Verkäufer Inanna Rare Books Ltd., Skibbereen, CORK, Irland
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14 cm x 21 cm. Frontispiece, XVIII, 244 pages. Hardcover [publisher's original maroon cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt lettering and pictorial on front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior very bright and clean. Rare ! Includes, for example, the following chapters: De Barros' 'Kingdom of Sofala' - The Monomotapa and His Zimbabyes / Bent's 'Ancient Rhodesia' - Its Monuments and Gold Workings / Burton's 'Gold Mines of Midian' / Glaser's 'Havilah and Ophir' / Lassen's 'India and the Golden Chersonese' / The Himyarites and Their Monuments - Rhodesian Parallelisms / The Himyaritic Rock Inscriptions - Early Sabaean and Minean Culture - Echoes of Rhodesian Contacts / The Himyarites in Madagascar / The Jews and Phoenicians in Madagascar etc. Augustus Henry Keane, a professor of Hindustani at University College London, was an Irish ethnologist and linguist, and vice-president of the Anthropological Institute. In this book - a contribution to Victorian-era scholarly debate concerning the mythical Ophir gold, which was the source of King Solomon's famed wealth - Keane theorized that the source of the gold lay in the ancient Zimbabye lands, then part of the British Empire. Sprache: english. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 120059AB
Bibliografische Details
Titel: The Gold of Ophir. Whence brought and by ...
Verlag: London, Edawrd Stanford.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1901
Einband: Hardcover
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