New York: William Morrow, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 246pp. Red cloth with gilt titling to spine; b&w frontis, b&w illustrations, index, bibliography. A biography of Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561 – 1626) the hugely influential English writer, philosopher and statesman. The author is most definitely not a...... More

Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, 1894. First Edition. Softcover. Tall octavo. Stapled in original printed paper wrappers. 18pp. Original printed wrappers. According to Dr. R. A. Gilbert "many of the members" of the producers of this volume - the Scottish Lodge of the Theosophical Society - "were also members of the Amen-Ra..... More

Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, 1894. First Edition. Softcover. Tall octavo. Stapled in original printed paper wrappers, illustrated. 16pp. Original printed wrappers. According to Dr. R. A. Gilbert "many of the members" of the producers of this volume - the Scottish Lodge of the Theosophical Society - "were also members of the..... More

Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, 1894. First Edition. Softcover. Tall octavo. Stapled in original printed paper wrappers. 16pp. Original printed wrappers. According to Dr. R. A. Gilbert "many of the members" of the producers of this volume - the Scottish Lodge of the Theosophical Society - "were also members of the Amen-Ra..... More

Quakertown, PA: Philosophical Publishing Company, 1931-1932. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Large octavo. viii + 192pp. Original cloth with gilt titling to spine, gilt Rosicrucian symbol to upper board. R. Swinburne Clymer (1878 - 1966) enrolled as a Neophyte in the Temple of The Rosy Cross and Imperial Eulis in 1897..... More

Quakertown, PA: The Humanitarian Society, ND ( Copyright 1961 ). Second, Enlarged. Softcover. Octavo. 48pp. Original orange printed stapled wrappers. A strange racist diatribe, attacking race-mixing, Islam, the United Nations, modern educational methods, etc. etc. Oddly there are a couple of pages on, and several passing references too, Aleister Crowley..... More

Wickford, Essex: An Earthquest Production by the Supernaturalist Magazine, Spring, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 59pp pages (inclusive of printed inside covers). White wrappers titled and elaborately illustrated in black, b&w illustrations and "centerfold" map. This copy INSCRIBED and signed by the author on the title page in November 1991..... More

New York NY: Samuel Weiser Publishing, 1970. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi + 250pp + fold-out. Original light brown cloth with gilt titling to spine, b&w frontis and fold out, appendixes and bibliography. A Samuel Weiser reprint edition, with additional matter, of a series of articles on the Comte..... 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

Los Angeles, CA: Philosophical Research Society, Inc., 1975. Reprint. Hardcover. Large 8vo. viii +lviii + 48 pp. Maroon cloth with gilt titling to spine, b&w illustrations. A Reprint of the Rare Masonic Monograph. Spine ends and corners lightly rubbed and bumped. Overall, a tight and clean VG+ copy. No dustjacket..... More

Manchester, England: Charles Simms & Co., 1859. First Edition. Hardcover, 8vo. 66pp. Contemporary maroon half leather with cloth boards, marbled end papers. The book was originally bound in wrappers, which have not been bound into this copy. Edmund Dudley (c.1462 -1510) was a minister of Henry VII of England, and..... More

Los Angeles, CA: The Philosophical Research Society, 1982. Reprint. Softcover. Booklet. 62pp. Printed wrappers. Manly Palmer Hall (1901 - 1990), was a Canadian-born occultist, mystic and author best known for his "The Secret Teaching of All Ages." Hall gathered together a world renowned collection of books and manuscripts on alchemy..... More

York Beach, Maine USA: The Teitan Press, 2009. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 8vo. xxiv + 240pp. Quality red cloth with gilt sigil on upper board, gilt titling to spine, colour frontis, index. The editor, John Hamill, is one of the leading historians of English Freemasonry - with a particular fascination..... More