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, 1892. First Edition. Softcover. Tall octavo. Stapled in original printed paper wrappers, illustrated. 16pp. 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 Temple" of..... More
Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, 1894. First Edition. Softcover. Tall 8vo. 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
York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1987. Reprint. Hardcover. Small quarto. (xII) + 332 pp. Blue cloth with gilt titling to spine; color frontis, illustrations, index. A reprint of the final revised edition of Case's now-famous study of the Rosicrucian Initiation system with particular reference to the Kabbalah. Case first..... More
Quakertown, PA: The Humanitarian Society, ND ( Copyright 1961 ). Second, Enlarged. Softcover. Octavo, 48pp. Original 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, who..... 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
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
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
Leipzig: Max Altmann, 1911 [ 1910 / 1911 ]. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. Bound periodical. 768pp. Quarter cloth with papered boards. Index. 12 issues of this scarce German language Occult periodical. The early years of the twentieth century witnessed the foundation of a number of occult publishing companies in..... 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
Austin TX: The Golden Dawn Research Trust, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 52pp. Glossy printed wrappers. Reproduction of the Bristol S.R.I.A. Certificate designed by Benjamin Cox in 1871 as frontispiece. This copy SIGNED by the Editor, Darcy Kuntz, on the half-title page. This volume was limited to 250 copies and..... More
London: Printed by J. M. for Giles Calvert, at the black spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls. 1652. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. Modern brown calf-leather binding, with blind-stamped rules and devices to margins of boards, and raised bands with gilt rules and titling to spine. (lxx) +..... More
Montana: Kessinger Publishing Company, ND [ circa 1990s? ]. Reprint. Softcover, Quarto. 8 X 10.25 inches. Eccentrically paginated [ 32pp.] Green coated wrappers with black lettering. Print on demand production values. Lower corners bumped, else a tight, clean copy. Near Fine condition. More
Montana: Kessinger Publishing Company, ND [ circa 1990s? ]. Reprint. Softcover, Quarto. 8 X 10.25 inches. 42pp. Green coated wrappers with black lettering. Print on demand production values. Covers lightly rubbed, else a tight, clean copy. Near Fine condition. More
Montana: Kessinger Publishing Company, ND [ circa 1990s? ]. Reprint. Softcover, Quarto. 8 X 10.25 inches. Eccentrically paginated [ 52pp.] Pink coated wrappers with black lettering. Print on demand production values. Upper corner bumped, else a tight, clean copy. Near Fine condition. More
Montana: Kessinger Publishing Company, ND [ circa 1990s? ]. Reprint. Softcover, Quarto. 8 X 10.25 inches. 58pp. Pink coated wrappers with black lettering, b&w illustration. Print on demand production values. Upper corner lightly bumped - else a tight, clean copy. Near Fine condition. More
Chicago: The Hermetic Publishing Company, 1932. Softcover. Quarto. 8" x 11". 40pp (i adverts, viii blanks). Original printed wrappers, secured by staples. No statement of edition, but the appearance of the volume is consistent with the copyright date of 1932. Published by the Hermetic Publishing Company - publishers of various..... More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. x + 370pp. Pale green cloth with gilt titling on maroon spine label, index. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped and rubbed, page edges slightly dusty and lightly thumbed. A serious study of Masonry and anti-Masonry in Europe in the..... 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
London: Rider & Co, July - November 1924. First Edition. Softcover. Large Octavos. 326pp. Five consecutive issues that were originally bound in wrappers, now disbound (that is these are copies of the journal that had had their wrappers removed in preparation for binding in cloth, but that never actually had..... More
Haarlem, The Netherlands: Rozekruis-Pers, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo. 254pp. Green cloth with silver star design to upper board and silver lettering to spine, glossary. FRENCH TEXT. Volume I only. The first volume of this study of the ancient Egyptian gnosticism, the work of Hermes Trismegistus, etc. Very light..... More
Glasgow: Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii + 124pp. Hand bound in brown faux-leather, b&w illustrations. Edition limited to 250 numbered copies, this being copy number 15 signed by Adam McLean. Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks series No. 23. This volume reproduces the 16 kabbalistic diagrams, along..... More
