The Grimoire of Armadel. Translated and edited from the ancient manuscript in the Library of the Arsenal, Paris.
York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser Inc., 1998. Second Printing of this Edition. Hardcover, Small Quarto, 80 pp. Original dark gray cloth, silver title, etc. to spine, silver talisman on front board, b/w illustrations. The second printing of the first publication - with the William Keith Introduction - of The Grimoire of Armadel, one of the most infamous of the magical 'how to' books or grimoires. The book is supposedly derived from the mediaeval black magic text known as the Grimorium Verum, but more likely a seventeenth century work (or at least a seventeenth century reworking of an earlier text). The translator, S. L . MacGregor Mathers was of course on of the founders of the magical Order, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Mathers had apparently completed his translation of this work in the late 1890s, but circumstances conspired against its publication, and although it circulated in manuscript amongst the members of the Rosicrucian Order of the Alpha et Omega (the group of Golden Dawn members who remained loyal to Mathers following the split within that order) it remained unpublished until 1980. A bright, tight, clean near Fine copy in near-fine dust jacket (jacket has just a hint of creasing to the edges, not clipped, now protected by removable mylar sleeve). Item #74371
ISBN: 0877288399
Price: $95.00