Comte De Gabalis.
Kila, MT: Kessinger, ND [ 1992 ]. Reprint. Softcover. Quarto [ 9.5 x 11 inches ]. xxiv + 352pp. Blue paper wrappers illustrated and lettered in black on upper cover and spine, b&w illustrations. A cheaply produced facsimile reprint (probably taken from the Brentano's edition of 1914) of the English translation of a fictionalized French account of a meeting between the author, the Abbé de Villars (1635-ca. 1673), a French clergyman, and the mysterious esoteric mater, the Comte de Gabalis. The Comte supposedly initiated de Villars, into the occult sciences, introducing him to the elemental realms etc. In 1711 Alexander Pope wrote of de Villars book "The Rosicrucians are a people I must bring you acquainted with. The best account I know of them is in a French book call'd Le Comte de Gabalis, which both in its title and size is so like a novel, that many of the Fair Sex read it for one by mistake." Clearly Pope, and other later writers like Bulwer Lytton, viewed the work more as a vessel for the subtle spread of esoteric knowledge, than a work of fiction. Light overall shelf wear else a tight, unmarked VG+ copy. Item #68070
ISBN: 1564592014
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