NP, 1752. Hardcover. Quarto ( 9 1/4 x 7 inches). 326 pages (+vi, blanks) Quarter vellum binding: flat vellum spine with neat hand-written title in black ink over decorated paper covered-paper boards. Modern custom made paper-covered slip case. FRENCH LANGUAGE. A closely-written manuscript, dated 1752, with 3 pen drawings in..... More
Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers, ND [ ca. 1840]. Reprint. Hardcover. Small octavo. 24pp. Probably extracted from an early-to mid nineteeth century printed collection of chapbooks. Bound in modern blue stiff cloth wrappers with printed paper title label on upper cover. Black and white engraving and decorative border to title-page..... More
London: Privately published, 1984 1989. First Editions. Softcover. Nine non-consecutive issues. Issue No. 1 is Large quarto stapled at upper corner. (A4, 8.25 x 11.75 inches) + Issues No. 2 through No. 6, No. 8, No. 9 and No. 16 are Octavo size, (6 x 8.25 inches). 14pp., 24pp, 24pp..... More
West Bengal, India: Aloke Kumar Ghosh & Bros. ND (early 1960's). Hardcover. Octavo. 254pp. Maroon cloth gilt-lettered on spine & front board. An unusual if simplistic treatise on Western spirituality incorporating aspects of the Upanishads and the Vedanta. Bottom of spine bumped & lightly chafed, edges, prelims & endpapers foxed..... More
London: MacMillan & Co., 1878. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii + 440pp. Modern black half leather with gilt embellishments and lettering to spine, marbled boards, fresh endpapers. One of three anonymously published theological "romances" by Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926) best-known for his 1884 novella "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions"..... More
np. Sut Anubis, 1978. Softcover. Booklet. [32pp.] Several b/w illustrations. Stapled card covers. The fourth issue of this Thelemically-inclined British journal, published (anonymously) by Occultique. Mimeographed, fanzine type production values, it contains articles, advertisements, reviews, letters, etc. pertaining to the occult arts and contemporary releases. This issue contains articles by..... More
np. Sut Anubis, 1978. Softcover. Booklet. [32pp.] Several b/w illustrations. Stapled card covers. An issue of this Thelemically-inclined British journal, published (anonymously) by Occultique. Mimeographed, fanzine type production values, it contains articles, , advertisements, reviews, letters, etc. pertaining to the occult arts and contemporary releases. This issue contains articles by..... More
np. Sut Anubis, 1979. Softcover. Booklet. [40pp.] Several b/w illustrations. Stapled wrappers. An issue of this Thelemically-inclined British journal, published (anonymously) by Occultique. Mimeographed, fanzine type production values, it contains articles, advertisements, reviews, letters, etc. pertaining to the occult arts and contemporary releases. This issue contains articles by Pete Nalder..... More
np. Sut Anubis, 1980. Softcover. Booklet. [32pp.] Several b/w illustrations. Stapled card covers. Athis Thelemically-inclined British journal, published (anonymously) by Occultique. Photocopied, fanzine type production values, it contains articles, advertisements, reviews, letters, etc. pertaining to the occult arts and contemporary releases. This issue contains articles by Pete Nalder, Anthony Roe..... More
Bath UK: Printed by Richard Cruttwell, 1818. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. xxiv + 25-176pp. Contemporary cloth spine over papered boards with recent title labels on spine and front cover. An essay extracted from the work originally published in French as "Essai sure la Felicite de la Vie venir, par C. L...... More
![Item #60008 A Spirit's Idea of Happiness [ AND ] Ghosts, through a Writing-Medium; Two Titles in...](https://weiserantiquarian.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/60008.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1527179275)
London: Nichols & Co. / Tutin, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 344pp + 29pp. Original brown cloth lettered in gilt on spine and gilt rules to upper board. Two titles in one volume each with its own title page. Published anonymously, both appear to have been written by British poet..... More
Seattle, WA, USA: Ouroboros Press, 2008. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Volume II only. vi + 300pp. Original black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, bibliography. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. "The Picatrix, or Ghayat Al-Hakim as it is titled in Arabic ... has long been regarded as..... More
Rome [ Paris ]: Chez Le Père Angelo de Rimini, ND [ circa 1850 ? ]. Hardcover. Small Octavo (5.5 x 3.5 inches). (vi) + 180pp Contemporary quarter leather binding: black leather spine with gilt titling and decorations over marbled paper boards. Marbled endpapers. Black and white illustrations: engraved device..... More
Leek UK: Fred Hill, Printer, ND (circa 1930). First Edition. Softcover booklet. Small format (7.5 x 5 inches). 44pp. Beige textured card covers bordered and lettered in black. An elegantly produced booklet which purports to offer a verbatim record of a remarkable series of automatic writings received by a retired..... More
Boston, MA: The Christopher Publishing House, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Slim octavo. 42pp. Original blue cloth with gilt title & design on front board. Offsetting to some pages (some from earlier insert), gutter split at title-page (but holding), light foxing to endpapers, spine & boards somewhat discolored, several small white..... More
London: Citizen T. G. Ballard, 1795. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Pamphlet. 8pp. (inclusive of wrappers). A popular - if gruesome - political satire with added satirical ghost story. The radical work known as "Pitt's Death" was first published in the London paper "The Telegraph" on 20th, 21st, and 24th of..... More
London: Andrew Dakers, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 204pp. Blue cloth lettered in black on spine. Spine ends slightly chafed, bumps to corners of boards, previous owner's (Theosophical) bookplate on front pastedown, a few small discolored spots to spine & boards, page-edges slightly age-toned, otherwise a clean VG copy (no..... More
Calcutta, India: Datta Bose & Co., nd (circa 1920s). Softcover. 8vo. 82pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers a little darkened and discoloured. Spine darkened and chipped at ends. Old bookshop sticker inside front cover, paper a little browned. Still, overall a VG copy of an unusual publication... More
![Item #69173 [ Granta ] Aleister Crowley contributes a poem: "A Ballad of Burdens" to The Granta,...](https://weiserantiquarian.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/69173.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1629993980)
Cambridge, England: The Granta, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [394pp.] Original publisher's blue cloth illustrated and bordered in black, both upper cover gilt-lettered. Numerous b/w illustrations. A bound volume of the periodical, 'The Granta, from issues 265 to 288 inclusive. "The Granta" is the well known journal founded by students..... More
UK: Scarlet Imprint, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 210pp. Srikingly bound in turquoise cloth, gilt titling to spine, upper board elaborately decorated in gilt, black endpapers. The first edition, limited to 333 hand-numbered copies. Comprises fourteen original and extensive essays which explore the Grimoires in passionate, informed and evocative pieces..... More
UK: Scarlet Imprint, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 350pp. Bound in red cloth shot through with black. The spine and cover are lettered in heavy black. Original essays and artwork, in a striking talismanic production. Nine colour plates of artwork by Stafford Stone, Kyle Fite, Thomas Karlsson, and Johnny..... More
[ Ethiopia / Eritrea ]: ( circa 19th Century ). A single manuscript leaf: text on both sides of an 11 1/2 x 8 3/4 inch sheet of vellum, the written surface being approximately 7 1/2 x 7 inches. Twenty six lines of script in two columns – written in..... More
[ France ]: ( circa 1450 ). A single manuscript leaf: text on both sides of a 5 1/8 x 3 3/8 inch sheet of vellum, the written surface being approximately 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches. Initial illuminated in gold, text in brown and red ink. A calendar leaf..... More
[ Delft, The Netherlands ]: ( circa 1450 ). A single manuscript leaf: text on both sides of a 6 7/8 x 4 7/8 inch sheet of clean white vellum, the written surface being approximately 3 5/8 x 2 1/2 inches. Written in old Dutch text in a clear Gothic..... More
London: Privately Published, ND [ 1939 ]. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo booklet. 12pp (+ b&w photographic portrait frontis). Original stapled red printed wrappers. A booklet released to commemorate the death of William John Songhurst (1860-1939), who served as the Supreme Magus of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (S.R.I.A.) from 1925..... More
