Catalogue 272 is devoted to all disciplines that fall within the category: Hermetica. Enjoy browsing!
London: Avalonia, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 294pp. Navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Diagrams. Bibliography. SIGNED by authors David Rankine and Paul Harry Barron on the title-page. Of this work the publisher says: "Le Livre d'Or (The Book of Gold) is a unique 17th century French magical..... More
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii + 100pp. Original black cloth with gilt title, etc. to red spine label, top edge gilt, color frontispiece, b&w illustrations. An authoritative study of the history and practice of alchemy, and the way in which it has been..... More
London: G. Bell And Sons, Ltd., 1961. Second Printing, Corrected. Hardcover, small octavo. xviii + 206 pp, original red cloth, black title, etc. to spine, illustrations. "An attractive pageant of the leading ideas and personalities' in the flow of history from alchemy to chemistry" by John Read (1884–1963), a renowned..... More
Tempe, AZ: New Falcon Publications, 2003. Second Edition. Deluxe Limited. Hardcover. Large Quarto. Variously paginated - but over a thousand pages. Original black faux leather, gilt title, etc. to spine and upper board, ribbon marker, patterned endpapers, index. B&w illustrations. Deluxe hand-numbered limited edition, this being copy no. 189. This..... More
Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2008. Third Edition, Sixth printing. Softcover. Thick Octavo xxx + 520pp + adverts. Glossy printed wrappers. B&W illustrations; glossary, index, bibliography. The Ciceros have taken Regardie's already comprehensive outline of the Qabalah and added extensively to it: with full annotations, commentary and explanatory notes. There are..... More
St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1995. Sixth Corrected Edition - Sixth Printing. Softcover. Large thick octavo. xxx + 807pp + iv pp ads. Glossy printed card covers. B/w illustrations & color plates. Index. A substantially revised version of the collection of the rituals etc. of the Stella Matutina offshoot of..... More
St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover . Quarto. xvi + 300pp. (+ivpp, adverts). Glossy card covers. Stated first printing. The author is a long-time Priestess of Isis with the Fellowship of Isis. From the publisher: "For 6,000 years, Isis has been worshipped in many forms..... More
New York, NY: Abaris Books, 1983. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Large Octavo. 380pp. Original blue-grey cloth with gilt lettering, rules and device to upper board, gilt lettering and rules to spine, b&w illustrations, list of proper names, notes. Latin and English parallel texts. The German humanist Johann Reuchlin's (1455-1522) keen..... More
Köln, Germany: Taschen, ND (2009 ?). Reprint (?). Hardcover. Octavo. 192pp. Original orange papered boards with white papered titling. Well illustrated with color plates and b/w illustrations, index. An "abridged" version of "The Hermetic Museum: Alchemy & Mysticism" by Roob, but complete in itself. A lovely collection of illustrations -..... More
Mokelumne Hill, CA: Health Research, 1966. Reprint of Fourth, Revised edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xvi + 464pp + 12 b&w plates (+ ivpp adverts). Comb bound yellow card covers, b&w illustrations. Over 300 b&w engravings in text and 12 full-page plates at rear. A very cheaply produced reprint of the..... More
NP (London): Privately Printed - S. R. I. A., 1936. First Edition. Softcover. Stampled Pamphlet. 12pp. (inclusive of covers). Original printed paper wrappers. Comprises a column about papers presented to the Study Group, and an essay / lecture by V. W. Frater A. Saywell V° on Japanese Religions. The 'Book..... More
NP (London): Privately Printed - S. R. I. A., 1936. First Edition. Softcover. Stampled Pamphlet. 12pp. (inclusive of covers). Original printed paper wrappers. Comprises a column of papers presented to the Study Group, a short note on the High Council library, a very short piece on "The Cult of the..... More
NP (London): Privately Printed - S. R. I. A., 1937. First Edition. Softcover. Stapled pamphlet. 20pp. (inclusive of covers). Original printed paper wrappers. Includes a paper entitled 'Plato's Dialogue "Euthyphron" or "On Holiness" ' with an Introduction by Lt.-Col H. C. Bruce Wilson, and an excerpt from a paper given..... More
NP (London): Privately Printed - S. R. I. A., 1938. First Edition. Softcover. Stapled pamphlet. 16pp. (inclusive of covers). Original printed paper wrappers. Contents comprise two short pieces: "Message from the M. W. Supreme Magus in Scotia, Fra. J. Mason Allan, IX°; a precis of Frater J. Herron Lepper's paper..... More
NP (London): Privately Printed - S. R. I. A., 1938. First Edition. Softcover. Stapled pamphlet. 16pp. (inclusive of covers). Original printed paper wrappers. Comprises a "Message From the Librarian-General"; two short papers: "Light - being part of a paper by .." W. E. Hall V°; & "Heraldry as Applied to..... More
NP (London): Privately Printed - S. R. I. A., 1937. First Edition. Softcover. Stapled pamphlet. 12pp. (inclusive of covers). Original printed paper wrappers. Comprises a couple of short columns about papers presented and the High Council library, and a short essay / lecture "The Secrets of Freemasonry" by Frater A...... More
NP (London): Privately Printed - S. R. I. A., 1940. First Edition. Softcover. Stampled Pamphlet. 28pp. (inclusive of covers). Original printed paper wrappers. Contains three papers / essays: Frater F. R. Radice: "How the Light Returned to the West. How the Light Spread in the East", Wor. Bro. H. P...... More
London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xvi + 240 pp. Original black cloth with gilt titling to spine, index of Biblical quotations, general index. The first edition of this new annotated transation of three significant books of "The Zohar": Book of the Mystery; The..... More
York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser, 2000. First English language edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 302pp. Original brown cloth, gilt title, etc. to spine, gilt and black tablet imprinted to cover, illustrations, index. This copy SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the editor and translator Steve Savedow to Clive [Harper] on the first blank. The..... More
New York, NY: Schocken Books, 1974. Seventh Printing. Softcover. Octavo. 126 pp. Illustrated card covers. A selection of writings on "The Book of Splendor" (The Zohar) chosen by Gershom Schomen, one of the greatest authorities on Jewish mysticism. Covers a little rubbed, owner's name on half-title page, otherwise a tight..... More
Hercules, CA: Xoanon Publishing Ltd., 2005. First Edition, Deluxe. Hardcover. Large Octavo. xvi + 526pp. Full gilt decorated antique goatskin binding, gilt blocked with the design of a serpent entwined around a tree, gilt titling to spine. Ribbon place marker, sage endpages, and sturdy cloth-bound slipcase. This Edition de luxe..... More
Hercules, CA, USA: Xoanon Publishing, 2008. Edition Codex Vasculum. Hardcover. Octavo. 304 pages. Casebound in black decorated rust-colored cloth. Thirty-three illustrations, colored endpapers, lexicon. One of 720 hand-numbered clothbound copies of the greatly-expanded "Edition Codex Vasculum" (there were also two deluxe issues of 72 and 11 copies respectively). The work..... More
Chelmsford, UK & / San Francisco: Xoanon Publishing Ltd., 2001. First Edition, Numbered and Signed. Hardcover. Quarto. Cloth, 144 pp. Colour frontispiece. Edition limited to 144 numbered copies, of which this is number 89. This copy SIGNED "Daniel Schulke" in silver ink in the centre of a large hand-drawn red..... More
Boston: Shambhala, 1985. Reprint. Softcover. Octavo. Volume I only (of four). 550pp. The Shambhala facsimile reprint of the 1924 edition of this collection of the 'Hermetica': the extraordinary collection of writings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus, the Greek name for the legendary teacher, prophet and scribe deified by the Egyptians as..... More
Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2015. First US Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 224pp. Glossy printed card wrappers with French folds, b&w illustrations, index. First published in England in 2010 as "The Kabbalistic Mirror of Genesis, Commentary on Genesis 1-3". From the publisher: "Deconstructing each line of Genesis 1-3 with esoteric methods derived..... More
