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	TAROP SHETRUG AKONG Kagyu Samye Ling Newsletter Samye Ling Tibetan Centre, n.d.(c.1980).Paper covers.V.g./No Jacket.V.g.Newsletter of the Tibetan Buddhist retreat at Eskdalemuir, in the southern Uplands of Scotland.21 pp.In English. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.33 \| JP¥ 741] Book number: 1356 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	ANON. [SOCIETY OF FRIENDS] Church government: being the third part of Christian discipline in the Religious Society of Friends in Britain Friends Book Centre, London, 1956 revised reprint of 1931 edition.Publisher's cloth, no dust jacket.Fair /No Jacket.Cover sl.faded at edges, some sm.corner folds to inner pages, 2 pp.of loose amendments (printed on gummed paper) inserted at back.The procedural rules of the Society of Friends (Quakers) as approved at the yearly meeting, Second Month (i.e.February) 1931. In English. GBP 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 15.75 US$ 23.32 \| JP¥ 2075] Book number: 955 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	CARSON, RACHEL Silent spring Hamish Hamilton, 1963, 1st U.K.edition .Hard covers, dust jacket.V.g./Good.Classic work on the adverse effects of pesticides on wildlife and human health.D.w.heavily sunned on spine, edges of text pages spotted, v.g.(red title inserted on spine). In English. GBP 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 18 US$ 26.66 \| JP¥ 2371] Book number: 954 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	COLLIN, RODNEY The theory of celestial influence: man, the universe and cosmic mystery Vincent Stuart, London, 1954, 1st edition.Orange cloth.V.g./No Jacket.xxi, 393 pp. In English. GBP 80.00 [Appr.: EURO 89.75 US$ 133.28 \| JP¥ 11856] Book number: 4004 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	EISENMAN, ROBERT The Dead Sea scrolls and the first Christians Element, 1996, 1st UK edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.1 85230 785 4.V.g./V.g. This book explores the relationship between the writers of the Dead Sea Scrolls and 1st century Christians, and includes several essays by the author as well as a translation of three Qumran documents which ""grasps the apocalyptic mindset of the authors of the Scrolls"" (blurb).xxix, 449 pp. In English. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.99 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 3794 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	SOCIETY OF FRIENDS Quaker faith & practice: the book of Christian discipline of the Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) In Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, 1995.Paper covers.0 85245 267 5.V.g./No Jacket.Cover creased, fore-edge with faint brown marks, otherwise little worn.667 pp. In English. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.99 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 3232 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	HALDANE, J.B.S. The philosophy of a biologist Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1935.Boards.ASIN: B00085KNWW.V.g./ No Jacket .Small bookseller's sticker inside front cover, owner's stamp, pages rather roughly trimmed at base, v.g.Very profound analysis of existence, religion and psychology seen from the standpoint of a biologist. In English. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 US$ 33.32 \| JP¥ 2964] Book number: 949 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	HERVEY, JAMES Meditations and contemplations Norwich: printed for G.A.Stephens , 1802, A new edition.Full leather binding with title on red leather patch to spine.Fair /No Jacket.Very worn full leather binding, hinges cracked towards extremities but intact.Wavy gilt border to boards, gilt bands to spine, gilt title on red leather patch; no inscriptions.Title page and following page torn at foot (no loss of text); p.301 creased.301 pp. In English. GBP 90.00 [Appr.: EURO 101 US$ 149.94 \| JP¥ 13338] Book number: 5894 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	HUGHES, HERBERT Straeon y bore a'r p'nawn Cyhoeddwyr / Gwas Gomer, Llandysul, 1993, 1st edition.Paper covers.0 86383 908 8.Very good/No Jacket.Slight edge wear.(12), 265 pp. In Welsh. GBP 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 US$ 14.99 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 2576 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	HYLDAHL, NIELS Den Â¾ldste kristendoms historie. Museum Tusculanums Forlag, KÂ¿benhavn Museum Tusculanums Forlag, KÂ¿benhavn, 1994, 2nd edition, first published in 1993.Paper covers.87 7289 212 9.V.g./No Jacket.History of the early Christian era, from the time of Jesus through that of the Apostles to the post-Apostolic era.x, 374 pp. In Danish. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.99 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 2621 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	JOHNSON, HEWLETT (THE VERY REVEREND) The claims of beauty in modern life The Holiday Fellowship, London, 1930, Reprinted from the 'Modern Churchman' conference number.Full leather .V.g./ No Jacket .Full leather 'trainee' binding, with gilt title and 'art deco' statue device on front, four end papers front and rear, boards warped, spine scuffed at top and bottom, pages with a few blotchy foxings, trimmed rather tightly at top edge (not affecting text).A very rare 19-page paen to beauty in urban design by a Manchester minister who was a fan of Le Corbusier and later an author of wartime tracts on ""Soviet Power"". In English. GBP 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 56.25 US$ 83.3 \| JP¥ 7410] Book number: 959 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	OLSEN, HARALD Ilden fra Vest: texter fra keltisk fromhetstradisjon Verbum, Stavanger, 1999, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.82 543 0800 4.As new/As new.The first part of the book discusses Celtic spirituality and religious life, the second quotes texts (poems or prayers) from the thirteenth century.The book concludes with a bibliography of sources and of background literature.208 pp.In Norwegian. GBP 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 45 US$ 66.64 \| JP¥ 5928] Book number: 2144 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Statutae Universitatis Oxoniensis [laws of the University of Oxford] Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1887.Publisher's cloth, gilt titles on spine, no d.w.V.g./No Jacket.V.g. with bookplate of Bibliotheca Congr.SS.Redempt.Bishop-Eton, only last page, t.p.and its facing page foxed.Written partly in Latin, partly in English.Quirky bedtime reading, e.g.p.238 ""There shall be ordinarily four bedels ..the three senior bedels carrying gold staves, the junior carrying a silver staff"".P.239: ""At the Encaenia and on special occasions the vice-chancellor may appoint two extraordinary bedels"".Unfortunately the regulations don't stipulate what kind of staves they should carry.In English, Latin. GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 US$ 49.98 \| JP¥ 4446] Book number: 947 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	RIPLEY, DILLON The sacred grove: museums and their evolutiona Victor Gollancz, 1970, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.0 575 00532 7.Fine/Fine.Top edge dust-speckled.Subtitled 'essays on museums', this is a thoughtful and forward-looking account of museum philosophy by a former secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.159 pp. In English. GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 US$ 24.99 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 2483 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	SCHLEGEL, FREDERICK VON The philosophy of history, in a course of lectures delivered at Vienna Henry G.Bohn, London, 1958, 7th edition, revised.Hard cover.Good/Good.Spine starting at front hinge, former owner's inscription, otherwise a tidy copy with tissue guard to frontispiece intact.Translated from the German by James Burton Robertson.xii, (2), 498 pp.plus publisher's advertisements at front and rear.Includes a biographical sketch of Schlegel. In English. GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 US$ 49.98 \| JP¥ 4446] Book number: 2584 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	SCHMITT, ARIANE L'Essor 1905-1980: un journal de precurseurs L'Essor, La Chaux-de-Fonds, 1980.Paper covers.V.g./No Jacket.V.g. owner's name on cover.Includes a loosely inserted (browned) copy of L'Essor, 76e annee, no.11 (Nov.1981), inscribed.Commemorative booklet about the Swiss newspaper which celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1980; includes a chapter on whether l'Essor has a future? Text in French.36 pp. In French. GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 US$ 24.99 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 1354 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	ZODIASTAR [PSEUD.] 30 different ways of card fortune telling Universal Publications Ltd. London, n.d.(c.1940).Paper covers.Fair /No Jacket.Spine separating, paper tanned, some interesting pencil annotations.Complicated stuff! 90 pp.plus (6) pp.of publisher's advertisements (e.g.""Railway riot"", ""Go to ------"" (includes Timbuktoo), ""U.P.L.Beetle Game"" and other frivolities.Serious stuff.In English. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.33 \| JP¥ 741] Book number: 2157 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.

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	TAROP SHETRUG AKONG Kagyu Samye Ling Newsletter Samye Ling Tibetan Centre, n.d.(c.1980).Paper covers.V.g./No Jacket.V.g.Newsletter of the Tibetan Buddhist retreat at Eskdalemuir, in the southern Uplands of Scotland.21 pp.In English. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.33 \| JP¥ 741] Book number: 1356 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	ANON. [SOCIETY OF FRIENDS] Church government: being the third part of Christian discipline in the Religious Society of Friends in Britain Friends Book Centre, London, 1956 revised reprint of 1931 edition.Publisher's cloth, no dust jacket.Fair /No Jacket.Cover sl.faded at edges, some sm.corner folds to inner pages, 2 pp.of loose amendments (printed on gummed paper) inserted at back.The procedural rules of the Society of Friends (Quakers) as approved at the yearly meeting, Second Month (i.e.February) 1931. In English. GBP 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 15.75 US$ 23.32 \| JP¥ 2075] Book number: 955 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	CARSON, RACHEL Silent spring Hamish Hamilton, 1963, 1st U.K.edition .Hard covers, dust jacket.V.g./Good.Classic work on the adverse effects of pesticides on wildlife and human health.D.w.heavily sunned on spine, edges of text pages spotted, v.g.(red title inserted on spine). In English. GBP 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 18 US$ 26.66 \| JP¥ 2371] Book number: 954 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	COLLIN, RODNEY The theory of celestial influence: man, the universe and cosmic mystery Vincent Stuart, London, 1954, 1st edition.Orange cloth.V.g./No Jacket.xxi, 393 pp. In English. GBP 80.00 [Appr.: EURO 89.75 US$ 133.28 \| JP¥ 11856] Book number: 4004 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	EISENMAN, ROBERT The Dead Sea scrolls and the first Christians Element, 1996, 1st UK edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.1 85230 785 4.V.g./V.g. This book explores the relationship between the writers of the Dead Sea Scrolls and 1st century Christians, and includes several essays by the author as well as a translation of three Qumran documents which ""grasps the apocalyptic mindset of the authors of the Scrolls"" (blurb).xxix, 449 pp. In English. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.99 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 3794 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	SOCIETY OF FRIENDS Quaker faith & practice: the book of Christian discipline of the Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) In Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, 1995.Paper covers.0 85245 267 5.V.g./No Jacket.Cover creased, fore-edge with faint brown marks, otherwise little worn.667 pp. In English. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.99 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 3232 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	HALDANE, J.B.S. The philosophy of a biologist Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1935.Boards.ASIN: B00085KNWW.V.g./ No Jacket .Small bookseller's sticker inside front cover, owner's stamp, pages rather roughly trimmed at base, v.g.Very profound analysis of existence, religion and psychology seen from the standpoint of a biologist. In English. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 US$ 33.32 \| JP¥ 2964] Book number: 949 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	HERVEY, JAMES Meditations and contemplations Norwich: printed for G.A.Stephens , 1802, A new edition.Full leather binding with title on red leather patch to spine.Fair /No Jacket.Very worn full leather binding, hinges cracked towards extremities but intact.Wavy gilt border to boards, gilt bands to spine, gilt title on red leather patch; no inscriptions.Title page and following page torn at foot (no loss of text); p.301 creased.301 pp. In English. GBP 90.00 [Appr.: EURO 101 US$ 149.94 \| JP¥ 13338] Book number: 5894 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	HUGHES, HERBERT Straeon y bore a'r p'nawn Cyhoeddwyr / Gwas Gomer, Llandysul, 1993, 1st edition.Paper covers.0 86383 908 8.Very good/No Jacket.Slight edge wear.(12), 265 pp. In Welsh. GBP 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 US$ 14.99 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 2576 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	HYLDAHL, NIELS Den Â¾ldste kristendoms historie. Museum Tusculanums Forlag, KÂ¿benhavn Museum Tusculanums Forlag, KÂ¿benhavn, 1994, 2nd edition, first published in 1993.Paper covers.87 7289 212 9.V.g./No Jacket.History of the early Christian era, from the time of Jesus through that of the Apostles to the post-Apostolic era.x, 374 pp. In Danish. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.99 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 2621 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	JOHNSON, HEWLETT (THE VERY REVEREND) The claims of beauty in modern life The Holiday Fellowship, London, 1930, Reprinted from the 'Modern Churchman' conference number.Full leather .V.g./ No Jacket .Full leather 'trainee' binding, with gilt title and 'art deco' statue device on front, four end papers front and rear, boards warped, spine scuffed at top and bottom, pages with a few blotchy foxings, trimmed rather tightly at top edge (not affecting text).A very rare 19-page paen to beauty in urban design by a Manchester minister who was a fan of Le Corbusier and later an author of wartime tracts on ""Soviet Power"". In English. GBP 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 56.25 US$ 83.3 \| JP¥ 7410] Book number: 959 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	OLSEN, HARALD Ilden fra Vest: texter fra keltisk fromhetstradisjon Verbum, Stavanger, 1999, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.82 543 0800 4.As new/As new.The first part of the book discusses Celtic spirituality and religious life, the second quotes texts (poems or prayers) from the thirteenth century.The book concludes with a bibliography of sources and of background literature.208 pp.In Norwegian. GBP 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 45 US$ 66.64 \| JP¥ 5928] Book number: 2144 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Statutae Universitatis Oxoniensis [laws of the University of Oxford] Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1887.Publisher's cloth, gilt titles on spine, no d.w.V.g./No Jacket.V.g. with bookplate of Bibliotheca Congr.SS.Redempt.Bishop-Eton, only last page, t.p.and its facing page foxed.Written partly in Latin, partly in English.Quirky bedtime reading, e.g.p.238 ""There shall be ordinarily four bedels ..the three senior bedels carrying gold staves, the junior carrying a silver staff"".P.239: ""At the Encaenia and on special occasions the vice-chancellor may appoint two extraordinary bedels"".Unfortunately the regulations don't stipulate what kind of staves they should carry.In English, Latin. GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 US$ 49.98 \| JP¥ 4446] Book number: 947 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	RIPLEY, DILLON The sacred grove: museums and their evolutiona Victor Gollancz, 1970, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.0 575 00532 7.Fine/Fine.Top edge dust-speckled.Subtitled 'essays on museums', this is a thoughtful and forward-looking account of museum philosophy by a former secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.159 pp. In English. GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 US$ 24.99 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 2483 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	SCHLEGEL, FREDERICK VON The philosophy of history, in a course of lectures delivered at Vienna Henry G.Bohn, London, 1958, 7th edition, revised.Hard cover.Good/Good.Spine starting at front hinge, former owner's inscription, otherwise a tidy copy with tissue guard to frontispiece intact.Translated from the German by James Burton Robertson.xii, (2), 498 pp.plus publisher's advertisements at front and rear.Includes a biographical sketch of Schlegel. In English. GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 US$ 49.98 \| JP¥ 4446] Book number: 2584 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	SCHMITT, ARIANE L'Essor 1905-1980: un journal de precurseurs L'Essor, La Chaux-de-Fonds, 1980.Paper covers.V.g./No Jacket.V.g. owner's name on cover.Includes a loosely inserted (browned) copy of L'Essor, 76e annee, no.11 (Nov.1981), inscribed.Commemorative booklet about the Swiss newspaper which celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1980; includes a chapter on whether l'Essor has a future? Text in French.36 pp. In French. GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 US$ 24.99 \| JP¥ 2223] Book number: 1354 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.
	ZODIASTAR [PSEUD.] 30 different ways of card fortune telling Universal Publications Ltd. London, n.d.(c.1940).Paper covers.Fair /No Jacket.Spine separating, paper tanned, some interesting pencil annotations.Complicated stuff! 90 pp.plus (6) pp.of publisher's advertisements (e.g.""Railway riot"", ""Go to ------"" (includes Timbuktoo), ""U.P.L.Beetle Game"" and other frivolities.Serious stuff.In English. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.33 \| JP¥ 741] Book number: 2157 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books.