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Title: Lot of 11 volumes of Religious works Author: ** Place: New York, et al. Publisher: Limited Editions Club Date: 1946-77 Description: With: The Book of Job. Preface by Mary Ellen Chase. Illus. with mounted color plates by Arthur Szyk. 12x8¼ half white morocco & pictorial gilt & white boards. 1 of 1950 copies printed by Lewis F. White, 1946. * The Koran: Selected Suras. Trans. from the Arabic by Arthur Jeffery. Decorations & illumination by Valenti Angelo. 9¾x6¾, dec. buckram bound in the Islamic style, folding box. 1 of 1500 copies printed by A. Colish, 1958. * The Memoirs of Louis de Rouvroy Duc de Saint-Simon Covering the Years 1691-1723. 2 vols. Trans. & ed. by Desmond Flower. Illus. with plates by Pierre Brissaud hand-colored in the studio of Walter Fischer. 10x6½, gilt-dec. & lettered crimson buckram, glassines. Newsletter, laid in. 1 of 1500 copies from the Thistle Press, 1959. * The Confessions of St. Augustine. Trans. by J. G. Pilkington. Illus. by Edy Legrand. 10½x8¼, ¼ black leather & cloth, gilt-lettered morocco cover label. 1 of 1500 copies printed by W. S. Cowell, 1962. * Bhagavad Gita: The Song Celestial. Trans. by Sir. Edwin Arnold. Intro. by Shri Sri Prakasa. Illus. with tipped-in color plates by Y. G. Srimati. 10x7, dec. silk, glassine, folding slipcase. 1 of 1500 copies by the Commercial Printing Press, Bombay, 1964. * Saint Thomas Aquinas: Selections From His Works. Selected by George N. Shuster. Illus. with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone 11¾x8½, blind-stamped gray cloth. 1 of 1500 copies printed by W. & J. Mackay & Co. from the typographic plan of Will Carter, 1969. * Frazer. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. 2 vols. Intro. by Stanley Edgar Hyman. Illus. with color plates & line drawings by James Lewicki. 11x7½, gilt-stamped cloth. 1 of 2000 copies printed at the Sign of the Stone Book, 1970. * Pascal. Les Pensées. Trans. by Martin Turnell. Illus. by Ismar David 11¼x8¼, orange & white cloth, gilt-lettered spine. 1 of 1500 copies printed at the Sign of the Stone Book, 1971. * The Sermon on the Mount. Intro., parallel texts, & commentaries by Rowan A. Greer. 12x8½, ¼ black morocco & marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. Not signed as issued. 1 of 1600 copies designed by John Dreyfus & printed at the University Press, Oxford, 1977. Together, 11 volumes. Original bindings, slipcases (except one). Each signed by the illustrator in the colophon, except one as issued. Lot Amendments Condition: Occasional light wear, near fine to fine, slipcases very good to near fine. Item number: 191702