Chicago, IL: Collegium ad Spiritum Sanctum Publication Department, 1923. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo, xviii + 120 pp (+ 10 pp adverts). Original quarter cloth binding: green cloth spine with brown textured papered boards, gilt title, etc. to spine and front cover, and gilt Horus figure on front cover. Fold-out..... More
New York: Riverhead Books [ a division of Penguin ], 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xii + 208pp. Deep red cloth spine over scarlet papered boards, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Appendices, notes, references and index, b&w photographs and illustrations. From the publishers: "Aczel documents the efforts..... More
![Item #72194 Alchemist's Handbook [ Manual for Practical Laboratory Alchemy ]. Alchemy, Frater...](https://weiserantiquarian.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72194.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699556411)
York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1991. Reprint. Softcover. Octavo. 124pp, Glossy card covers. B&w illustrations, appendix. A reprint of the 1974 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..... More
Argentorati (i.e Strasbourg): Lazari Zetzneri, 1617 & 1633. Lull - 3rd Edition, Alsted 2nd Edition. Hardcover. (2 volumes in 1). Octavo. (7 3/8 x 5 inches). Contemporary or near-contemporary stiff vellum, with title "Raymundi Lullii / Opera / 1617" neatly hand-lettered on spine. Lullius "Opera": [16], 1109, [40 +i: colophon..... More
New York, NY: Samuel Weiser Inc., 1984. First American edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 466pp. Original gilt decorated blue cloth. Ruland's Lexicon was posthumously published in Latin in1612. Waite and a friend translated it, and privately printed it in a print run of only 6 copies in 1893 and it was..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., ND [ 1920 ]. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Quarto. 104pp. Maroon cloth with gilt title and author to spine, blind rules to boards. Twenty-two full-page b&w plates printed on coated. Probably the best known of the sixteenth century alchemical manuscripts. This edition..... More
Berkeley /Los Angeles /London: University of California Press [ Hayward Gallery ], 1996. First Edition. Softcover. Large Quarto. 195 pages. Illustrated thick paper wrappers. Generously illustrated in black & white, and colour. The catalogue produced to accompany the first exhibition at the Hayward Gallery of London. From the exhibition catalogue..... More
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. First English language edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xvi + 192pp + 38 b&w full pages illustrations. Bound in fine mauve cloth with black titling etc to spine, grey endsheets, double page colour illustration precedes the colour illustrated title page, Publisher's blurb: "Drawing on historical, theological..... More
New York: Harmony Books, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. x + 310pp. Cream spine over black cloth boards, red titling to spine, b&w frontis, b&w illustrations and a few colour illustrations, end note. Stated first edtiion. From the publisher: "In 1679, Renaissance man Olof Rudbeck stunned the world. He..... 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..... More
New York NY / London: Abbeville Press, 2018. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Large folio (15 x 10 1/2 inches) in elaborately colour illustrated slipcase. Not paginated [ Approx. 620 pages.] Scarlet cloth, gilt titled spine and publisher's device. Top-edge guilt. Heavily illustrated throughout in full color, end-notes, bibliography, index, ribbon..... More
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. x + 228pp. Bound in fine black cloth, upper cover is embellished with a gilt & green flower in vase within a gilt border, gilt titling to spine with duo-tone illustrated endpapers, coloured top edge. Duo-toned frontis..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957. Second Edition [ Lithographic Reprint ]. Hardcovers. Large Octavos. Two volumes (complete). Volume I: xvi + 650pp & Volume II: xxii + 362pp. Original navy cloth with copper titling to spine, blind stamped device to upper board, b&w frontis in Vol. I, b&w illustrations, b&w fold-outs..... More
Princeton University Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 192pp. Navy cloth with silver titling to spine, navy endpages, colour illustrated double page title and chapter headings, notes, appendix, and index. Colour and b&w illustrations throughout. From the publisher: "Offers an innovative and revealing approach to one of the most individual..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publisher in association with the Henry Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1994. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Large Quarto. 160pp. Colour illustrated card covers, with white titling to cover and spine. Colour illustrated title page, index and list of further reading. Colour and b&w illustrations..... More
![Item #72136 The Book of Urizen [ Cover title: The First Book of Urizen ]. William. With a....](https://weiserantiquarian.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72136.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699556389)
London / New York: J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd. / E.P. Dutton & Co., 1929. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. (vi) (28 leaf colour facsimile - illustrations on rectos only), (ii) 11-25pp text by Plowman (i). Red cloth with gilt lettering to upper cover and spine, full page color plates..... More
Wheaton, IL: The Theosophical Press, 1946. Fifth "Olcott" Edition. Hardcovers. Octavos. Vol. 1 "Cosmogenesis": 344pp (+ iipp errata).; Vol. 2 "Cosmogenesis": 408pp. (+ iipp errata); Vol. 3 "Anthropogenesis": 452pp. (+ iipp errata); Vol. 4 "Anthropogenesis": 372pp. (+ iipp errata); Vol. 5: 576pp. (+ iipp errata); Vol. 6 "Index & Glossary"..... More
Los Angeles: The Theosophy Company, 1982. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. Small thick quarto [ Two Volumes in One - Complete ]. Book 1: "Cosmogenesis", xlviii + 676pp.; Volume: 2: "Anthropogenesis": xvi + 798pp + xxx index; Navy cloth with gilt titling and rules to spine, gilt images on front cover. A...... More
Chicago, IL: Rio Grande Press, 1962. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. xvii + 371pp. (+xxxi pp. plates). Cloth with gilt tightling to spine and front cover. A facsimile reprint of this study of travels through Arizona and New Mexico with an exploration of the customs of the indigenous peoples, that was..... More
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. xiv + 126pp + (+ at least 30pp of plates). Original black cloth lettered on spine and front cover, decorated endpapers, b&w frontpiece, over 30 pages of black & white diagrams and illustrations. Stated first edition. A selection..... More
Rochester, NY: Manas Press, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover, Octavo. (xii) + 80pp. Oriinal yellow cloth, with titling to spine and front cover. Pictoral endpapers, illustrations. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Bragdon "To my friend / Edward Wheelock / from / Claude Bragdon." A short study of the idea of the concept..... More
Oxford, UK / New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavos. Two volumes (complete set, consecutively paginated). Volume I: Text, lxii + 640pp. Volume II: Commentary and Appendices: vi + 641-1198pp. Matching deep grey cloth with blind borders to covers, silver titling to spines, pale blue endpapers..... More
London: Religious Tract Society, 1927. Hardcover. Large Octavo. xvi + 320pp. Original blue cloth with gilt titling etc. to spine and blind stamping to front cover. Frontispiece, 16 plates and 8 illustrations in the Text. A translation of the Syriac language text known as the "Cave of Treasures," which covers..... More
London: Religious Tract Society, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo. xxiv + 308pp. Original blue cloth with gilt titling etc. to spine and front cover. Frontispiece, 17 b&w plates and 22 illustrations in text, index. Budge's study of the obelisks of ancient Egypt, with particular reference to "Cleopatra's Needle" which..... More
North Hollywood CA: Wilshire Book Company, 1969. Fourth Impression. Softcover. Octavo. 178pp + vipp adverts, b&w illustrations. Glossy card covers. The author, 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..... More
