Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Reprint. Softcover. Large octavo. xxii + 249pp, b&w plates and illustrations, bibliography, index. A scholarly dictionary of alchemical symbolism with an emphasis on the literary and intellectual references to alchemy and focusing most closely on the 16th and 17th centuries. A lovely clean near Fine..... More

Boston, MA: WeiserBooks, 2004. Reprint. Softcover. Octavo. 124pp, b&w illustrations, appendix. A reprint of the1974 Samuel Weiser Revised Edition of Albertus' "The Alchemist's Handbook," with foreword by Israel Regardie. The book is a practical guide to the alchemical arts by Frater Albertus Spagyricus (Dr. Richard Albert Riedel, 1911–1984); founder of..... More

Brisbane, AU: Salamander & Sons, 2014. First Edition Thus. Softcover.Octavo. 68pp. Stapled, Illustrated card covers. Illustrated in b&w. Edtion limited to 300 hand numbered copies. From the "Unearthed Arcana" series. Two of the three treatises here are presented in English for the first time, while the third is presented anew..... More

United Kingdom: Hell Fire Club, ND [ 2008 ]. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [ii (blank) + 78pp.] Full leather with gilt talismanic device on front board. Marbled endpapers. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies (although as often, the limitation notice and number which were supposed to have been hand-written on..... More

London: George Redway, 1888. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Large octavo. 316pp (+ 4pp catalogue of books published by Redway tipped in at rear) Original brown boards with bevelled edges, gilt title on spine. (Gilbert, binding variant a). Originally published anonymously in 1815, the identity of the author of the work..... More

Glasgow: Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks, 1998. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 112pp. Hand bound in maroon faux-leather, frontis, b&w illustrations. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies. Signed by Adam McLean. Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks series No. 26. A translation and examination of an anonymous work originally published in Germany in 1725..... More

New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1992. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. lx + 144 pp. Beige cloth with green titling to upper board and spine, glossary and index. An excellent scholarly edition, drawn from the text of the 1597 printing, of a work that was widely (and probably wrongly)..... More

New Jersey: Heptangle, 1983. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Small octavo. xvi + 146pp. Green cloth with paper spine label. Title page in red and black. A nicely produced reprint of a classic seventeenth century work on alchemy and chemistry. Top edge very lightly foxed, faint flecking to cloth at spine..... More

"City of Washington" [ Washington DC ]: Smithsonian Institute, 1893, 1899, 1901, 1904. Hardcover. Small quartos. Effectively four parts in three volumes, and complete as such. Vol. 1: xiv + 1212, Vol. 2: viii + 490pp & iv 462pp, Vol. 3: iv + 534pp. Original brown publisher's cloth with gilt..... More

New York, NY: Macmillan Company, 1968. First US edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. xvi + 224pp. Gold metallic boards with black title, etc. to spine, color frontis, illustrations. A well written and illustrated sympathetic overview of the history of alchemy. The author C. A Burland served 40 years in the British..... More

London: John M. Watkins, 1925. First Limited Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. xii +88 pp. Blind ruled navy cloth with gilt titling to spine, copy of errata slip loosely inserted at page 33. Edition limited to 500 copies. An unusual defence of the practice of Alchemy, with a preface by the..... More

Glasgow, U.K. Hermetic Studies series, 1997. Limited edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 142pp. Hand bound in brown faux leather with gilt title titling to spine, brown endpapers, b&w frontis, illustrations. Number 1 in the Hermetic Studies series. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies. Signed by Adam McLean, dated 21st May 1997. Top..... More