Occult & Esoterica
Illustrations of Tracts on the Greek-Egyptian Sun-Dial, with Seven Steps, etc.: Being the second and third series of illustrations for tracts on Christianity in its relation to Judaism and Heathenism, etc. etc.
London: Simpkin and Co., 1870. [Occult Astrology] RARE AND FINELY BOUND. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.9; pp.4. Filled with astrological diagrams and occasional illustrated plates, some folding. Contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to burgundy label, and Masonic gilt tooling to spine. Marbled paper over boards; all..... More
The Life of Sethos. Taken from Private Memoirs of the Ancient Egyptians. Translated from a Greek Manuscript into French. And now faithfully done into English from the Paris Edition.
London: Printed for J. Walthoe, 1732. [Strange Tale] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[4] xvi; 460; pp.[4] 480 [4]. With a folding map to each volume. Recently re-backed in brown calf to match the original brown speckled calf boards, ruled in gilt to..... More
Christianity in its Relation to Judaism and Heathenism in Three Tracts: First—On the Winged Symbols of Assyrian Sculptures in the British Museum, compared with the Cherubim of Ezekiel's Typical Prophecies. Second—On the True Historic reference of Jewish Prophecy. Third—The Rise and Progress of Idolatry considered in the relation of its predicted fall to the establishment of Messiah's everlasting Kingdom [and] The Primeval Revelation, as Taught in "The Law & the Prophets:" of, God's Will typically manifested in His Works, especially in His Ordinances of Day and Night, under a threefold Traditional instruction of Science, History, and Religion, allegorically combined, as "The Parables and Dark Sayings of Old," which represent the power of a Threefold Cord not easily broken.
London: Simpkin & Co., 1860 and 1864. [Occult Astrology] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xii; 16; xiv; 7-177 [1]; 137 [1]; pp.xxxii; 72. Filled with astrological diagrams, tables, and lithographic illustrations, many folding. Contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt..... More
Past Feelings Renovated; Or, Ideas Occasioned by the Perusal of Dr Hibbert's 'Philosophy of Apparitions', written with the View of Counteracting any Sentiments Approaching Materialism, which that work, however Unintentional on the Part of the Author, May have a Tendency to Produce.
London: George B. Whittaker, 1828. [Supernatural occurence / mysticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), ppxi; 323. Early two-tone cloth, manuscript label to spine. Contents clean, occasional fold to corners, vintage catalogue description affixed to pastedown, minor rubbing and soiling to covers. A very good copy. Relating to Samuel Hibbert-Ware..... More
A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus, and its Connection with the Mystic Theology of the Ancients. To Which is Added an Essay on the Worship of the Generative Powers During the Middle Ages of Western Europe.
London: Privately Printed, 1865 [Reprinted 1894]. [Esoterica] PRIVATELY PRINTED NEW EDITION. Limited to 500 copies, of which this is number 41. Quarto (22 x 19cm), pp.[6] xvi; 254; 40 unpaginated plates. Contemporary green quarter morocco, brown cloth over boards. Gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt, the rest untrimmed. Green..... More
Demon Possession and Allied Themes, being an inductive study of phenomena of our own times.
London: George Redway, 1897. [Demon Possession in China] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 520. Including the supplement to the second US edition. Publisher's yellow cloth with red titles to spine and upper. Top edge red, others untrimmed. Theosophical Society library bookplate to front pastedown, with associated inscription..... More
The Pantheon, Representing the Fabulous Histories of the Heathen Gods, and Most Illustrious Heroes; In a Short, Plain, and Familiar Method, by Way of Dialogue. The Nineteenth Edition. Revised, Corrected, Amended, and Illustrated with New Copper Cuts of the Several Deities. For the Use of Schools. By Andrew Tooke, A.M. Late Professor of Geometry in Gresham College, and Master of the Charter-House School.
London: Printed for C. Hitch, C. Bathurst, M. Cooper, Etc. 1757. [Classical mythology] SCARCE. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[4]; 360; [36]. With 28 copperplates, including a frontispiece. Brown full calf, with gilt double-ruling to boards and gilt-ruled raised bands to spine. Edges speckled red. Interior toned and marked, a few..... More
Secret Shakespearean Seals. Revelations of Rosicrucian Arcana, Discoveries in the Shakespeare Plays, Sonnets, and Works, Printed Circa 1586-1740, of "Secreti Sigilli," Concealed Author's Marks and Signs.
Nottingham: H. Jenkins, 1916. [Esoterica] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 21cm), pp.vii [1] 88; 73 unpaginated plates. With a halftone frontispiece and 73 typographic and pictorial plates to rear. Contemporary patterned green half calf, green cloth over boards, gilt-ruled. Gilt titles, tooling, and raised bands to spine. Pink textured endpapers..... More
Three Essays on Religion. Nature, The Utility of Religion, and Theism.
London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1874. [Theism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xi; [3]; 258; [2] list of author's works. Publisher's binding of green pebble-grained cloth, gilt titles and rules to spine, black rules to spine and boards, brown coated endpapers. Contemporary ownership to flyleaf, later ownership inscription..... More
Gandalf's Garden Magazine. Issue One.
London: Citadelle Press, May 1968. [Esoteric Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE, the first issue with no text printed on the egg. A4 magazine (32 x 22cm), pp.32. Printed on various alternating pastel-coloured leaves, with occasional illustrations. Publisher's white, slightly glossy, paper covers, stapled twice. Covers detached. Well-thumbed, but essentially clean and intact..... More
Poltergeist Over England. Three Centuries of Mischievous Ghosts.
London: Country Life Ltd., 1945. [Ghosts] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 423 [1]. With a black and white frontispiece, 12 photographic plates, and numerous in-text illustrations by Hookham. Publisher's black cloth with green titles to spine and upper. Blind Ex Libris stamp of Alan H. Hooker..... More
The Meini Hirion and Sarns of Anglesey. Considered in relation to the early hundred system.
Published by the Author at Pen-y-Bont, Red Wharf Bay, Anglesey. 1927. First (and only edition, until very recently when the printers did a facsimile). 8vo. 54pp. Later cloth binding with titles to spine and upper in gilt. A little foxing and toning to sheets else fine. Binding is unmarked. A...... More
The Dream of Ravan: A Mystery. (Reprinted from "The Dublin University Magazine," 1853 & 1854.)
London: The Theosophical Publishing Society, 1895. [Hindu Theosophy] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] 248. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine and upper. All edges untrimmed. Merchant Taylors' School prize plate to front pastedown, dated 1944. Spotting to endpapers, and to first and final few leaves..... More
Sword of Wisdom. MacGregor Mathers and the Golden Dawn.
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1975. [Occult] FIRST US EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm) pp.307 [1]. With a black and white frontispiece of a painting of MacGregor Mathers by his wife Moina Mathers, and 20 other black and white illustrations. Publisher's purple cloth with silver titles to..... More
Spook Crooks! Profusely illustrated by James and Howard Savage.
London: Selwyn and Blount, No date [c.1932]. [Magic and Folklore] FIRST EDITION, FROM THE LIBRARY OF ANTHONY LEJEUNE. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp. 287; [1]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. Some spotting to textblock edges, fading spine, minor bumping to lower spine edge, slight watermark to front..... More
Pause to Wonder. Stories of the Marvelous, Mysterious, and Strange.
New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1944. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xix; 572. Bound in publisher's grey cloth with red title to spine, in a pictorial dustjacket. Book in very good condition, binding holds well, tape repairs to boards, endcaps pushed, some markings along board edges, and discoloured areas to rear board..... More
The Meini Hirion and Sarns of Anglesey. Considered in relation to the early hundred system.
Published by the Author at Pen-y-Bont, Red Wharf Bay, Anglesey. 1927. First (and only edition, until very recently when the printers did a facsimile). 8vo. 54pp. Publisher's brown cloth titled in black to spine and front board. Minor edgewear, clean and bright, very good indeed. Internally clean, minor toning to..... More
The Fires of Alchemy: A Transpersonal Viewpoint.
Morton, Lincolnshire: Archive Publishing, 2004. [Transpersonal Psychology] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxii; 232; xxiii-xl. With many illustrations, some in colour. Number 126 of 350 copies SIGNED by the author and editor in black ink to half-title. With original flyer, order form, and publisher's compliments slip loose to..... More
The Lost Language of Symbolism. An Inquiry into the Origin of Certain Letters, Words, Names, Fairy-Tales, Folklore, and Mythologies.
London: Williams and Norgate, 1951. [Symbols and Folklore] REPRINT. Complete in to two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 375 [1]; pp.viii; 388. With frequent in-text illustrations throughout. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spines. Light toning and spotting to edges and endpapers, otherwise internally crisp and clean. Cloth..... More
A Great Revelation! Derived from the Great Pyramid and the Word of God.
London: Robert Banks & Son, 1899. [Eschatology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.237 [3]. With various tables, several folding. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Light yellow coated endpapers. Front flyleaf removed. Some spotting to half-title and rear advertisement leaf, and toning to edges. Sewing..... More
The Accursed, Two Diabolical Tales.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1967. [Strange Tales] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.287 [1]. Publisher's dark brown cloth with red titles to spine. Top edge red. With the dust-jacket featuring a blue and orange ravening wolf, priced at 28s. Also with a contemporary Book Society membership..... More
The Child, The Wise Man and The Devil.
London: James Bowden, 1896. [Spiritual Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 70 [6]. Number 83 of 500 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in blue ink to the limitation page. Printed on fine handmade paper, with a photogravure frontispiece portrait of the author with tissue-guard, and a...... More
Prediction. Vol.17, no.8; vol.34, nos.1 and 4; vol.35, no.10; vol.36, nos.3, 8, 9, and 10.
London: Link House Publications, August 1951; January 1968; April 1968; October 1969; March 1970; August 1970; September 1970; October 1970. [Astrological Magazine] EIGHT ORIGINAL MAGAZINES (25 x 19 and 22 x 14cm). Publisher's variously coloured paper covers, stapled twice. Fairly light general wear to covers, and toning to leaves. pp.23/24..... More
Elements of Negro Religion. Being a Contribution to the Study of Indo-Bantu Comparative Religion.
Edinburgh: Edmondston-Scott and Co., 1910. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 244; [3 of advertisements]; [1]. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine. Some offsetting to endpapers, a few dinks to top edge. Cloth a little rubbed to extremities. Very good. More
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion: Part III The Dying God.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1930. [Theology and the Occult] THIRD EDITION REPRINTED. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp. xii; 303; [1]; 2. Publisher's green cloth with gilt pictorial decoration to upper and gilt lettering to spine, untrimmed edges. Half-title lettered in red and black. Toning to edges of textblock, wearing to..... More