The catalogue comprises a mixture of used, out-of-print, and rare books. Without doubt the most outstanding item in the catalogue is a magnificent copy, in original vellum binding, of the first edition of Michael Maier’s landmark Rosicrucian work Themis Aurea.
New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1966. Reprint. Hardcover. Large octavo. xxiv + 360pp. Brown and black cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, bibliography and index. A reprint of this important study of the ancient Mystery Religions - from the Eleusinian Mysteries, the Magna Mater, cults of Cybele and..... More
Salem, Massachusetts: Catalyst, 1987. First Edition Thus - Limited. Hardcover. Quarto. (viii) + 38pp (+ivpp). Original black cloth with gilt titling down spine. Woodcut vignettes. Latin and German text. Edition limited to 313 copies. A reprint of the "Medicinisch Chymisch und Alchemistisches Oraculum" "a collection of over 2000 signs, symbols..... More
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xii + 60pp + xxviii plates + large fold-out. Teal cloth with gilt titling to spine and front board, figures, plates (including color) and 2 plans on large fold-out, index. A scholarly examination of the excavations at the Mithraeum which..... More
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. Large octavo. xiv, 112pp + vi b&w plates. Teal cloth over card covers, appendix, index. With b&w frontispiece, 5 in-text figures and vi plates. The first edition of this study in which the author commences with a "mystery": "Why did Mithraism, in..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. 386pp. Original navy blue cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, indexes. A hardcover reprint of the 1913 Clarendon Press edition of this volume which comprises eight lectures delivered by Dr. Bigg at the University of Oxford in 1886 and first published that..... More
Seattle, WA: Cinnabar, 1996. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. Eight consecutive issues. A total 320pp. (40pp. each issue). Attractively illustrated printed stapled wrappers, B/w illustrations, many full page alchemical illustrations, list of references. Eight consecutive issues, the first two years, of this quarterly journal edited by Al Billings and John Michael..... More
London: Bernard Quaritch for the Society Rosicruciana in Anglia, ND (ca 1890). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 36pp. Patterned brown cloth decorated in black and with black titling to spine and upper board, beveled edges. Color frontis of Egyptian painting of Anubis weighing the heart from the Papyrus of Ani with..... More
Columbia, MO / London: The University of Missouri Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii + 274pp. Gold cloth with blue titling to spine, b&w frontis and illustrations, bibliography & index. "A synoptic view of Blake's poetry that shows the course and shape of Blake's myth as the line described..... More
Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xviii + 456pp. Navy cloth with gilt lettering to gilt bordered spine panel, b&w frontis and illustrations, index. A threefold study of William Blake - of his world, his life and his writings, with the aim of opening minds to..... More
Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv + 326pp. Textured green boards with gilt lettering to spine, b&w illustrations, endnotes, index. "A forcefully argued, new interpretation of Blake, Webster confronts problematic and unpleasant aspects of Blake's work ignored by previous critics.....this book looks honestly..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Quartos. Two volumes in slipcase. Volume I: xxxii + Volume II: 428pp & xii + 368pp. Light grey cloth with gilt titling to spines, ribbon markers, colour frontis in Vol. I, b&w and a few colour illustrations throughout, notes, general index..... More
London: John M. Watkins, 1960. Facsimile reprint of the 1914 edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xlviii + 724pp. Original blue cloth with gilt titling. to spine. Jacob Boehme (1575-1624) underwent a variety of mystical experiences in his youth, including a vision in 1600 (the year in which Giordano Bruno was immolated)..... More
New York: Willis, Locker & Owens, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (xlviii) + 378pp. Original grey cloth with red and black titling to spine and front board. B&W illustrations and diagrams. The first complete modern translation of Bruon's "De Imaginum Signorum et Idearum Compositione," first published in 1591, a complex..... More
Boston, MA: The Sun Center Publishing Co., 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo. viii & 166pp. Original green cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine and front cover, top edge gilt, errata slip. With the ownership SIGNATURE of Juliet Barrett Rublee and a two-page TYPED LETTER SIGNED from Bryant to..... More
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1947. Reprint. Hardcover. Small octavo. 154pp.Original blue cloth with black title, etc. to spine and upper cover. An early printing of this "banned" book of the Bible by Robert Henry Charles (1855-1931). "The Book of Enoch" describes the fall of a band of angels..... More
London: Research into Lost Knowledge Organisation, 1972. First English Language paperback. Softcover. Octavo. 190pp. Glossy illustrated wrappers with fold in flaps, b&w illustrations. The first English language printing of this work in which the author examines the mystery of the construction of the massive medieval Roman Rite Catholic cathedral at..... More
St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1994. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. x + 286 pp. + ix advertisements. Glossy printed wrappers. B&w illustrations and diagrams. Essays on all aspects of ceremonial magic and the Hermetic Tradition with an emphasis on the teachings and history of the Order of the Golden Dawn..... More
London: Privately Published, ND [ 1933 ]. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo booklet. 20pp. Original stapled red printed wrappers. As the title suggests, an essay on the objects and aims of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (S.R.I.A.). A booklet published as one of the transactions of the Metropolitan College of that..... 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
London: John M. Watkins, 1947. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 76pp. Original blue cloth with gilt titling to spine. B&w frontisportrait, 3 plates, diagrams. This is the first separate English language edition. Cited as one of Dee's most important studies of "magical mathematics," he supposedly wrote the work in 13..... More
Oxfordshire, England: Day Books, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 370pp. Original rust cloth with gilt title etc to spine, biblio and index. Alchemist, astrologer, mystic and mathemetician, John Dee was one of the most brilliant and controversial figures of the Elizabethan age. This volume brings together Dee's private journals and..... More
New York, NY: AMS Press, Inc., 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. viii + 102pp. + 34pp. Blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine. A modern reprint of the 1842 Camden Society edition of these two important documents relating to John Dee. The first is his private diary fragments, from 1554 -..... More
Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution Libraries, 1990. First Edition. Softcover. Large octavo. x + 36pp. + 12pp. b/w plates. Large fold-out color plate. Edition of 2000 copies. Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs (1930 – 1994) was a Professor of History at the University of California, who specialised in Isaac Newton's occult studies..... More
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Colorado: Little White Temple [ Dr. Maurice Doreal ], Mixed ( 1940 - 1942 ). Softcovers. Octavos. All in original stapled wrappers with black letters to upper cover. A collection of 17 non-consecutive booklets - each has a printed number on the front so they were evidently part of a...... More
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Colorado: Little White Temple [ Dr. Maurice Doreal ], Mixed, most undated ( circa 1940s ). Mixed Editions. Softcovers. Octavos. A collection of 9 booklets. All in original stapled wrappers with black letters to upper cover. Included are: Astro-chemical Analysis, 47pp (1941); Ancient America, 21pp (no date); The Mysteries of..... More
