conclusions he reached, avoiding peer-reviewed journals, have been almost universally rejected by mainstream scholarship. His popularizations met stiff criticism in professional journals, but his continued appeal among theory hobbyists is summed up by a reviewer of The Problem of Atlantis (1924) in The Geographical Journal: “Mr. Spence is an industrious writer, and, even if he fails to convince, has done service in marshalling the evidence and has produced an entertaining volume which is well worth reading.” Nevertheless, he seems to have had some influence upon the ideas of controversial author Immanuel Velikovsky, and as his books have come into the public domain, they have been successfully reprinted and some have been scanned for the Internet, for the enjoyment of new generations willing to suspend critical disbelief.

Spence’s 1940 book Occult Causes of the Present War (ISBN 0766100510) seems to have been the first book in the field of Nazi occultism.

Over his long career, he published more than forty books, many of which remain in print to this day. Spence was also the founder of the Scottish National Movement which later merged to form the National Party of Scotland and which in turn merged to form the Scottish National Party.

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