Item #60666 The Goetia of Dr Rudd; The Angels of Liber Malorum Spirituum seu Goetia Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis .... Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic series - Volume 3. Stephen SKINNER, David RANKINE.

The Goetia of Dr Rudd; The Angels of Liber Malorum Spirituum seu Goetia Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis .... Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic series - Volume 3

London & Singapore: Golden Hoard Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. 448pp. Black cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine and front cover. Numerous sigils, diagrams, etc. NOTE - this is the stated First ('Trade') Edition, not a later printing. Volume III of the Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic series. It contains the complete text, with diagrams, sigils, etc., of a previously unpublished manuscript version of the Lemegeton, or Lesser Key of Solomon, one of the most famous of the magical grimoires. This manuscript from which it was drawn was owned by Dr. Thomas Rudd, a seventeenth century scholar, and practitioner of the magical arts, and is now housed in the British Library. It comprises four complete grimoires, Liber Malorum Spituum seu Goetia, Theurgia-Goetia, Ars Paulina (Books 1 & 2), and Ars Almadel: rare examples of magical texts that were used by working magicians, who were still imbued with a practical knowledge of the magic they used. Appears unread, thus a tight, clean near Fine copy in lightly rubbed near Fine dust jacket. Item #60666
ISBN: 9780954763923

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