Paris: H. Daragon, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 304pp. Contemporary half leather with marbled boards & endpapers. Original wrappers bound in at rear, marbled endpapers. Top-edge-gilt. FRENCH text. Edition limited to 500 hand numbered copies, this being copy no. 101. A history of Freemasonry up to the end of the..... More
Coloniae Agrippinae ( Cologne / Köln ): Ioannem Kinckium ( Johann Kinckius ), 1623. Second Editions. Hardcover (2 volumes in one) Small thick, octavo (6 1/8 x 4 inches). (18), (48), 598, (2), 152, (12)pp. Contemporary full vellum with yapp fore-edges, title hand-lettered in ink on spine. Fine engraved title..... More
Paris: Éditions La Table d'Emeraude, (1996). First Edition Thus. Softcover. Octavo. 354 (+ vi)pp. Glossy pictorial card covers. Black and white illustrations. Text in French / texte en français. One of 1000 offset printed copies (there were also 25 numbered copies on Périgord demi-mat). The uncommon first edition of this..... More
Paris: Éditions La Table d'Emeraude, (1998). First Edition Thus. Softcover. Octavo. 312 (+ ii)pp. Pictorial card covers. Black and white illustrations. Text in French / texte en français. The first edition of this second collection of hermetic and alchemical essays by Baron Emmanuel van der Linden d'Hooghvorst (1914–1999), a Belgian..... More
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1905. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Slim quarto. 36pp. Printed wrappers. "Extrait des memoires de l'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, Tome XXXVII, 2e partie." French text. A study of the deviation of the axis-line in Church architecture (known as "inclinato capite") which was long thought to be..... More
Stuttgart: B. G. Teubner, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xx + 290pp (+ ivpp adverts). Original pale green cloth with brown titling to spine. 65 pages of black and white photographic plates (included in the pagination). GERMAN LANGUAGE. A very nicely produced volume - the plates are separately printed on..... More
![Item #4404 [Iconologie] Dictionnaire des Attributs, Allégories Emblémes et Symboles. Eug DROULERS](/images/noimage.png)
Turnhout, Belgium: Établissements Brepols S.A., nd (ca 1960's?). Hardcover. Quarto (7" x 11"). viii + 282 pp. French text. Gray cloth with gilt titling to spine; gilt illustration and titling to upper board; b&w illustrations. Spine ends, edges, and corners chafed with some light fraying and a few light bumps;..... More
Kingsport, TN: Southern Publishers for Royal Arch Masons, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxii + 222pp. Red cloth lettered in gilt on spine & front board. Colour and b/w illustrations. B/w frontisportrait. The first edition of this volume by American Charles Albert Snodgrass (1876-1963) who also wrote "The History of..... More
Basel: Edition Oriflamme, 2009. Korrigierte Ausgabe / Corrected Edition. Softcover. Large Octavo. 246pp Glossy printed card wrappers. Black and white plates. Text in deutscher Sprache / Text in German. First published in this form in 2004, this is the corrected edition (2009) of the German translation of "Le Mystère des..... More
Basel: Edition Oriflamme, 2008. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Large Octavo. 624pp Glossy printed card wrappers. 45 plates, several in colour. Title-page in red and black. Text in deutscher Sprache / Text in German. Stated first edition. Vollständige deutsche Erstausgabe gemäß der dritten französischen Ausgabe (Paris 1964/1979) mit den drei Vorworten..... More
Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Schors, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Small Quarto. x + 228pp, illustrated in b&w, bibliography. DUTCH TEXT. Light bumps and chafing to edges and extremities, covers lightly rubbed otherwise a tight, clean unread VG+ copy. More
New York, NY: J. W. Bouton, 1875. Second Edition Revised and Englarged. Hardcover. Large Octavo. xl, 148pp (+ 4pp. & [vipp.] publisher's catalogues). Original brown cloth with blind stamped decorations to boards and spine and gilt titling to spine. Brown endpapers. Frontispiece & eighteen other woodcut plates, nearly 200 figures..... More
Rothomagi / Rouen: Ioannis Berthelin, 1651. Second Edition. Hardcover, Octavo (6.5 x 4.25 inches). Contemporary full vellum, raised bands over binding cords, neatly inked hand-written author and title on spine. Decorative initials, head and tail piece. Letterpress title-page with woodcut device, additional engraved title-page and seven engravings. The author, Michael..... More
New York, NY: Continuum, 1987. Softcover. Large octavo. x + 234pp. "A Guide to Understanding Your Dream Symbols." Bibliography & index. Hint of rubbing to wrappers, else a tight, clean VG+ copy. More
Edinburgh, Scotland: Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks, 1981. Limited edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 78pp. Hand-bound brown faux leather, gilt title to spine, illustrations. Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks series No. 10. Edition limited to 250 hand-numbered copies. Signed by Adam McLean. "Jane Leade was a late 17th century English mystic of great importance..... More
Cambridge, England: University Press, 1891. First edition. Hardcover, sm.4to, xvi + 158pp + 38pp of Appendix (Catalogue of the Gems in the Fitzwilliam Museum), Original blue cloth, with gilt title, etc. to spine, b&w illustrations and plates, index. Boards lightly chafed, very light shelfware and rubbing to extremities, endpapers lightly..... More
South Pasedena, CA: P.D. and Ione Perkins, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo, 192 pp. Decorated blue cloth, gilt title and author to spine and front cover, b&w frontis and illustrations, list of illustrations, index. Edges rubbed, corners and spine ends bumped and a bit chafed, bookstore stamp to front endpaper..... More
UK: Scarlet Imprint, 2018. Fine Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 80pp. Hand bound in quarter vellum, black cloth boards, custom marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, ribboned, and presented in a slipcase. B&W illustrations after 7 pen and ink drawings by Morgan Singer. The "Fine" edition limited to 72 hand numbered copies. From..... More
Largs, Scotland: The Banton Press, 1992. Reprint. Softcover. Octavo. viii + 388pp. Printed red wrappers. Facsimile offset reprint of the original 1853 edition. An alphabetically arranged reference by George Oliver (1782–1867), an English cleric, schoolmaster, topographer who wrote extensively on Theology and Freemasonry. Spine a little faded, light bumps to..... More
![Item #66811 Early Islamic Ceramics, Ninth to Late Twelfth Centuries [ Benaki Museum Athens ]....](/pictures/thumb/66811.jpg?v=1598544316)
London: Islamic Art Productions / Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover Small folio. xviii + 323pp. Black cloth boards with silver lettering to upper board and spine, map endpapers, bibliography and index. Well illustrated in colour and b&w illustrations. The first edition of this lavish catalogue of early..... More
York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser Inc., 2000. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 100pp. Illustrations, glossary and index. From publisher: "Clearly explains how to use dominos in divination for people who follow religious practices other than the various forms of Yoruba. The domino oracle is best known in Santeria, but is a...... More
New York, NY: Anatol Sivas Publications, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. vi + 126 pp. Orange cloth with gilt titling to spine; index, b&w illustrations. An eccentric overview of symbols in religion and art, apparently based in part at least on the author's knowledge of oriental rugs. Very light..... More
London: Privately Published, ND [ 1939 ]. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo booklet. 12pp (+ b&w photographic portrait frontis). Original stapled red printed wrappers. A booklet released to commemorate the death of William John Songhurst (1860-1939), who served as the Supreme Magus of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (S.R.I.A.) from 1925..... More
![Item #57844 Instruction booklet for "Miniature Rider Tarot Deck" [ Rider Waite Tarot ] (...](/pictures/thumb/57844.jpg?v=1491582264)
Stamford, CT: U.S. Games Systems, Inc., ND ( circa 1988 ). Softcover. 2.75 x 1.5 inches. Matchbox-sized instruction booklet, stapled printed wrappers, 44pp. A "miniature" version of the instruction booklet which accompanies the classic Rider-Waite (Waite-Smith) Tarot deck designed by Pamela Coleman Smith and Arthur E. Waite. Staple a bit..... More
London: Strange Attractor Press, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 336pp. Faux leather spine with illustrated papered boards, printed endpapers, lavishly illustrated in colour. The Standard edition. From the publisher: "In the Spring of 2013 a 79-card, hand-painted tarot deck created c.1906 by the mystic and artist Austin Osman Spare..... More
