Picatrix: The Height of Wisdom and the Best of Two Paths Onward.
NP (California): Oroboros Press, 1994. First Edition Thus. Quarto stapled booklet (thus "softcover"). 11" x 8½" 24pp. Duplicated (xeroxed?) sheets of word-processed text, in pale blue wrappers secured down the left hand margin with three staples. A most unusual translation of either a part of - or a variant edition of - the Picatrix. There are references in the text to the edition published in Arabic in Germany in 1933 (Pseudo-Magriti, edited by Helmut Ritter, "Das Ziel des Weisen" Leipzig, 1933) and it may be that the translation was done from that. Sections include the Prologue and lists of talismans - the text itself suggests that it comprises [the prologue and] Chapters 1 - 6 from the first treatise. Note the publisher is given as "Oroboros Press" this was apparently a Californian small press that also issued some Crowley works in the 1990s. It would seem to be no relation to the "Ouroboros" (different spelling) who published an English edition of the Picatrix in two volumes (2002 & 2008 respectively). Most unusual. Basic almost fanzine type production values. A few very minor creases to wrappers, bottom-corner creases to booklet, else a VG+ copy. Item #71671
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