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ALL RELIGIONS AND RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES : IN TWO PARTS. PART I : CHRISTIANITY, MAHOMETANISM, AND JUDAISM. TO WHICH IS ADDED A TABULAR APPENDIX EXHIBITING THE PRESENT STATE OF THE WORLD AS TO RELIGION -- POPULATION-- RELIGIOUS TOLERATION-- GOVERNMENT, ETC. PART II : A VIEW OF THE HISTORY, RELIGION, MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE HINDOOS. TOGETHER WITH THE RELIGION AND CEREMONIES OF OTHER NATIONS
by Williams, Thomas & William Ward
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Hartford: Oliver D. Cooke & Sons, 1823. First Edition. Leather_bound. Fair. Hartford: Oliver D. Cooke & Sons, 1823. First edition. 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches: pp. viii, 207, iv. 178. Full leather with gold gilt lettering and etchings on spine. Eleven pages of woodcuts.
Boards scratched and chafed at edges, spine dull with wear at head and tail of spine. Textblock square, hinges strong, binding tight. Interior foxed throughout, endpapers torn and chipped. Last page of appendix has been torn out of the book. Introduction states that "In compiling the work it has been the aim to render it instructive and interesting; to treat the numererous sects in such a manner as to avoid giving just cause of offense."
Boards scratched and chafed at edges, spine dull with wear at head and tail of spine. Textblock square, hinges strong, binding tight. Interior foxed throughout, endpapers torn and chipped. Last page of appendix has been torn out of the book. Introduction states that "In compiling the work it has been the aim to render it instructive and interesting; to treat the numererous sects in such a manner as to avoid giving just cause of offense."
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- Bookseller
- Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 798
- Title
- ALL RELIGIONS AND RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES : IN TWO PARTS. PART I : CHRISTIANITY, MAHOMETANISM, AND JUDAISM. TO WHICH IS ADDED A TABULAR APPENDIX EXHIBITING THE PRESENT STATE OF THE WORLD AS TO RELIGION -- POPULATION-- RELIGIOUS TOLERATION-- GOVERNMENT, ETC. PART II : A VIEW OF THE HISTORY, RELIGION, MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE HINDOOS. TOGETHER WITH THE RELIGION AND CEREMONIES OF OTHER NATIONS
- Author
- Williams, Thomas & William Ward
- Format/Binding
- Leather_bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Oliver D. Cooke & Sons
- Place of Publication
- Hartford
- Date Published
- 1823
- Keywords
- Native American Religion, Ceremony, Ritual, Faith and practice, Islam
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Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
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About the Seller
Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
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Eugene, Oregon
About Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
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- Tight
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- First Edition
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- Tail
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- Foxed
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- Gilt
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