Los Angeles, CA: Phoenix Press, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover, Small Octavo. 156 pp + (viiipp adverts). Black cloth, gilt title, etc. to spine, small gilt symbol on front cover. Illustrations. The stated first edition of this small work on the history of astrology by Hall. From the Introduction: "The purpose..... More
Los Angeles CA: Philosophical Research Society, 2000. Reprint of Fourth Revised edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 162pp. Charcoal grey cloth lettered in silver on spine, black endpapers, b&w frontisportrait & illustrations. Manly Palmer Hall (1901 - 1990), was a Canadian-born occultist, mystic and author best known for his monumental "The Secret..... More
Philadelphia, PA: David McKay Company, 1932. Third Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (viii) + 152pp. Yellow cloth with black lettering and red rules on spine and front board. Index & bibliography. INSCRIBED & SIGNED "Very Sincerely / Manly P. Hall" on front free endpaper. A collection of essays on then-contemporary politics and..... More
Los Angeles CA: Philosophical Research Society, 1973. Nineteenth Edition. Hardcover. Folio (13 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches). vi + 246pp. Faux leather: actually black pebbled cloth with gilt titling to spine and titling and symbol to red panel on front board, b&w frontisportrait, plates and illustrations. A "reduced facsimile" of..... More
Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society, Inc., 1983. Second Edition, Revised Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Folio. 176pp. Original deep maroon textured boards with gilt title, etc. to spine. Frontispiece, b&w illustrations, double-column printing. Comprises a selection of essays on occult and spiritual subjects. It includes: 'The Ladder of Souls,' with diagrams after..... More
Boston: Occult Publishing Co., 1893. (Second Edition). Hardcover. Small octavo. 188pp,(+ ivpp. "Prospectus" for "Secret symbols of the Rosicrucians"). Original brown cloth with gilt titling to spine and gilt device to upper board, patterned endpapers. The (unstated) second edition of this curious occult tale with strong Rosicrucian and alchemical influences..... More
Gillette, NJ: Heptangle Books, 1985. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. xii + 94pp. Red cloth with printed paper spine label, pale grey endpages, b&w illustrations. Printed letterpress. Title page printed in red and black. This edition comprises reset versions of two (of the six) books that made up Robert Turner's..... More
![Item #72167 De Nigromancia [attributed to] Roger Bacon; Sloane MS. 3885 and Additional MS. 36674....](https://weiserantiquarian.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72167.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699556398)
Gillette, NJ: Heptangle Books, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (viii) + 100 pp. Original black cloth, with printed paper label to spine. Illustrations. Title page in red and black, initials printed in red, blue and black throughout. Attractive letterpress edition. De Nigromancia, or, Concerning the Black Art, is the translation..... More
New Jersey: Heptangle Books, 1983. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Small octavo. xvi + 146pp. Green cloth with paper spine label. Title page in red and black. A nicely produced edition of this classic seventeenth century work on alchemy and chemistry. Published by Daniel Driscoll (1944 - 1990) who under his..... More
Gillette, NJ: Heptangle Books, 1983. Second Edition. Hardcove. Octavo. xxvi + 112pp. Maroon buckram with printed paper title label on spine. The second Heptangle edition of Driscoll's version of "The Sworn Book of Honorius" (Liber Iuratus Honorii) one of the oldest and most important works of mediaeval magic, supposedly compiled..... More
Gillette, NJ: Heptangle Books, 1989. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxxii + 110pp. Original purple cloth with printed paper spine label, appendices and index. Printed letterpress, rubricated title-page. The second (revised) Heptangle Books edition of 'the Chaldean Oracles' - poetic fragments commonly attributed to 'Zoroaster,' but assigned by recent scholarship to..... More
New Jersey: Heptangle Books, 1987. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv + 54 pp. Original gray marbled papered boards, with gilt titling etc to spine. A nice letterpress production - printed in red black and blue throughout - of a translation originally published in 1877. One of the scarcer Heptangle..... More
New Jersey: Heptangle, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii + 80pp. Beige linen covered boards with paper spine label. B/w illustrations. Beautifully produced letterpress edition. "The scope of all Qabbalah can be categorised under four headings: Practical Qabbalah, Dogmatic Qabbalah, Esoteric Qabbalah, and Magical Qabbalah. .... The practical Qabbalah involves..... More
Gillette, NJ: Heptangle Books, 1985. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. xii + 94pp. Red cloth with printed paper spine label, pale grey endpages, b&w illustrations. Printed letterpress. Title page printed in red and black. This edition comprises reset versions of two (of the six) books that made up Robert Turner's..... More
Gillette NJ: Heptangle Books, 1988. First edition, Second impression. Hardcover. Large octavo. xxviii + 206pp. Grey cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, b&w illustrations, appendix and bibliography. Although not stated within the volume, only 1000 copies of this second printing, which was lithographically reproduced from the printed letterpress first..... More
![Item #72198 Apprenticed to Magic [ AND ] Magic & the Qabalah [ Two books in One volume ]....](https://weiserantiquarian.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72198.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699556412)
Wellingborough, England: Aquarian Press, 1990. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Octavo. viii, ii + 182pp. Illustrated paper covers. Walter Ernest Butler (1898-1978), was a priest in the Liberal Catholic Church, who studied with Dion Fortune and was active in her Fraternity of the Inner Light for nearly twenty years. In later..... More
St. Paul MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2004. Reprint. Softcovers. Small Thick Quartos. 2 Volume Set. Vol. I xlii + 608pp + 6pp ads, Vol. II: cx + 578pp + 14pp of adverts. Pictorial card covers. B/w illustrations, charts and tables. Bibliography. In the 'Llewellyn's Sourcebook Series' - both volumes were previously..... More
Oxford UK: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Tall octavo. viii + 426pp. Original navy cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine. b&w frontisportrait. Bibliography, notes and index. The first fully documented biography of the life of French decadent writer J. K. Huysmans, whose novel Là-Bas was..... More
New York NY: Random House, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xvi + 336pp. Two-toned paper covered boards lettered in silver on spine, b&w frontis, Index. SIGNED by author, Richard Noll, beneath his printed name on the title page. From the publisher: "The Aryan Christ is the previously untold story..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2003. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Small thick quarto. (9.5 x 6 inches), vi + 822pp. Grey cloth spine over blue paperered boards, endnotes, and index. Stated First Edition with full number line. An important biographical study that also explores the charges of misogyny, anti-semitism, etc...... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. First US Edition. Hardcovers. Small thick quartos, (9.5 x 6 "), (Two volumes, complete). Volume I: xxvi + 822pp & Volume II: viii + 767 - 1,580pp. Fine dark grey cloth with printed titling to spine, light grey endpapers, endnotes, and indexes. The publisher's notes..... More
London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. 304pp. Navy cloth with silver lettering to spine, blind stamped publisher's device on upper cover, blue endpapers, 430 illustrations, b&w frontisportrait. Bibliography of Kircher's writings, Bibliography of works cited, Sources of illustrations, and Index. Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680), the renowned..... More
(USA): NP (circa 1970). Unframed original picture. Approximately 13 inches x 10 inches (paper is not cut perfectly square). Black ink / paint on cheap paper. Untitled. Signed "LAVEY" in bottom right corner. A few faint pencil doodles - a face, a maze-like pattern and an axe on the reverse..... More
(USA): NP (circa 1970). Unframed original picture. Approximately 14 inches x 10 inches (paper is not cut perfectly square). Black ink / paint on cheap paper. Untitled. An original artwork by Anton Szandor LaVey depicting an assembly of occult motifs: a nude female figure with inverted pentagram as a head..... More
Secaucus, NJ: University Books / Avon, 1972. First Hardcover Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 220pp. Original red papered boards, lettered in black on spine. Stated "First Avon Printing, December, 1972" on copyright page". A detailed account of "traditional satanic rituals" collected by Anton Szandor LaVey ( born Howard Stanton Levey )..... More
