UK: Scarlet Imprint, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xviii & 302pp. Bound in black shantung cloth, gilt device to upper board and gilt lettering to spine, purple textured endpapers. Full colour illustrations, endnotes, bibliography and index. The standard edition limited to 800 numbered copies. "The first full length, scholarly study..... More
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
São Paulo, Brazil: Editora Pensamento, 1995. First Edition. Softcover book & deck set. 162pp. + ii adverts. 64 color cards - sealed. Text in Portuguese. Described by publisher as: "Cards depicting 64 types of dragons, whose characteristics the author describes, have similarities with different types of human personality and, especially..... More
London: Rider & Co., nd (circa 1930's). Hardcover. Large 8vo. 264 pp. Green-gray cloth with gilt titling to spine; tables. Spine ends, edges, corners rubbed and lightly bumped; page edges slightly browned; owner's book plate on front paste down. Overall, a tight and clean VG copy. No dust jacket. 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
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi + 326pp + 10pp of adverts at rear. Original brick-red cloth, black-stamped title, etc. to spine and front board, b&w frontis and illustrations. A collection of essays on early Masonic history by Albert Churchward (1852–1925). Churchward was a...... More
Wheaton IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1989. First English language edition. Hardcover. Quarto. vi + 90pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Full page colour plates throughout. The first English language edition of this work which highlights 25 mandala paintings of European artist Heita Copony, which are presented in..... More
York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser Inc., 1994. Reprint. Softcover. Octavo. 66pp. Colour illustrated white wrappers. A separate publication of this essay which first appeared as 'A Description of The Cards of the Tarot' in The Equinox, Volume 1, Number 8, 1912. From the collection of Clive Harper with his discreet..... 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
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Thick Royal octavo. xvi + 488pp. Tan cloth spine with black-&-gilt title label, brown papered boards. Index. B/w frontis. & plate. Cloth spine quite foxed, wear to corners of boards, page-edges foxed, previous owner's name on front free endpaper, otherwise a solid..... 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
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
London: J. M. Watkins, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xvii + 302 pp.+ 76 pp plates. Original bright blue cloth with gilt tile, author and rules to spine, 76 b/w plates. The scarce first edition of this important comparative study of the symbolism of pre-Christian religions (the "Orphic") of the..... 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
London: Rigel Press, 1970. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 112pp. Original blue cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, b&w illustrations, appendix, bibliography. The first edition of a revised reprint of a work originally published as "Accelerate Your Evolution." In it the author seeks to set explore the reason and..... More
Los Angeles, CA: Philosophical Research Society, Inc., 1956. Third Edition. Hardcover. Small folio. 176pp. Original bright green cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, gilt solar device to upper board, frontis, b&w illustrations, double-column printing. This copy inscribed and signed under the frontisportrait by the author "Very Sincerely, Manly P...... 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
NP: MacKenzie Publishing Ltd, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Large Quarto (12 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches). 256pp. Bright blue cloth with gilt titling to spine and upper cover, gilt Masonic device to upper cover, colour and b&w plates and illustrations, Gallery of 275 famous masons, index. From the Foreword: "This..... More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1948. Fourth Impression. Hardcover. Octavo. xii + 410pp + viii adverts. Navy cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Index. A reprint of the second English collection of Carl Jung's essays focusing on his contributions to analytical psychology. Light overall shelf wear, boards very lightly bowed..... More
Brisbane, AU: Salamander and Sons, 2011. First Edition. Softcover. Large octavo. Modern Magistery series. xxvi + 330pp. Colour and b&w illustrations. Appendixes, index. From the publisher: "Based upon 30 years of studying, reading and teaching tarot, more than 10,000 face-to-face readings and extensive research in the field, Marcus Katz successfully..... More
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xi + 215pp. Gilt illustrated navy cloth gilt-lettered on spine, printed endpapers, appendixes, index. The first edition of folklorist Andrew Lang's (1844 – 1912) study of Totemism, which he calls "the natural sequel of his "Social Origins and Primal..... More
Madras, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1927. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Large Quarto. (12 x 10 inches) . x + 78pp. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine & front board. Color frontis & 9 color plates with tissue guards. B/w illustrations. Index. A well-regarded study of the chakras by..... More
