1883 1st Esoteric Occult Rivers of Life Forlong
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1883 1st Esoteric Occult Rivers of Life Forlong World Religions MAP Illustrated
Major-General Forlong was a military engineer and scholar of world religions. Forlong’s ‘Rivers of Life’ is a two-volume comprehensive, cross-cultural study of world religions. Forlong traces the development of the world’s great faiths including worship of trees, serpents, ancestors and heavenly bodies, along with comparisons of Egyptian pyramids and earthen mounds in Kentucky, Vishnu Christian catacomb symbols, the Assyrian and British Crown; Roman sun worship and the doctrine of Roman Catholic transubstantiation, Celtic water worship and Cibola tribes from New Mexico.
This 1883 first edition is illustrated with two color folding maps, over 300 in-text illustrations, a large, folding, "synoptical table of gods, god-ideas and many features which all faiths have more or less in common"!
Item number: #11364
Price: $750
FORLONG, J. G. R.
Rivers of life, or Sources and streams of the faiths of man in all lands, showing the evolution of faiths from the rudest symbolisms to the latest spiritual developments, by major-general J.G.R. Forlong, ...
London: B. Quaritch, 1883. First Edition
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Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes
Vol. I – xli, [1], 565, [3]
193 illustrations
Vol. II – 660
146 illustrations
Language: English
Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
Size: ~11.5in X 9.5in (29.5cm x 24cm)
Very rare with auction records and price comparisons as high as $2,600
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Major-General Forlong was a military engineer and scholar of world religions. Forlong’s ‘Rivers of Life’ is a two-volume comprehensive, cross-cultural study of world religions. Forlong traces the development of the world’s great faiths including worship of trees, serpents, ancestors and heavenly bodies, along with comparisons of Egyptian pyramids and earthen mounds in Kentucky, Vishnu Christian catacomb symbols, the Assyrian and British Crown; Roman sun worship and the doctrine of Roman Catholic transubstantiation, Celtic water worship and Cibola tribes from New Mexico.
This 1883 first edition is illustrated with two color folding maps, over 300 in-text illustrations, a large, folding, "synoptical table of gods, god-ideas and many features which all faiths have more or less in common"!
Item number: #11364
Price: $750
FORLONG, J. G. R.
Rivers of life, or Sources and streams of the faiths of man in all lands, showing the evolution of faiths from the rudest symbolisms to the latest spiritual developments, by major-general J.G.R. Forlong, ...
London: B. Quaritch, 1883. First Edition
Details:
Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes
Vol. I – xli, [1], 565, [3]
193 illustrations
Vol. II – 660
146 illustrations
Language: English
Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
Size: ~11.5in X 9.5in (29.5cm x 24cm)
Very rare with auction records and price comparisons as high as $2,600
Our Guarantee:
Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.
Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation!
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