York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser Inc., 2000. First Edition Thus. Hardcover, Large Quarto (approx 11-1/2 x 9 inches), xvi + 176pp. + 198pp. Decorated Maroon cloth with gilt device Frontisportrait. Color & b/w plates. Diagrams, etc. A facsimile reprint of the first (1801) edition of Barrett's influential magical treatise. The..... More
York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser Inc., 2000. First Edition Thus. Hardcover, Large Quarto (approx 11-1/2 x 9 inches), xvi + 176pp. + 198pp. Decorated Maroon cloth with gilt device Frontisportrait. Color & b/w plates. Diagrams, etc. A facsimile reprint of the first (1801) edition of Barrett's influential magical treatise. The..... 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
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
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
Grenoble, France: Le Mercure Dauphinois, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto (11 1/2 x 8 1/4). 152pp. Glossy pictorial wrappers. French text. From the publisher: Pierre Dujols (1862-1926) est toujours présenté comme un libraire et un bibliophile averti. Le philosophe-alchimiste qu'il était disparaît derrière l'activité à tel point que son Hypotypose..... 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
Hamburg Zürich: Luchterhand Literaturverlag, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (12 1/4 x 9 1/4). 344pp. Original red cloth with blue titling to spine. Colour and B&W Illustrations. German text. Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Akademie fur Sprache und Dichtung Darmstadt 65. Veröffentlichungen. A collection of essays, mostly exploring Hermetic themes in art..... More
London: George Redway, 1884 & 1885. First Editions. Hardcover. 2 volumes in 1. Large Octavo. xxviii + 298 pp; + (36)pp (Illustrated supplement). Handsome mid-20th century half-leather binding. Deep red-brown calf over matching mottled-patterned paper boards. Fine gilt titling and decorations to spine, gilt rules to boards. Top-edge gilt, fore-edge..... 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. 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
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
Paris: Editions Dervy, 2003. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto. 151pp. Colour illustrated softcover with fold over inner flaps. Well illustrated throughout in colour. Text in FRENCH. INSCRIBED on the title page by the author Robert Vanloo. Displays in full colour a collection of more than 80 magnificent Masonic jewels relating to..... 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
Brussels, Belgium: Impression Anastaltique Culture Et Civilisation, 1969. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 208 pp. Original yellow cloth, gilt title, etc. to front cover. A facsimile of the 1788 Nuremberg edition, text in GERMAN. Light coloured cloth very slightly grubby, hint of rubbing to edges and corners, light foxing to..... More
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co. Ltd, 1903. First edition. Large Octavo. 288pp. Stiff printed cardboard covers, upper cover lettered in red. A curious addition to the body of literature that once fuelled the great Bacon/Shakespeare controversy (the once popular theory that some or most of the works of Shakespeare..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969. First US Edition. Hardcover. Octavo.. xiv + 218pp. Mauve cloth with silver titling. Frontispiece portrait of John Dee, 25 b&w plates, index. From the publisher: "The central theme of the book is the presentation of John Dee and Robert Fludd as representatives of Renaissance..... More
