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Rutherford, Adam.
Anglo-Saxon Israel or Israel-Britain An Explanation of the Origin, Function and Destiny of the Norse-Anglo-Celto-Saxon Race in the British Empire, U.S.A., Holland, Scandinavia and Iceland.
Publisher: Published by the author, London;
Date of Publication: 1939
Stock Code: 15097
Fourth edition, after the first of 1934. Octavo, pp., xii, 825, [3] of publisher’s advertisements, plus colour-printed folding map frontispiece, and twenty-one plates (4 folding) as called for, numerous diagrams, illustrations and tables within text. Original publisher’s blue cloth, titled in gilt to spine and upper board. Lacks the scarce jacket. Corners and joints a little rubbed, head of spine spine and upper board faded to cream. Internally clean. A good copy. A significant work of British Israelism. British Israelites, including Rutherford, believed that the ten tribes of Israel were the Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, and Scandinavian people. Rutherford argues, at length, that the architecture of the Pyramid of Khufu contains numerological evidence of the Anglo-Saxon inheritance of Israel. An influential work of pseudo-archaeology, which was admired by white supremacist groups across the English-speaking world. Copies of any edition are now thin on the ground. £80.00