Portland, OR: Azoth Press, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxvi + 176pp, iipp. Edition limited to 400 hand numbered copies. . NEW book in fine condition. (no dust jacket issued). From the publisher: "In 1592, Giordano Bruno, the greatest master of the Art of Memory, published the secrets of his... More
Berkeley, CA: Privately published, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 252pp. Scarlet cloth with gilt titling to spine. Edition limited to 200 copies signed by Jerry Cornelius. From the publisher: "In this book, J. Edward Cornelius recounts the history of the A.’.A.’. from its inception to the present, but mainly documenting... More
![Continuation of the Comte de Gabalis, or New Discourses Upon the Secret Sciences; Touching Upon the new Philosophy. Posthumous Work. Amsterdam, Pierre de Coup, M.D. CCXV [Alternative title:] Part 2. A Continuation of the "Comte de Gabalis" John YARKER.](/pictures/thumb/60025.jpg?v=1523548667)
Bath, England: Robert H. Fryer, 1897. First Edition. Softcover. Small quarto (8 1/8 x 6 1/2 inches). 102pp. (+iipp. - eratta) Original buff colored printed wrappers. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies. The first part of this work (actually an independent text) attributed to the famous Comte was translated by... More
Douai, France: Chez l'auteur, 1928. First Edition. Softcover. Small octavo. 126pp (+ii pp. blank) Original soft paper wrappers. Text in French / English / German and Spanish. François Jollivet-Castelot (1874-1937) was a French author, occultist and alchemist. He was the president of the Societe Alchimique of France, an organization founded... More
![The Chaldæn Oracles of Zoroaster [ Chaldean Oracles ]. W. Wynn WESTCOTT, , Sapere Aude.](/pictures/thumb/59772.jpg?v=1523548667)
New York, NY: Occult Research Press, ND (1950s). First Edition Thus. Softcover booklet, Small octavo. 54pp, (+ iipp - blank) Stapled in blue printed card covers. 'The Chaldean Oracles' are hermetic poetic aphorisms commonly attributed to 'Zoroaster,' but assigned by recent scholarship to Julianus the theurgist, who lived during the... More
New York, NY: Occult Research Press, ND (1950s). First Edition Thus. Softcover booklet, Small octavo. (ii) + 44pp, (+ iipp - blank) Stapled in printed card covers. A reprint of the revised edition of Westcott's translation of the Kabbalistic treatise "Sepher Yetzirah". It was first published in 1887 and later... More
New York, NY: Samuel Weiser, Inc. 1980. Reprint. Hardcover. Large Octavo. 580pp. Original red cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, gilt "Tree of Life" on front cover, blind rules, frontis, b/w illustrations. The second US printing of the one volume edition of this classic work on the Qabalah by... More
Rozelle, NSW, Australia: Standard Publishing House, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto. 52pp. Glossy buff coloured wrappers, with black titling. 12 Tipped in colour plates. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies, of which this is number 450 ("Copies numbered 1-250 have special cloth bindings" - this copy obviously does not). An... More
London: Science Museum, 1952. First Edition. Softcover booklet. 7 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches. 32 pp. Original stapled wrappers. A nicely produced annotated catalogue, listing one hundred eye watering alchemical texts, that were displayed as part of the [London] Science Museum's first Exhibition of Books. With an Introduction by F.... More
Chicago, IL: The Aries Press, 1935. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Elephant Folio (18 inches x 12 inches). (xii) + 58pp. Black cloth, title in gilt across upper boards. A handsome edition with magnificent, intricate alchemical, hermetic, Rosicrucian, and Qabalistic diagrams, charts, symbols etc. reproduced in black and white over... More
Grand Rapids, MI: Phanes Press, 1991. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 176pp. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine and upper board, b&w frontis, appendix, bibliography. The Second edition of No. 18 of Adam McLean's Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks which was first published in the hand bound limited editions that... More
York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser Inc. 1999. Reprint. Softcover. Octavo. xiv + 206 pp. Index. The author, Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi (Warren Kenton: b. 1993), who hails from from an English Sephardic family and spent over forty years studying the Kabbalah. From the publisher: In this volume Halevi "sets out... More
Edmonds, WA: Alchemical Press, 1991. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Octavo. 56pp. Original light blue printed wrappers. A modern edition of the Foxcroft translation of 'The Chymical Wedding.' The publisher describes it thus: "The symbols and trials of the seven days of the Rosicrucian initiation. A wonderful allegory, harboring an esoteric... More
London and New York: Routledge, 2005. Reprint. Hardcover. Small quarto. xx + 228pp. Black cloth gilt-lettered on spine. Notes, bibliography and index. Well illustrated in colour. From the publisher: "Transformation of the Psyche is organized around 22 illuminated paintings from the early Renaissance alchemical manuscript the Splendor Solis, and is... More
![The Book of Lambspring. A Noble Ancient Philosopher. Concerning the Ancient Stone [ From the Hermetic Museum ]. Nicholas Barnaud DELPHINAS.](/pictures/thumb/59278.jpg?v=1523548665)
Los Angeles, CA: Sacred-Wisdom Science, 1936. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Large octavo. 34pp. Original gilt decorated black cloth with gilt lettering to upper board and spine, b&w illustrations. The Book of Lambspring is one of the most famous sixteenth century emblem books to deal with the subject of spiritual alchemy... More
Hudson, NY: Lindisfarne Books, 1999. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Large octavo. xviii + 268 pp, illustrated. Uncorrected Proof Copy. A collection of essays which have their origins in two conferences held in the Czech Republic in the 1990s. The publishers observe: "The result is this book: in which John Matthews... More
London: Vincent Stuart Ltd. 1962. Second edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. xxxiv + 204pp. Black cloth with copper titling to spine and gilt device to upper board, index. A facsimile reprint of the1893 edition of this work. Valentine is thought to have been a Benedictine monk. This work was first published... More
Edinburgh, Scotland: Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks, 1979. Limited edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 126pp. Hand bound in brown faux leather, gilt titling to spine, b&w illustrations. Edition limited to 250 copies. Signed by Adam McLean. Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks series No. 2. Robert Fludd (1574 - 1637), was a prominent English physician... More
Grand Rapids, MI: Phanes Press, 1989. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. 216pp. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine and upper board, b&w illustrations, appendix. The Second edition of No. 22 of Adam McLean's Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks which was first published in the hand bound limited editions that McLean is... More
Grand Rapids, MI: Phanes Press, 1989. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Large octavo. 144 pp. Light grey cloth titled and decorated in gilt, b&w illustrations. A scarce study of the use of mandala-type designs in Western esotericism, by means of an analysis of engravings from alchemical, kabbalistic, magical, Rosicrucian and Hermetic... More
![The Mirror of Alchimy. Composed by the Thrice-Famous and Learned Fryer, Roger Bachon [ The Mirror of Alchemy ]; ( English Renaissance Hermeticism series ). Roger BACON, Stanton J. Linden.](/pictures/thumb/59133.jpg?v=1523548665)
New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1992. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. lx + 144 pp. Beige cloth with green titling to upper board and spine, glossary and index. An excellent scholarly edition, drawn from the text of the 1597 printing, of a work that was widely (and probably wrongly)... More
![George Ripley's Compound of Alchymy (1591) [The Compound Of Alchymy]. George RIPLEY, Stanton J. Linden.](/pictures/thumb/59128.jpg?v=1523548665)
Aldershot, Burlington, Singapore, Sydney: Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 2001. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. lviii + 138pp Blue publisher's cloth with gilt title etc to spine and boards. Reproduces the text of the original 1591 printing, along with an extensive commentary, notes, etc. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped and rubbed... More
Seattle, WA: Ouroboros Press, 2006. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Small octavo. 158pp. + adverts. Maroon cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, gilt Ouroboros design on front cover, index. A fine press edition, with the text of the 1896 edition beautifully printed in Goudy and Hoefler typefaces. Limited hand-numbered printing... More
York Beach, Maine, USA: Samuel Weiser, Inc. 1995. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. xii + 256pp. Black cloth with gilt title etc, indexes, b&w illustrations. The first edition thus - limited to 750 numbered copies - with a new introduction by Todd Pratum. The book is an alchemical treatise attributed... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. [xxvi] + 260pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, b&w illustrations, glossary, bibliography and index. From the publisher: "Ranging from the pre-Christian era to Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton at the end of the seventeenth century, this Reader covers... More
