Practical Angel Magic of Dr. John Dee's Enochian Tables; Tabularum Bonorum Angelorum Invocationes. Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic - Volume 1.
London: Golden Hoard Press, 2004. First edition - Limited. Hardcover. Small quarto. 296pp. Black cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine and front cover, appendixes, bibliography, index. Illus. & tables. Text in red and black. NOTE: This is the first edition limited to 1500 numbered copies - not one of the reprints often listed as firsts by "robo-listers." This copy SIGNED by co-author, Rankine on the title page and has the book label of Atlantis Bookshop of London on the front pastedown. From the publishers: "The authors have discovered what happened to John Dee's most important manuscript, his book of personal angelic invocations which he kept in Latin, and how it was preserved and developed by 17th century magicians into a full working magical system. How only a small part of this material reached the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in the 1880's. Even this was then suppressed by the chiefs of the Order, and it did not appear in Israel Regardie's monumental work on the Order rituals. They have also traced how the classical techniques of invocation and evocation drawn from late mediaeval grimoires, were passed through John Dee's magic, via Elias Ashmole, to the aristocratic angel magicians of the 17th century, including some of the most powerful and influential figures in England." Appears unread, thus a tight, clean Fine copy in lightly rubbed mylar protected near Fine dust jacket. Item #71803
ISBN: 9780954763909
Price: $125.00