The one hundred and seventy-sixth of our on-line catalogues is another of our "Miscellany" lists. It comprises a wide selection of books ranging from works of considerable rarity, to recent, second-hand publications.
York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser Inc., 1991. Second Printing. Softcover. Octavo. xxii + 154pp. B&w in text illustrations. Written in the style of a novel - Egyptian Mysteries is said to be a translation of an ancient manuscript which has been credited to Iamblichus and which offers the reader an..... More
Oakland, CA: Key Publishing Company, February, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo, viii + 160pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering to upper board. A New Thought author, Ferriter also wrote: "Psychology of Fasting" and "Steps on the Path". This volume includes sections on Philosophy, Metaphysics, and Psychology and includes a...... More
New York: Taplinger Publishing Co, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 192pp. Original yellow cloth spine with green papered boards and green lettering to spine, frontis, b&w illustrations, bibliography and index. The author examines "folk medicine", tracing it's origins and development. Very light shelf wear, top edge dusty and darkened -..... More
London: Heath, Cranton & Ouseley Ltd., ND [ 1914 ]. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 498 pp. Original brown cloth with black titling and illustrations to upper board, gilt titling and black illustration to spine, colour frontis with tissue guard, b&w plates. Appendixes and index. A study of popular religion..... More
New York, NY: H.S. Nichols, 1923. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. Eccentrically paginated. xxxiv, [64pp] + large linen backed folding divination chart ( 17.5 x 13.5 inches). Original black cloth with gilt title, & borders to spine and both covers, top edge gilt. Facscimile of 1822 edition with the publisher's..... More
Loughborough, UK: Thoth Publications, 1998. New edition, with Explanatory Introduction. Softcover. Octavo. 293pp. + adverts. Glossy pictorial wrappers, b&w illustrations. Errata tipped onto copyright page. A new edition of a popular biographical study of Dion Fortune first published in 1985. Not as well regarded as Alan Richardson's later biography, but..... More
London: The Hogarth Press and The Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1946, 1950. Mixed. Hardcover. Octavos. Five volumes. 358pp & 404pp & 608pp & 508pp & 396pp Mixed set but all bound in matching publisher's green cloth gilt-lettered on spine, indexes. A complete set of the collected papers of Sigmund Freud published..... More
London: Somerset Folk Press, May, 1922. Second Edition. Softcover. Small octavo. 96pp. + 4pp. ads. Original printed gray wrappers. B/w frontis. portrait. The second edition of this monograph from the Somerset Folk Series, the first edition having been published just a few months earlier in January, 1922. Contents include: "The..... More
London: Methuen, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. x + 212pp. Original blue cloth with title etc. to spine. B/w frontis. & plates. The remarkable story of Gef, the pranksterkish "Talking Mongoose," supposedly a poltergeist or "ghost in the form of a mongoose" who was said to inhabit the walls of..... More
Birmingham, England: Thomas Pearson, 1791. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxxiv [lacking iii - xxx, see further below] + 170pp. + (viiipp "A Catalogue of Books, written by Dr. Priestley, and printed for J. Johnson ... London) + (ii blank). Rebound in mid twentieth century patterned black cloth gilt-lettered on spine..... More
Great Barrington MA: Lindisfarne Books, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. Large octavo. 224pp. Endnotes, select bibliography, index. From the publisher: "One of the most sublime Gnostic texts is the Pistis Sophia or "Faith Wisdom," a great allegory in which the resurrected Christ explains how he freed the divine Sophia from her..... More
Chicago, IL: Open Court, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Large octavo. xii + 228pp. Index. From the cover: "Gnosticism or Gnosis is far more than an ancient religious movement with Christian, Jewish, and pagan followers. It is a living presence today, in many religions and also completely outside formal religion. The..... More
New York: Dorset, 1990. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. xxviii + 264pp. Quarter white cloth with blue papered board, gilt titling to spine, index, bibliography, maps. A now famous study, which argues that the ancient and revered image of the Goddess was reimaged by patriarchal societies as the wanton and foolish figure..... More
New York: Dutton, 1964. Second Edition. Hardcover. Small thick octavo. x + 1238pp. Original navy cloth, gilt title and author to spine. The second one volume edition of Gurdjieff's of "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson" (the first volume of his "All and Everything" trilogy) in which Gurdjieff expresses his ideas..... More
Los Angeles, CA: The Philosophical Research Society, 1957. Reprint. Softcover. Booklet. 36pp. Stapled printed wrappers. A study of the occult aspects of human physiology by Manly Palmer Hall (1901 - 1990), a Canadian-born occultist, mystic and author best known for his "The Secret Teaching of All Ages." Hall gathered together..... More
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1972. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi + 400pp. Navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. B&w frontis, fold out of Memory Theatre of Giulio Camillo, b&w illustrations, index. The Greeks invented an art of memory which, like their other arts, was passed on to..... More
New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1965. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Large thick quartos. Two volumes (complete). xxxiv + 867 & xi i+ 519, VI plates. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spines and upper boards. Edition limited to 500 US copies and 50 UK copies, this set not numbered..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Parry & McMillan, 1854. Third American Edition. Hardcovers. Octavos. Two volumes. Vol. I: 296pp.; Vol. II: 322pp. Original black cloth decorated and bordered in blind, spines lettered in gilt. The third American edition of this collection of essays, mostly recalling visits to places of literary and historical significance..... More
Chicago: Forbes & Company, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 186pp.+ iv pp adverts. Original pale blue cloth illustrated in dark blue, red & white on both boards, red titling to upper board and spine. Color frontis & illustrations. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the author on the first blank "With Compliments..... More
London: Philip Allan & Co., 1925. First Edition. Hardcover, Octavo. xxviii + 289pp (+ iiipp adverts). Original orange cloth with gilt titling to spine. B&W Frontispiece. The author, Theophilus Bulkeley Hyslop (1863-1933), was a prominent psychiatrist and Medical Officer at Bethlem ("Bedlam" asylum) from 1888 - 1911. "The Great Abnormals"..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xxiv + 748pp + xii adverts. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, gilt & copper device to upper board, index. The complete transcript of one of Jung's unpublished seminars which was delivered in English in Zurich to..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973 - 1992. Mostly Reprints of Second Edition. Hardcovers. Large octavos. 23 Volumes. Various pagination. Black cloth with gilt designs and titling to covers. A complete set of the twenty-one volumes of Jungs "Collected Works" (Volume 9 is actually in two parts 9.1 & 9.2..... More
London: Watkins, 2015. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Quarto. x + 274pp. Color & b/w illustrations, endnotes, index and list of sources. A well illustrated sympathetic biography of C.G. Jung. From the publisher: "Dunne chronicles Jung's journey of self-discovery from a childhood filled with visions both terrifying and profound, through his..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. Reprint. Hardcover. Large octavo. xx + 180pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, gilt & copper device to upper board, index. A transcription of the notes of a seminar, conducted by Jung in weekly meetings during the spring and summer of 1925..... More
New York NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009. Reader's Edition. Flexible soft covers. Octavo. xviii + 582pp Flexible faux red leather copies, appendices and b&w illustrations. Patterned endpapers, ribbon marker. A portable edition of the now famous "Red Book", published in 2009, which "contains the nucleus of C. G...... More
