A Christian Rosenkreutz Anthology.
ALLEN, Paul M. (Compiled and Edited) In Collaboration with Carlo Pietzner.
New York: Rudolf Steiner Publications, 1968. First Edition Hardcover. Quarto. 704 pp. Maroon cloth with gilt titling to spine; numerous b&w illustrations. List of illustrations. An extensive and important collection of works relating to Christian Rosenkreutz and Rosicrucianism. It includes The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, an essay by Rudolph Steiner (1917); The English Translation of The Chymical Wedding by Paul M. Allen, The Hermetic Romance, The Chymical Wedding translated by Ezechiel Foxcroft, The Fame and Confession of the Fraternity of the Rosie Cross; translated by Thomas Vaughan (1652), The Secret Symbols of the Rosicucians, illustrated (1785-88), Heinrich Khunrath's Amphitheater of Eternal Wisdom, illustrated (1609), The Rosicrucian Brotherhood by Robert Fludd (1629), The Parabola, A Golden Tractate by Hinricus Madathanus (c. 1630), The Holy Mountain, A Rosicrucian Anthology, by Thomas Vaughan (1651), five lectures on Rosicrucianism by Rudolph Steiner, Castle Karlstein and its Rosicrucian Connections, by Ita Wegman (1924), An Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles of Rosicrucian Interest, The Pleasure Garden of Chymistry illustrated by Daniel Stolcius (1624) and A Catalogue of Rosicrucian Books by F. Leigh Gardner (1923), as well as notes, illustrations, etc. Very light chafing to lower edge, page edges very lightly thumbed, previous owner's details on front end paper, bookshop sticker. Otherwise a tight, bright VG+ copy in VG dustjacket. (Dustjacket lightly rubbed with some faint spots, a few tiny tears along edges. (Item ID: 1718)
$225.00
