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Our latest catalogue, produced in collaboration with Marshall Rare Books, is a wide-ranging survey of books covering all aspects of witchcraft, spiritualism, mysticism, the occult and the generally "out there".
And an Analysis of the Inter-Relation Between the Craft and the High Grades in Respect of Their Term of Research, Expressed by the Way of Symbolism. London: Rebman Limited. 1911 First edition. Two volumes. 250x185mm. pp. [iv adverts and reviews], v-xxxv [i], 417 [1, 2bl]; vii [i], 447 [1]. Each volume has a frontispiece and thirteen plates showing portraits of celebrated freemasons. Volume two has a folding table. Bound in white cloth with a Square and Compass in gilt on the upper cover and the rosicrucian rose and cross in gilt on the lower cover.
View full detailsA Digest of the Writings of Éliphas Lévi. With biographical and critical essay. London: George Redway 1886 First edition. 8vo. 225x135mm. pp. xliii, [ibl], 349, [3bl], 38pp adverts, [2 index to adverts]. Bright blue cloth, upper cover with a red border and a central design in gilt of “The Pentagram of Faust” and lettered “Tetragammaton”. Spine lettered in gilt. Corners bumped and rubbed. Spine soiled and worn at head and foot. Some soiling to edges of boards. Internally very good with some toning to edges.
View full detailsAmsterdam: Barbara Huges. 1968 [1969/1970] Second edition expanded with the inclusion of an additional ten page essay “Het Taboe op de Ziel” (On the Taboo of the Soul) by Dr R.A. Hübner. 290x205mm. ff. [2], 34. Printed on recto only. Text in Dutch. Bound in textured card wrappers with grey cloth spine. The upper cover has the title printed in red, author in blue and in the centre (in green) is a triangle inside which is Huges’s stylised diagram of a brain on which the process of trepanation is being undertaken.
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The Canon. An exposition of the Pagan mystery perpetuated in the Cabala as the rule of all the arts.
With a preface by R. B. Cunninghame Graham.London: Elkin Matthews. 1897. A rare work revealing "the magnitudes of the sun, moon, and other planets". First edition. 8vo. 225x145mm. pp. xiv, [2], 403 [1]. Blue paper covered boards, backed in white cloth. Paper label to spine. Joints cracked and tender but boards holding. Tears to spine and slight loss to label. Corners and edges a little worn and some marks and fading to boards. Pages uncut. Some toning to edges but otherwise internally in very good condition.
View full detailsA Digest of the Writings of Éliphas Lévi. With biographical and critical essay.London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.. 1897. Second edition, revised and enlarged. 8vo. 190x125mm. pp. xvi, 523 [1]. Bright blue cloth, upper cover with a red border and a central design in gilt of "The Pentagram of Faust" and lettered "Tetragammaton". Spine lettered in gilt. Bumping and some wear to head and foot of spine and slight rubbing to corners. Slight soiling to boards. Some pencil marks to the text.
View full detailsLondon: William Rider. 1914. If these stones could speak First edition. 8vo. 217x135mm. pp. xix, [ibl], 292. Coloured frontispiece and ten black and white plates. Original blue cloth, illustrated and lettered in gilt. Some rubbing to extremities, slight fading to spine and a mark on the lower cover. Internally very good. A nice copy of this extensive and important study of the symbolism of precious stones. It examines the Hindu, Jewish, Chinese, Egyptian, Roman, Gnostic, and Christian lore of gems. The final section discusses the astrological connections of key gems, sign by sign. Ref.
View full detailsAmsterdam: n.p.. 1964. Inscribed by Huges: the Dutch version of his trepanation manifesto. Inscribed by Huges - "Voor Peter - van Bart" with a stylised diagram representing the brain. Paper scroll (2760x430mm) with a facsimile, in the original Dutch, of Huges's manifesto, written while in prison, for an expanded consciousness achieved through the control of blood to the brain. which gives the work its alternative name: The Mechanism of BrainBloodVolume (BBV). The original manuscript of Homo Sapiens Correctus was written in Dutch in 1962. In 1964, a facsimile was issued in both Dutch and in an English translation.
View full detailsLondon: Printed by A.J.Valpy. 1833. Impious First and only edition. 8vo. 208x130mm. pp. 155 [1bl], [2]. Four tipped-in slips of text. Eight plates, two of which are hand-coloured and one diagram in the text. Contemporary red morocco, gilt decoration to boards, spine lavishly decorated, and lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Some wear to joints, corners very slightly bumped and rubbed.
View full detailsLondon. 1934. Moon Trail and White Hawk. Messages from the Spirit World. An archive of manuscript and typed material relating to the Great Metropolitan Spiritualist Association (GMSA).1. Eleven typed transcripts of addresses and messages from the spirit world. These are from spirits known as Moon Trail and White Hawk. One was channelled through a Mrs Hambling and the others are, given the provenance, probably through Harold Jones himself as he was a well known medium. The earliest is dated July 13th 1930 and the latest January 1943. 2. Minute book of the Finsbury Park Church of Spirit Teaching.
View full detailsPotentissimorum, efficacissimorum, cum PRACTICA probatissima: QUIBUS SPIRITUS MALIGNI, Daemones Maleficiaeq[ue], omnia de Corporibus humanis obsessis, tanquam FLAGELLIS FUSTIBUSQUE FUGANTUR, expelluntur, doctrinis refertissimus atq[ue] uberrimus: Ad maximam EXORCITARUM commoditatem in lucem editus & recusus: Cujus Authores, ut & singuli tractatus, sequente pagella consignati, inveniunturColoniae [Cologne]: Lazarus Zetzner.. 1608. The complete guide to exorcism First edition thus. 8vo. 152x92mm. pp. [16], 1272, [46]. Bound by Hatton of Manchester (ticket on front pastedown) in nineteenth century tan half calf, cloth covered boards. Spine with five raised bands, second compartment with red morocco label lettered in gilt.
View full detailsn.p. [Germany]. 1674. "the perfect Cure of all Diseases". The search for the Philosopher's Stone. First edition. 12mo. pp. [10], 37 [1bl]. Text in Latin. Bound in 19th century decorated cloth covered boards.
View full detailsvon Dr Med. A. Freiherrn von Schrenck-Notzing aus dem Nachlaß herausgegeben von Gabriele Freifrau von Schrenck-Notzing mit einer Einleitung von Professor Dr Eugen Bleuler.Berlin und Leipzig: Verlag Walter de Gruyter & Co.. 1933. Rudi Schneider's own copy inscribed to him by the author's wife. First edition. Front free endpaper is inscribed, "Dem lieben Rudi, zu Weihnachten 1932. Gabriele Freifrau von Schrenck-Notzing". 8vo. 232x152mm. pp. viii, 170. With a frontispiece and five plates of black and white photographs, illustrations in the text. Black cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt. Rubbing to extremities and some marking to boards.
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