Bristol, England: Hermetic Research Trust, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. x + 256pp. Black cloth with gilt title etc. to spine and gilt Golden Dawn emblem on front cover. Edition limited to 250 numbered copies, 100 of which were hardbound, thus, and 150 of which were in printed wrappers. SIGNED..... More
Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, 1892. First Edition. Softcover. Tall octavo. Stapled in original printed paper wrappers, illustrated. 16pp. According to Dr. R. A. Gilbert "many of the members" of the producers of this volume - the Scottish Lodge of the Theosophical Society - "were also members of the Amen-Ra Temple" of..... More
United Kingdom: Hell Fire Club, ND ( 2018). Limited Edition. Hardcover. Landscape quarto. Fifteen 11.5 x 8 inches loose giclée full colour prints on thick 300 gsm laid paper 22pp. booklet is bound in colour illustrated laid paper wrappers with additional colour and b&w illustrations throughout, ribbon bound. Edition limited..... More
United Kingdom: Hell Fire Club, ND (ca. 2013). Deluxe Astaroth Edition. Hardcover. Quartos (11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches). Two volumes in solander case. Eccentrically paginated: [ xii + 70pp ] and [ approx. 250pp ]. Bound in full burgundy goatskin both embossed in gilt with the Seal of Astaroth..... More
Grenoble, France: Le Mercure Dauphinois, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto (11 1/2 x 8 1/4). 152pp. Glossy pictorial wrappers. French text. From the publisher: Pierre Dujols (1862-1926) est toujours présenté comme un libraire et un bibliophile averti. Le philosophe-alchimiste qu'il était disparaît derrière l'activité à tel point que son Hypotypose..... More
New York, NY: Science History Publications, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. xii + 156 pp. Quarter maroon cloth w/ black cloth boards, gilt title, etc. to spine and front cover, silver illustration on front cover. Frontispiece and B&W, illustrations. A typeset version of the text of Fludd's "A Philosophicall..... More
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv + 252pp. Original maroon cloth with gilt titling. Biblioraphy and index. The first edition (NOT the print-on-demand reprint) of this important study of John Dee's Angelic conversations, analysed in the light of their intellectual / philosophical / historical contexts..... More
Manchester, England: Charles Simms & Co., 1859. First Edition. Hardcover, 8vo. 66pp. Contemporary maroon half leather with cloth boards, marbled end papers. The book was originally bound in wrappers, which have not been bound into this copy. Edmund Dudley (c.1462 -1510) was a minister of Henry VII of England, and..... More
Leipzig: Max Altmann, 1911 [ 1910 / 1911 ]. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. Bound periodical. 768pp. Quarter cloth with papered boards. Index. 12 issues of this scarce German language Occult periodical. The early years of the twentieth century witnessed the foundation of a number of occult publishing companies in..... More
Los Angeles, CA: The Philosophical Research Society, 1982. Reprint. Softcover. Booklet. 62pp. Printed wrappers. Manly Palmer Hall (1901 - 1990), was a Canadian-born occultist, mystic and author best known for his "The Secret Teaching of All Ages." Hall gathered together a world renowned collection of books and manuscripts on alchemy..... More
San Francisco, CA: Printed for Manly P. Hall by H. S. Crocker, 1928. Subscriber's Edition. Hardcover. Tall thick folio. (19 inches high x 13 inches across). (x) + ccxlvipp (ie 10 + 246 pp.) Original patterned paper over heavy boards with vellum spine with leather title label, and vellum tips..... More
York Beach, Maine USA: The Teitan Press, 2009. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 8vo. xxiv + 240pp. Quality red cloth with gilt sigil on upper board, gilt titling to spine, colour frontis, index. The editor, John Hamill, is one of the leading historians of English Freemasonry - with a particular fascination..... More
Hamburg Zürich: Luchterhand Literaturverlag, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (12 1/4 x 9 1/4). 344pp. Original red cloth with blue titling to spine. Colour and B&W Illustrations. German text. Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Akademie fur Sprache und Dichtung Darmstadt 65. Veröffentlichungen. A collection of essays, mostly exploring Hermetic themes in art..... More
London: Privately Published, 1954. First Edition. Softcover. Booklet. 64pp. Stapled card covers. The "Transactions" of the Metropolitan College of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia. Aside from the usual Rolls, Proceedings, etc., it includes three essays: "Some Further Witchcraft Trials" by F. H. Slingsby (in which the author gives "some account..... More
Munich: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Religions- und Weltanschauungsfragen (A.R.W.), 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 204pp + lxviii b&w illustrations. Printed blue card covers lettered in black. GERMAN LANGUAGE. A biographical sketch of Arnoldo Krumm-Heller and survey of the various occult groups with which he was associated. "Hat der Autor bislang rein dokumentarische..... More
Austin TX: The Golden Dawn Research Trust, 2007. First Edition Ehus. Limited. Hardcover. Octavo. 192pp. Bound in red linen with gilt titling to spine and upper board, emerald green endpapers, bibliography. Sewn. Edition limited to 50 leather and 200 hand numbered cloth copies (this is number 163 of the cloth-bound..... More
Austin TX: The Golden Dawn Research Trust [ Ars Obscura Bindery ], 2007. Deluxe Ltd edition [ First Edition thus ]. Hardcover. Octavo. 192pp. Bound by Joel Radcliffe of Ars Obscura Bindery in full scarlet leather with raised bands and gilt titling and devices to spine and upper board. Matching..... More
Grand Rapids, MI: Phanes Press, 1989. First US Softcover Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 144pp, illustrations. Glossy pictorial covers. B&w frontis. First Edition thus.A study of the use of mandala-type designs in Western esotericism, by means of an analysis of engravings from alchemical, kabbalistic, magical, Rosicrucian and Hermetic sources. Edges of covers..... More
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Edinburgh Scotland: Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks, 1982. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 62 pp. Hand-bound in series brown faux leather, gilt titling to spine, frontis and b&w illustrations. Dark brown endpapers. Edition limited to 250 hand-numbered copies, signed by Adam McLean, this being copy 230. Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks series No..... More
Glasgow Scotland: Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks, 2008. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 86pp. Hand bound in series brown faux-leather with gilt titling to spine. Edition limited to 250 hand-numbered copies signed by Adam McLean, this being copy no. 77. Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks series No. 34. Of the text McLean says..... More
Edinburgh Scotland: Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks, 1984. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii + 128pp. Hand bound in series brown faux-leather, b&w illustrations. Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks series No. 18. Edition limited to 250 copies, signed by Adam McLean, this being copy No. 210. The Foxcroft translation of the "Chymische Hochzeit..... More
Glasgow Scotland: Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks, 1998. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 112pp. Hand bound in series brown faux-leather, frontis, b&w illustrations. Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks series No. 26. Edition limited to 300 hand-numbered copies, signed by Adam McLean, this being No. 76. A translation and examination of an anonymous work..... More
Glasgow Scotland: Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks, 2009. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 56pp. Hand bound in series brown faux-leather with gilt titling to spine, medium-brown woodgrain patterned end-papers. 10 colour illustrations. Edition limited to 200 hand-numbered copies signed by Adam McLean, this being copy no. 42. Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks series..... More
Glasgow Scotland: Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks, 2008. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 60pp. Hand bound in series brown faux-leather with gilt titling to spine, medium-brown woodgrain patterned end-papers. 18 colour illustrations recreated by McLean, some b&w illustrations. Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks series No. 35. Edition limited to 100 hand-numbered copies signed..... More
Paris: Société du Mercure de France, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 384pp. Contemporary binder's quarter leather: maroon leather spine over patterned paper boards with gilt-stamped title between raised bands. Original wrappers bound-in (most French books of the period were issued in wrappers with the idea that the purchaser would have..... More
