London: Zone Books, 1989. First Edition. Softcover. Large thick octavo. 552pp. Nicely produced. Thick illustrated card covers with fold-in flaps, color and b&w illustrations. This is Part two of three volumes cumulatively described by the publishers: "These volumes ...examine the history of the human body as a field where life..... More
London: Printed for B.M., Printer to the Cabalistical Society of the Sages, at the sign of the Rosy-Crucian, CI[C] I[C]C LXXX [ 1680 ]. First Edition. Hardcover. Small Octavo (6 x 3 1/2 inches). (i-viii) 1-183 (1) 1-11 (1-errata)pp. Twentieth century full-leather binding. Brown cloth with gilt stamped leather spine..... More
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Pomeroy WA: Health Research Company, 1969. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. Large Folio (17 inches x 11 inches). Variously paginated - [ approx. 104pp ]. Maroon faux leather with gilt title to upper board. Main b&w title-page and 2 section title-pages each with color devices, 25 full-page and numerous part-page colour diagrams..... More
London: Privately Published, ND [ 1970s ]. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto. Coversheet and 38 leaves, each printed on the rectos only, secured with 3 staples down the left-hand margin. The cover-sheet is a sheet of printed Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (S.R.I.A.) letterhead with embossed red crown and cross design and..... More
![Item #72232 The Rosicrucian Fraternity in America [ 2 Volume Set ]. Rosicrucianism, Dr. R....](https://weiserantiquarian.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72232.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699556424)
Quakertown PA: Rosicrucian Foundation [ Beverly Hall ], ND [ Copyright 1935 ]. First Edition Thus. Hardcovers. Two volumes. Thick quartos. Volume I: 464pp & Volume II: 960pp. Original matching deep green cloth with gilt titles, etc. to spines, gilt symbols and blind rules on front covers. Bottom edges untrimmed..... More
London: George Routledge & Sons, Limited, ND (circa 1940 ). Sixth Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi + 464 pp (+ 12 pp: plates). Quarter leather: original maroon pebbled leatherette spine with gilt titling over red cloth boards. Over 300 engravings / diagrams in text and 12 full-page plates at rear. The..... More
Seattle, WA: Ouroboros Press, 2012. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Small octavo. 120pp. Maroon cloth gilt-lettered on spine, gilt devices on boards. This trade edition limited to 777 copies. Frontis portrait of Andreae and 2 engraved plates. Ouroboros Press release of Thomas Vaughan’s Rosicrucian Manifestos. The Rosicrucian Manifestos describe the early..... More
New Haven CT / London: Yale University Press, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. xxvi + 257pp text + approximately 100 pages of b&w photographic plates at rear). Many full page, maps and illustrations. Beige cloth with red titling to upper board and spine, publisher's errata slip loosely inserted. On..... More
New York, NY: Random House / Vintage, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxiv + 214pp. Index. Black cloth spine overblack paper-covered boards, gilt titling to spine. A study of the development of the idea of Satan in early Christian thought, from the forbidding Adversary of God's retinue in the Old..... More
London: W. Foulsham & Co., ND (circa 1920s). Reprint. Hardcover. Small octavo. 112pp.. Original light blue cloth with title and author name in white on upper cover and spine. An exploration of the nature and effect of eclipses, both solar and lunar, viewed from both astrological and astronomical perspectives. By..... More
London / Philadelphia: W. Foulsham & Co., ND (ca. 1920). (Revised Edition). Hardcover. Small octavo. (i - xii, 13 - 94pp. + iiipp - publisher's adverts). Original light blue cloth with key, title and author's name printed in white on upper cover. The book was first published in 1913 and..... More
London: Robert Hardwicke et al. 1871 - 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 52, 86, 100, 12pp. Nineteenth century half-leather. Green patterned leather over marbled-paper boards; gilt titling and raised bands to spine, matching marbled endpaper. Illustrated throughout. A collection containing four works that were originally published separately, three being works..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998. First American Edition. Hardcover. Large square quarto.120pp. Light grey cloth, profusely illustrated with 116 illustrations, including 90 photographs in full color, biblio and index. A beautifully illustrated discussion of paleolithic cave painting, and its shamanistic meaning. Appears "as new", thus Fine condition in Fine..... More
London: Green & Co., 1788 / 1784 / 1787 / 1788. Mixed Edition. Hardcover. Four parts in one volume. Large Quarto (approx. 9.75'"x 8"). Contemporary full leather binding with raised bands and (later?) gilt-stamped leather title label. Fresh endpapers. Pagination and register are continuous throughout: Part. I : pp.(ii) (i)-viii..... More
London: Fulgur, 2002. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 42pp. Printed dust jacket over plain card wrappers. B/w frontisportrait & illustrations. A memoir of Frank Letchford, long term friend and supporter of Austin Osman Spare. Rich in accounts of the relationship between the pair, and illustrated with photographs of Spare and his..... More
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London: Fulgur Ltd., 1997. First Edition, Signed. Softcover. Small octavo. Staple bound book & separate cards in envelope. Book: 38pp., printed red thick paper,dust jacket over plain black card wrappers. B&w illustrations. Included with the volume is a facsimile set of Spare's 'Surrealist Racing Forecast Cards' in their printed envelope..... More
A single sheet of paper, approximately (10 inches x 7 7/8 inches) with a pencil drawing on the front. A finely drawn picture of a standing satyr, beside another partially-recumbent grotesque figure, not signed The image is from a sketch-book presented by Spare to the writer and artist Oswell Blakeston..... More
Philadelphia, PA: The David McKay Company, ND [ 1939 ]. First US Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 256pp. Blue cloth with gilt titling to spine. Appendices, index. Fifty-six b&w illustrations. The author, Hereward Carrington (1880-1958), was one of the best-known of the British psychical researchers, and wrote many significant works on the..... More
New York, NY: R. F. Fenno & Co., ND [ 1906 ]. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 352pp. Brown cloth lettered in black on spine & front board. An overview of the history of a belief in life after death, from ancient times to through nineteenth century Spiritualism by William Wilberforce..... More
Boston, MA: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 126pp. Green cloth with gilt title, etc, to spine, and rules and publisher's symbol blind-stamped to cover. In her "Best Books On Spirit Phenomena" (1925) Henrietta Lovi wrote of Comstock and his work: "William C. Comstock, after..... More
Manchester, England: Sherratt & Hughes, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Slim octavo. 58pp. Blue cloth spine, marbled papered boards with paper title label on front board. A genuinely rare work in which popular British writer of sometimes occult-themed fiction, Marie Corelli, is said to speak from the beyond to give a...... More
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, (2013). No Edition / Printing Indicated. Hardcover. Octavo. x + 146pp. Printed papered boards. Index & bibliography. A largely historiographical study of the story of Thomas Perks, who was said to have conjured spirits in at the end of the seventeenth century. From the publisher: "Despite..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, ND (1956). Hardcover. Octavo. 256pp. Original cloth lettered on spine. Copyright year 1956 - no edition stated. An account of the author's extensive investigation into the the case of Bridey Murphy, a purported 19th-century Irishwoman who U.S. housewife Virginia Tighe (1923 – 1995) claimed to have..... More
Buffalo NY: Prometheus Books, 1984. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Octavo. xv + 316pp,16 pages of b&w period photos, b&w illustrations. Notes, bibliography, index. Brandon traces the development of spiritualism and examines the claims of mediums to be able to contact the spirits of the dead. Just a hint of light..... More
London: Rider, ND [1927]. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxiv + 208pp. Original cloth gilt-lettered on spine. Stanley de Brath (1854-1937) was a British psychical researcher who served 17 years in government service in India as an engineer. He made his first acquaintance with the phenomena of spiritualism in 1890 and..... More
