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Bidding Information
Lot #    20559
Auction End Date    5/6/2008 10:23:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church
Author    [Maps] Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
City    New York
Publisher    Charles Scribner's Sons
Publication Date    1892-95
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Three volumes, maps, plates, 192:122 mm., light age staining, old hands, somewhat shaken. A good copy bound in the original cloth boards, rubbed some tears.
          
Detailed
Description		    Jewish history with maps and diagrams by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley. Stanley was Dean of Westminster, one of five children of the Right Reverend Edward Stanley, Bishop of Norwich. He was educated at Rugby and Balliol College Oxford. Between 1856 & 1864 he was Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford. In 1864 he became Dean of Westminster, a post which he held until his death in 1881.

In 1852 Stanley travelled to Egypt and Palestine, and produced a best-selling account of his observations, Sinai and Palestine in Connection with Their History, which is still being reprinted.

          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
History:    Checked
Other:    Map
  
Characteristic
Language:    English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica