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1. Agrippa, Cornelius, (pseud). and Renaissance Magic series, vol. 4, sluis, Peter Russell, Robin Waterfield, OF OCCULT PHILOSOPHY BOOK very fine copy. $125.00 Christine Rhone, Jane Leade, Terrence FOUR. MAGICAL CEREMONIES. McKenna, Peter Lamborn Wilson, and Edited and Translated by Robert 3. Agrippa, Henry Cornelius. others plus book reviews. $12.50 Turner. Gillette: Heptangle 1985, THREE BOOKS OF OCCULT PHI- small octavo, cloth with sewn signa- LOSOPHY, OR OF MAGICK, 8. ALEXANDRIA 4. THE tures, hand printed by letterpress, title WRITTEN BY THAT FAMOUS JOURNAL OF THE WESTERN page rubricated, with dust jacket, MAN... Translated out of the Latin in- COSMOLOGICAL TRADITIONS. 93pp, very fine copy. Long attributed to English Tongue by J. F. Hastings: Edited by David Fideler. Phanes to Agrippa, the authorship remains un- Chthonios Books 1986, three volumes, 1997, paperback, 464pp, illustrated, known to this day. This text not in- a scrupulously complete facsimile re- mint copy. Articles by Albert Einstein, cluded in the Tyson edition of Agrip- print of the 1651 edition, glossy Werner Heisenberg, Theodore Roszak, pa. $115.00 boards, X+583+[10]pp (index) folding David Applebaum, Thomas Willard, chart and many text figures, fine copy. Lee Irwin, John Michael Greer, Hakim As far as I know this is still the only Bey and book reviews. $12.50 proper facsimile edition, others are simply a joke. Here Stephen Ronan has undertaken meticulous typograph- ic restoration, provided a remarkable index of authors mentioned by Agrip- pa, and taken pains to make sure all il- lustrations (faint in most original edi- tions) are clear. Long OP, the pub- lished price was $150.00 and only a few copies were issued. $100.00

4. Albert the Great. MAN AND THE BEASTS. DE ANIMALIBUS BOOKS 22-26. Translated by J.J. Scanlan. Tempe: MRTS 1987, publ’s gilt cloth, 516pp, without dust jacket as issued, fine copy. Giant collection of fact, science, legend, and myth by and about Albertus Magnus. A com- plete reference edition, and now scarce. $112.50

5. Albinus) THE PLATONIC 2. Agrippa, Henry Cornelius. DOCTRINES OF ALBINUS. Grand AGRIPPA HENRY CORNELIUS: Rapids: Phanes Press 1991, slim octa- HIS FOURTH BOOK OF OCCULT 9. Anonymous) CULTUS AR- vo, fine gilt cloth, sewn signatures, PHILOSOPHY. Of Geomancy. Magi- BORUM. A Descriptive Account of 79pp, mint copy. $27.50 cal Elements of Peter de Abano. As- Phallic Tree Worship. With Illustrative tronomical Geomancy. The Nature of Legends, Superstitions, Usage's, [etc 6. ALEXANDRIA 1. THE Spirits. Arbatel of Magick. Translated & etc]. Exhibiting its Origin and De- JOURNAL OF THE WESTERN velopment Amongst the Eastern & into English by Robert Turner. Lon- COSMOLOGICAL TRADITIONS. don: Askin, 1978 (1655), publisher's Western Nations of the World...With a Edited by David Fideler. Phanes 1991, green calf-backed cloth boards with Bibliography... NP: Privately Printed, paperback, 378pp, mint copy. $12.50 gilt portrait of Agrippa to front cover, 1890, publ’s white paste boards in imi- facsimile reprint with some new prefa- tation of vellum, cover printed in red, 7. ALEXANDRIA 3. THE tory material and new introduction, 111pp including an ad for the series, JOURNAL OF THE WESTERN XVI+[VIII]+217pp, black & white spine detached and laid in, binding and COSMOLOGICAL TRADITIONS. frontispiece, numerous figures and sewing strong, joints cracking and Edited by David Fideler. Phanes symbols in the text, introduction by binding a bit soiled (as usual), corners 1995, paperback, 486pp, illustrated, Stephen Skinner, one of 500 numbered a bit worn but a fairly well preserved mint copy. Articles by Arthur Ver- copy of this fragile book. Part of the copies, Source Works of Mediaeval "Phallic Series", whose authorship ence 1967 (1960), offprint, thin sta- motic Spells. Volume One. Univ of remains mysterious (though often er- pled pamphlet, 10pp, nice portrait of Chicago 1996, cloth & dj, tall 8vo, roneously attributed to Hargreaves Ashmole attributed to John Riley, fine. 353pp, fine condition. No further vol- Jennings), and stumping even the great Reprinted from Notes and Records of umes published. $90.00 R. A. Gilbert. At least five titles were the Royal Society of London Vol. 15, published. Many cheap reprints have Tercentenary Number. $6.50 17. Boehme, Jacob. THE KEY been done, originals are rare. $75.00 OF JACOB BOEHME. [i.e. ‘The 13. Baba Ram Dass. DOING Clavis’]. With ‘An Illustration of the 10. Apuleius. THE GOD OF YOUR OWN BEING. The Baba Ram Deep Principles of Jacob Boehme’ by SOCRATES. Foreword by Daniel Das Lecture at the Menninger Founda- D. A. Freher. Translated by William Driscoll. Gilette: Heptangle 1993, one tion. London: Neville Spearman, 1973, Law. With an Introductory Essay by of 1,000 copies, small 8vo, plain cloth hardcover with dj, 121pp, very good to Adam McLean. Grand Rapids: Phanes with paper label, printed letterpress fine condition but the inside dj flaps 1991 (newly typeset edition of the and hand bound, 60pp, mint copy. have yellowing glue residue from re- MOHS edition), gilt cloth, thin 8vo, Printed by Heptangle but left unbound moved tape. According to the colo- sewn signatures, 81pp, frontis portrait, after Driscoll’s death, the binding is phon "This lecture first appeared in the 13 Freher plates which are immacu- done by Ars Obscura. Lucius Apulei- No.2 1970 and No.1 1971 editions of lately reproduced, very fine condition. us was a Middle Platonist, author of The Journal of Transpersonal Psy- Though the paperback edition is easily The Golden Ass, and a wise student of chology, California." Apparently never obtainable this lovely cloth edition is classical philosophy. A concise ac- reprinted. $35.00 now scarce. $115.00 count of Platonic Daemonology as ex- plicated by Socrates. $200.00 14. Basil Valentine. THE TRI- 18. Boyle) Principe, Lawrence. UMPHAL CHARIOT OF ANTIMO- THE ASPIRING ADEPT. Robert 11. Armstrong, John. THE ART NY. With the Commentary of Theo- Boyle and His Alchemical Quest. OF PRESERVING HEALTH: A PO- dore Kerckringius. London: Stuart Princeton University Press 1998, cloth EM. London: A. Millar, 1757 [1st ed 1962 (1894) small 8vo, black gilt in jacket, 339pp, sewn signatures, fine 1744], professionally rebound in re- cloth, XXXIII+204pp, spine a touch copy. One of the best Hermetic histo- cent polished cloth, sewn signatures, faded, a spot on front cover else vg+. ries of the last 20 years, important per- [ii]+99+[1, ad]pp, lacks front fly leaf, One of 500 copies printed, Gilbert B9. haps as B.J.T. Dobbs’ The Founda- foremargin of title and half-title slight- Bibliographic preface by A. E. Waite tions of Newton’s Alchemy. Principe ly chipped, engraved temple scene on who also edited the text according to has approached Hermeticism as a title, fore and lower edges untrimmed, Gilbert. In 1992 Holmes published a scholar should, by treating it as fairly fine copy. Neatly mounted to a stub is truncated edition of 90pp. $50.00 and as carefully as if he were studying an entry from a contemporary dealer any other branch of theology, arts, sci- catalog. A famous didactic poem in 15. Bell, John. A NEW DIC- ences, instead of the prejudicial skim- four parts (i.e. “Books”) with a long TIONARY OF ALL RELIGIONS… job of most scholars. For his sincere section on the plague, but mainly on WITH AN IMPARTIAL ACCOUNT interest Principe has obviously been air, diet, exercise, and “the passions”. OF THE ORIGIN AND RESPEC- rewarded with a profound understand- Armstrong was a physician who also TIVE TENENTS OF EACH… New- ing of history, an understanding of wrote a poetic treatise on sex and the castle: Cuddon c.1815, 1st ed, contem- what it was that great men like Boyle retention of semen. There is an obelisk porary plain binder’s boards, hand- and Newton were really doing with al- erected in his memory, at the center of lettered spine (now mostly faded), chemy. A remarkable chapter recon- his home town of Castelton that still 398pp, bookplate of the Abbey of St. structs Boyle’s “lost” Dialogue on the stands. "In the class of poetry to which Benedict, fine copy. Rare Catholic Transmutation of Metals, a work sup- it belongs, the Art of Preserving work with very detailed, often pontifi- pressed like the knowledge of New- Health holds a distinguished place. No cal entries on hundreds of various ton’s huge alchemical library was sup- writer of the eighteenth century had so Christian orders (Shakers, Calvinists, pressed, like Henry More’s Kabbalism masterful a grasp of blank verse as is etc), personages, conflicts, hermits, was ignored, like Cudworth’s Neopla- shown in parts of this poem. The pow- monasteries, heresies, symbolism, re- tonic Hermeticism was forgotten. But erful passage descriptive of the plague galia, ancient texts, libraries, etc & etc. this treatment of Boyle is especially has been highly praised.” DNB. Bell wrote A New Pantheon (1794). important as Boyle is truly one of the $80.00 No copies online. $275.00 great figures of science, one of the pi- oneering experimenters who paradoxi- 12. Ashmole) Josten, C.H. ELIAS 16. Betz, Hans Dieter, editor. cally, like Newton, felt the world was ASHMOLE, F.R.S. (1617-1692). Ox- THE GREEK MAGICAL PAPYRI IN becoming too materialistic and mech- ford: Museum of the History of Sci- TRANSLATION. Including the De- anistic. It was through a finding of the Philosopher’s Stone, as Boyle explains Jours. Paris: Lib. Renouard 1918, one volume edition, text in French, in his Dialogue, that he hoped the large 8vo, contemporary half cloth early half green morocco and marbled world could come closer to God. An- with marbled boards and ep’s, red sides, ep’s marbled, VIII+337pp, other hallmark here is a re-editing and spine label gilt lettered, 456pp printed joints a little edge worn, fore and top re-reading of Boyle’s famous work on heavy coated stock, 241 B&W il- margins somewhat foxed, last leaf The Skeptical Chemist which for long lustrations in the text, (a few full foxed, text block crisp, hinges tight, a has been seen by science historians as page), spine a bit faded but a nice very good copy of this classic of Rosi- a critique of Hermetic chemistry. But copy. A large and detailed work by cruciana. “The well known author was this palimpsest, is in reality an im- this esteemed authority on ancient, a member of the Rosicrucian Society portant document defending traditional Byzantine and early Christian art. Bre- in England, and [this work] embodies science against the new philosophy of hier was one of the most acclaimed some of his happiest inspirations de- compulsive induction. There is much historians of the 20th century and this rived therefrom.” (Gardner, Bibliothe- else here, such as a reprint Boyle’s Di- one of his largest monographs. ca Rosicruciana, 2nd ed, No.117). Not alogue on the Converse with Angels $75.00 in Caillet, (but see No.1790). Very in- Aided by the Philosopher’s Stone fluential on HPB, Besant was also a (possibly a fragment of Boyle’s Of the 22. Brunler, Oscar. THE INFLU- big fan. Bulwer is known for his pur- Supernatural Arcana Pretended by ENCE OF COLOURS ON OUR ple prose, such as “It was a dark and Some Chemists, now lost); and chap- MIND AND HEALTH. And Other stormy night...” First published in ters such as Alchemical Pretenders, Lectures. London: Uma Press, 1935, three volumes in Paris, this is a one Boyle’s Secret Writing, etc. Princi- first edition, small octavo, polished volume edition issued in the same pe’s work is entirely alchemical in fo- green cloth, 162pp, fine copy in torn year. Rare, only one copy in OCLC cus, leaving most of the background dj. One of 1000 copies, nicely printed World Cat. Bookplate of Thomas Ar- material such as the history of the on laid paper by the Portland Press. thur Kemmis, 1806-1858, member of Royal Society and the rise of rational- Brunler was an engineer and physicist, Parliament, with signature of his wife ism to the many previously published old friends with Manly Hall, but per- on ep. No copies online. $400.00 books on Boyle that cover that back- haps now most famous for his radionic ground in detail. $55.00 research. Rare. $150.00 25. Burckhardt, Jacob. THE CIV- ILIZATION OF THE RENAIS- 19. Bragdon, Claude. PROJEC- 23. Budge, E.A. Wallis. THE SANCE IN ITALY. Authorized TIVE ORNAMENT. Rochester: Ma- MUMMY. A Handbook of Egyptian Translation by S. G. C. Middlemore. nas Press, 1915 1st ed, publ's hand- Funerary Archaeology. Cambridge: London: Swan Sonnenschein 1904 some gilt cloth, 78pp, color frontis- CUP 1925, 2nd edition, large octavo, (1878), red cloth, 558pp, front hinge piece on coated stock, 30 numbered gilt-decorated brown polished cloth, cracked and front fly gone, spine a lit- B&W figures, plus many decorative 512pp, folding frontispiece plus 38 tle chipped, good copy. Burckhardt’s illustrations, some of which are full- full-page plates and many other illus- is one of the first glimpses of the re- page, fine copy with the bookplate of trations in the text, very light spotting discovery of Renaissance Hermetic the late Dr. Thomas Head who had one to spine and front cover but a hand- thought. $12.00 of the largest occult libraries in Amer- some copy printed on excellent paper, ica. $40.00 plates on coated stock. This second 26. Burgoyne, Thomas H. THE edition is so revised and enlarged as to LIGHT OF EGYPT, OR THE SCI- 20. BRAHMAKARMA OU constitute a new work. Confusingly ENCE OF THE SOUL AND THE RITES SACRES DES BRAH- CUP issued this in two bindings, most STARS. Portland: Green Dolphin MANES. Traduit du Sanscrit et An- seen are plain, but a few are as this Bookshop 1969 (1889), two volumes, note par A. Bourquin. Paris: Ernest with gilt Thoth glyph to the front cov- gilt brown cloth, 289+174pp, a few Leroux, 1884, quarto, later buckram, er and folding plate. Prodigious ency- plates, sold with: A TREASURE 145pp, with one full-page B&W illus- clopedia of Pharonic death with exten- CHEST OF WISDOM, JEWELS OF tration, two diagrams and one table, sive material on various burial rites THOUGHT. Verses by Dr. & Mrs appendice, index, ‘transcription du and the afterlife, a 20pp chapter on Henry Wagner. A Companion Book to texte original’, plus errata. Extrait des amulets, 40pp on the symbolic repre- the Light of Egypt. Denver: Wagner Annales du Musee Guimet, Tome VII, sentation of the Gods, plus obelisks, 1967, brown cloth, 251pp, sold with: a few discrete ink library stamps, very rites of burial, The Book of the Dead, A TREASURE CHEST OF WIS- good sound copy. $95.00 ritual offerings, etc & etc, fully in- DOM, JEWELS OF THOUGHT. A dexed. $125.00 Supplement to the Tablets of Aeth in 21. Brehier, Louis. L’ART the Light of Egypt, Volume II. Wagner CHRETIEN. Son Developpement 24. Bulwer, E. L. ZANONI. 1967, stapled wraps, 63pp, all in very Iconographique. Des Origines A Nos Paris: A. & W. Galignani & Co, 1842, good-fine condition. No copies online of the third and fourth volumes. bibliography. Includes the portrait observe the changing minutia of his $275.00 which appears opposite the introduc- body. Siraisi’s book focuses on Car- tion, bound in polished calf & marbled dano’s medical writings, and in so do- boards with the original front wrapper ing she gives us a good look at one of bound in, five raised bands, gilt let- Cardano’s most important and unusual tered spine with raised bands, marbled facets-his writings on dreams and on- end papers matching the marbled eriology. Cardano kept a detailed sides, sewn signatures, nice clean dream diary. He believed in a sort of copy, pages bright and printed on good astral projection, and considered him- stock. Unlike most biographers of Ca- self to be an unusually gifted dreamer gliostro, Haven took pains to docu- of prophetic dreams. $125.00 ment all his assertions with extremely informative footnotes and a full anno- 31. Case, Paul Foster]. Large col- tated bibliography of 215 texts. Not a lection of BOTA lessons, published in particularly scarce book but impossi- Los Angeles, by the Builders of the ble to find in the US. $175.00 Adytum, circa 1960’s. 160 stapled les- sons total, about 6-18pp each with oc- 29. Canseliet, Eugene. DUE casional illustrations, fine condition LUOGHI ALCHEMICI. In Margine throughout. Tarot Fundamentals, Les-

alla Scienza e alla Storia. Edizione son Nos. 1-29, 31, 44-47; Tarot Inter- 27. Butler, Hiram Erastus. THE Italiana e Traduzione dal Francese di pretation, Lesson Nos. 1-6, 9-32; 32 SEVEN CREATIVE PRINCIPLES. Paolo Lucarelli. Roma: Edizioni Medi- Paths of Wisdom, Lesson Nos. 1-4; Being a Series of Seven Lectures De- terranee, 1998, first Italian edition, Developing Supersensory Powers livered Before the Society for Esoteric small quarto, plain white wraps with Through Tarot, Lesson Nos. 1-36; Culture, of Boston, with Introductory rubricated cover, sewn signatures, Seven Steps in Practical Occultism, Lecture on the Idea of God, and Con- 342pp, 41 color and B&W plates dis- Lesson Nos. 1-7; Tree of Life, Lesson cluding Lecture on the Esoteric Signif- tributed throughout the text, cover Nos. 19-26; Master Plan, Lesson Nos. icance of Color. Boston: Esoteric Pub- printed on rag paper, nice book arts, 5-12; The Great Work, Spiritual Al- lishing, 1887, 1st ed, publ’s red cloth, good reproductions of the plates which chemy, Lessons 38-40; approximately gilt and blind-stamped cover decora- are of architectural drawings, paint- 6pp each. Also sold with Associate tions, gilt lettered spine, small octavo, ings, medieval woodcarvings and Builders Initiation packet; Coloring [X]+170+[4]pp, ten plates, nine of woodcuts, old books, symbolic porti- Instructions, Minor Tarot Keys; Tarot which are on coated stock, including cos, etc. $140.00 Workbook; one greeting card, B&W portrait frontispiece, eight are in color. poster illustrated with tarot card imag- Fine copy of a lovely book, gilt bright 30. Cardano, Gerolamo) Siraisi, es; three Builders of the Adytum cata- and fresh, uncommonly so. The end Nancy. THE CLOCK AND THE logs; A Bibliography Compiled from papers beautifully illustrate an unusual MIRROR. Girolamo Cardano and Re- the Writings of Dr. Paul Foster Case; floral motif, a classic of 19th century naissance Medicine. Princeton UP The Portico, Volume 2, Number 2 American book design. Amazingly it 1997, cloth & dj, 361pp, fine cloth through Volume 6, Number 1; The was still being published in 1950, But- binding, sewn signatures, alkaline pa- Lantern, Vol. 2, No. 2 & Vol. 3, No. 4, ler’s longevity is noteworthy. I once per, mint copy. Cardano (1501-1576) vg-f condition throughout. A few ge- visited the ruins of his community in was a lot like Kircher in a number of neric letters from BOTA are also pre- Applegate, a fascinating and apparent- interesting ways. He was a scientific sent. This collection comprises about ly still ongoing story. $175.00 polymath who also studied the occult six years worth of monthly lessons, and Hermetic thinkers, wrote on medi- (then approximately $6.00 per lesson). 28. Cagliostro) Haven, Marc. LE cine, and like Kircher was largely ig- For some, these brief booklets are just MAITRE INCONNU CAGLIOSTRO. nored for the last 200 years because he the way to gradually enter the world of Etude Historique et Critique sur la wrote books on dreams, divination, authentic Hermeticism. $450.00 Haute Magie. Ouvrage Orne de Dix- metoposcopia, astrology, alchemy and Huit Gravures, Portraits, Vues or Fac- had eclectic notions about health and 32. Cicero) THE DREAM OF simile de Documents. Paris: Editions longevity and the cosmos. The title of SCIPIO. Translated from the Sixth Pythagore, 1932, nouvelle edition re- the book refers to one of Cardano’s Book of the De Republica of Cicero, vue, corrigee et augmentee. VII+330+ sayings to his students, that “the studi- Together with the Latin Text, Intro- [2]pp, contemporary half polished calf, ous man should always have at hand a duction & Notes by Henry Edward 19 text illustrations and B&W plates clock, and a mirror.” a clock to meas- Blakeney. London: The Fortune Press, on coated stock, epilogue, appendice, ure the passage of time and a mirror to 1927, 48pp, B&W frontispiece engrav- ing, cloth-backed boards, deckled edg- 36. Conway, Anne. CONWAY and gilt spine, 293pp, back joint with es, jacket, fine. Beautiful production LETTERS. The Correspondence of two tiny holes, (binding error?), trivial by Fortune Press, one of 525 copies Anne, Viscountess Conway, Henry wear to covers else a fine copy of a printed on handmade paper. The trans- More, and their Friends 1642-1684. book usually found worn. One of Da- lator went on to do important work on Edited by Majorie Hope Nicolson. vis’ more interesting books. During William Blake. $90.00 New Haven: Yale, and London: OUP my first decade in the book business I 1930, large 8vo, publ’s red cloth and visited literally thousands of used and 33. Cleaves, Francis Woodman, gilt spine, 517pp, frontis and 17 plates, antiquarian book shops all over Amer- [editor]. MANUAL OF MONGOLI- spine a bit faded and rubbed, margins ica and Europe, and after a while it be- AN ASTROLOGY AND DIVINA- beginning to brown else a vg-f copy, came clear which books were common TION. With A Critical Introduction by autographed presentation inscription and which were rare. Everywhere I the Reverend Antoine Mostaert. Cam- from the author, “For Mary Lou, who found piles and piles of books by the bridge: Harvard UP 1969, tall 8vo is high honors in every way, Majorie then forgotten Andrew Jackson Davis, sewn wraps, 127pp, corners a little Hope Nicholson.” A rich goldmine of and nowhere could I find anybody in- turned but a vg copy.” Scripta Mon- fascinating material on Conway’s oc- terested in buying them. Now after 35 golica IV. Includes a facsimile reprint cult circle. A large and haunting sec- years I still see a lot of those same of a manuscript bought in 1919 by tion details her relationship with the unwanted books in shops, but not to be Mostaert in Chinese Mongolia “for enigmatic Valentine Greatrakes, “The found are those by Davis. $75.00 seven ounces of silver”. Text in Stroker” an Irish healer who treated French with English introduction. Conway for migraines and who is per- 40. De Groot, J. J. M. UNIVER- $12.00 haps the first recorded example of SISMUS. Die Grundlage der Religion somebody using “magnetic passes” und Ethik, des Staatswesens und der 34. Clymer, R. Swinburne]. THE (and importantly not the “laying on of Wissenschaften Chinas. Berlin: Georg FRATERNITATIS ROSAE CRUCIS: hands”); other chapters on Francis Reimer 1918, sewn wraps, 404pp, sev- An Attempt to Harmonize the Spirit of Mercury van Helmont, Joseph Glan- en plates including frontis and one that the Writings of Those Who Are vill, Ralph Cudworth, Robert Boyle. A is folding, spine and top of wrapper Known to Have Been Rosicrucians large number of Quaker personalities lightly frayed, corner of text block and a Comparison of the Statements of are also discussed. In 1992 OUP is- slightly bumped, some inoffensive Those Recognized as Authorities. sued an expanded edition with about foxing to the front wrap else crisp and Annotations by R. Swinburne Clymer. 60pp of extra material which is still in clean, well made and printed on excel- Preface by Dr. Allan F. Odell and in- print at $200.00. $100.00 lent paper, with many passages in troduction to the chapter on Michael Chinese. $50.00 Maier by Oliver D. Everhard. Quak- 37. Cramer, Daniel. THE ROSI- ertown: Beverly Hall 1929, publ’s CRUCIAN EMBLEMS OF DANIEL 41. Dee, John. A LETTER brown polished cloth, gilt emblem to CRAMER. The True Society of Jesus CONTAINING A MOST BRIEF front cover, XXIV+221pp including and the Rosy Cross. Translated by DISCOURSE…[etc & etc] [Berkeley]: index to contents, one color plate, sev- Fiona Tait. Edited by A. McLean. Charles Stansfield Jones Memorial Li- eral B&W drawings and other text il- Grand Rapids: Phanes 1991, fine red brary c.1979, stapled booklet, 12pp, a lustrations plus addenda, very fine cloth, 76pp, plates, vf. Essentially un- little worn. $15.00 cond. $37.50 changed from the limited edition printed by McLean. $145.00 42. Dee, John. THE ENOCHIAN 35. Condos, Theony, translator. EVOCATION OF DR. JOHN DEE. STAR MYTHS OF THE GREEKS 38. Critchlow, Keith. TIME Edited & Translated by Geoffrey AND ROMANS. A Sourcebook. STANDS STILL: New Light on James. Gilette: Heptangle Books Containing The Constellations of Megalithic Science. NY St. Martin'’s 1988, second edition, first published Pseudo-Eratosthenes and the Poetic Press 1982, quarto, hardcover with by letterpress in 1983-4, blue-gray Astronomy of Hyginus. Grand Rap- dj, 192pp. $50.00 cloth, 204pp, dj, portrait, text illustra- ids: Phanes 1997, gilt cloth, 287pp, fi- tions, very fine copy. The offset edi- ne copy. Together these two classical 39. Davis, Andrew Jackson. THE tion, textually the same as the letter- books cover the myths and stories sur- APPROACHING CRISIS: BEING A press edition. $85.00 rounding most of the major stars, Dra- REVIEW OF DR. BUSHNELL’S co, Aries, Andromeda, Bootes, Orion, COURSE OF LECTURES ON THE Pleiades, etc. All of Phanes books are BIBLE, NATURE, RELIGION handsomely typeset and produced, this SKEPTICISM AND THE SUPER- one especially so, only a small number NATURAL... Rochester: Austin 1910 of cloth copies were issued. $155.00 (1868), short 8vo, publ’s black cloth older editions such as this are not so voted to the modern literature of al- easily found. $100.00 chemy, one of the few such commonly available guides, plus a very interest- 45. Drummond, W. THE OEDI- ing appendix on Jung and Alchemy! PUS JUDAICUS. London: Reeves & In print at $29.95. $16.00 Turner, 1866, new edition revised. XLV+266pp, 18 B&W illustrations, 17 of which are full-page, 16 of which are zodiacal images. very good copy in plain recent calf-backed boards, gilt lettered spine. The first edition of 1811 was limited to just 200 copies, this se- cond edition was also issued in a very limited though unknown number of copies and is even rarer than the 1st ed, (no copies online). Added to this copy, and perhaps all copies a two page "Addition" which follows the table of contents but is paginated separately (1- 2pp). The binding is plain but strong. 43. Dee, John. THE ENOCHIAN Drummond was a Scottish philosopher EVOCATION OF DR. JOHN DEE. best known for his influence on Shel- Edited & Translated by Geoffrey ley and Hume. The story of this work, James. Gilette: Heptangle Books his most controversial, is complicated 1983, 1st ed, (copyright 1984), maroon and best told in Joscelyn Godwin's The open weave cloth, 204pp, in chipped Theosophical Enlightenment and also and lightly soiled jacket, book fine. to a lesser degree in the introduction to Many tables and symbols in the text the 1986 reprint by RILKO. The he- plus portrait of Dee before title. Let- retical thesis that the Old Testament 48. Fabre d'Olivet, [Antoine]. terpress edition, textually the same as contains Hermetic and astrological CAIN, A DRAMATIC MYSTERY IN the offset but with rubricated title. symbolism. The influence of Kircher THREE ACTS BY LORD BYRON. Laid in are two promotional adver- here is not to be minimized. $500.00 Translated into French Verse and Re- tisements, one for this book, the other futed in a Series of Philosophical and for Agrippa’s Fourth Book. $250.00 46. Eckhart) Tobin, Frank. Critical Remarks Preceded by a Letter MEISTER ECKHART: THOUGHT Addressed to Lord Byron, Upon the 44. Democritus Junior (Robert AND LANGUAGE. Philadelphia: Motives and the Purpose of this Work, Burton). THE ANATOMY OF MEL- Univ of Pennsylvania 1986, cloth & by... Translated by Nayan Louise Red- ANCHOLY. What it is with all the dj, 233pp, mildly ex-library with small field. NY: Putnam’s 1923, handsome Kinds, Causes, Symptoms, Prognos- neat stamps to top and bottom edges, blue cloth with gilt decorated front tics, and Several Cures of it. In Three title, and pocket at back but obviously cover, top gilt, frontis, 265pp, in the Partitions; with their Several Sections, little used. $35.00 rare dust jacket which is lightly Members, and Subsections, Philosoph- chipped and torn, nice copy. Cain ically, Medicinally, Historically 47. Eliade, Mircea. THE FORGE takes up 112pp, the rest is Fabre d'Oli- Opened and Cut Up. With a Satirical AND THE CRUCIBLE. The Origins vet's commentary in which the initiate Preface, Conducing to the Following and Structures of Alchemy. Universi- Fabre refutes Byron’s “debasement of Discourse. London: William Tegg, ty of Chicago 1962, paperback, mankind.” $175.00 [1858], “New Edition,” XVI+[2] 237pp, mint copy. There are only a +747pp, printed title, engraved title few truly great histories of alchemy in 49. Fabre D’Olivet. THE HEAL- and portrait by Thurston & Davenport, English. Read’s Prelude, Taylor’s ING OF RODOLPHE GRIVEL. Con- four pages of synoptical charts, fully The Alchemists, Burckhardt’s Alche- genital Deaf-Mute. NY: Putnam’s indexed, publ's handsome gilt cloth, my, and Evola’s Hermetic Tradition 1927, handsome blue cloth with gilt top of spine just slightly torn, spine a come to mind, this belongs next to decorated front cover, top gilt, frontis, bit faded, text block tight and crisp, a them. Confused about alchemical 273pp, with remains of jacket laid in, fine copy, taken from the 1682 edition. books? Those who want guidance in crisp unmarked copy. $75.00 There are many decent reprints but their readings will rejoice at finding here 32 pages of annotated notes de- 50. Faivre, Antoine. THE Uranfange und Principiorum des and is notable for its thickness, ETERNAL HERMES. From Greek Steins der Weisen. Aureum Vellus, strength and durability while still be- God to Alchemical Magus. Translated oder Goldenes Vliess, was Dasselbe ing attractive--that is forgetting the by Joscelyn Godwin. Phanes 1995, gilt Sey, Sowohl in Seinem Ursprunge, als source--it is rarely used now for bind- lettered and printed cloth, 213pp, 39 Erhabenen Zustande. Denen Filiis Ar- ings). An attractive edition of this pre- plates, mint copy. A collection of six tis und Liebhabern der Hermetischen cursor to Fontaine. Jean-Pierre Claris essays, independent yet interrelated, Philosophie Dargelegt, auch dass Da- de Florian 1755-1794, member of the on the similarities and differences of runter die Prima Materia Lapidis Academie Francaise, was a French po- the Greek-Roman Hermes and the Philosophorum, samt Dessen Praxi et most famous for this work. Among Hermes Trismegistus of Egypt. $75.00 Verborgen, Erofnet… Leipzig: the many expressions he is responsible Blochberger, good photocopy of the for "He who laughs last laughs best," 51. Ficino, Marsilio. THREE original 1749 publication bound in might be the best known. Victor Ad- BOOKS ON LIFE. A Critical Edition faux-leather, raised gilt bands, gilt let- am (1801 – 1867), was an artist loved and Translation with Introduction and tered spine, [2]+379pp, one plate, vg by 19th century French society, the Notes by Carol V. Kaske and John R. cond. A strongly bound copy made for plates and vignettes are very charming, Clark. Tempe: Medieval & Renais- Leonard F. Pembroke, alchemist, ho- some are downright strange, mostly of sance Texts & Studies 1989, thick gilt meopathic doctor and member of the animals and their interactions with cloth, 507pp, illustrated, fine copy. Pembroke family of Wiltshire. Many man. The Art Institute of Chicago has The De Vita was a cultural milestone of his photocopies were poorly made a large collection of his works on their for Renaissance Europe. It is a land- but this one is clear and well done. No website. Of the few copies online none mark treatise on magic and philosophy reprint has been published (no English are in the US. $175.00 that went through 30 editions in 50 translation either) and there are no years. It has been analyzed at length copies of the original online. Fictuld 56. Fortune, Dion [Violet Firth]. in three remarkable books: Klibansky, (c.1700 - 1777) is the pseudonym of THE SEA PRIESTESS. London: By Panofsky and Saxl’s Saturn and Mel- an Hermetic philosopher whose identi- the author, 1938, first ed, original blue ancholy, Walker’s Spiritual and De- ty is unknown. All his books are al- cloth, 316pp plus one of ads, cloth ra- monic Magic, and Yates’ Giordano chemical in nature. He was a leader of ther soiled, joints a little worn, spine Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition. the Order of the Golden and Rosy marked and a little faded and slightly Wayne Shumaker chose De Vita as Cross. Excellent details of his philoso- frayed, internally very good copy of an one of three works that best summa- phy can be found in Hanegraaff’s Dic- influential book. According to her re- rize Renaissance Magic. This edition tionary of Gnosis. $350.00 mark in The New Dimensions Red has a full index and many scholarly Book, this was Firth’s personal favor- additions, never reprinted and very 54. Fideler, David. JESUS ite work of fiction. She kept a resi- scarce now. The definitive edition, far CHRIST, SUN OF GOD. Ancient dence in Glastonbury and it was there more ambitious than Boer’s which is Cosmology and Early Christian Sym- I bought this copy decades ago. $70.00 not complete. $400.00 bolism. Wheaton: Quest 1993 cloth, 430pp, 52 figures and diagrams in the 57. Fraser, P. M. PTOLEMAIC 52. Ficino) Allen, Michael. J.B. text, vf. David Fideler is the publisher ALEXANDRIA. London: Sandpiper ICASTES. Marsilio Ficino’s Interpre- of Phanes Press. Still in print. $16.00 Books (in conjunction with Oxford tation of Plato’s Sophist. Five Studies University Press), 2001 (1972) reprint, and a Critical Edition with Translation. 55. Florian, J. P. FABLES DE three volumes, hardcover with dust Berkeley: University of California FLORIAN. Illustrees par Victor Ad- jacket, 1116pp plus 155pp index in 1989, cloth with dj, 317pp, fine copy. am. Precedees d’Une Notice par separate volume, mint condition. Qual- These five studies take up about 200 Charles Nodier. Et d’un Essai sur la ity reprint of a famously difficult title pages, including some on demons, Fable. Paris: Delloye & Desme 1838, to find in the original. Sandpiper magic and the demiurge. The rest is contemporary green shagreen gilt books are facsimiles of rare and out of the Latin text with complete facing spine, all edges gilt, white moiré end print OUP books and are bound exact- English translation. Plato’s Sophist papers XXVII+192pp, 110 engraved ly as OUP books are now, with OUP’s was one of Ficino’s favorite dialogues. plates and vignettes including en- emblem on the spine and name on ti- $50.00 graved title and printed title, moderate tle. The definitive history of Alexan- but unobtrusive foxing (mostly to the drian life during the Ptolemaic period, 53. Fictuld, Herman, (pseud) AZ- backs of the plates), old rude rubber the first 300 years after the founding OTH ET IGNIS: Das ist, das Wahre stamp of Paris book dealer on ep oth- by Alexander. $500.00 Elementarische Wasser und Feuer oder erwise a very fine copy. (“Shagreen” Mercurius Philosophorum, als das is leather made from the backs of 58. Frater Albertus. PRAK- einige Nothwendige der Fundamental- horses, or occasionally from an ass, TISCHE ALCHEMIE IM ZWAN- ZIGSTEN JAHRHUNDERT. Eine OP, paperback still in print at $99.95. Abhandlung uber Forschung, Ver- $200.00 suche und Erfolge aus aller Welt. Mit Einem Einfuhrenden Vorwort von Dr. 61. Gellart, Gellert, M. [Christian Siegfried Karsten. SLC: PRS 1970, Füchtegott]. LECONS DE MORALE, 2nd printing, one of 500 copies, strong- OU LECTURES ACADEMIQUES, ly bound in publ’s thick gilt lettered FAITES DANS L’UNIVERSITE DE cloth, excellent coated paper, sewn LEIPSICK, PAR FEU.. Autrecht: signatures, 197pp, vf. $100.00 Schoonhoven c.1772, nouvelle edition, two volumes, fine binding, contempo- 59. Frater Albertus. THE AL- rary marbled paper over calf (paper CHEMIST’S HANDBOOK: Manual rubbed and worn), raised bands, spines for Practical Laboratory Alchemy. beautifully and elaborately gilt with Samuel Weiser 1976 (1974), second sunflowers and horizontal chains of printing of the revised edition, first leaves and stems, [II]+XXX+252+[8] published in 1960, cloth & dj, sewn +590+93+[2]pp (ads), head and tail signatures, 124pp, two B&W plates woodcuts, engraved dedication page, and four photographs showing labora- calf just beginning to dry, joints just tory equipment plus notes, appendix starting to crack but a very well pre- and an “alchemical manifesto,” very served complete copy, and looking fine condition. One of only three la- quite nice on the shelf. One copy boratory manuals commonly available online. Gellert (1715-1769) was an ex- and one of a handful published this tremely popular and influential writer century. The author was the legendary whose plays were performed through- mind behind the Paracelsus Research out Europe. This Enlightenment work Society in Salt Lake City, the stone rails against the evils of sexual passion 63. Gill, Eric. A HOLY TRADI- thrown in the waters of America creat- and advocates virginity until marriage TION OF WORKING. Passages from ing the ripples and eddies of laboratory among other moral crusades. $125.00 the Writings of Eric Gill. Introduction research that continue to grow and by Brian Keeble. Ipswich: Golgonoo- spread today. This manual will also be 62. Gilbert, R. A. THE ELE- za Press 1983, cloth in jacket. Hand- of significant help to practicing herbal- MENTS OF MYSTICISM. Shaftes- somely, humbly printed and bound. ists, potion, and incense makers. bury: Element 1991, first edition, Keeble is not only a scholar, he is one $50.00 cheap paperback, 132pp, fine copy. of the finest book designers and the Bob Gilbert was the great bookselling man behind this production. $35.00 60. Gauld, Alan. A HISTORY specialist in Hermetica. His powerful OF HYPNOTISM. Cambridge 1992, command of the subject--reached after 64. Gilson, Etienne. THE HIS- first & only edition, publ’s cloth, large a lifetime of critical study—is what I TORY OF PHILOSOPHY AND OF sewn octavo, 738pp, very good condi- can only dream of. This small book, PHILOSOPHICAL EDUCATION; tion. This massive & definitive histor- no doubt written for pennies, is a mod- The Aquinas Lecture 1947. Marquette ical work, written with a sympathy for el study. It is both an impartial over- University Press 1948, small octavo, the paranormal and the unusual (the view of the whole subject, but also, hardback, 49pp, plus list of Gilson's author also wrote a history of psychi- and most enjoyably, a vehicle for his works and catalogue of the Aquinas cal research, and was an officer of the passionate and I would say brilliant Lectures., mint cond. This little book SPR), begins with a substantial 275- critique of mysticism’s sloppier chap- by the great Catholic scholar Gilson is page history and analysis of Mesmer- ters. Out of print. $8.00 just a taste of his compendious works. ism in all its forms, including mystical $8.00 magnetism in Germany and France, Electrobiology, Reichenbach, etc & 65. Godwin, Joscelyn. HARMO- etc, and ends with a 100-page bibliog- NIES OF HEAVEN AND EARTH: raphy and two indexes. It eclipses all Mysticism in Music from Antiquity to previous histories. The material on the Avant-Garde. Inner Traditions Mesmer alone surpasses any modern 1995, 2nd edition, paperback, B&W work except Crabtree, and that of Pat- diagrams, tables, musical scales, and tie (who was hostile). More books on text illustrations; notes, bibliography, hypnotism in the next catalog. Cloth and index, fine cond. The second, re- vised edition of an important book, one in his trilogy on musical esoteri- Striking Instances of Abnormality in from The Theosophical Review. Rare, cism. Includes astrological material All Branches of Medicine and Sur- no copies online. $175.00 and an appreciation of popular music. gery, Derived from an Exhaustive Re- In print at $16.95. $9.00 search of Medical Literature from its 72. Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan. Origin to the Present Day, Abstracted, THE MESSAGE OF PHILO JU- 66. Godwin, Joscelyn. THE Classified, Annotated, and Indexed. DAEUS OF ALEXANDRIA. Lon- THEOSOPHICAL ENLIGHTEN- New York: Sydenham, 1937 (1896), don: Luzac 1909, sewn wraps, (rather MENT. NY: State University of New navy blue cloth, in two volumes, fragile), 96pp plus two pages of ads York 1994, sewn glossy boards, 968pp, 295 B&W illustrations in the tipped in at back, edges of wraps 480pp, many rare photographic por- text, index, very good to fine condi- chipped, small stain on front wrap, traits, mint copy. A landmark history tion. A high quality reprint, with sewn else vg. Published by Luzac, Guthrie, of occult and esoteric philosophy, that signatures, of the very rare first edi- with his industrious and constantly re- is theosophy in its widest definition, tion. Without question the most re- vising spirit has added new covers of and not Blavatskian Theosophy warding medical book I’ve ever en- his own, with a new imprint (The Pla- (though that is covered in some depth countered, simply astounding. Dec- tonist Press) on the cover which has as well). There are now many surveys ades ago there existed a number of confusingly been re-titled The Alexan- of the esoteric underground in philos- cheap acidic reprints that are still oc- drian Philo Judaeus, The Platonizing ophy, Godwin’s focus is the 18th and casionally found online, but quality Hebraist's Complete Message. For in- 19th centuries and in so doing he is reprints of this classic are scarce. formation on the unique and pioneer- able to completely examine every sig- $100.00 ing career of Dr. Guthrie see the nificant personality, circle, and school Phanes edition of his writings, The Py- of this bountiful period, from leading 69. Guirdham, Arthur. OBSES- thagorean Sourcebook. Rare. $165.00 Spiritualists to radical Masons to phal- SION. Psychic Forces and Evil in the lic mythographers, with much on Causation of Disease. London: Boehme and his circle. This essential Spearman 1972, hardcover, dj, 186pp, book is the mature fruit of years spent fine cond. $35.00 laboring in the vineyards of Europe's greatest libraries. Godwin is a genius 70. Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan. at blending the deepest academic ASPIRATIONS, PRAYERS AND knowledge with a personal sympathy VISIONS OF A PERIOD OF RE- for the material that brings it alive in TIREMENT FROM THE WORLD. highly interesting ways instead of the Philadelphia: Comparative Literature depressing, cold ignorance that mars Press 1911, publ’s tan printed cloth, most scholarly examinations of the es- various and eccentric paginations, a oteric and occult. Paperback edition is clean very good-fine copy of this rare glued. $150.00 work. A compilation of seven articles by Guthrie that originally appeared in 67. Goethe) McLean, Adam, edi- Prophet Magazine. Each article has tor. GOETHE’S’S FAIRYTALE OF its own title page and pagination. THE GREEN SNAKE AND THE While always difficult to find, most of BEAUTIFUL LILY. Translated from Guthrie’s books have become scarce the Original by Donald MacLean with in recent years and this title, though Commentary by Adam McLean. not as desirable as some of his others Grand Rapids: Phanes 1993, gilt let- is now rare and virtually unobtainable. tered cloth, 86pp, B&W frontispiece, a $200.00 73. Hall, Manly P, editor. CO- very fine copy. Magnum Opus Her- DEX ROSAE CRUCIS. A Rare and metic Sourceworks series, no.14. ‘The 71. Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan. Curious Manuscript of Rosicrucian In- Green Snake and the Lady’ and the REGENERATION APPLIED. Being terest… Introduction and Commentary hidden language of alchemy is exam- the Sequel and Practical Application by Manly P. Hall. Los Angeles: Phi- ined here. $45.00 of Regeneration, the Gate of Heaven. losopher’s Press 1975 (1938), tall Medford: The Theosophical Publish- quarto, red boards with gilt decoration, 68. Gould, George M. & Walter ing Co., c.1900 with a later TPC stick- 113pp, sewn signatures, title page ru- L. Pyle. ANOMALIES AND CURI- er pasted over the publication data, bricated, plates in color and B&W, one OSITIES OF MEDICINE: Being an green cloth printed in red, sewn signa- folding and extending plate of the of Encyclopedic Collection of Rare and tures, p.166-318pp, probably reprinted The Magical Calendar, (see the Extraordinary Cases, and of the Most Phanes edition), with rubricated letters and many text figures, very fine condi- tion. The second reprint of the original 78. Hirst, Desiree. HIDDEN Adam McLean. Edinburgh: Magnum edition, identical to the first reprint RICHES. Traditional Symbolism from Opus Hermetic Sourceworks 1986, and a faithful reproduction of the orig- the Renaissance to Blake. NY Barnes sewn wraps, 157pp, numerous B&W inal. Subsequent reprints varied in & Noble and London: Eyre & Spot- engravings and woodcuts, Magnum quality, especially regarding the re- tiswoode 1964, publ’s black cloth, Opus Hermetic Sourceworks, Number production of the plates, and some are 348pp, eight plates, fine cond. Out- 21. With the publication of the God- only in B&W. $185.00 standing, pioneering history, printed win edition (IP at $34.95) the text here the same year as Frances Yates’ has been rendered superfluous, except 74. Hall, Manly P. MEDITA- Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic for the eight page commentary by TION SYMBOLS IN EASTERN & Tradition. Yates’ book became well McLean. $15.00 WESTERN MYSTICISM: Mysteries known but for some reason this beauty of the Mandala. Philosophical Re- has nearly been forgotten. Her focus 81. I Ching). Wilhelm, Richard, search Society 1988, quarto paper- leans toward the Christian circles, with translator. THE I CHING, OR BOOK back, 249pp, 126 plates (five in full important material on Blake, Boehme, OF CHANGES. English Translation color), mint copy. One of Manly Law, Pordage, Swedenborg, and the by Cary F. Baynes. Foreword by C. G. Hall’s last books and one of his best, English Hermetic scene. It was here I Jung. Princeton: PUP & Bollingen long OP. $75.00 first learned about the Dutch philo- 1950, first edition first printing, two sophical circle, The Pratum, and “the volumes, cloth & dj, 394+ 376pp, vol- 75. Hall, Manly P. ORDERS OF meadow of ideas.” $50.00 ume one with ‘Ting, the Caldron’ THE GREAT WORK: ALCHEMY. glyph printed on special paper as fron- Philosophical Research Society 1976 tis, titles rubricated, very fine in jack- 2nd (1949), cloth with dj, 107pp, 14 ets which are a bit soiled at the spines, B&W symbolic illustrations, including jacket of volume one with very tiny “the solar and lunar principles united tear at head of spine otherwise fine & by the philosophical fire,” and one il- unclipped, in cardboard slipcase (cor- lustrating “an anonymous adept and ners bit worn) with rubricated paper the crippled figure of time as the an- label. This first edition is in remarka- cient gardener in the orchard of al- ble condition, the paper used for the chemy”, along with portraits of “true jackets is notoriously fragile, they chip adepts”: Roger Bacon, Nicholas and stain just looking at them. One of Flamel, Basil Valentine, Paracelsus, the most influential and unheralded Henry Khunrath, and Johann Baptista books of the 20th century, with an im- Van Helmont. $40.00 pact on science that goes far beyond what is generally known since aca- 76. Harrison, Jane Ellen. THE- demics, Sinologists, physicists, cos- MIS. A Study of the Social Origins of mologists, chemists and computer sci- Greek Religion. Cambridge: CUP entists don’t generally acknowledge 1927, 2nd ed, greatly revised, black the influence of divination on their polished cloth, 559pp, 152 woodcuts thought, yet it is there, has been there, and text illustrations, front hinge and is coming to the surface all the cracked with webbing showing, bind- time. Ralph Abraham, David Bohm, ing a bit dull but o/w a fine copy in 79. Hopkins, Arthur John. AL- Niels Bohr and others have confessed. torn and stained jacket. The best edi- CHEMY CHILD OF GREEK AL- Leibniz was an early fan. The Jung in- tion of one of the great books on CHEMY. Morningside Heights NY: troduction is a classic on the nature Greek religion and one of the few Columbia University Press 1934, thick and process of the mantic arts. What from this time by a woman. $115.00 polished purple cloth, 262pp, 20 he does is brilliant, instead of another plates, front hinge strained, evidence pedantic examination he dives right in, 77. HERMETICA: A New Trans- of bookplate removed and one small trusts the process, throws the coins lation. Far West Press 1977, small oc- neat stamp of the Bibliotheca Andre- while asking the I Ching to explain it- tavo, paperback, 90pp. An anonymous anae on title, no other library marks, self, he gets Ting, which really does translation of the Hermetic Texts, and covers a bit marked, text fine. Later explain the book, and hence the fron- nicely printed. Little else is known of reprinted by AMS. $75.00 tispiece. $2000.00 this edition. It is designed in such a way, without notes or references, to be 80. Hypnerotomachia) THE 82. Iamblichus. THE EXHOR- read as a story, long OP. $19.00 HYPNEROTOMACHIA : or Dream TATION TO PHILOSOPHY. Includ- of Poliphilus, Volume One. Edited by ing the Letters of Iamblichus and Pro- clus’ Commentary on the Chaldean XXXIX+147pp, 19 full page woodcut texts with important and new original Oracles. Translated from the Greek by plates, old clipping pasted to front ep scholarly emendations and have been Thomas Moore Johnson. Foreword by which is weakly attached otherwise a the inspiration of a new clan of letter- Joscelyn Godwin. Edited by Stephen nice copy in publ’s blind embossed press publishers. Rare. $400.00 Neuville. Grand Rapids: Phanes 1988, cloth with gilt lettered spine and front cloth & dj, 128pp, mint copy. If you cover. First published in 1874, and 87. Keightley, Thomas. THE count the publisher then three out of not to be confused with his Ancient MYTHOLOGY OF ANCIENT the six people involved in this book Faiths and Modern, but which extracts GREECE AND ITALY. London: Ap- have been customers of mine. $65.00 the plates from that work (1868-1870) pleton 1896 (1877), 3rd ed enlarged, with new text and commentary on the publisher’s handsome gilt blue deco- iconography via a chapter taken direct- rated cloth with Athena gilt on the ly from Ancient Faiths. Inman (1820- spine, 507pp 12 plates at back, plus 1876) was a medical doctor and a stu- frontis, rear hinge cracked but a lovely dent of mythological symbolism in the copy. The plates reproduce engrav- Bible and other ancient religions, es- ings after the style of John Linnell and pecially Buddhism and Hinduism, and are printed on thick stock, later re- editions of his books are bibliograph- printed by George Bell, and then re- ically confusing. Eckler issued a later edited by Leonhard Schmitz. Origi- reprint of this with truncated text and nally published in 1877, Keightley’s crude reproduction of the plates. text helped introduce the Victorian $145.00 public to the deeper aspects of Greek mythology. $125.00 85. Jacobs, Louis. HASIDIC PRAYER. London: Routledge & 88. Kern, Hermann. THROUGH Kegan Paul, 1972, cloth & dj, 195pp, THE LABYRINTH. Designs and bibliography, index, very fine cond. Meanings Over 5,000 Years. Munich: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Prestel, 2000, cloth & dj, heavy quar- series. $14.00 to, 360pp, hundreds of plates and text figures throughout in color and B&W, 86. Julianus. THE CHALDEAN many of which are on coated stock, fi- ORACLES, AS SET DOWN BY ne copy. A superb example of the best 83. Iamblichus. THE THEOLO- JULIANUS. Translated into the Latin in modern scholarship. Kern's work re- GY OF ARITHMETIC. On the Mysti- by Francesco Patrizzi, and Translated flects a rare and total dedication to his cal, Mathematical and Cosmological into English by Thomas Stanley. Gil- subject. He has a masterful way of un- Symbolism of the First Ten Numbers. lette: Heptangle 1989, 2nd ed, small covering the tiniest details essential to Attributed to Iamblichus. Translated octavo, purple cloth with printed paper the subject, then weaving it all togeth- from the Greek by Robin Waterfield. spine label, letterpress text (hand- er without overwhelming the reader. Foreword by Keith Critchlow. Grand printed with hand set metal type), Kern spent a lifetime in his quest to Rapids: Phanes, 1988, cloth & dj, printed on fine laid paper, title page completely document that which had 130pp, B&W figures and symbols in printed in red and black, 109pp, in never been taken seriously before--the the text, biography, glossary, bibliog- dust jacket, tiny stain on front fly else worldwide phenomenon of the laby- raphy, publ's handsome gilt cloth, fine mint copy. Driscoll issued an earlier rinth. A symbol so rich it took a copy. It’sa sad fact that Phanes was edition, this is revised and expanded mammoth sized monograph like this to unable to stay in the black after all the with improved book arts. These works contain his research. 19 main chapters: wondrous magical work of David of art, hand-printed by Daniel Driscoll The Fundamentals of Labyrinths: Ef- Fideler. But his legacy is a collection with loving accuracy, are printed from fects, Hypotheses, Interpretations; The of books that will be remembered for metal type the old way in extremely Cretan Labyrinth; Ancient Labyrinths; as long as knowledge is loved, cher- small numbers and were originally Petroglyphs and Graffiti; Lusus ished, and collected. $55.00 priced ridiculously low. It is amazing Troiae: The Game of Troy; Roman that at $20.00 (some were originally Mosaic Labyrinths; Labyrinths in 84. Inman, Thomas. ANCIENT priced at $8.00!) it still took up to 10 Manuscripts; Church Labyrinths; Turf PAGAN AND MODERN CHRIS- years to sell out these labors of love. Labyrinths; a Rebirth of Classical An- TIAN SYMBOLISM. With an Essay All the while, junk like The Celestine tiquity; Symbolism of the Center; on Baal Worship…. By John Newton. Prophecy have sold in the millions. Labyrinths as Personal Emblems; The London: Trubner 1875, second edition Not only beautifully printed, they are World as Labyrinth; Celebrations and revised and enlarged, publ’s cloth, scholarly editions of long out-of-print Games; Garden Labyrinths and Mazes; Truy Towns and the Maiden's Dance; tean mythos, primordial symbology, by Sigismund Bacstrom from the un- Non-European Labyrinths; The Laby- Biblical arcana, Eleusinian Mysteries, published manuscript. SF: S.A.M.R. rinth Today; The Labyrinths Revival, the Ark, the Dogon, Akhenaton, the 1983, full polished brown calf binding, plus extensive notes, bibliography and swastika, the Pistis Sophia, the Gospel all edges gilt, 216pp, alkaline paper, indexes. A word must be said of the il- Miracles, and the ultimate truths of silk page marker, one double-page lustrations-nearly 700, all described in Christianity. With a glossary of Egyp- color plate of the urorborous. Includes detail, rarely do I see scholarly books tian and Christian terms. The book is a short preface by Bacstrom, fine on symbolism so well illustrated. Kern beautifully illustrated with old engrav- copy. My first publishing venture, spent years in libraries and amassed a ings and woodcuts and supplemented where I learned much the hard way. unique visual record, from the title with ample and very interesting foot- Half the text is a typeset transcription pages of alchemical books to geoman- notes. Variant issues: There are two of the unpublished manuscript which tic maps to Tantric manuscripts. Long bindings (but only one printing), red was copied by Leonard Pembroke OP. $250.00 gilt cloth and green gilt cloth, this is from the manuscript in the possession the former, very fine copy. $140.00 of Percy Bullock. The second half is a 89. Kieffer, Gene. THE SECRET facsimile of that handwritten manu- TEACHINGS. Unveiling the Lumi- 90. Kingsford, Anna & Edward script with drawings and chapter head- nous Sun Within. Greenwich: Bethel Maitland. THE PERFECT WAY; OR ings in red. One of 550 numbered Publications 2000, first edition, large THE FINDING OF THE CHRIST. copies. See reviews in Ambix, and the heavy 8vo cloth & dj, 641pp printed London: Watkins 1923, 5th ed, 405pp, Hermetic Journal. Long considered on alkaline paper, illustrated through- prefaced with four pages of ads and by many to be one of a handful of al- out with woodcuts from old books, an two full page portraits, portrait frontis, chemical texts that accurately de- unusually handsome scholarly book, publ’s blue cloth, rear board with mi- scribes both the laboratory methods of well designed, printed and bound, with nor dent, one corner of binding a bit finding the Philosopher’s Stone and mounted "prefatory" pages later added bumped, a very good clean copy. Anna the interior methods for realizing the at back by the publisher, Kieffer’s au- Kingsford (1846-1888), was a suffra- Philosopher’s Stone. The technical tograph in pen on the title, vf condi- gette, vegetarian, and intuitive. To- nature of the language and imagery tion. This is an “instant classic,” a gether with Maitland she founded the used here likely will be over the heads book obvious from its very beginnings Hermetic Society which blended the of beginning students. Hundreds of to stand the test of time. Mr. Kieffer is teachings of Hermes with those of copies of this book were sold at the the best kind of scholar, one who is mystical Christianity, later she became original price of $145.00. $90.00 self taught, and like Godfrey Higgins, president of the Theosophical Society. John R. O’Neill, J. G. R. Forlong, and It was Kingsford who introduced S. L. 92. Kirchweger]. AUREA CA- Manly P. Hall, Kieffer has spent half a MacGregor Mathers (also a champion TENA HOMERI: The Golden Chain lifetime in libraries. He for long had of animal rights & welfare) to Blavat- of Homerus. That is a Description of his office across the street from the sky. For a detailed account of this unu- Nature and Natural Things. Another NY Public Library, imagine! Mr. Kief- sual woman see the entry in Melton’s copy, the same but with a tiny nick in fer traveled world-wide in the pursuit Encyclopedia of Occultism and the bi- the spine. $65.00 of knowledge, visiting libraries in ography in HPB's Collected Writings, France, Italy, Egypt, India, Japan. The and Joscelyn Godwin's Women of the 93. Knapp, Bettina L. THEATRE origins of this book are curious and Golden Dawn and his The Theosophi- AND ALCHEMY. Detroit: Wayne improbable, dealing with the vision of cal Enlightenment. $100.00 State University Press 1980, cloth & a US Senator in 1968, the result is a dj, 283pp, fine. Foreword by Mircea spectacular study of the ancient mys- Eliade. $20.00 teries and a paean to the work of Ger- ald Massey and his six volume study 94. Krishnamurti) Blau, Evelyne, of Egyptian esoterica. I love every- Editor. KRISHNAMURTI, 100 thing about this book, the author’s YEARS. Stewart, Tabori & Chang careful but open-minded spirit, his pa- 1995, tall 8vo, sewn in glossy picture tience in outlining a very complicated boards with portrait dj, 284pp, pro- history, and his diligence unearthing fusely illustrated, fine. Stewart, Tabo- the huge amount of detailed material ri & Chang produced some of the fin- needed to prove his contention (and est books around--most with an Asian that of Massey), that Ancient Egypt is connection--and printed in the best the true source of classical occult wis- 91. Kirchweger]. AUREA CA- shops in Japan, China or Singapore. A dom and that all civilizations are prin- TENA HOMERI: The Golden Chain gorgeous collection of photographs, cipally inheritors. He covers the Atlan- of Homerus. That is a Description of excerpts, and memoirs of JK and the Nature and Natural Things. Translated many people connected with him, an 98. Le Plongeon, Augustus. SA- uncommon marriage of beautiful book CRED MYSTERIES AMONG THE arts with an elucidation of esoteric phi- MAYAS AND THE QUICHES, losophy. Contributors include HPB, 11,500 YEARS AGO. Their Relation Besant, Leadbeater, Lutyens, Theo- to the Sacred Mysteries of Egypt, dore Besterman, G.B.Shaw, Anita Greece, Chaldea and India. Free Ma- Loos, Joseph Campbell, Aldous Hux- sonry in Times Anterior to the Temple ley, David Bohm, Howard Fast, of Solomon. Minneapolis: Wizards T.K.V. Desikachar, Henry Miller, Bookshelf, 1973 (1886), gilt decorated Deepak Chopra, Van Morrison, Larry & lettered brown cloth, smythe-sewn Dossey. $15.00 signatures, verbatim with the 1886 edi- tion, 163pp, 31 B&W illustrations, 95. KUMARA SAMBHAVA. several of which are full-page, includ- Kalidasae Carmen. Sanskrite et Latine. ing portrait frontispiece, and some fig- Edidit Adolphus Fridericus Stenzler. ures in the text, very good condition. Berlin: Oriental Translation Fund of Secret Doctrine Reference series, Great Britain & Ireland, 1838, quarto, which formed the heart of the publish- IV+139pp. publ's cloth & paper label, ing program of Richard Robb at Wiz- cancel title, front cover spotted, a large ards, fine high quality reprints. He untrimmed copy, very good condition. even took pains in some of his vol- 97. Laubin, Reginald and Gladys. Very scarce, only two copies online. umes, when he was printing from a – THE INDIAN TIPI . Its History, $175.00 difficult to reproduce book, that he Construction and Use. With a History conducted professional font repairs by of the Tipi by Stanley Vestal. Nor- 96. Lao Tzu) von Strauss, Victor. hand! He also read and studied all the man: Univ of Oklahoma Press 1957, LAO TSE’S TAO TE KING. Aus dem books he published and was a pre- 1st ed, (later reprinted), cloth & dj, Chineseischen ins Deutche Ubersetzt, internet lifeline for many far flung 208pp, color frontispiece, and plates in Eingeleitet und Commentirt. Leipzig: seekers and scholars who depended on B&W, mostly fine copy with a long Verlag der Asia Major 1924, publ’s his little catalogs, crammed with presentation inscription from the au- stout cloth with ribbed spine gilt, books, to arrive in the mail. Cornell thors “To Chief Beverly” along with 80+357pp, portrait of the author, tiny University Press published an edition two drawings in pen by them on the tear to top of spine else a very fine of this book, (2010) at $58.00 for a fly and a newspaper clipping regarding copy, well printed and bound. Loosely glued paperback. $50.00 Chief Beverly. A mostly practical inserted is a photocopied review of the work, with some material on the sym- from The China Review which in part 99. Lethbridge, T. C. A STEP IN bolism and cosmology. $75.00 reads “The author is a poet and novel THE DARK. London: RKP 1967, writer… he understands the Chinese cloth & dj, 161pp, 27 plates & figures, sage to be essentially a German theos- binding somewhat worn and clearly ophist and mystic, and frequently used without the jacket on, jacket also compares him to Eckhardt, Boehme, edgeworn. The results of his experi- and other philosophic dreamers, a very ments into psychometry. $60.00 useful and substantial work.” None online. $125.00

18th century America in detail. Weiser 1980 (1970), plain white buck- $115.00 ram gilt lettered, 206pp, 14 B&W il- lustrations, a few of which are full- 102. Libavius) Rex, Friedemann. page, and some diagrams in the text, DIE ALCHEMIE DES ANDREAS glossary, index, vf condition. The LIBAVIUS. Ein Lehrbuch der Chemie binding was done for the private li- aus dem Jahre 1597. Zum Ersten mal brary of Brian Street, San Francisco in Deutscher Ubersetzung mit Einem collector extraordinaire. $40.00 Bild- und Kommentarteil. Herausgeg- eben vom Gmelin-Institut fur Anor- 105. MAGNI PHILOSOPHORUM ganische Chemie und Grenzgebiete in ARCANI REVELATOR SCRUTA- der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur TORES OPERIS OMNIA AD SUUM Forderung der Wissenschaften. In LABOREM NECESSARIA CLARIS- Verbindung mit der Gesellschaft SIME EXPLICATA. Tractatus Con- Deutscher Chemiker. Frankfurt am tentos Proxima Indicat Pagina Samu- Main. Weinheim, Bergstr: Verlag elem De Tournes M DC LXXXVIII. Chemie, 1964, handsome light gray- Quo Hermetis Discipuii Magnique In- green decorated thick cloth, large venient. Genevae: Apud, 12mo, recent heavy octavo, IX+[1]+XXXVII+[1]+ handsome polished calf with leather 564+[20]+136pp, 191 woodcut illus- label, raised bands, blind stamps in trations mostly half page or quarter compartments, new and sympathetic page, loosely inserted erratum, fine ep’s, [2]+[1-8]+9- 490]+9+[l blank]pp. copy, unusually so for such a large Portrait of Hermes Trismegistus on the heavy volume. A monumental edition title page, engraved plate of apparatus crammed with a plethora of material on page 302, old library stamp on title including a complete facsimile, index- partly erased and lightly affecting the 100. Lethbridge, T. C. GOGMA- es, commentaries, biographies and a Hermes portrait, title page trimmed a GOG. The Buried Gods. London: full analysis of the famous woodcuts bit close, sporadic light foxing, a very RKP 1957, 1st ed, handsome purple that graced the original 1597 edition. good and pleasing copy. Duveen cloth with gilt glyph to front cover, From the library of Melvin E. Jahn, p.379. Five tracts in this volume, all on jacket, 181pp, four pages of plates on (name penciled on TP), author of the the transmutation of metals, the long- coated stock and illustrated throughout Lying Stones of Dr. Johann Bartholo- est (302pp) is: Pretiosissimi Arcani with text figures, jacket sl. chipped mew Adam Beringer, which tells the Arcanorum et Philosohorum Magiste- book fine. Reprinted by RKP in 1975. famous story of one of archaeology's rii verissima ac Purissima Revelatio. The archaeologist and dowser Leth- most embarrassing episodes. No US De Transmutatione Metallorum in qua bridge, longtime Director of Excava- copies online. Also issued in a slip- dicta obscura Philosophorum optime tions for the Cambridge Antiquarian cased leather edition. $300.00 ac clarissime deteguntur Recens in lu- Society, uncovers the history, lore and cen edita A quodam Philosopho religion of a Neolithic culture as evi- 103. Lord Raglan. HOW CAME Anonyme. Both Duveen and Ferguson denced by their chalk-hill figures and CIVILIZATION? London: Methuen, list the other four works. Very rare, other artifacts and folklore. Leth- 1939, cloth, 191pp, with eight B&W OCLC records only two copies, both bridge’s debt is with Watkins and the illustrations and three maps, most of in Paris. $1850.00 track-way theory, but spends his time which are full-page, bibliography, in- mostly on religion where he makes the dex, pencillings on front fly, vg. A se- tentative case for a goddess religion in rious diffusionist-Atlantean work, ob- ancient Britain. $60.00 viously influenced by G. Elliott Smith. $22.50 101. Leventhal, Herbert. IN THE SHADOW OF THE ENLIGHTEN- 104. Luk, Charles, (Lu Quan Yu). MENT. Occultism and Renaissance TAOIST YOGA. Alchemy and Im- Science in Eighteenth Century Ameri- mortality. A Translation, with Intro- ca. NY: NY Univ Pr 1976, cloth & dj, duction and Notes of The Secrets of 330pp, very long bibliography, vg+ Cultivating Essential Nature and Eter- copy. Scarce and never reprinted, one nal Life (Hsin Ming Fa Chueh Ming of the few treating the occult beliefs of Chih) by the Taoist Master Chao Pi Ch'en, Born 1860. New York: Samuel diagrams, some of which are rubricat- ed, fine. Originally distributed by Ste- phen Ronan of Caduceus Books but now long OP and impossible to obtain. The author is one of a few western au- thorities on Vasu Vidya. $145.00

112. McIntosh, Christopher. THE ROSE CROSS AND THE AGE OF REASON. Eighteenth Century Rosi- crucianism in Central Europe and its Relationship to the Enlightenment. Brill 1992, 1st ed, cloth in dj, 200pp, plates, fine copy. Highly regarded his- tory of great detail, not to be confused with his The Rosicrucians which was written for much wider audiences. This Brill edition, with handsome cloth and fine printing has been out of print for many years though recently reprinted in paperback by SUNY. “The

Rose Cross deals with the interaction 106. Maier, Michael. ATALANTA between two movements of thought in FUGIENS. An Edition of the Fugues, eighteenth-century Germany: the phi- Emblems and Epigrams. Translated 108. MANICUDAVADANA. Be- losophy of the Enlightenment, and Ro- from the Latin by Joscelyn Godwin. ing a Translation and Edition. LOKA- sicrucianism. Dating from the early With an Introductory Essay by Hilde- NANDA, a Transliteration and Synop- seventeenth century and drawing on marie Streich. Grand Rapids: Phanes sis, by Ratna Handurukande. London: Pietism, Freemasonry, Kabbalah and Press, 1989, fine gilt maroon cloth, Luzac & Co. 1967, publ’s red library alchemy, the Rosicrucian movement 215pp, with black & white illustrations cloth with paper label, 300pp, vg. Sa- enjoyed a revival in Germany during throughout, many of which are full- cred Books of the Buddhists series, the eighteenth century. Historians have page, and two appendices, book fine Vol.XXIV. Very scarce, as are most in often depicted this neo-Rosicrucianism jacket fine, with cassette tape in this series. $85.00 as a Counter-Enlightenment force. Dr. shrink-wrap. Magnum Opus Hermetic McIntosh argues rather that it was part Sourceworks series, #22. An entirely 109. Maringer, Johannes. THE of a "third force", which allied itself different edition from the De Jong, the GODS OF PREHISTORIC MAN. sometimes with the Enlightenment, main difference besides the translation NY: Knopf 1960, cloth, 219pp plus then sometimes with the Counter- is the inclusion here of the complete many plates, remains of small sticker Enlightenment. This book is the first musical score. This edition is reset removed from pastedown, vg condi- in-depth, comprehensive study of the though apparently unchanged from the tion. Standard work by this respected German Rosicrucian revival and in limited edition published Adam historian of religion who also wrote particular of the order known as the McLean. Both cloth & paperback edi- Art in the Ice Age. $15.00 Golden and Rosy Cross (Gold und tions are OP but the paper edition can Rosenkreuz). Drawing on hitherto un- be found used on the net but no cas- 110. Massingham, H.J. DOWN- published material, Dr. Prof McIntosh sette tapes. $500.00 LAND MAN. London: Cape 1926, shows how the order exerted a signifi-

large 8vo, 422pp, many fine plates, cant influence on the cultural, political 107. Maier, Michael. ATALANTA three maps, front hinge cracked, vg+. and religious life of its age,” (from FUGIENS. An Edition of the Fugues, Introduction by G. Scott Elliot. Little Brill’s catalog). $250.00 Emblems and Epigrams. Translated known, wonderfully written history of from the Latin by Joscelyn Godwin. megalithic Britain. $65.00 113. McLean, Adam, editor. THE With an Introductory Essay by Hilde- MAGICAL CALENDAR: A Synthe- marie Streich. Grand Rapids: Phanes 111. McFadzean, Patrick. THE sis of Magical Symbolism from the Press, 1989, paperback, 215pp, with GEOMANCERS GUIDE TO THE Seventeenth-Century Renaissance of B&W illustrations throughout, mint VASTUPURUSA MANDALA. Cam- Medieval Occultism. Grand Rapids: condition. No cassette. $50.00 bridge: Institute of Experimental Ge- Phanes Press 1994, gilt cloth, 141pp,

omancy, 2001, red wraps, 84pp, rubri- profusely illustrated with plates, charts cated title, illustrated with charts and and diagrams, notes, mint copy. Mag- Partie: La Splendour des Niebelungen everything from the Darwin fraud to num Opus Hermetic Sourceworks #1. Deuxieme Partie: La Detresse des the painter Francis Bacon to narcotics $125.00 Niebelungen. Paris: Charpentier 1837, and sex. We were for years the only 1st ed, 8vo, sewn wraps, 365+437pp, U.S. source for this book, getting cop- 114. McLean, Adam, editor. THE many notes, printed on thick rag paper, ies from John inside his packets of MAGICAL CALENDAR: A Synthe- uncut, stain on one title, wraps mostly clippings and Fortean news from Brit- sis of Magical Symbolism from the detached and slightly chipped else vg- ain, usually forgetting to autograph Seventeenth-Century Renaissance of fine. This is the second translation of them. $28.00 Medieval Occultism. Grand Rapids: the Nibelungen Tradition into French. Phanes Press 1994, paperback, 141pp, $60.00 122. Michell, John. AT THE profusely illustrated with plates, charts CENTER OF THE WORLD. Polar and diagrams, notes, mint copy. Mag- 120. Michell, John with Christine Symbolism Discovered in Celtic, num Opus Hermetic Sourceworks Rhone. TWELVE TRIBE NATIONS Norse and other Ritualized Land- No.1. $12.00 AND THE SCIENCE OF ENCHANT- scapes. London: Thames & Hudson ING THE LANDSCAPE. Grand Rap- 1994, hardcover & dj, 184pp, illustrat- 115. McLean, Adam. A COM- ids: Phanes 1991, 1st ed, handsome gilt ed, vg condition. Now op, never issued MENTARY ON THE MUTUS LI- cloth, sewn signatures, alkaline paper in paperback but heavily remaindered BER. Grand Rapids: Phanes Press (as with all Phanes books), 84 illustra- and now a real bargain. $10.00 1991, slim 8vo, red gilt cloth, 77pp, 15 tions in the text, mainly diagrams, plates, vf. MOHS No.11. The “Mute mint copy, issued without dj. Ancient 123. Michell, John. ECCENTRIC Book” here is fully treated with excel- & occult number symbolism from LIVES AND PECULIAR NOTIONS. lent reproductions of the plates. around the world, Africa, Greece, Eng- Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich 1984, $90.00 land, Jerusalem . . . and their survivals hardcover with dj, 240pp, 24 pages of in philosophy, folklore, mythology, B&W illustrations, bibliography, and 116. McLean, Adam. A COM- Christianity, astrology, gematria, geo- index, fine copy. Although John MENTARY ON THE MUTUS LI- mancy, Cabala, etc. First edition of Michell is best known for his land- BER. Grand Rapids: Phanes Press one of John Michell’s most interesting mark books on ancient metrology and 1991, slim 8vo paperback, 77pp, 15 and developed books, very few cloth other sacred sciences, he also has an plates, vf. MOHS No.11. $10.00 copies were printed though later reis- exceptionally curious open mind (rare sued by Thames & Hudson in a nice for a Cambridge and Eton man!) that 117. McLean, Adam. THE AL- hardcover edition. $40.00 has made him an authority on such di- CHEMICAL MANDALA: A Survey verse subjects as the identity of Shake- of the Mandala in the Western Esoteric speare, crop circles, simulacra and Traditions. Grand Rapids: Phanes Forteana, and his questioning mind has Press 1989, elaborately gilt cloth with put him on the trail of some of the dj, 142pp, 30 full-page alchemical strangest people in the world and some mandalas plus a number of smaller of the strangest philosophies ever im- mandalas, Hermetic Research Series, agined. This book (long out of print in Number 3. Key iconography, now op. both America and England), is the on- $90.00 ly full-length summary of those stud- ies, the results of a lifetime of research 118. McLean, Adam. THE TRI- spent pondering the Terra Incognita of PLE GODDESS. Grand Rapids: history, the fringes of human life that Phanes 1989 gilt illustrated cloth, are nearly lost and would certainly be 122pp, vf. One of McLean’s most in- forgotten if not for the labors of people volved and ambitious works, full of like him. There are 22 chapters each erudition and occult insight and beau- covering a different subject, with titles tifully illustrated with plates and old such as “A dreadfully persistent lov- woodcuts and mythological figures. er”; “The strange adventure of a Som- $50.00 erset genealogist”; “The man who got letters from statues”, etc. These are not 119. Meltiere, Ch. Moreau de la. made up Fate Magazine stories— LES NIEBELNUGEN, ou Les Bour- 121. Michell, John. AN ORTHO- though he loved that genre--they are guignons chez Attila, Roi des Huns: DOX VOICE. London: JAM 1995, real people with weird ideas. But Poeme Traduit de L'ancien Idiome wraps, small 8vo, 56pp, fine condition. Michell never trots them out like a Teuton. In Two Volumes: Premiere A collection of short pithy articles on two-headed snake at a side show, he has a respect for these people rooted in 125. Michell, John. SECRETS OF a consciousness that knows the world- THE STONES. The Story of Astro- reality is grander and stranger than Archaeology. London: Penguin 1977 most can imagine. Chapters on: The small 8vo, paperback, 96pp, illustrated Lost Tribes of Israel and their various throughout, price blacked-out by an id- theorists; the Flat Earth Society and iot bookseller otherwise vf. Published their proofs; The last Druid, Mor- in England under the title A Little His- ganwg; the great occult conspiratolo- tory of Astro-Archaeology. This is an gist Nesta Webster; a history of the unchanged reprint for the US market, hollow earth theory; the wild man later re-issued by Inner Traditions un- hunter Monboddo; the father of mod- der the same title. $9.00 ern eugenics Francis Galton; the great- est bibliomaniac ever Sir Thomas Phil- 126. Michell, John. THE DIMEN- lipps; Ignatius Donnelly and Atlantis, SIONS OF PARADISE: The Propor- ufologists like Adamski and the Earl tions and Symbolic Numbers of An- of Clancarty, etc. Reprinted by Black cient Cosmology. Thames & Hudson Dog in 2002, this is the first edition. 1988, hardcover with dj, 216pp, in- $16.00 dexes of names and numbers, illustrat- ed throughout with diagrams, old woodcuts, astronomical tables, and

gematria, fine copy with handsome presentation inscription by Michell in 129. Miller, James. MEASURES his bold calligraphic hand. Along with OF WISDOM: The Cosmic Dance in New View Over Atlantis, this is John Classical and Christian Antiquity. To- Michell’s most important book, and ronto: University of Toronto Press the bible for modern students of eso- 1986, large 8vo, printed blue boards, teric number and geometry. $95.00 652pp (almost 80 pages of index), a few diagrams, boards a bit rubbed as 127. Michell, John. THE TEMPLE usual otherwise Vg+. Almost entirely AT JERUSALEM: A REVELATION. Neoplatonic, never reprinted. $200.00 Weiser 2000, one of 300 signed cop- ies, (signed on a plate tipped in at 130. Mirville, Lules Eudes, Mar- front), cloth & dj, 69pp, illustrated, vf. quis de. PNEUMATOLOGIE. DES An examination of the ancient prophe- ESPRITS ET DE LEURS MANIFES- cy that the new millennium will be in- TATIONS DIVERSES. Paris: Vrayet augurated by the rediscovery of the de Surcy 1863-4, 5th edition, five vol- Lost Temple of Solomon. $80.00 umes 1-5 (of 10), tall 8vo, contempo-

rary half brown calf gilt lettered 128. Michell, John. THE TRAV- 124. Michell, John. MEGALITH- spines, raised bands with horizontal ELLER’S KEY TO SACRED ENG- OMANIA. Artists, Antiquarians and gilt chains, marbled boards and ep’s, LAND. NY: Knopf 1988, 1st ed, glued Archaeologists at the Old Stone Mon- in exceptionally fine condition and paperback, 323pp, B&W illustrations uments. Thames & Hudson 1982, handsomely bound. These are the first in the text throughout, vf cond. Only large hardcover & dj, wonderfully il- five volumes of what years later be- edition. If anybody knew the occult lustrated with 220 plates and old come a 10 volume survey of all things landscape of Britain it was John, espe- woodcuts (some in color), 157pp, fine relating to Mesmerism, hypnosis, cially Londinium his lifelong home. copy. While the title may sound slight- trance, and spirit states and manifesta- $20.00 ly derisive, this is in fact a serious, tions. The first volume, complete in scholarly yet entertaining and nicely itself, is a historical survey of these illustrated history of the subject and an phenomena, written in the form of a essential reference for anyone studying memoir addressed to the Academy of ley lines, Stonehenge, Stukeley, Inigo Sciences. It remains one of the great Jones, Druids, Carnac, megalithic French studies on the subject and one folklore, sacred landscapes and ar- of the most ambitious studies before chaeological mysteries. $20.00 the establishment of the SPR in 1882. The Marquis eventually decided that these phenomena were real but evil in nature, coming from dark, discarnate 134. Nicomachus) MANUAL OF spirits working through living beings. HARMONICS OF NICOMACHUS A massive historical, rational work. THE PYTHAGOREAN. Translation The publication history is very com- and Commentary by Flora R. Levin. plex as many volumes were published Phanes Press 1994, fine gilt cloth, in different editions at different times 208pp, nine B&W figures, notes, bib- with variant paginations. Sequential liography, index, and appendix with sets such as this, published together Excerpts from Nicomachus, fine copy. are rare. Extensive note by Crabtree Only a few hundred cloth copies were No.676. Not in Tinterow or the LSA printed, though still easily available in catalogue, Price had only volume one. paperback. $250.00 $500.00 135. Nutt, Alfred. STUDIES ON 131. Monte-Snyders, Johanus, de. THE LEGEND OF THE HOLY TRACTUS DE MEDICINA UNI- GRAIL. With Especial Reference to VERSALI. Frankfurt & Leipzig: the Hypothesis of its Celtic Origin. Thomas Matthaie, 1678. 12mo, 176pp, NY: Cooper Square 1965 (1888) re- fine modern mottled calf, gilt label, print, sturdy publ’s cloth, 281p, fine raised bands with gilt rules, new sym- condition. Landmark monograph. pathetic ep’s, text slightly and evenly $35.00 browned, tiny stain to one page ob- scuring two letters, a very good to fine 136. O'Brien, Henry. THE ROUND copy, with engraved emblem to part TOWERS OF IRELAND; OR THE 132. Myer, Isaac. QABBALAH. two, and with the signature of the MYSTERIES OF FREEMASONRY, THE PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS chemist Carl Magnus von Hell, “Caro- OF SABAISM, AND OF BUDHISM. OF SOLOMON BEN YEHUDAH lus Hell” (1849-1926) on the front For the First Time Unveiled. Prize Es- IBN GEBIROL OR AVICEBRON. pastedown. A treatise on the “univer- say of the Royal Irish Academy, En- San Diego:Wizards 1988 (1888), sal panacea” and transmutation. Mon- larged, and Embellished with Numer- XXIII+497pp, thick sturdy gilt fabri- te-Snyder’s identity is unclear, accord- ous Illustrations. London: Whittaker, koid, illustrated, good index, quality ing to Ferguson he may have been the 1834, XXXVI+524pp, plus one page reprint. Improved over the Weiser grandson of Levius Lemnius where he of errors and emissions, illustrated edition of 1972 with additional materi- obtained the tincture with which he with B&W woodcuts, some of which al added by the publisher including made several famous transmutations. are full-page. One corner of title page remarks by Blavatsky. One of the Monte-Snyder was one of Newton's torn partly taking away an old signa- great English books on the subject. favorite authors, whose works he stud- ture, “W. H. Reece”. another corner The original edition, published 100 ied over a long period of time. He repaired in the margin, lacks half-title years previous to this edition, is a large wrote a commentary on this text titled otherwise complete, very good to fine heavy quarto, almost folio, and it "The Three Mysterious Fires: Com- condition, bound in later dark grey must’ve been a challenge for Richard mentary on Monte -Snyder's Tractatus cloth with light grey printed paper Robb--the hardworking genius behind de Medicina Universali." See Dobbs, spine label, new ep's. The binding is a Wizards--to reduce this into a handy Foundations of Newton’s Alchemy, professionally done work with hand- octavo size while perfectly preserving p.174. No copy at American or British some pairing of two colors of grey and the clarity of the text. He was very auction 1975-2012, not in Zisska. resewn saving the inner margins nice- disappointed when POD hijackers Wellcome IV, p.160, Duveen 411 ly. The text is clearly printed and the (first Kessinger then many others) lat- (who had the 1662 edition), Ferguson woodcuts are choice, all printed on rag er stole his work. $85.00 II, 105. $2,800.00 paper. In the preface the author de-

scribes his life-long study of Freema- 133. Newton) White, Michael. sonry, of its beauties, and of his strug- ISAAC NEWTON. The Last Sorcerer. gle to "bequeath the light of the night" London: Fourth Estate, 1997, second to the English reader though a study of printing, gilt lettered black boards, dj, the round towers of Ireland. The au- 402pp, 11 B&W line drawings by thor's aim is vague in places, pleasant- Carole Vincer, 19 illustrations on ly so as he is not convinced of his the- glossy stock, references, index, fine sis that the towers were built by Bud- condition. $12.00 dhist priests who travelled in the 8th

century to Ireland and the west. He postulates a few other theories, all of vo, white rubricated boards with Medical College and Library of the course "crack-pot" but interesting to dj, 53pp, B&W portrait frontis of the University of New York City where he the imaginative historian. The preface author, biographical note, boards a bit bequeathed his substantial library upon is a hilarious collection of letters to warped, jacket very lightly dust-soiled his death, he also gave Harvard the and from various scholars, including else fine, one of 1000 numbered cop- huge sum of $200,000 to fund a pub- Geoffrey Higgins where O’Brien de- ies printed on thick paper. This went lishing program named after his son fends his book and strenuously argues through at least four editions and at Robert Troop Paine who committed with all. Reprinted in 1898. $275.00 least one title change, the complicated suicide. This is his most famous work bibliography is explicated in Driscoll’s and is considered a forerunner in the 137. Oesterreich, T. K. POSSES- Gurdjieff An Annotated Bibliography, field of psychosomatic medicine and SION, DEMONICAL AND OTHER, No.710. $65.00 biofeedback. The reprint is common, AMONG PRIMITIVE RACES, IN original editions are scarce. $65.00 ANTIQUITY, THE MIDDLE AGES 140. Origen) Smith, John Clark. AND MODERN TIMES. London: THE ANCIENT WISDOM OF ORI- 143. Paracelsus) Gundolf, Frie- KPTT 1927, large octavo, 400pp, vg GEN. Lewisburg: Bucknell Universi- drich. PARACELSUS. Berlin: Bondi copy. A giant collection of cases of ty, 1992, cloth & dj, 372pp, with ap- 1927, lovely green gilt cloth, 135pp, multiple personality and so-called pos- pendices, bibliography, and indexes, torn & chipped dj else fine. Text in session. See Crabtree No.1805-7 who jacket slightly nicked, a fine copy. The German. $18.00 calls this the most important work book was only in print for a brief time written on possession and exorcism. and is not even listed on the publish- 144. Pennick, Nigel. THE AN- $30 .00 er's site anymore, the published price CIENT SCIENCE OF GEOMANCY: was $129.95. It remains one of the few Man in Harmony with the Earth. Lon- large recent monographs in English. don: Thames & Hudson 1979, tall oc- $250.00 tavo, hardback with dj, 180pp, 128 il- lustrations, bibliography, and index, 141. Otto, Walter F. DIONYSUS, signature of David Fideler. Since this MYTH AND CULT. Bloomington: publication there has been a small Indiana UP 1965, cloth in very worn flood of books on the subject but it dj, 243pp. This copy was once owned still stands as one of the few full stud- by Caroline Gordon, Southern novelist ies. $12.00 who also wrote a biography of Jack Kerouac with her signature as well as 145. Phylos the Thibetan. A her warning “please do not remove DWELLER ON TWO PLANETS. Or, from the house!” boldly written on the The Dividing of the Way. Los Ange- fly and a number of passages under- les: Borden, 1940, (1894), small 8vo, lined by her. Or are they by Allen Tate blue cloth, 423pp, printed on coated Wood, famous Moonie survivor whose stock, several B&W plates, including signature also appears on the fly? frontispiece, trivial rubbing to spine, $30.00 vg-f. All reprints are textually the same as the 1894 first edition. It was 142. Paine, Martyn. A DIS- this channeled work that started the COURSE ON THE SOUL AND IN- New Age mania for Mt. Shasta. STINCT, PHYSIOLOGICALLY $25.00 DISTINQUISHED FROM MATERI- ALISM. Introductory to the Course of 138. Oliver, Rev. G[eorge]. THE Lectures on the Institutes of Medicine PYTHAGOREAN TRIANGLE; Or and Materia Medica, in the University The Science of Numbers. Minneap- of the City of New York. Delivered on olis: Wizards Book Shelf 1975 reprint the Evening of Nov. 2, 1848, by... of the 1875 edition, drab olive colored Published Originally by the Medical fabrikoid, 237pp, publ’s printed ep’s, Class. Enlarged Edition. NY: Edward gilt cover, fine. One of the most fa- H. Fletcher, 1849, publ's blind deco- mous Masonic treatises. $35.00 rated Victorian black cloth, gilt let- tered spine, sewn, XI+230pp, tiny chip 139. Orage, A.R. ESSAYS & to top of spine but an uncommonly fi- APHORISMS. London: The Janus ne copy. Paine was a founder of the Press 1966, (1932), small thin octa- Plotinus, a difficult subject, compre- hendible and a pleasure to read. $45.00

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149. Plutarque. LES VIES DES HOMMES ILLUSTRES PAR PLU- TARQUE, TRADUITES EN FRAN- COIS PAR RICARD. Paris: Lefevre 146. Plato) Popper, K[arl] R. THE 1856, tall 8vo, two volumes, contem- OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS ENE- porarily bound in elaborately blind- 151. Pythagoras) Guthrie, Kenneth MIES. London: RKP 1957 3rd edition stamped polished blue calf with dou- Sylvan, Compiler and Translator. revised and enlarged, (1st was 1945), ble gilt rules, aeg, binder’s name on THE PYTHAGOREAN SOURCE- two volumes, cloth & dj, 322+391pp, spine “Simier R. Durol”, rebacked, BOOK AND LIBRARY. Edited with front fly’s excised, about 13 pages marbled ep’s, 614+618pp, gilt inner Introduction by David Fideler. Fore- with underling in pencil, one corner of dentelles, a tight fresh copy though the word by Joscelyn Godwin. Phanes binding with dampstain mostly hidden rebacking does not match the quality 1987, gilt cloth, 361pp, mint copy of a by the jacket, otherwise a very good of the original binding, depicting a handsomely produced volume, a true copy. Volume one subtitled: The Spell church alter with blank escutcheon in library edition. One of the most valu- of Plato, Vol. Two: The High Tide of center. $135.00 able & important English language Prophecy: Hegel & Marx. Sold with: addition to the meager body of Py- de Vries, G. J. ANTISTHENES RED- 150. Proclus. THE LOST FRAG- thagorean translations of the 20th cen- IVIVUS. Popper’s Attack on Plato. MENTS THAT REMAIN OF THE tury, still in print in paper. $175.00 Amsterdam: North-Holland Pub Co WRITINGS OF PROCLUS, SUR- 1952, sewn wraps, (chipped a bit), NAMED THE PLATONIC SUCCES- 152. Pythagoras) Stanley, Thomas. 66pp. A strenuous defense of Plato SOR. Translated from the Greek by PYTHAGORAS, HIS LIFE AND against Popper’s famous treatise. Thomas Taylor. San Diego: Wizards TEACHINGS. Foreword by Manly P. $110.00 Bookshelf 1988 (1801), one of 1000 Hall, Essay by Henry L. Drake. LA: copies, slim octavo, imitation red Philosophical Research Soc 1970, fo- 147. Plotinus. SELECT WORKS snake skin, 113pp, many long notes by lio, brown gilt boards, p.491-576pp, a OF PLOTINUS. Translated from the Taylor, vf condition. The complete facsimile reprint of the 85pp chapter Greek with an Introduction Containing text with all of Taylor's valuable notes. devoted to Pythagoras in Thomas the Substance of Porphyry’s Life of A handsome reprint attractively bound Stanley’s History of Philosophy, pub- Plotinus by Thomas Taylor. A New with gilt cover and sewn signatures. lished in 1687, spine with some edge- Edition with Preface and Bibliography $20.00 wear but very good. $25.00 by G. R. S. Mead, Secretary of the Theosophical Society. London: Rider 153. Randolph) Clymer, R. Swin- 1912 (1911) gilt violet colored cloth, burne. DR. PASCHAL BEVERLY 343pp+ [12pp Rider catalog], spine a RANDOLPH AND THE SUPREME bit cocked and dull, otherwise vf con- GRAND DOME OF THE ROSI- dition, best edition, improved over the CRUCIANS IN FRANCE. Quak- first by the annotated bibliography and ertown: Philosophical Pub Co. 1929, additional notes of Mead. Reissued by thin 8vo, cloth in plain dust jacket, Bohn in 1929. Mead’s editing makes 52pp, plus ads, mint copy. A nice lit- tle publication with a few symbolic 156. Reichel, Willy. AN OC- 161. Schmidt, Richard. BEI- plates. This text was later incorporated CULTIST’S TRAVELS. NY: Fenno TRAGE ZUR INDISCHEN EROTIK. into Clymer’s Rosicrucian Fraternity 1908 1st ed gilt brown cloth, 244pp, Das Liebesleben Des Sanskritvolkes. in America. $75.00 portrait frontis plus one plate, mostly Nach Den Quellen Dargestellt… Dritte vf condition. Later reprinted with a Auflage. Berlin: Barsdorf Verlag 1922 154. Randolph). Deveney, John new introduction by Colin Wilson. (1911), large 8vo, sewn wraps, 691pp, Patrick. PASCHAL BEVERLY Reichel was a German researcher who margins browning, front wrap a bit RANDOLPH. A Nineteenth-Century traveled throughout the US, especially torn else vg. $40.00 Black American Spiritualist, Rosicru- California, reporting on mediums and cian and Sex Magician. Foreword by the like, taking Du Prel as his guide. 162. Schouten, J. THE PENTA- Franklin Rosemont. SUNY, 1997, 1st $40.00 GRAM AS A MEDICAL SYMBOL. ed, glossy sewn boards, 607pp, mint An Iconographical Study. Nieuwkoop: copy. This is not only a masterpiece of 157. Rosarium Philosphorum). De Graff 1968, glossy boards, 98pp, scholarship, not only the sole book on THE ROSARY OF THE PHILOSO- printed on coated stock and sewn. 41 a very important and neglected man, PHERS. Edited with a Commentary plates and text illustrations, small dent but it is extremely well written, mak- by Adam McLean. Edinburgh: Mag- to back cover extending into a few last ing it one of the finest fruits of occult num Opus Hermetic Sourceworks pages else mint copy. An attractive scholarship published in the last 20 1980, sewn white wraps, 130pp, 20 production. The author, a medical doc- years. Anybody who doesn't know the black & white woodcut illustrations, tor, is director of the Municipal Muse- career of Randolph (1825-1874) is in Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks um of Gouda. $35.00 for an unusual discovery. A Black series No.6, vf copy. Arguably the man, living in Civil War America, most sought after title in this historic 163. Schweighart, Theophilus, who was an occultist who advocated series, there were three editions, a col- [pseud of Daniel Mogling]. PANDO- free love and the use of hashish, prac- ored edition (only a dozen or so pro- RA SEXTAE AETATIS sive Specu- ticed sex magic, knew Lincoln, and duced), the B&W limited edition, and lum Gratiae, Das ist: Die ganze Kunst founded the first Rosicrucian order in this which is an exact reprint of that. und Wissenschaft der von Gott Hoch- America, the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis. $275.00 erleuchten Fraternitet Christiani $285.00 Rosenkreutz... photocopy of the 1617 158. Rothmuller, Aron Marko. edition, calf-backed brown fabrikoid THE MUSIC OF THE JEWS. An His- boards, 74pp, fine copy. This photo- torical Appreciation. NY: Beechurst copy made by Leonard F. Pembroke is Press 1954, cloth, 254pp, 10 plates on rather crudely done but legible and matte stock, very good copy. 69pp de- strongly bound. Hereward Tilton’s voted to ancient forms. $25.00 Quest for the Phoenix nicely details Mogling’s importance. Originals are 159. Rudhyar, Dane. FROM HU- rare, not in Cimelia Rhodostaurotica, MANISTIC TO TRANSPERSONAL nor Gardner but see his notes, only ASTROLOGY. Palo Alto: Seed Cen- five copies in OCLC WorldCat. ter, 1975, first printing, short octavo, $150.00 glued booklet, 77pp, two B&W plates, scarce, vg+ cond. $10.00 164. Scott, George Ryley. "INTO WHOSE HANDS." An Examination 160. Savage-Smith, Emilie & Mar- of Obscene Libel in its Legal, Socio- ion B. Smith. ISLAMIC GEOMAN- logical and Literary Aspects. London: CY AND A THIRTEENTH- Gerald G. Swan, 1945 1st ed, dark blue 155. Read, John. THROUGH AL- CENTURY DIVINATORY DEVICE. cloth, 236pp, gilt lettering, sewn, fine CHEMY TO CHEMISTRY. A Pro- Malibu: Undena Publications, 1980, copy. Scott was a prolific and fasci- cession of ideas and Personalities. glued wraps, IX+91pp, B&W illustra- nating author, many on sexology, oth- London: Bell 1961 (1957), small 8vo, tions, diagrams and tables, most of ers on occult symbolism and folklore. cloth in dj, 206pp, index, glossary and which are full-page, appendix, refer- This includes a small bit on Aleister notes. An uncommonly fine copy in a ences, and indices, mint copy. Studies Crowley's trial and accounts of other gorgeous dust jacket. The text is al- in Near Eastern Culture and Society occult books and writers. $16.00 most entirely consumed with the histo- series. As far as I know this is the only ry of alchemy, beautifully written. Pa- full length monograph on the subject 165. SECRET OF THE GOLDEN perback edition published by Dover in English, sadly OP and very scarce. FLOWER. A Chinese Book of Life. under a slightly different title. $57.50 $90.00 Translated and Explained by Richard

Wilhelm. Commentary by C. G. Jung. edition, quarto, cloth, two volumes, ble source of valuable insight” (Allen). London: RKP 1950 (1931), 8th print- 622pp, profusely illustrated with 203 $25.00 ing of the first edition, handsome plates and text illustrations, extensive black cloth with gilt decorated cover, notes, and lengthy bibliography, two 171. St. Germain) Hall, Manly P., 151pp, 11 plates, scattered pencil un- cloth corners slightly bumped, text fi- editor. THE MOST HOLY TRI- derlinings but mostly vg condition, in ne and in actuality a new copy leftover NOSOPHIA OF THE COMTE DE chipped dj. $25.00 from when I imported these from the ST. GERMAIN. With Introductory publisher, but now OP and scarce. Material and Commentary by…. LA: 166. Seiss, Joseph A. THE GOS- Easily the most important recent book Phoenix 1949 3rd ed, cloth & dj, PEL IN THE STARS: OR, PRIME- on esoteric architecture and building 149pp, jacket a little worn, large pre- VAL ASTRONOMY. NY: Cook alignment, a complete survey of all the vious owner’s gift inscription on front 1900, 3rd ed, small 8vo, publ’s blue world’s traditions: Indian, Greek, Near fly, a vg copy. A facsimile reproduc- beveled cloth, 522pp, folding zodiac at Eastern, Christian, Chinese, Islamic, tion of the original French edition with back, covers a bit spotted else vg-f. North American Indian, Mesoameri- translation and commentary by Hall. Includes a 10 page glossary of star can, African, and other lesser tradi- First edition was larger in size with names. Reprinted many times, scarce tions. The author is partially informed mounted plates. $30.00 in the original. Seiss was a Lutheran by Traditionalist authors such as Gue- pastor noted for his fine oratory, and a non, Coomaraswamy, and older 172. Stavenhagen, Lee, editor and prolific author. In his preface, after schools of esoteric thought. $400.00 translator. A TESTAMENT OF AL- reviewing the works of Faber, Drum- CHEMY: Being the Revelations of mond, Dupuis, Bailly, Volney and 169. Sorabji, Richard, editor. AR- Morienus, Ancient Adept and Hermit others he makes the case for the su- ISTOTLE TRANSFORMED. The of Jerusalem to Khalid Ibn Yazid ibn pernatural meaning of the stars. “The Ancient Commentators and Their In- Mu'awiyya, King of the Arabs, of the theory that they have come from natu- fluence. Duckworth 1990, thick 8vo, Divine Secrets of the Magisterium and ral observations of the seasons and hardcover in dj, sewn, 545pp and fron- Accomplishment of the Alchemical man’s occupations in different parts of tis, mint copy. Papers on Alexander, Art. Hanover: Brandeis University the year is but a rationalistic conjec- Plotinus, Porphyry, Ammonius, Sim- Press 1974, slim octavo, cloth with ture, unsupported by facts or analogy. plicius, Boethius. $250.00 dj, 76pp, mint copy. $115.00 It is the mere guess of men pressed by the presence of a great and masterly 173. Summers, Montague. THE system marked on the heavens for GALANTY SHOW. London: Cecil which they know not how to account, Woolf 1980, 259pp, cloth & dj, 16 a guess.” Loosely laid in is a contem- plates on coated stock, fine condition, porary photographic reproduction of tight and crisp. Published in a limited the author provided by the publisher edition the same year. Scarce and with ads on the back. $120.00 never published in the US, no doubt because most Americans have no idea 167. Short, Ernest H. THE who Summers is. He died a few HOUSE OF GOD. A History of Reli- months after finishing the manuscript gious Architecture and Symbolism. and shortly following Summers’ death NY: Macmillan 1926 1st ed, large his literary executor died and the man- heavy 8vo, 346pp, over 100 full page uscript went missing for 20 years. plates on coated stock, thick paper, Contains an hilarious diatribe on lovely copy, beautiful book produc- Aleister Crowley. $65.00 tion. The first 69pp cover the pre- Christian world. A large historical 174. Summers, Montague. THE work, later revised and published by VAMPIRE IN EUROPE. London: Norton (in smaller format) as A Histo- KPTT 1929, 1st ed, tall 8vo cloth, ry of Religious Architecture. $65.00 330pp, eight plates, spine a touch fad- ed, fly and title slightly creased else a

168. Snodgrass, Adrian. ARCHI- fine copy of a book often found worn. TECTURE, TIME AND ETERNITY: 170. St. Germain) Cooper-Oakley, Many cheap reprints now. $75.00 Studies in the Stellar and Temporal Isabel. THE COUNT OF SAINT Symbolism of Traditional Buildings. GERMAIN. Introduction by Paul M. 175. TANAKH. A New Translation New Delhi: International Academy of Allen. Blauvelt: Steiner Publications of the Holy Scriptures According to Indian Culture, 1990 first and only 1970, cloth & dj, 248pp. “ A remarka- the Traditional Hebrew Text. Phila- delphia: Jewish Pub Soc 1985, first George Mills Harper. Princeton: PUP volume three), complete (no other vol- edition of this translation, large 8vo, 1969, full black cloth, XIII+544pp, dj umes published), each about 500pp. A cloth, 1,624pp, Wilshire Boulevard a bit rubbed as usual, a fine copy. The survey of 300 tribes. A poor scholar’s Temple bookplate on front pastedown, only reference volume devoted to Tay- set. Volume one is loose in the binding very good copy. Harry M. Orlinsky lor, essential. The introductions by the with margins rather chipped obliterat- was the general editor but as the pref- two editors consist of 134 very valua- ing some text, five is disbound (covers ace makes clear this was a monumen- ble pages. There are 24 pages of plates present) and badly wormed, some vol- tal translation project incorporating the including a photograph of the lost bust umes badly spotted from damp, (these labors of many scholars. $18.00 of Taylor found amongst Geoffrey came from Bengal), a number of other Watkins papers, examples of Taylor's pages are loose in some volumes and a 176. TAROCCO GEOGRAFICO handwriting and title pages. Includes few pages in volume four have crum- EUROPEO. Milano: Il Meneghello reprints of the principle biographical bled from acid. At some point an ad- 1982, paper-covered cardboard portfo- accounts from Taylor's day, and a mirable attempt was made to repair lio, black and tan geographical draw- complete bibliography of Taylor's this set but only volume three was ings on covers, cards, ties and binding books which, though faulty in a few treated, it has been rebound in half-red fine. Seventy-eight 4.75" x 2.5" cards places, is still the best, and the only calf and boards with four raised bands, illustrated with black and tan geo- other besides those of Axon and spine gilt lettered, new end papers, graphical reproductions, printed on Balch. $90.00 binding resewn, first eight pages have high-quality matte stock, no.1504 of been silked, and a number of other 2000 copies. No online listings. Not a 179. Thorndike, Lynn. A HISTO- pages have been silked. Reprinted in tarot deck but related to the early his- RY OF MAGIC AND EXPERI- 1965 by the Johnson Reprint Compa- tory of the game of tarocco. $67.50 MENTAL SCIENCE. NY: Columbia ny. $100.00 University Press 1947-1964 [1st ed 177. Taylor, G. Rattray. SEX IN 1923-1958], publ’s thick green cloth, 181. TRANSACTIONS OF THE HISTORY. London: T & H 1954, sixteen volumes bound in eight, over MANCHESTER ASSOCIATION cloth, 336pp, some wear, good copy. 6,000 pages, each volume fully in- FOR MASONIC RESEARCH. [five Remains one of the great histories of dexed with massive bibliography, ex- issues] 1940, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, sex, particularly for his understanding tensive notes throughout, lovely condi- sewn wraps, about 160pp each, plates of the critical role of Christianity in tion, dust jacket to volume VII (which (some folding) and text figures, spines perverting sex with religious guilt. is a first printing), from the library of cocked and a bit chipped else vg. A $12.00 Bernard Rosenthal with his tiny library mix of the historical, the exoteric and label in each volume. This is a beauti- the esoteric, anonymously edited. ful early copy of a title which was $75.00 printed and reprinted by Columbia in successively inferior bindings. To the 182. Versluis, Arthur. AMERICAN unaccustomed eye most later printings TRANSCENDENTALISM AND will look the same, they are all in ASIAN RELIGIONS. NY: Oxford green cloth but early sets like this are Univ Press 1993, cloth in dj, 355pp, far superior and the last printings are many notes, bibliography, and index, crudely bound and not sewn, difficult mint copy. IP at $160.00. $75.00 to use without cracking the binding. This Magnum Opus has been almost 183. Vesey-Fitzgerald, Brian. THE continuously in print since it was first GYPSIES OF BRITAIN. An Introduc- published in 1923. For the serious tion to their History. London: Chap- scholar, it is simply impossible to do man & Hall 1946 (1944), cloth and research without it. A complete history edge-worn dj, 204pp, cloth a bit spot- of all the major and minor figures. ted else vg condition. A sympathetic “Indispensable …” (Antoine Faivre). view based on 20 years observation. Still in print, at $1600.00. $1050.00 Includes a large chapter on Gypsy medicine with a descriptive list of 180. Thurston, Edgar & K[ama]. plants, “the most complete yet pub- Rangachari. CASTES AND TRIBES lished” according to the author’s pref-

OF SOUTHERN INDIA. Madras: ace. $15.00 178. Taylor, Thomas. THOMAS Government Press, 1909, 1st ed, seven TAYLOR THE PLATONIST. SE- volumes, large 8vo, seven volumes, all 184. Waite, Arthur Edward. THE LECTED WRITINGS. Edited with volumes in publ's green cloth (except HOLY KABBALAH. A Study of the Introductions by Kathleen Raine and Secret Tradition in Israel as Unfolded cinogen Amanita Muscaria? Was an Weiser 1998, cloth in jacket, sewn by Sons of the Doctrine for the Benefit ergot brew offered to participants at signatures, alkaline paper, various pag- and Consolation of the Elect Dispersed the Eleusinian Mystery Rites? These inations, about 600pp. A republication Through the Lands and Ages of the are provocative questions that continue of 10 tracts, translated, edited or com- Greater Exile. NHP: University Books to fascinate some of the best minds, piled by Westcott in the late 19th cen- 1975 reprint of the 1929 edition, later (and regrettably some of the most su- tury and now quite scarce on the anti- half fabrikoid, raised bands gilt in perficial). If you were to read one quarian market. They often formed the compartments, cloth sides, sprinkled book on the subject, this is the central Opus Magnum for a number of esoter- edges, XXXIV+636pp, frontis, new document to start with. The authors ic groups and orders by making these introduction by Kenneth Rexroth, fine treat the subject with the reverence and books part of their core curricula. condition. Gilbert A41(b), noting the sophistication it deserves. This new They include: Hermetic Arcanum praise of Gershom Scholem. This UB edition is printed at the Stamperia (1623) by Jean d’Espagnet; The Her- reprint omits the plates of the first (ex- Valdonega in Italy, one of the last metic Art (1714); Somnium Scipionis cept the frontis). This binding (made great private presses and the original and Pythagoras by Cicero; Euphrates for Leonard F. Pembroke) is so well printer of Wasson’s books. At the by Thomas Vaughan; and six others. done it will fool most into thinking it original published price. $50.00 One of 1,098 numbered copies printed, leather when in fact it is industrial never reprinted. $200.00 strength fabrikoid, an imitation leather 187. Wasson, R. Gordon, Stella made of plasticized cloth extensively Kramtisch, Jonathan Ott, and Carl A. 190. Williams, Mary, [general edi- used by binders in the middle-late 20th P. Ruck. PERSEPHONE’S QUEST. tor]. GLASTONBURY AND BRIT- century. $60.00 Entheogens and the Origins of Reli- AIN. A Study in Patterns. Orpington: gion. New Haven: Yale University R.I.L.K.O. 1978 (1969), sixth printing, 185. Waite, Arthur Edward. PIC- Press 1986, designed & printed by the glued paperback, quarto, 87pp, illus- TORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT. Stamperia Valdonega, tall quarto, pub- trations throughout, some of which are [New introduction by Gertrude Moak- lisher’s elaborate morocco spine and full-page and in color, mint copy. It ley]. New York: University Books gilt decorated cloth (with lightening was a tragic loss when RILKO put 1959 (1910), first printing of this re- bolt and tree), 257pp, mounted color most of their titles OP. $30.00 print, small 8vo, cloth & jacket, frontis, plus 26 plates and figures 338pp, 78 color plates, an unfortunate many of which are mounted and in 191. Witsius, H[ermanus] [Her- bump to the upper corner of the bind- color, in slip case, a fine copy, crisp mann Wits, 1636-1708]. AEGYP- ing rippling the corner of the text and fresh. Number 96 of 300 copies, TIACA, ET DEKAPHYLON. SIVE block else vg condition. A useful re- not to be confused with the ordinary DE AEGYPTIACORUM SACRO- print for the color plates which were cloth edition Yale did in 1988, entirely RUM CUM HEBRAICIS COLLA- B&W in all later UB printings. Gilbert different edition. An extremely pleas- TIONE LIBRI III. ET DE DECEM A24(c). $20.00 ing book to own and read. Still in print TRIBUBUS ISRAELIS LIBER. DI- in paperback. $450.00 ATRIBE DE LEGIONE FULMINA- 186. Wasson, R. Gordon, Albert TRICE CHRISTIANORUM. Am- Hofmann & Carl A. P. Ruck. THE 188. Wellmuth, John. THE NA- stelodami: J. Borst 1696, 2nd ed, (1st ROAD TO ELEUSIS. Unveiling the TURE AND ORIGINS OF SCIEN- 1683), 8vo in fours, [9]+492pp, en- Secret of the Mysteries. Twentieth TISM: Under the Auspices of the Aris- graved title, printed title, woodcut or- Anniversary Edition. With New Pref- totelian Society of Marquette Univer- naments, contemporary stamped vel- ace by Huston Smith, Afterword by sity. The Aquinas Lecture 1944. Mar- lum a little stained, raised bands. Albert Hofmann. Los Angeles: Wil- quette University Press 1944, small Printed on excellent paper with good liam Dailey & Hermes Press 1998, octavo, cloth, 60pp, notes. This is a dark impressions of the type. Anti- handsome white linen cloth in dj, small monograph from a Jesuit univer- quarian study of language, symbolism, 148pp, plates in color & black & sity press, the text of a lecture given to the Lost Tribes of Israel, and the mys- white, mint copy, out of print. When the Aristotle Society of Marquette teries of ancient history. Witsius is still this book was first published in 1978 it University by the chairman of the Phi- read in some circles and has been created a firestorm of controversy. losophy Dept. at Loyola University. translated into a number of languages The questions raised here go to the Material on Occam, Scotus, Gilson, St. though not this work. $500.00 very heart of religion—were psycho- Anselm, St. Thomas… a critique from active plants behind the origin of reli- a religious point of view. $8.00 192. Woodroffe, John [A. Avalon] gion and later of mysticism? Was & Pramatha Natha Mukhyopadhyaya. Soma, the mysterious plant frequently 189. Westcott, William Wynn, Edi- MAHAMAYA. The World as Power: mentioned in the sacred books of India tor. COLLECTANEA HERMETICA. Power as Consciousness (Chit-Shakti). really the poisonous, powerful hallu- Introduction by R.A. Gilbert. Samuel Madras: Ganesh 1964, (1929), tall 8vo, cloth, VII+260pp, slightly torn Yeats' Collected Works, 1908) has UALIST ALLIANCE. London: For and chipped jacket, vg-f condition. In been followed. Wade 104. A lovely if the Library 1931, 8vo, publ’s fine pol- the introduction by M. Pandit he again humble edition. $180.00 ished cloth, 209pp. Both the paper confirms that this Englishman had a and cloth edition are very scarce, the rare and at times unique ability--still 195. YONITANTRA. Critically cloth ever more so. Though lacking unsurpassed in some cases--to convey Edited with an Introduction by J. A. any annotations it is thoroughly cross- the inscrutable complexities of the Schoterman. Delhi: Manohar 1980, referenced. Thousands of titles listed, Tantras and other Indian texts to the boards & dj, 89pp, book fine jacket a one of only a few comprehensive cata- Western reader without loosing any of bit wrinkled. Still one of the few great logues of Spiritualist (and related) the subtleties. It should also be known Tantras to be translated into English, books ever produced, invaluable for that while his books are all still inprint yes there are many new age commen- the serious researcher. At least two in India and available in any really taries but this is the only edition of the brief supplements were published. good esoteric bookshop (such as there actual text in English. No copies $140.00 are these days), the new publishers online. $85.00 have made the poor decision to re- 198. Clarke, Sidney W & Adolphe issue them in cheap plastic bindings, BIBLIOGRAPHICAL WORKS: Blind. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CON- and in some cases have deleted the JURING AND KINDRED DECEP- original Sanskrit words! $65.00 196. Berger, Arthur S. & Joyce TIONS. Martino 1998 (1920), cloth, Berger. THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF 84pp. Though not annotated there are PARAPSYCHOLOGY AND PSY- at least a few thousand titles here. CHICAL RESEARCH. NY: Paragon $30.00 House 1991, large 8vo, 554pp, cloth & dj, double column, fine condition. On- 199. De Jong, J. W. A BRIEF ly edition of this large and highly use- HISTORY OF BUDDHIST STUDIES ful reference. I remember when it was IN EUROPE AND AMERICA. Del- first published and then went out of hi: Satguru Publ. 1987 2nd ed, cloth & print only a few months later. $45.00 dj, 129pp, vf. $22.50

BRITISH LIBRARY GENERAL 200. Ferguson, John. BIBLIO- CATALOGUE OF PRINTED THECA CHEMICA: A Catalogue of BOOKS TO 1955. New York: Readex the Alchemical, Chemical and Phar- Corporation 1967, 27 volumes, sold maceutical Books in the Collection of with: British Library General Cata- the Late James Young of Kelly and logue of Printed Books: Ten-year Durris. Glasgow: James Maclehose, Supplement 1956-1965, New York: 1906, first edition in cloth (a very Readex Corporation, 1969, five vol- small number were in green morocco), umes plus the three volume 1966-70 heavy quartos, publisher's light maple- 193. Wroblewski, W. THE ART supplement, heavy quarto, compact colored polished buckram over boards, ALPHABET. London: Theosophical [“microprint”] edition, original blue gilt lettered spines, raised joints, Publishing, nd (c.1948), small thin cloth with gilt lettered spines, 35 vol- XXI+487+598, B&W photogravure quarto, cloth backed boards, 87pp, two umes together, complete as published, frontispieces, manuscripts, additions color plates on coated stock, 66 B&W fine condition. This miniprint edition and corrections to both volumes at the figures in the text, jacket edge-chipped takes the original large quarto volumes end of volume II, partly unopened book fine. Foreword by E. L. Gardner. and reduces them ten to a page, neces- copy, "Printed for private distribution $35.00 sitating the use of a magnifying glass by his family." Spines trivially faded, or strong spectacles, (much as the inoffensive wrinkle to one spine else a 194. Yeats, W. B. STORIES OF OED miniprint edition was produced). very fine, bright & fresh copy, joints RED HANRAHAN: THE SECRET The five largest libraries in the world, uncrushed, no foxing, stains, wear, the ROSE: ROSA ALCHEMICA. Lon- in order are: British Library, Library photogravure portraits are very bright don: A. H. Bullen, 1913, cloth-backed of Congress, Library of Canada, NY and quite remarkable in preservation. boards, 228pp, partially unopened, Public Library, Russian State Library, $1100.00 very fine copy. According to the colo- and the Bibliotheque Nationale. No phon the first edition of 1897 was un- copies online. $1000.00 201. Galland, Joseph S. AN HIS- der the general title 'The Secret Rose', TORICAL AND ANALYTICAL while in the present volume the re- 197. CATALOGUE OF THE LI- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE LITERA- vised version (from vol. VII of W. B. BRARY OF THE LONDON SPIRIT- TURE OF CRYPTOLOGY. Martino 1998 (1945), thick cloth, 209pp. A re- titles fully described, mint copy. The bookseller’s catalogues, including the print of the very scarce original publi- serious collector of Renaissance and legendary Jacunski of St. Louis Mo., cation. This is a heavily annotated bib- Enlightenment books will find this who had a world class occult library liography of the most important books well planned and printed work useful, that he eventually sold, as chronicled on the subject, by a master bibliog- the vast majority relating to witchcraft, here with his entries. $15.00 rapher and authority on ciphers and magic and early science, bargain price. literary deceptions. His definition of $14.50 206. Krishnamurti) Weeaperuma, cryptology is wide and sophisticated, Susunaga. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF besides obvious cryptology there are 204. Hogart, R. Charles, (editor). THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF books on cuneiform, runic and hiero- ALCHEMY. A Comprehensive Bibli- JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI. Leiden: glyphic writing, literary anagrams, ography of the Manly P. Hall Collec- Brill 1974, tall octavo, cloth with dust symbols in colors, gems, emblems, in- tion of Books and Manuscripts. In- jacket, 15+173pp, vg-f condition. Very signia, jargon of thieves, tramp signs cluding Related Material on Rosicru- full and well thought-out, a remarkable and ingenious stratagems used in cianism and the Writings of Jacob 1,559 works cited, many annotated, primitive times. Galland also wrote the Boehme. Introduction by Manly P. beginning with a short biography, a definitive bibliography of the Shake- Hall. Los Angeles: Philosophical Re- chronological bibliography of JK’s speare authorship question. $55.00 search Society, 1986, 1st & only ed, works and an extensive review of quarto, XIV+314pp, eight color plates works about him. Truly a labor of 202. Gardner, F. Leigh. BIBLIO- on coated stock and over 200 B&W il- love. In some cases he describes bind- THECA ASTROLOGICA. A Cata- lustrations, many of which are full- ing variants and other details enabling logue of Astrological Publications of page, publ's handsome gilt cloth, fine one to ascertain exactly the various the 15th Through the 19th Centuries. copy. This large beautiful volume, editions. A supplement was published With a Sketch of the History of As- bound in fine red and manila gilt cloth, in 1982. Just how serious are you trology by William Wynn Westcott. contains detailed information on the about JK? $18.00 Hollywood: Symbols & Signs, 1977, rarest portion of the collection housed reprint of the second revised edition, at the Philosophical Research Society black boards, 164pp, B&W portrait in Los Angeles, the finest occult li- frontispiece, very fine condition. 1,340 brary open to the public in America, works described with collations and but whose rarest books have recently many annotations, including the iden- been sold to the Getty Library. 164 tities of anonymous and pseudony- books and 245 manuscripts are de- mous authors. Gardner was a scholar scribed at length with very full colla- and a book dealer who claimed to have tions, history, provenance, etc, most examined each title here (though that with long annotations regarding their is doubtful). The original edition, enti- importance and place in the lineage of tled A Catalogue Raisonne of Works alchemic philosophy and investiga- on the Occult Sciences, Volume II, As- tions. These annotations were anony- trological Books, was privately printed mously written by Bennett Gilbert, a and probably limited to 500 copies. Los Angeles rare book dealer. They The reprint offered here is long out of reflect the interests of bibliographers, print and desirable over the cheap ones dealers, collectors and serious schol- now available. Amazingly it is still ars. 1,000 copies printed. Belongs next the only worthwhile English language to the works of Gilly, Ferguson, Gard- bibliography of rare astrology books, ner, and Duveen. Though still in print covering all the most important anti- (at $125.00) that won’t be for long. quarian authors, with crossovers into $90.00 207. Lattanzi, Agostino. BIBLIO- alchemy, Rosicrucianism, herbalism, GRAFIA DELLA MASSONERIA and divination. $25.00 205. Hyre, K.M. & E. Goodman. ITALIANA E DI CAGLIOSTRO. PRICE GUIDE TO THE OCCULT Olschki 1974, large 8vo, sewn wraps, 203. Gottlieb, Jean S. A CHECK- AND RELATED SUBJECTS. LA: cover and title page rubricated, plates LIST OF THE NEWBERRY LI- Reference Guides Inc., 1967, black throughout, 455pp, very fine copy. BRARY’S PRINTED BOOKS IN cloth, 380pp, vg condition. With 8,243 Over 2,000 rare titles fully described, SCIENCE, MEDICINE, TECHNOL- books cited for price, way outdated but with index, appendixes, and introduc- OGY, AND THE PSEUDOSCIENC- surprisingly useful for the collector as tion. A handsomely produced book, ES, CA. 1460-1750. Garland 1992, it gives you dates, tiles, editions, etc. better than most cloth bound academic quarto, stout cloth, 312pp, about 3000 All the citations were taken from books. This is a significant and little known bibliography with great detail index, mint copy. Another gorgeous bibliography is done, and rarely so and fine plates on coated stock. The production from the Bibliotheca Philo- with occult subjects. $65.00 only online copies are in Europe. sophica Hermetica, documenting $95.00 books some of which were eventually 215. Zisska & Kistner. ALCHE- seized by the Dutch government, rob- MY AND THE OCCULT. NATU- 208. Morris, Owen. THE bing this world-class treasure-house of RAL SCIENCES TECHNOLOGY. ‘CHYMICK BOOKES’ OF SIR OW- many of their rare Hermetic books and Auction Catalogue. November 6-7th, EN WYNNE OF GWYDIR. An An- manuscripts for non-payment of back 1998, Munich: Zisska & Kistner Kun- notated Catalogue. Tempe: MRTS taxes. No US copies online. $45.00 stauktionshaus, quarto wraps, 263pp, 1997, glossy wraps, 57pp, mint copy. 41 pages of plates on coated stock, vf, Morris writes from the perspective of 211. Ritman Library) Gilly, Car- with prices realized laid in. The great- both the book collector and the bibli- los. PARACELSUS IN DER BIBLI- est auction sale of antiquarian & rare ographer. The bibliography, covering OTHECA PHILOSOPHICA HER- Hermetic books & manuscripts bar about 50 titles, lasts a mere 13 pages, METICA. Ausstellung zum 500 none. Belongs next to Ferguson, the rest of the text takes up the inter- geburtsjahr des Theophrastus Bombast Duveen and the other standard refer- esting story of how Sir Wynne, in von Hohenheim Paracelsus Genannt. ence books as an essential companion. 1629, stumbled accidentally upon a Amsterdam: In De Pelikaan 1993, stiff Text in English. 2028 titles fully de- collection of 100 books on alchemy, a glossy folding wraps, quarto, sewn, scribed with many useful and often subject he originally had no interest in, 85pp, with separately printed index unique annotations, full bibliographic but went on to make a lifelong study laid in, nearly 100 illustrations, mainly citations for most books, about half on of it. Quite entertaining. $16.50 title pages, fine copy. 85 texts and Hermetic philosophy with the vast ma- editions described in detail. Out of jority printed before 1800. It was this 209. Patrick et Elisabeth Sourget. print for some time now, no US copies sale that I attended and wrote about in MANUSCRITS ENLUMINES ET online. $75.00 catalogue 46. Bargain price. $25.00 LIVRES PRECIEUX DU MOYEN AGE AU CUBISME. Chartres: 1989, 212. Ritman Library) J. R. LA BOOK SIZES IN HEIGHT: very heavy quarto, publisher's hand- GNOSE HERMETIQUE: Catalogue Duo decimo (12mo) 6"- 7" some green cloth with gilt lettering, dj, d’une Exposition de la Bibliotheca Octavo (8vo) 7" - 9" 548pp, printed on coated stock, pro- Philosophica Hermetica. Introduction Quarto (4to) 10" - 13" fusely illustrated in color with numer- by J.R. Ritman. Amsterdam: Biblio- Folio (Fo.) 13" - 23" ous plates and figures in the text, very theca Philosophical Hermetica 1991, good to fine condition. The Sourgets quarto, plain wraps, 87pp, 13 B&W AEG = all edges gilt are famous for having one of the most plates, vf condition. Exhibition cata- BOARDS = modern card covers glorious selections of fine bindings in logue, similar in format but entirely COATED STOCK = glossy art paper the world. Their catalogs are magnifi- different from the 1988 catalogue with CONTEMPORARY = concurrent with cent productions, arguably the most the same title. $12.50 date of publication (i.e. not modern) handsome bookseller catalogs of the DJ or DW = Dust jacket/dust wrapper 20th century. The photography is 213. Schwade, Arcadio. SHINTO- DNB = Dict of National Biography scrupulously exacting, showing the BIBLIOGRAPHY IN WESTERN EP = End paper minutiae of rare bindings seldom seen LANGUAGES: Bibliography on Shin- FABRIKOID = Plasticized cloth in even in reference books on bindings, to and Religious Sects, Intellectual imitation of leather for which these catalogs certainly Schools and Movements Influenced by FRONTISPIECE (frontis) = full page serve as. These catalogs are routinely Shintoism. Brill 1986, stiff sewn illustration facing title page sold for $100.00 and up. $30.00 wraps, tall octavo, 12+124pp. 2,006 HINGE = Inside groove uniting cover works listed, plus complete index, on- with ep & text block 210. Ritman Library) CIMELIA ly a few annotations, small spot on JOINT = Upper side of hinge RHODOSTAUROTICA: Die cover else very fine condition. $20.00 ND = No date Rosenkreuzer im Spiegel der zwishen NP = No publisher 1610 und 1660 entstandenen Hand- 214. Waite) Gilbert, R. A. A. E. OP = Out of print with publisher schriften und Drucke. Ausstellung der WAITE, A BIBLIOGRAPHY. Wel- PLATE = Full page illustration, often Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica lingborough: Aquarian 1983, 1st ed, on different/better paper Amsterdam und der Herzog August bds & dj, 192pp, frontis, mint copy of REBACKED = New spine Bibliothek Wolfenbuttel. Amsterdam: this OP book, autographed by the au- RUBRICATED = Printed in red In de Pelikaan [Ritman Library] 1995, thor. Every title elaborately described SEWN = Pages sewn-in with threads quarto, sewn paperback, 191pp, nu- and annotated, often with pithy cri- VF = Very fine cond, i.e. like new. merous title pages and frontispieces, tiques and observations. This is how VG = Very good condition, no defects, NEXT CATALOG only trivial signs of use. Old customers & friends may know I WRAPS (wrappers) = Plain paper co- sold my last bookshop in 2012 and vers, usually used for small printings have been teaching since. Now I’m by academic publishers. flooded with good books and ramping up my catalog business, many to fol- DATES given are for the year that edi- low! The next catalog will focus on tion was published. Greek & Latin classics, Medieval his- DATES IN PARENTHESES are dates tory, Nordic & Teutonic culture, that edition was first published Mesmerism, early psychology, modern EDITION = Text which originates psychology (esp Jungian, Archetypal from the same plates or setting of type. & Reichian/somatic psychology), Spir- PRINTING = The particular printing itualism, parapsychology, early hyp- or reprinting of that particular edition, nosis, old medicine, alternative health, i.e. there can be many printings of an quackery, folklore & mythology, no- edition but once the text has been madic & pre-Christian religions, and changed it is a new edition. related historiography, books about A REPRINT is an exact new printing books & bibliography, and many more of an edition, usually by a new pub- Hermetic and esoteric books. lisher. Note that many reprints are in- Book No.’s 107, 133, 144, 40, 63. ferior to the original.

Book No.’s 154, 30, 18, 129, 180, 191, 55, 23, 167, 66

The NUC, Largest Book in the World? THE NATIONAL UNION CATALOG, PRE-1956 IMPRINTS; A CUMULATIVE AUTHOR LIST REPRESENTING LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PRINTED CARDS AND TITLES REPORTED BY OTHER AMERICAN LIBRARIES. Compiled and Edited with the Cooperation of the Library of Congress and the National Union Catalog Subcommittee of the Resources Committee of the Resources and Technical Services Division, American Library Association. London: Mansell 1968- 1981, first and only edition, 754 heavy folio volumes, complete with supplements, publ’s stout green cloth gilt let- tered on spine, in remarkably fine condition, no library markings or defects, pages and text block clean and bright. Begun in 1909 and only finished in 1981, this is the largest printed catalog of books ever produced, comprising not just all the books in the Library of Congress, the second largest library in the world (after the British Library which is now slightly larger but was for long second to the LC), but also the records from all other reporting North Ameri- can libraries. A monumental and historic achievement, certainly never to be repeated again in print form. This may as well be the largest and longest book of any kind ever published, (I’ve not found any comparable contenders). It takes up 130’ on the shelf, it weighs three tons, and contains c.530,000 pages, and c.125mm titles. For those such as myself who feel a need, driven by some unknown force or agency, to know about ALL printed knowledge, this then is the Holy Grail, ‘the place of beginnings.’ So many rich veins buried in this goldmine, for example the 63,000 titles on the Bible, (separately indexed), and the massive author sections on Shakespeare, etc & etc. Much also could be said of the completeness and usability of these records compared to the transcribed, often error filled and truncat- ed records that mar the largest online library catalog, the OCLC WorldCat, whose records are, according to the Li- brary of Congress “…not as complete or accurate as those created by the Library.” This is because the NUC is made up of photocopies of the library cards in LC’s unique card catalog, (very well reproduced) i.e. the factual infor- mation recorded from the physical books by librarians, with all kinds of minutiae and additional notes added over the decades. It is the closest experience you can have to being in the Library of Congress which has kept their oak- en card catalog unlike most libraries who threw them out in the 1980’s, some even burning them in pathetic, hu- bris fueled bonfires of “celebration,” (read Nicholson Baker on that ugly chapter). Excellent NUC details in College & Research Libraries (2008), http://tinyurl.com/lroh6p6, and also the LC’s own comments on discrepancies here: http://tinyurl.com/7leruxf, (where they advise checking the printed catalog for any thorough research). Rarely do sets come on the market but there is one online now, a branded ex-lib set for $12,500. When published nearly eve- ry set was destined for libraries, so “ex-lib” is the state they are almost always found in. Most have probably been pulped by now or taken to the dump by librarians. Shipping at cost, (approx $2K). $10,000.00

Moving the NUC

It took four people (inc. two professional movers and my dog) one full day to move it out of its home (above) and into nearby storage. Worth every back-breaking minute.