δεισιδαιμονία (Superstition); A contribution to the knowledge of the religious terminology in Greek. Doctoral Thesis. Peter John Koets, 1929

δεισιδαιμονία (Deisidaimonia - Superstition); A contribution to the knowledge of the religious terminology in Greek. Doctoral Thesis. By Peter John Koets.

Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, academic and author. With his pencil annotations. Please see our other listings for related works.

Published by J. Muusses, Purmerend, Netherlands. 1929 first edition. A good brown linen hardback with gilt titles. Covers are rubbed, and sunfaded, especially to top and spine. Some age spotting. Some give in the spine, but all soundly bound.

Plain brown paper endpapers with offsetting to free papers. The front offset staining due to the 4pp loose Dutch contents section issued with the book, which is itself spotted. 

Text is bright and clean with marginal age spotting to open vertical edge, and the same edge of text block is noticeably spotted.

Text primarily in English, with Dutch introduction and 4pp separate contents section also in Dutch. Also contains some Greek language text, as per the subject matter.

An uncommon published doctoral thesis, generally only found in academic library collections.

x + 110pp + 4pp Dutch contents section.

Weight approximately 314g unpacked.

Dimensions: Approximately 243mm high x 165mm wide x 17mm deep.