Item #63042 The Book of Splendours [ Volume I Studies in Hermetic Tradition ]; (Containing The Judaic Sun, the Christian Glory, and The Flaming Star. Studies In The Origins Of The Qabalah with Research into the Mysteries of Freemasonry followed by The Profession of Faith and elements of the Qabalah). Eliphas LEVI, Papus [Gerard Encausse.

The Book of Splendours [ Volume I Studies in Hermetic Tradition ]; (Containing The Judaic Sun, the Christian Glory, and The Flaming Star. Studies In The Origins Of The Qabalah with Research into the Mysteries of Freemasonry followed by The Profession of Faith and elements of the Qabalah)

New York / Wellingborough, England: Samuel Weiser Publishing / Aquarian Press, 1973. First English language edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 192pp. Original black cloth with gilt to spine. The first English-language edition of a major work on the Kabbalah by Eliphas Levi, along with an appended study of Levi's Kabbalistic thought by Papus [Gerard Encausse]. Introduction by the well-known Dutch bookseller W. N. Schors. Cloth a bit faded, spine ends bruised and rubbed, page edges a bit darkened, bookplate on front pastedown, else a tight, bright VG+ copy in VG+ dust jacket. (Dust jacket lightly rubbed at edges, not clipped). Item #63042
ISBN: 087728198X

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