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Allendale, NJ: Alleluia Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 0911726543 . KB28...72 pp. Index. Octavo. Limited edition of 1000 -- this is the original 1992 printing, not the later 1995. Dark red cloth covers with Byzantine double eagle in bright gilt, virtually no wear. Interior first blank has a pencil erasure on the corner, otherwise fresh and clean. Interior end papers with double eagle. Map of the Byzantine empire. Archbishop Raya's history of the Byzantine Eastern Orthodox church in nearly new condition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 72 pages .

Brookline, MA: Holy Cross Orthodox Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 091765188X . KB17...420 pp. First title page in red & black with acanthus border, b/w engraving on verso, decorations and illustrations throughout. Quarto. Burgundy cloth with brilliant gilt to front cover, spine is blank. Covers show minimal signs of shelf wear, interior is clean and bright. The first title says it is Volume One of Byzantine Musical Anthology for Chorus of Three Mixed Voices with Organ Accompaniment. Includes a history of Byzantine Music. The first half of the book is in Greek with occasional English, hymns are in Greek with romanized transliteration below. There is an English section at the rear with translation of the text and hymns. Heavy for international shipping ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 420 pages .

London, ET AL: Cambridge University Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. 0521246768 . KB40...vii, 388 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Octavo. Green dust jacket with cream is a bit sun faded but otherwise intact. Book covers are clean, first blank has owner name in ink, otherwise clean and unmarked. A good copy. Surveys the relations between Catholics outside and inside the Ottoman Empire from the fall of Constantinople to 1923, and traces the subsequent history of the Latin Catholics and each of the Eastern Catholic churches in the Ottoman Empire until its dissolution in 1923. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 396 pages .

Philadelphia; Toronto: S. K. V. O. R. World Congress of Free Ukrainians. Good in Good dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0920365345 . 320 pp. Index. Illustrated throughout in b/w, a few colour plates. Octavo. White dust jacket with blue Orthodox domes, a Christian priest meeting a Russian soldier. Some corner wear to the dust jacket, minor shelf wear and soiling, flaps are intact. Book itself is clean and unmarked. Good copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 320 pages .

England: Gregg International Publishing Ltd.. Good. 1970. Hardcover. 0576991783 . Viii + 568 pp. Gregg International reprint of 1914 Moscow, Russian original. Title page in English and Russian, otherwise text is Russian. Scarce. Green cloth boards with gold gilt lettering on spine. Book is in good condition with minimal exterior wear. Interior is clean with no marks. ; X X .

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. , Ltd.. Good with no dust jacket. 1897. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Xiv, [ii], 154 pp. Two b/w plates between preparatory material and text. Limited edition of 350. Beautifully bound in 1/4 leather with dark red calf spine, 5 raised bands with gilt ruling, black spine label, gilt ruling to boards, green and dark red marbled hard covers, all in very nice condition, just a hint of wear. Fresh high quality endpapers and blanks, title page in red and black, text is clean and unmarked with a small bit of age darkening, binding tight. Marbled edges. A lovely copy, heavy for international shipping. In 1895 a box was discovered in the ruins of an ancient Coptic church in Upper Egypt that contained a book, dating from c700-900AD. This was the first known complete Sahidic psalter, the text of which shows how close the modern Coptic psalter hews to the ancient. E. A. Wallis Budge should need no introduction as the flamboyant yet hard working Egyptologist… Read More

Rome: Pont. Institutum Orientalium Studiorum. Good with no dust jacket. 1974. Paperback. xii, 388 pp. Indices. Bibliography. Beige card covers have small old sticker, bit of age and corner curl but still respectable. Interior is clean and unmarked, many pages never separated. ; Orientalia Christiana Analecta; Vol. 198; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 388 pages .

Platina, CA: St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood. Good with no dust jacket. 1990. Second Revised Edition. Softcover. 0938635387 . 287 pp. Index, glossary. Map. Frontis portrait of Zosima. Small octavo. Glossy pale lavendar softcovers with green forest scene, red type. Minor shelf wear to covers, bit of corner curl at bottom, spine lightly sunned. Interior is clean and unmarked, good copy. Zosima (1767-1833) was one of the many holy hermits who lived in the vast, wild forests of northern Russia. His biography "is a classic of Russian spirituality, revealing how the grace of God works in one who is devoted to the labor of unceasing prayer, noetic activity, unseen warfare, and interior silence (hesychasm). From his mystical striving in the heart of the wilderness to his work in establishing a monastic community for women, Elder Zosima shines forth with the simple wisdom of Christ-like humility." ; Acquisition of the Holy Spirit in Russia; Vol. 6; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 287 pages .

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 0521305713 . KB42...xix, [vii], 557 pp. Bibliography, index, genealogical tables and maps at front. Octavo. Glossy black dust jacket with dull gilt Byzantine image of Manuel I and his wife. Minor shelf wear and wrinkling to dust jacket. Book itself has clean covers, first blank has some pencil erasures, otherwise clean and nice. Good copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 557 pages .

Birmingham: Centre for Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham. Good. 1977. Hardcover. 0704402262 . Xi + 195 pps. Edited volume with 18 articles by various authors. 31 illustrations. Purple cloth boards with gold gilt lettering. Book is ex-library with usual interior marks, pocket at rear. Book in good condition, some faint wear along base of spine. ; Ex-Library .

Kiev: Akad. Nauk Ukrains'koi RSR. Good with no dust jacket. 1961. Hardcover. Xxxvii, [4], 271, [i] pp. Octavo. Text in Church Slavonic, preliminaries in Ukrainian. Dark green cloth with black floral border, red and gold title, spine title in red and gold but faded. Corners a little bumped, interior paper browned, webbing visible at title page but binding solid and holding together. Title page in red and black. A facsimile of the 1627 original. At head of title: Akademiia nauk Ukrains'koi RSR. Instytut movoznavstva im. O. O. Potebni. OCLC 49972764. Scarce in commerce. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 272 pages .

Etna, California: Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies. Good. 1988. Paperback. 0911165118 . 51 pp. Index. Photograph of Metropolitan Cyprian at introduction. Glossy white soft covers with dark red, with a medieval monk. Covers have just a bit of wear and shelf wear, back cover slightly creased. Interior clean and unmarked. ; 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall .

The Hague; Paris: Mouton. Good with no dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. 9027931968 . Ix, 310 pp. Preface in English, most chapters in German, text of the Biblos in Slavonic. Blue cloth covers with gilt title to spine have minor wear, a little rubbing at corners but not much. Interior has an owner name and address, preface has some underlining in red ink, Slavonic text has very occasional pencil tick marks, otherwise clean and unmarked. A used copy but respectable and usable. ; Slavistic Printings And Reprintings; Vol. 1; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 322 pages .

Roma: Pontificium Institutum Orientalium Studiorum. Good. 1964. 1st Thus. Softcover. 8872101581 . xii + 121 pp + [ii]. Prefatory material in Latin, text in two columns in Greek with the Latin translation. This is Vol. VIII Fasc. I of the Series B of the Concilium Florentinum Documenta et Scriptores series. Gennadius (c. 1400 - c. 1473), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1454 to 1464, philosopher and theologian, was one of the last representatives of Byzantine learning, and a strong advocate of Aristotelian philosophy in the Eastern Church.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall .

Oxford: Oxford University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1982. Hardcover. 0191434922 . Vii, 226 pp. Glossary. Octavo. Original black pebbled leatherette covers with gold Orthodox cross on the front coves, bright gilt to spine. Just a hint of shelf wear, Interior is clean and bright, name embossed on first free end paper, otherwise unmarked. Printed in red and black throughout, entirely in English. A very nice copy. The entire title is: The Orthodox Liturgy. Being the Divine Liturgies of S. John Chrysostom and S. Basil the Great and the Divine Office of the Presanctified Gifts Together with the Ordering of the Holy and Divine Liturgy. The Office of Preparation for the Holy Communion. The Prayers of Thanksgiving after the Holy Communion; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 226 pages .

Paris: Les Editions Du Cerf. Good. 1967. Softcover. 519 pp + Table + ads. Includes errata for Tome I. Text in ancient Greek with facing French translation, notes and introduction in French. Introduction, Texte Critique, Traduction et Notes. Pale brown card covers are clean, spine sunned, little edge curl, interior clean and unmarked. J Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022 AD) was a Byzantine Christian monk and poet who was the last of three saints canonized by the Eastern Orthodox church and given the title of "Theologian" because of his direct experience of God. Sources Chretiennes; 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall .

Paris: Les Editions Du Cerf. Good. 1966. Softcover. 441 pp + ads. Text in ancient Greek with facing French translation, notes and introduction in French. Introduction, Texte Critique, Traduction et Notes. Pale brown card covers are clean, spine sunned, little edge curle, interior clean and unmarked. Inscrip of noted Byzantinist to first blank. J Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022 AD) was a Byzantine Christian monk and poet who was the last of three saints canonized by the Eastern Orthodox church and given the title of "Theologian" because of his direct experience of God. Sources Chretiennes; 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall .

Paris: Les Editions Du Cerf. Good. 1965. Softcover. 2204033774 . 392 pp + Sources Chretiennes. Text in ancient Greek with facing French translation, notes and introduction in French. Introduction, Texte Critique, Traduction et Notes. Pale brown card covers are generally clean, spine a little darker, back cover has fold mark interior clean and unmarked. Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022 AD) was a Byzantine Christian monk and poet who was the last of three saints canonized by the Eastern Orthodox church and given the title of "Theologian" because of his direct experience of God.; 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall .

Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. 1463205759 . Xx, 506 pp. Bibliography, Archival documents, index. 389-492 are plate photos of archival documents. Illustrated with charts and maps. Small forto or large octavo. Inscribed by the author on the first blank. Glossy black and red hard covers with photos of various Patriarchs and the Deir al-Za'faran. Some minor rubbing and shelf wear to covers, interior is clean and nice. Good copy. "The book addresses the history of Syrian Orthodoxy during a critical juncture of its history that spans the late Ottoman period and treads well beyond to witness remarkable revival, indeed renaissance. The work uniquely utilizes over 6000 uncatalogued and unpublished archival documents that were made available for it. "; Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies; Vol. 43; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 506 pages; Signed by Author .

Paris: Ymca-Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1977. Softcover. 625, [4] pages. Illustrated with b/w pictures throughout. Thick octavo. Red softcovers with black silhouettes of Orthodox domes. Some rubbing at the joints, front bottom corner a little chipped, edges and title page stamped with institutional library mark, otherwise clean and unmarked. Entirely in Russian. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 625 pages .