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Title: The work of the Open Court Publishing Co. : an illustrated catalogue of its publications covering a period of twenty-one years (1887-1907) consisting of a complete book list with brief characterizatiion of authors and contents, including also a selection of noteworthy articles from the Monist and the Open court
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Open Court Publishing Company. Chicago
Subjects: Philosophy Catalogs, Publishers' -- United States
Publisher: Chicago
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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theBook Am-Tuat. with translations and reproductions of all the illustrations;also chapters dealing with the origin and contents of the Books of theOther World. . . . For a period of 2.000 years in the history of Egypt,the Books of the Other World consisted of text only, but about B. C. 2500some pictorial representations appeared, and before the close of the XIXDynasty, all the principal books relating to Tuat were profusely illustrated.. . . The Egyptians had no belief in purgatory. In all the Books ofthe Other World we find pits of fire, abysses of darkness, murderous knives,streams of boiling water, foul stenches, fiery serpents, hideous animal-headedmonsters and creatures, and cruel death-dealing beings of various shapes,similar to those with which we are familiar in early Christian and medirevalliterature, and it is tolerably certain that modern nations are indebted toEgA-pt for many of their conceptions of hell.—Records of tlie Past. 21 THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING CO., CHICAGO.
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THE CREATION.From Budges Gods of the Egyptians, I, 299. 22 THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING CO., CHICAGO. BUDGE (Con.) The Gods of the Egyptians or Studies in Egyptian Mythology. By E. A. Wallis Budge. With 98 )ilatcs and 131 speciallyprepared illustrations in the text. 2 \ols. Tp. 548, 440. Irice,$20.00 net.* A Description of the I\G:yptian Pantheon hased upon originalresearch; methodical, thorough, and ui^to-datc in every respect.It is unique, and the prohahility is that the work will soon be-come rare. The original cditicni consisted of 1500 copies, but a disastrousfire in the bindery destroyed 500 of them, thus limiting theedition to 1000 copies. As the color plates were printed atgreat cost bv lithogra)ihic process, and the drawings on thestones immediately after destroyed, there is scarcely any proba-bility of replacing the lost copies by a new^ edition.The author discusses the worship of spirits, demons, gods andother supernatural beings in Egypt from the Predynastic periodto the time

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