Occult & Esoterica
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
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..... 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
The Case for Spirit Photography.
London: Hutchinson and Co., no date [December 1922]. [Occult] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.110. Complete with 16 photographic plates showing 31 photographic images. As Green and Gibson note, the illustrations list call for an additional plate, but no copy with this plate has ever been noted; it seems..... More
Spiritualism and Rationalism. With a Drastic Examination of Mr Joseph McCabe.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1920]. [Spiritualism] FIRST EDITION. Slim octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.32. Thick grey paper covers ruled and titled in black. Some spotting, two faint owner stamps to upper. A rare survival of a throwaway item; just one other example is available at the time of..... More
The Vital Message.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1919]. [Spiritualism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.228. With four black and white photographic plates. Pages 1-2 are pasted to cover as endpapers (as issued; Green and Gbson, p.302, line 1). Bound in dark grey cloth lettered in gilt to the backstrip. Contents..... More
The Vital Message.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1919]. [Spiritualism] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.228. With four black and white photographic plates. Handsomely bound in mid-green full oasis morocco, with twin black morocco title labels lettered in gilt, raised bands, gilt rules to spine and boards, top edge gilt..... More
The Christian Defence Against The Fears of Death, with Seasonable Directions how to Prepare Ourselves to Die Well. With an Account of the Death of the Author to which is Added a True Relation of the Apparition of Mrs Veal.
Londopn: Thomas Kelly 1824. New edition, with twelve fine plates including a frontispiece (dated 1823) and a vignette title (dated 1819). Octavo, pp.viii; 557; [1], Directions to the Binder; 8 [The Apparition]. Advertised as a 'New, improved and elegant Edition, with some valuable additions, which is printed with an excellent..... More
The Wolf-Leader. Newly translated by Afred Allinson.
London: Methuen, [1904]. Octavo, pp. 8 [advertisements]; 115. In publisher's decorated wraps, white card overprinted in red and black. Front of book features stylised titles and author's name bordered by a sword design, with central image of the 'wolf-leader' surrounded by a pack of ferocious wolves. Book is in extremely..... 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
Wrecked Among Cannibals In The Fijis. A Narrative of Shipwreck and Adventure in The South Seas.
Salem: Marine Research Society. 1923. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's blue paper covered boards with black cloth spine titled in gilt. In dustwrapper with very light soiling. Essentially a fine copy. Pages unopened. Internally clean and fresh. A splendid copy. An account of the wrecking of the ship "Glide" out of..... 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 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
An Essay Towards A Theory of Apparitions.
London, Cadell and Davies. 1813. FIRST EDITION. Slim 8vo. Contemporary marbled boards with vellum corners, later leather spine titled in silver gilt to green title label. Alastair Robb-Smith's bookplate to front pastedown. Some light foxing, three institutional stamps partly erased to front, middle and rear (not affecting text). The first..... 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
Sane Occultism.
London: Rider, n.d. [1929]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.192. In publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Black ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Slight reading lean; edges lightly spotted. Contemporary tram ticket loose to rear. Light outer wear; very good overall. In an earlier age Dion Fortune would..... More
Romance and Reality of the Puritan Coast.
Boston: Little Brown 1897. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Illustrated. Attractive Art-Nouveau style binding in full green morocco, gilt, all edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles. with gilt floral endpapers. Spine sunned else fine. Includes a chapter on Salem. More
A Skinful of Shadows.
London: Macmillan, 2017. [Children's Occult Historical Adventure] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.[6] 415 [11]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's dark green paper-covered boards titled and decorated in glossy black, with matching green endpapers and edges. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Aitch..... More
An Ethiopian History Written in Greek by Heliodorus Englished by Thomas Underdowne Anno 1587. The Tudor Translations Edited by W.E. Henley.
London: David Nutt, 1895. LIMITED EDITION ON JAPANESE VELLUM. Medium Octavo. pp.xxix; 290. No. 7 of just 18 copies printed on Japanese vellum. In publisher's white paper-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. All edges untrimmed. Light browning internally. Marks and wear to edges; chipping to spine. Good overall. A...... More
Einleitung zu der Herolds-Kunst, auff eine bequeme und deutliche Art verfasset, in zwey Theilen. Die Wapen der vornehmsten Staaten und Republiques von gantz Europa gleichsam auff einen Anblick darstellend und in dieser teutschen Ubersetzung mit einem neuen Theil von der Wapen-Kunst insgemein, laut des nohtwendigen Berichtes in der Vorrede, vermehret.
Hamburg, 1694. First Edition of the German translation of Caspar Bussing's original Latin work published the year before, containing the Arms of all the European Emperors, Kings and other Rulers. Small oblong 8vo. (95 x 150mm). Contemporary full roan with raised bands, gilt and red title label to spine. Illustrated..... More
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
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
The Hebrew and Greek Scriptures, compared with Oriental History, Dialling, Science, and Mythology. Also, the History of the Cross, gathered from many countries [and] The Sabbath: a Tract for All Times [and] The Exodus of Israel out of Egypt, illustrated in its typical features from the structure of the Greek-Egyptian Dial with Steps, brought from Alexandria, and now in the British Museum [and] The Typical Structure of the Greek-Egyptian Sun-Dial with Seven Steps, in the British Museum, as explained on two models in the York Industrial Exhibition of 1866, and in the Paris Exhibition, 1867: Supplementing two series of tracts on "Christianity in its Relation to Judaism and Heathenism," by a third series, illustrating the subject in connection with passing events from A.D. 1866 to 1869 [and] The Typical & Prophetic Time of the Ancient Oriental Baalists, illustrated from the mechanical structure of the Greek-Egyptian Dial with Steps, being the first attempt to realize and abridged expression of the evidence [and] Old Nursery Rhymes, of Mithraic Origin, illustrated from the typical structure of the Greek-Egyptian Dial with Steps, brought from Alexandria, and now in the British Museum. With passing remarks on the Philosophy of the Ancient Hindus respecting their Mundane Egg; also, on the typical structure of the theatre & amphitheatre at Arles [and] The Sun of Righteousness: or, the Sun's seven-fold power manifested in Christ as Lord of the Sabbath Day, the Messiah of the Jews, and Saviour of the World, renewing from Sabbath to Sabbath the glory of God's ever-abiding presence in the Works of Creation: Chronicled typically and prophetically by the Jews as completed in six days.
London: Simpkin and Co., 1870, 1866, 1869, 1868, 1869, 1869 and 1869. [Occult Astrology] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Seven volumes bound as one. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 14; 13 [1]; 10; pp.23 [1]; pp.16; 16; 13-28; 33 [3]; 15 [1]; pp.[2] xxviii [4]; 42; civ; pp.26; 4; 116; pp.[2]..... More
The Phantom Host, and Other Verses.
London: Elkin Mathews, 1917. THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Small octavo, 165mmx133mm, pp.47. Bound in publisher's blue paper wraps, with advertisements to inner flaps and rear of book. Titled in black ink with bookshop motif to upper. In excellent condition, with negligible spotting to the first and final leaves only. Wraps a...... More
More Celtic Fairy Tales.
London: David Nutt, 1894. [Folklore] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Number 27 of 125 copies printed on Japanese vellum and signed by the publisher, eight full page plates, each appearing in two states, each with a tissue guard, plus numerous in-text illustrations. Recent green half calf over marbled boards, gilt titles on..... More