The Cabiri by George Stanley Faber
Publication: 1803 Oxford University Press First Edition - Two Volumes complete 428pp., 475pp
Full title: A Dissertation on The Mysteries of The Cabiri or the Great Gods of Phoenicia, Samothrace, Egypt, Troas, Greece, Italy, and Crete; being an attempt to deduce the several orgies of Isis, Ceres, Mithras, Bacchus, Rhea, Adonis, and Hecate from an Union of the Rites commemorative of the Deluge with adoration of the Host of Heaven
A rare first edition of The Cabiri by George Stanley Spencer- Spencer held that the eastern myths were more accurately ddescribed in the Bible. In the present work he studies the rites of worship of the eponymous deities, practiced first in Lemnos and Samothrace and later throughout Ancient Greece, and sugggests that they were in fact the same as those of Isis, Ceres, Mithras, Bacchus,and Adonis.
Condition: Three quarters leather, raised bands, rubbing to spine ends, edges and book corners, Small chip to top of one spine. Frontis plate with foxing, interior paper very clean and nice. Overall in VEry Good condition. - Bookplate from the Psychological Research Library- from the personal collection of" Natcha Rambova" (born Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy 1897-1966) an American film costume designer, set designer, and occasional actress who was actine in Hollywood in the 1920's. She was briefly married to Rudolph Valentino. In her later life she abandoned design to pursue other interests, specifically Egyptology, on which she became a published scholar in the 1950's.