Leiden / Boston: Brill under the auspices of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE), 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Large octavo. vii +136pp, ipp. Glossy bright red wrappers lettered in yellow & black. Publishers' description: "Aries is the first professional academic journal specifically devoted to a long-neglected..... More
Paris: Guy Trédaniel Editeur, 1994. Fourth Edition. Softcover. Large Octavo. 334pp. Glossy pictorial wrappers. Black and white illustrations and diagrams. FRENCH TEXT. From the publisher: "AN MIL, le Premier Templier, St-Bernard, téléguidé par son Maître, Etienne Harding, déclenche l'APOCALYPSE ou Révélation aux accents du « SALVE REGINA ». D'un ordre..... More
Villeneuve de La Raho: Pégase, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. Large Octavo. 246pp (+ iipp adverts). Glossy pictorial wrappers. Black and white illustrations and diagrams. Edition limitée à 250 exemplaires numérotés, cet exemplaire NON numéroté. (edition limited to 250 numbered copies, this copy NOT numbered). FRENCH TEXT. From the publisher: "En..... More
London: James Elliott and Co., 1894. First Edition. Hardcovers. Large quartos. Two volumes, complete. Volume I: xvi., 394pp + viii and Volume II: 396pp. [+4pp. adverts]. Original maroon pebbled cloth with gilt pentacle within a sunburst design on front boards and gilt titles on spines, beveled edges, top edges gilt..... More
Paris: Le Sycomore / Féodalisme, 1992. First Edition. Softcover, Octavo. 328 pp. [+72 pp of plates] . Printed glossy card covers with flaps. B&W and colour illustrations. FRENCH TEXT. A scholarly study of the birth of alchemical iconography in mediaeval Europe, during the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Orbrist takes..... More
Hercules, CA, USA: Xoanon Publishing, 2008. Edition Codex Vasculum. Hardcover. Octavo. 304 pages. Casebound in black decorated rust-colored cloth. Thirty-three illustrations, colored endpapers, lexicon. One of 720 hand-numbered clothbound copies of the greatly-expanded "Edition Codex Vasculum" (there were also two deluxe issues of 72 and 11 copies respectively). The work..... More
(Hyères, France): La Pierre Philosophale Éditions, (2011). Première Édition - Édition Limitée. Softcover. Large Octavo. 278pp (+ iipp adverts). Glossy pictorial wrappers. Black and white illustrations and diagrams. Exemplaire numéroté, celui-ci no. 127 / 150 (edition limited to 150 numbered copies, this number 127). FRENCH TEXT. From the publisher: "Livre..... More
Wiesbaden: Albus VMA Verlag, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xvi + 412pp (+ ivpp adverts). Glossy illustrated paper-covered boards. 132 pages of black and white photographic plates. GERMAN LANGUAGE. A serious study of Mithraism, from ancient Persia to the Fourth century CE. The author, Reinhold Merkelbach (1918-2006) was a...... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xiv + 348pp. Original navy cloth with gilt titling etc to spine. Frontis and b&w illustrations, notes and index. A significant recent biographical study of Starkey ('Eirenaeus Philalethes') the New England alchemist. "As new" but for very light bruising..... More
Chicago, IL: The Aries Press, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 146pp. Original red cloth with gilt title etc. to spine. Regardie's study of the Golden Dawn, and his personal recollections of one of it's later incarnations, the Stella Matutina. Not surprisingly it includes references to a number of luminaries including..... More
London: Neville Spearman, 1975. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 308pp. Orange cloth with gilt titling to spine. Index. Colour frontis portrait. B/w plates, coloured endpapers. Ithell Colquhoun's biographical study of MacGregor Mathers and his involvement with Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Despite some factual shortcomings, it is still the..... More
London: The MacMillan Press Ltd, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. x + 322pp. Black cloth with gilt title etc to spine, notes, appendicies and index. An important study of Yeats's involvement in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and its effect on his life and writings. Drawn from -..... More
London: Neville Spearman Ltd., 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 254pp. Original purple cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine. The first publication of a number of important Golden Dawn 'Flying Rolls' which deal with subjects such as astral travel, exorcism, and ritual magic. This copy SIGNED by editor, Francis King..... More
Wellingborough, England: Aquarian Press, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 224pp. Illustrated covers, b&w line illustrations. A volume in the popular "Roots of the Golden Dawn" series. The first edition of this group of previously uncollected writings on Tarot, Kabbalah, Astrology and Hermeticism by S. L. MacGregor Mathers and J. W...... More
York Beach, Maine USA: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1979. Second Printing. Softcover. Octavo. 158pp. White colour illustrated covers. Appendix, b&w illustrations. Based upon the Interpretations of S. L. MacGregor Mathers for exclusive use by Initiates and includes original documents on Tarot from the Order of the Golden Dawn with explanatory notes..... More
London: Neville Spearman, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 208pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine, b&w frontispiece and in-text diagrams. A groundbreaking publication in the history of the rediscovery of the Golden Dawn. It includes a number of lectures and teachings of the Order that had not previously been..... More
Wellingborough, England: Aquarian Press, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 144 pp. Glossy printed wrappers. Index, appendix, bibliography. The text of the work includes the first complete publication of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn's 'Historical Lecture', as well as a new translation of the whole text of the 'Anna..... More
Wellingborough, England: Aquarian Press, 1986. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 224 pp. Glossy printed wrappers, b&w illustrations. From the Roots of Golden Dawn series by Aquarian Press. The first edition of this important work in which John Hamill and R.A. Gilbert collected, for the first time, the magical writings of Frederick..... More
Richmond Vista, CA: Three Hands Press, 2010. First Edition, limited. Hardcover. Octavo. 224pp. Fine maroon cloth with gilt titling to spine and device to upper board. Brown endpapers. Title page and in-text illustrations, bibliography. Deluxe hardcover edition, a limited edition of 250 copies. In this second volume of a projected..... More
Richmond Vista, CA: Three Hands Press, 2009. First Edition, limited. Hardcover. Octavo. 182pp. Deep navy cloth with gilt titing to spine and device to upper board. Black endpapers. Title page llustration, bibliography. Deluxe hardcover of an edition limited to 300 hand numbered copies. The first in what was to be..... More
Richmond Vista CA: Three Hands Press [ Xoanon ], 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 56pp. Fine cloth spine, papered boards, gilt lettering to spine, bibliography. Standard hardcover edition, limited to 1,000 copies. A monograph by British occult author Andrew D. Chumbley (1967-2004). "Written as an undergraduate as SOAS University of..... More
Richmond Vista, CA, USA: Three Hands Press, 2010. First Edition - Edition Deluxe. Hardcover. Octavo. 152pp. Quarter morocco leather with charcoal cloth over boards. Gilt lettering to spine, black textured endpages, illustrated in black and white. Cloth slip-case. This is the edition deluxe, limited to 242 specially-bound numbered copies thus..... More
New York: Ives Washington, 1931. First US Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 400pp. Original black cloth gilt-lettered on front board, spine titled in blind, b&w frontis & plates, index, fold-out table, printed endpapers. The first US edition of Carrington's "attempt to summarize the findings of modern Psychical Research." Hereward Carrington (1880-1958)..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First Edition, Signed. Hardcover. Octavo. xii + 274pp. Gray cloth with red titling and black decorative stamping to spine and upper board, references. SIGNED by the author opposite the title page on a presentation panel. Hereward Carrington (1880-1958), was one of the best-known of..... More
Italy: Glittering Images, 1996. Second Edition [ Ristampa riveduta e aggiornata ]. Softcover. Large quarto (13" x 10 1/2 inches). 104pp. Illustrated wrappers, colour and b&w illustrations: artwork and photogbraphs. Bibliography and filmography. Text in Italian, French and English. A heavily illustrated history of women, sexuality and satanism in twentieth..... More
