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Bidding Information
Lot #    17917
Auction End Date    4/24/2007 12:29:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    The Poetry and the Religion of the Psalms
Author    [First Ed?] James Robertson
City    New York
Publisher    Dodd, Mead, and Company
Publication Date    1895
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   Cloth; 8vo. XVI, 360 pp. Lacks back board and about half of backstrip; remaining backstrip and front board detached. Interior in very good condition.
          
Detailed
Description
   Series: The Croall lectures; 1893-94. Robertson was a Professor of Oriental Literature at the University of Glasgow, author of The Early Literature of Israel. "The aim of these pages is to vindicate for the Psalms an earlier date and a higher position than some critics assign to them."
          
Reference
Description
   OCLC lists 21 copies of this edition worldwide.
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica