Coptic Gnostic Library Project; Robinson, James McConkey [Editor]; Smith, Richard [Editor];Biblio.com
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1988SKU1179129Brill 1988. 1988 Edition. hardcover. Very Good/Good. 6x1x9. Stock photo does not accurately represent item/condition; this is the 1988 edition. Tan paper covered boards with burgundy cloth spine and silver spine titles; jacket is worn and discolored with small chips and tears along top edge; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; 549 pages. Brill hardcover
1967018266Cairo Egypt: General Organization for Gov't Printing Offices 1967. First Edition First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/Discoloration to pg 132 else bright As New. Softcover/VG; strong & sound w/edge & surface wear and small losses to upper/lower spine edges. Guide to the Coptic Museum Cairo Egypt. 231 pgs with 83 b/w plates. The term "Copts" Arabic "gibt" refer to Christian of the Nile Valley who consider St. Mark the Evangelist to be their first Patriarch AD 61 - 68; their language is Ancient Egyptian written in Greek characters; their outstanding art an essential link between the Graeco-Roman and the Islamic. <br/> <br/> General Organization for Gov't Printing Offices paperback
1984513273Scarecrow Pr 1984. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. 116pp. Sewn binding in burgundy cloth sans DJ as issued gilt spine lettering. Ex-library; exceedingly clean and sharp with sound binding and no evidence of use. Shipped professionally in a box. Scarecrow Pr hardcover
197733209Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. 1977. First Edition. Softcover. A perfect bound book still tight but showing light creasing light shelf & corner wear. Some discoloration to card covers. Previous owners name on last page and possible pope's dedication and signature on title page. Includes information prinout from WIKIPEDIA. Light blue creasing. Read descriptions carefully. Avoid GLASSFROGBOOKS ERGODOBOOKS MORE BOOKS IRISH BOOKSELLERS PRO QUO/BAYSIDE BOOKS BOOKSPLEASE RIA CHRISTIE DISCOVER BOOKS BOOKS2ANYWHERE BOOKS EXPRESS CHIRON MEDIA! These "Booksellers" have no books of their own. they buy honest booksellers' books upcharge you and have no idea what the book is really like. Support your local and small bookstore owners! . Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria paperback
196074243Los Angeles: Cotic Fellowship of America ca. 1960. First edition. Quartos. About 10 pp. each. Colored stapled wrappers. Very good'Titles are; Soul and Soul-Mate Part 1; Child Psychology Parts 1-2; Marriage-Procreation; Health and Beauty.Hamid "Bey was born and raised in Cairo and at an early age went underwent training in an Egyptian Coptic Temple. Ultimately emerging as a "seven-ring Master." In fact Hamid Bey was an Italian by the name of Naldino Bombacci. Bey traveled to America in 1926 intending to demonstrate to Harry Houdini—who had launched a campaign aimed at debunking spiritualist phenomena—feats of mind over matter that Houdini would be unable to explain. When Houdini died before Bey found an audience with him Bey remained in America and caused a sensation with a series of public demonstrations including multiple live burials permitting skewers to be stuck into his flesh and mesmerizing animals which are well documented by photos and newspaper clippings in the present archive. In 1937 Bey moved to Los Angeles and founded the Coptic Fellowship of America through which he continued his demonstrations and disseminated his teachings in part via a home study course titled "How to Master Your Life" with topics that included "The Law of Vibration: Energy Electricity Magnetism" "Metaphysics and Mysticism" and "The Magical Power of the Mind to Form and Re-Form." Bonhams. Cotic Fellowship of America unknown
1915508297N.P. 1915. Hardcover. NEAR FINE. An extraordinary portfolio of early 20th-century photographs of Ethiopia featuring eight large-format scenes from a Coptic Orthodox wedding in addition to eight 3x5 photos of Ethiopian children. The wedding photos depict a very formal liturgical ceremony with the bride and groom in ornate robes and crowns attended by priests acolytes deacons cantors and other ecclesiastics in fine vestments carrying the sacred liturgical items including many golden crosses and a richly ornamented Holy Gospel. One photo of the long procession shows a great crowd of attendees dressed in white robes. A previous dealer's description of this porfolio speculates that the great pomp of this ceremony might indicate that it was a royal wedding perhaps even the marriage of Esther Akhnoukh and Fahmy Bey Wissa described by the English Ethnographer S. H. Leeder. But in Leeder's own account he notes that the crowns and regalia are the property of the church a communal holding and the wearing of which is the right and privilege of all baptised faithful for one day in their lives. Photos mounted on original 11x14' mattes with just a bit of rubbing and toning to the extremities one photo with a tiny dampstain to the margin otherwise all photos are FINE entirely clean and sharp. The 3x5' photos of children are mounted four to a matte. These photos show children in joyful poses particularly showcasing their hairstyles one of which includes a oder girl with a large water gourd; two of the photos show children being swarmed by flies. The phtographer is unnamed but there are a fairly limited number of possibilities. It was almost certainly purchased by Rosenberg on his Travelling fellowship around 1921 putting the date of the actual photos sometime in the previous decade. Prior to the Italian invasion in the 30's Ethiopia was not an easy place to access and was simply not a destination for European travellers making professional photo-documentations of it far less common than its neighbor Egypt in the same time period. One tempting and plausible source would be one of the photographers of the Enno Littman-led 'Deutsche Aksum Expedition' which included extensive ethnographic investigations in the course of their larger mission of investigating the archaeological sites of the Kingdom of Aksum in northern Ethiopia and Eritrea. A noted Semiticist Littman lived among the Tigre people of Eritrea for a year before directing the Aksum expedition doing research for later linguistic and ethnographic publications including 'Tales Customs Names and Dirges of the Tigre Tribes' which includes ample descriptions of religious ceremony. Housed in a contemporary 11x16' portfolio sold by C. Roberson of London half black cloth over printed paste paper and ties to all three sides with moderate wear to the extremities and French liquor labels to the endpapers. With owner's label to the rear cover ex-libris Louis Conrad Rosenberg a noted architect whose 171 etchings and architectural illustrations and renderings have been archived in the University of Oregon Special Collections Division. After serving in the US Army and American Expeditionary Force during WWI Rosenberg joined the factulty of the University of Oregon. He and his wife Marie Louise Allen of Portland took advantage of a Traveling Fellowship granted by the UO and travelled extensively throughout the Mediterranean and the Levant for 2 years beginning in 1920. N.P. hardcover
