Item #70652 Picatrix. The Goal of the Wise. Volume I (Volume One. Containing the Book I and Book II of the Ghayat al-Hakim, here translated into English for the first time). Ghayat Al-Hakim., Hashem Atallah, William Kiesel.
Picatrix. The Goal of the Wise. Volume I (Volume One. Containing the Book I and Book II of the Ghayat al-Hakim, here translated into English for the first time).
Picatrix. The Goal of the Wise. Volume I (Volume One. Containing the Book I and Book II of the Ghayat al-Hakim, here translated into English for the first time).

Picatrix. The Goal of the Wise. Volume I (Volume One. Containing the Book I and Book II of the Ghayat al-Hakim, here translated into English for the first time).

Seattle, WA: Ouroboros Press, 2002. First English Language Edition - Edition Deluxe. Hardcover. Octavo. xviii & 174pp. Original full leather binding by Ars Obsura bindery of Seattle. Full black goat leather with gilt titles to spine and front board, raised bands, marbled endpapers. The total printing of this edition was limited to 1000 numbered copies, the majority of which were bound in cloth, with only a small number, as this, bound in leather. This copy hand-numbered 58. "The Picatrix, or Ghayat Al-Hakim as it is titled in Arabic ... has long been regarded as source material in the Hermetic tradition. The text of this Medieval work consists of four books covering the art and practice of Astrological, Talismanic, and Astral Magic. ... Brought out of the obscurity of the Middle East it passed through the hands of many prominent figues throughout the history of Hermetic thought..Marsilio Ficinoo, Pico della Mirandola, Peter of Abano, and Henry Cornelius Agrippa were among them. ... Volume One contains the first two book of Ghayat Al-Hakim, here translated into English for the first time.' Some natural imperfections to leather, else a tight bright near Fine copy (the leather bound edition issued without dustjacket.). Item #70652

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