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Occult & Esoterica
Illustrations of The History and Practises of The Thugs. And Notices of some of the proceedings of The Government of India, for the suppression of the crime of Thuggee.
London. Allen and Co. 1837. First edition. 8vo. Bound in a functional and rather institutional 20th century pebble grain cloth binding with recent paper label. Brown endpapers, internally clean. Very good indeed, strong, and solid. Binding banalities aside this is a truly fascinating and quite early documentary study of the... More
The Essays, Colours of Good and Evil, and Advancement of Learning of Francis Bacon.
London: Macmillan, 1902. [Philosophy] HANDSOME REPRINT. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[xviii]; 422. Contemporary black half morocco over blue cloth boards, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Binding is attractive, minor bumping to corners, cloth somewhat soiled, front edge toned. Ownership inscription ("Evie Woods")... More
A Treatise on White Magic, or the Way of the Disciple.
London: John M. Watkins; New York, NY: Lucis Publishing Company, 1934. [Esoterica] Second Edition. Octavo, pp.xiv; 640; [2]. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Small bookseller's label to front free endpaper. Offsetting to endpapers, edges toned. Old repair to spine, joints and spine ends heavily... More
An Exposition of Views Respecting The Principle Facts, Causes and Peculiarities Involved In Spirit Manifestations.
London: H. Bailliere, 1852. First edition thus with new edits by Stone and with a new introduction. 8vo. Publisher's blue embossed cloth, titled in gilt to spine. Strong and clean, sunned to spine with gilt somewhat dulled, bumped to spine ends, minor edgewear, very good indeed, a handsome copy. Glazed... More
K.K.K. Sketches. Humorous and Didactic. Treating the more important events of the Ku-Klux-Klan movement in the South. With a Discussion of the Causes which gave rise to it, and the Social and Political Issues emanating from it.
Philadelphia, PA: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1877. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] 192 [2]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and a monogram to upper; brown end papers. Lightly browned as expected. Front free endpaper brittle and nearly detached. Heavy rubbing to outer edges, especially spine head and tail. Good. More
The Empty House.
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1915. THE UNIFORM EDITION. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. UNCOMMON. Octavo, pp.vii; 316. This uncommon copy of The Empty House is bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. The book shows leaves of irregular width - a possible production fault which has led to a rather... More
In Darkest England and The Way Out.
Salvation Army, London. [1890]. FIRST EDITION. 8vo., pp. 285 + pp. xxix and fold out colour chart. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt. Owner's neat inscription. Very Good. More
Religio Medici and other essays.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1915. Octavo. Bound in contemporary half red morocco over red cloth boards, gilt ruling to boards, with raised bands, gilt decoration and titles in gilt to spine; top edge gilt, other edges uncut, marbled endpapers. Binding is lightly rubbed, corners bumped. Internally very clean, free from... More
The Memorial Edition of the Works of Capt. Sir Richard F. Burton. Containing: Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah; A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome; Vikram and the Vampire, or Tales of Hindu Devilry; First Footsteps in Africa.
London: Tylston and Edwards, 1893-94. Complete in 7 volumes, superbly bound in half black oasis with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt to spines, original cloth sides pictorially stamped in gilt, top edge tinted red, black endpapers. With frontispieces, black and white and coloured plates. Occasional light spotting otherwiseclean within... More
The Myth of the Magus.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1948. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xii; 282; [2]. With 11 lithographic plates including a frontispiece. In publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original black dust-jacket with white titles and red lines. Tape marks to endpapers and reverse of jacket. Black ink ownership inscription to... More
The Night Side of Nature. Or: Ghosts and Ghost Seers.
London: G. Routledge 1852. Third edition with new introduction (The first edition was 1848). 8vo. 2 volumes bound as 1. Contemporary brown half calf over brown cloth boards with burgundy title label and gilt decoration to spine. Some rubbing and scuffing to extremities, a little shelfwear, structurally sound and handsome... More
Moonchild. A Prologue.
London: The Mandrake Press, 1929. Occult novel. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. vii, 335. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and double rules to spine, white endpapers. Attractive ownership signature to flyleaf, some bubbling of cloth to upper, gilt bright, some shelfwear. A very good copy. Crowley's second published... More
Tannhauser. A Story of All Time.
London: Kegan, Paul, Trench and Trubner. 1902. First edition. One of a run of 500 copies on laid paper [a further 6 copies were printed on vellum]. 4to. Publisher's white linen spine over blue paper covered boards. Slight rubbing to extremities, edge chipping to the white paper title label, some... More
A Discovery Concerning Ghosts: with a rap at the "spirit rappers". To which is added a few parting raps at the "rappers", with questions, suggestions, and advice to the Davenport Brothers.
London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1864. Second Edition. Octavo, pp.[iv], 60. Bound in recent brown cloth, with gilt titles to spine, original upper bound in. Illustrated by Cruikshank with many in-text woodcut engravings. Binding shows no signs of rubbing. Internally clean, with some light marginal browning, neat ownership inscription to... More
Superstition and the Dread Prophecies for 1881-1885.
Albany, NY: Published for the Author, 1881. FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet, pp. 63. in light grey pictorial wraps. Paper slightly toned, some marking to wraps with some loss to the spine. A fine copy, scarce. More
Supernatural Pamphlets.
1852-54. Five important pamphlets by a leader in the Spiritualist movement. Bound in contemporary full brown calf with gilt titles and ornate gilt decoration to spine, marbled endpapers and edges. 'The Approaching Crisis: Being A Review of Dr. Bushnell's Recent Lectures on Spiritualism', New York: Published by the Author, 1852... More
![La Mythologie des Plantes [The Mythology of Plants], ou, Les Legendes du Regne Vegetal. Tomes I et II. Angleo DE GUBERNATIS.](/pictures/thumb/49998.jpg?v=1528118561)
La Mythologie des Plantes [The Mythology of Plants], ou, Les Legendes du Regne Vegetal. Tomes I et II.
Paris: C. Reinwald and Co., 1878-1882. [Plant Mythology] FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2]; xxxvi; 295; [5]; pp.374; [2]. All text in French. Later brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Piscine bookplate of Alan Davidson (1924-2003), author of 'North Atlantic Seafood' and 'The... More
Klosterheim. Or, The Masque.
Edinburgh and London, Blackwood and Cadell, 1832. First Edition. Small 8vo. Publisher's original paper covered boards with later cloth spine and paper title label. Minor edgewear and rubbing, strong and clean. Internally clean, minor isolated spotting to prelims. Edges untrimmed. A neat and pretty little volume, shows very well. An... More
Cironii in Canones. Innocentii Cironii Ivris Vtrivsqve Professoris, Canonici, Et Ecclesiae, Ac Academiae Tolo Sanae Cancellarii, Paratitla In Qvinqve Libros Decretalivm Gregorii IX.
Vindobonae [Vienna]: Ioannis Thomae Trattner, 1761. Quarto. Bound in vellum, with string ties to front board, titles in ink to spine; all edges marbled. Binding is rubbed and tanned, particularly spine. String ties to rear board absent, with some damage to inside rear board, joint starting. Tanning also present sporadically... More
Secrets of My Magic.
London: Hutchinson and Co., 1936. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.288 [32]. With 15 photographic plates including a frontispiece portrait of the author. In publisher's dark pink cloth, with gilt titles to spine. No jacket. Two small ink ownership inscriptions to front endpapers. Spine sunned; some wear to head. Good overall. One... More
The Golden Fluid.
London, Ward Lock and Co. 1935. FIRST EDITION, later state. Octavo. In the secondary binding of mid-green cloth, lettered in black, in original jacket repriced at 5/- and with publisher's book number overprinted to spine. The striking dust-wrapper depicts a burning city, a flask (presumably of said fluid, apparently the... More
![[Manuscript letter describing the miraculous survival of a storm at sea during the South African Spiritualist Tour of 1928]. Jean Conan DOYLE, née LECKIE, Sir Arthur Conan DOYLE, association.](/pictures/thumb/49536.jpg?v=1510224701)
[Manuscript letter describing the miraculous survival of a storm at sea during the South African Spiritualist Tour of 1928].
1st November 1928. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER WRITTEN BY SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE'S SECOND WIFE. Written in black ink over both sides of two sheets of headed note paper from the R.M.S. Windsor Castle, Union-Castle Line. With the original envelope addressed to a Mrs. Hewitt of London, SW7. Stamp and postmarks..... More
The Mystery of Cloomber
London: Ward and Downey Ltd 1896. Crown octavo, pp.[vi]; 151; [3], blank; 15, advertisements; [1], blank. Publisher's burgundy cloth, florally stamped in gilt and blind. Some toning to cheap paper stock, final leaf poorly opened at margin (not affectiong text),contents shaken within the case, school prize certificate ('Awarded For Regularity'... More
The New Revelation.
Chicago, IL: The Progressive Thinker, c.1917. Pamphlet, pp. 21. In grey paper covers, with ruled panelling and titles to front cover, rear cover blank. A little rubbed externally, slightly parted at lower joint extending. Green and Gibson, B23: "Notes", p.300. More
A Public Debate On "The Truth of Spiritualism".
London: Watts and Co., 1920. [Spiritualism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.vi; 57; [1] blank. Publisher's printed wraps, stapled twice. Damp staining to bottom part of the textblock, some chipping to the bottom corner, some light spotting. Covers a little soiled, chipped and nibbled, staples rusted. Good. This title... More