Grand Rapids, MI: Phanes Press, 1991. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. 78pp. Maroon cloth with gilt title etc to cover and spine, b&w illustrations. A reissue of the edition that was originally published by McLean in 1980 as the Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks series No. 4. "The Rosicrucian Emblems is a significant..... More
York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser Inc., 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo.164pp. Brown cloth, gilt title, etc. to spine and gilt portrait of Agrippa on front cover. Primarily notes and commentaries on Agrippa's 'Three Books of Occult Philosophy,' but includes Main Events in the life of Henry Cornelius Agrippa. Lower spine..... More
Glasgow, U.K. Hermetic Studies series, 1999. Limited edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 140pp. Hand bound in maroon faux leather with gilt title titling to spine, maroon endpapers. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies. Signed by Adam McLean. Number 3 in the Hermetic Studies series. An assembly of ten important French alchemical texts..... More
Bonneuil-en-Valois, France: La Hutte, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto. 78pp. Printed and illustrated beige wrappers, index. FRENCH text. A nicely produced soft-cover volume. According to the publishers it is the first ever publication of a German alchemical manuscript that was translated in 1782. The author gives details of the laboratory..... More
Paris: Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. xcii +134pp. Printed wrappers, glossary, indexes and bibliography. FRENCH text. A critical edition, with commentaries and parallel French language text, of "Le Rosier Alchimique de Montpellier" a fourteenth century alchemical text written in the Occitan lanuage in Languedoc. The..... More
Glasgow, U.K. Hermetic Studies, 1999. Limited edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Not paginated. [ 32pp ]. Hand bound in brown faux leather with gilt title titling to spine, maroon endpapers, lettered "Mutus Liber Coloured" down spine. 15 full page coloured illustrations, bibliography. Number 4 in the Hermetic Studies series. Edition limited to..... More
London: John M. Watkins, 1955. Limited Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 386pp. Original black cloth with gilt titling to spine. A facsimile reprint of the work originally published anonymously in 1815. Edition limited to 250 numbered copies of which this is no. 127. The identity of the author remains unknown..... More
Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 1996. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 224pp. Original black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, index. English to Greek Glossary, Greek to English Index, Subject index. From the publisher: "Aristotle's Meteorology Book 4 provides an account of the formation of minerals, metals, and other homogeneous stuffs. Eric..... More
New York, NY: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1967. Facsimile reprint of the London Edition 1652. Hardcover. Large octavo. ix-xlix + 495pp. Original blue cloth with gilt to cover and spine, b&w illustrations, fold-out plate. The first complete modern reprint of one of the best known seventeenth century alchemical works. Theatrum Chemicum..... More
Edmonds, WA: The Alchemical Press/Holmes Publishing Group, 1985. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Octavo. 20pp. Stapled illustrated card covers. The operation of the alchemical elements in forty-seven revealing steps. One of a series of excerpts from larger works published by The Alchemical Press. A tight clean copy in near Fine condition..... More
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Edmonds, WA: The Alchemical Press/Holmes Publishing Group, 1997. Second Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 24pp. Stapled illustrated card covers. A new translation of this important alchemical tract with notes and corrections by Dr. Michael Charles. Some rubs to rear cover else a tight clean copy in near Fine condition. More
London: Neville Spearman, 1975. First UK edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xvii + 130pp. Original orange cloth with gilt titling, b&w illustrations. The record of a practicing alchemist of the late twentieth century: “an actual handbook on 'celestial agriculture', a detailed step-by-step account of the incredible discovery which put him on the..... More
Hildesheim: Olm-Weidmann, 2002. Facsimile reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. Eccentrically paginated [ Approx. 550pp ]. Original navy cloth with gilt lettering to upper cover and to spine. GERMAN TEXT A nicely produced facsimile of the 1680 Frankfurt edition of "Experimentum Chymicum Novum" by the German alchemist and scientist Johann Joachim Becher (1635..... More
London: Vincent Stuart Ltd., 1963. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii + 442pp. Black cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, gilt emblem on front cover. Edition limited to 500 copies. "A Treatise Concerning the Treasure and Most Precious Stone of the Philosophers or the Method and Procedue of this Divine..... More
New York: Hafner Pub. Co, 1972. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. Large octavo. xxviii +186pp. Beige cloth with black title etc printed to spine and front board. Robert Boyle ( 1627 – 1691) was an Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist and inventor who is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist..... More
Edmonds WA: The Alchemical Press, 1990. Reprint. Softcover. Octavo. 4 Volumes (complete). Part One, Lessons 1-3: 36pp. Part Two, Lessons 4-6: 40pp. Part Three, Lessons 7-9: 40pp. Part Four, Lessons 10 -12: 40pp. A modern reprint of one of the best known works by American alchemical author Delmar de Forest..... More
Paris: J.-C. Bailly, 1986. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Small quarto. 64pp, b&w illustrations and full page colour plates. Original colour illustrated wrappers. FRENCH text. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies. Raphael Patai in "The Jewish Alchemists" noted that this work is "an important contribution to the study of the relationship..... More
NP [ United States ]: Gale ECCO Editions, 2010. Reprint. Softcover. Quarto. 126pp. Ilustrated glossy wrappers. A recent print on demand facsimile edition of this 1704 alchemical text by Cleidophorus Mystagogus (William Yarworth). Edges lightly rubbed otherwise in about Fine condition. More
Allentown, PA: Privately published / Printed by Searle & Dressler, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 140pp. Maroon leather with gilt titles, etc. to spine, gilt device to upper board, blind stamped device to rear board, blind borders both boards. "For the use of members only" on title page followed by..... More
Edmonds, WA: The Alchemical Press, 1988. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Octavo. 28pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers, b&w illustration. Although not stated by the publisher, this booklet comprises a reprint of Chapters I - III of Part II: Theoretical [Alchemy] extracted from Cockren's "Alchemy Rediscovered and Restored" (1941). A tight clean near..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. lxxxiv + 320pp. Original green cloth, gilt titling to spine. Index. The Hermetica are a body of theological-philosophical texts written in late antiquity but long believed to be much older. A new English translation of the works ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus together..... More
Grand Rapids, MI: Phanes Press, 1991. Reprint. Softcover. Octavo. 82pp, b&w illustrations. The softcover edition of Number 4 of Adam McLean's Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks. "The Rosicrucian Emblems is a significant yet little known work of emblematic philosophy published in 1617, only one year after the appearance of The Chemical..... More
Edmonds, WA: The Alchemical Press, 1983. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Octavo. Booklet. 12pp. Blue stapled illustrated card covers. One of a series of off-prints excerpts from larger works published by The Alchemical Press, this being extracted from Waite's "Hermetic Museum". Light rubbing to covers and faint darkening to spine -..... More
New York: Garland Publishing, 1999. First US Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. lvi + 212pp. Gray cloth spine with illustrated papered boards, silver lettering to spine, index. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities Vol. 1109. Two important alchemical treatises by "the hermetic magistrate" Jean D'Espagnet.: "The Summary of Physics Restored" ("Enchyridion Physicae..... More
New York: Garland Publishing, 1999. First US Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. lvi + 212pp. Gray cloth spine with illustrated papered boards, silver lettering to spine, index. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities Vol. 1109. Two important alchemical treatises by "the hermetic magistrate" Jean D'Espagnet.: "The Summary of Physics Restored" ("Enchyridion Physicae..... More
