Sepher Maphteah Shelomo. (Book of the Key of Solomon). An Exact Facsimile of an Original Book of Magic in Hebrew. ...
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. 1914. First Edition. Hardcover, Large quarto, xx + [158]pp. Original deep blue cloth with gilt titling to spine and front covers, Errata slip. Edition limited to 300 copies. The bulk of the book is taken up with a photographic facsimile of an original Hebrew manuscript, of the Clavicula Salomonis, complete with numberous seals, talismans etc. It is prefaced by a twenty-page English-language Introduction discussing the text. Cloth a little darkened at spine and towards the edges. Corners bruised and a little rubbed. Endpapers unevenly browned, endpaper hinges starting to crack but holding well. Otherwise internally fresh and unmarked. Overall about VG+ condition. Item #60037
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