PRIEST AND FREEMASON: The Life of George Oliver, 1782-1867.
UK: Aquarian Press, 1988. FIRST EDITION. Fine cloth copy in fine dust jacket. Sixteen pages of plates and frontispiece. 192 pages, indexed. Tall 8vo.
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MUDRA: A Study of Symbolic Gestures in Japanese Buddhist Sculpture.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1960. FIRST UK EDITION. Very Good+ cloth copy in chipped dust jacket. Twenty six plates and 110 figures. William Woodward's copy with his signature. Bollingen Series LVIII. 296 pages with index. Japanese bookseller stamp (Isseido) on the flyleaf.
DON RAIMON, A Story of Raymond Lull.
London: Macmillan and Central Board of Missions. 1919. First Edition. Ex-libris; no marking; GOOD. With illustrations. 124 pages. Small 8vo.
FOUR TREATISES OF THEOPHRASTUS VON HOHENHEIM CALLED PARACELSUS.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1941. FIRST EDITION. A Very Good Cloth Volume. Translated from the original German, with Introductory Essays by C. Lilian Temkin, George Rosen, Henry Sigerist and Gregory Zilboorg, this copy signed on the front free end paper by Rosen. 1538 woodcut of Paracelsus as frontispiece. [xiv], 256.....
A PARACELSIAN LEXICON OF ALCHEMICAL TERMS.
Holmes Publishing Group (Alchemical Press), 2011. Limited Edition of Three Numbered Copies. Hand bound monograph on custom Thyme paper, and hand numbered and initialed on the verso. A FINE COPY. Octavo.
A PARACELSIAN LEXICON OF ALCHEMICAL TERMS.
Holmes Publishing Group, 1998. 1558184058. Waite's Lexicon of terms as found in his monumental Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus; Together with, the "Paracelsian Lexicon" of Hartmann. The emphasis of the former is the physical aspect of Paracelsus' work, while the latter draws more from a theosophical, mystical perspective, offering the student.....
BACONIAN ESSAYS.
Pt. Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1970. A FINE CLOTH COPY. 230 pages. Five essays by Smithson and an introduction with additional articles by Sir George Greenwood addressing the life and work of Sir Francis Bacon. Octavo.
THE THREE RELIGIONS OF CHINA.
London: Curzon Press, 1973. Facsimile of the 1929 edition. FINE CLOTH VOLUME in dust jacket, well printed and bound. 271 pages with index. Octavo.
THE LOTUS OF THE WONDERFUL LAW OR THE LOTUS GOSPEL: Saddharma Pundarika Sutra; Miao-Fa Lien Hua Ching.
London: Curzon, 1975. Facsimile of the 1930 Oxford edition. Fine sewn cloth volume in dust jacket. Thirteen illustrations. This text is the chief Buddhist scripture of China. [xi], 275 pages. Octavo.
BUDDHISM AND SOCIETY: A Great Tradition and its Burmese Vicissitudes.
New York: Harper & Row, 1970. FIRST EDITION. VERY GOOD+ cloth volume. "This book is a careful study of the principal ideas of Buddhism, and the ways in which it has undergone changes related to both the means and the goal of salvation." Royal 8vo. 510 pages.
ALCHEMICAL EQUIPMENT IN THE ELEVENTH CENTURY.
Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1905. Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. 1, # 4, 1905. Original wraps bound in cloth with gilt title on front panel; Very Good Copy. Ex-libris; paper is extremely fragile, and cracks and splits have been repaired with tape with no loss of.....
LE SECTES BOUDDHIQUES JAPONAISES: Histoire - Doctrines philosophique - Textes - Les Sanctuaires. Precede de Deus Lettres Adresses aux Auteurs par MM, Les Bonzes H. Ui et H. Ono.
Paris: Le Editions de Cres et Cie, 1930. FIRST EDITION. Quarter bound in linen and marbled boards; text excellent without any defects; A FINE COPY. 347 pages with an excellent bibliography. Presentation copy from Kuni Matsuo to Albert Maybon whose copy this was. Well illustrated with rare photographs including the.....
LE SECTES BOUDDHIQUES JAPONAISES: Histoire - Doctrines philosophique - Textes - Les Sanctuaires. Precede de Deus Lettres Adresses aux Auteurs par MM, Les Bonzes H. Ui et H. Ono.
Paris: Le Editions de Cres et Cie., 1930. FIRST EDITION. Quarter bound in caramel calf with matching marbled boards; original title bound in; matching marbled ends; text excellent without defects; A FINE COPY. 347 pages with an excellent bibliography. Well illustrated with rare photographs including the frontispiece of Kamakura. Tall.....
MYSTICISM AND CATHOLICISM.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1925. FIRST EDITION. Some foxing at the prelims and fore edge; otherwise, A VERY GOOD or better cloth volume. Wide subject matter in this volume as it takes in Gnosticism, , the ancient Mysteries, demonology, the "dry-rot" of asceticism, the Logos, dangers of ecstasy, etc. 255.....
STUDIES IN OCCULT CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS. Volume One. [Only one issued]
Adyar : Theosophical Publishing House, 1923. FIRST EDITION. Name and date on front free end paper; occasional pencil paragraph marker; else, A FINE CLOTH COPY in royal blue buckram with gilt titles. [xv], 202 pages. Small octavo.
THE VIEW FROM MINERVA'S TOWER: Learning and Imagination in "The Anatomy of Melancholy".
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989. FIRST EDITION. A Fine premium cloth volume in dust jacket. 250 pages, indexed. Tall octavo.
THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE ROSY CROSS; Being Records of the House of the Holy Spirit in its Inward and Outward History.
London: William Rider and Son, 1924. FIRST EDITION. Title page in red and black; cloth binding superb with the gilded cross of the Rosicrucians on the front panel; top edge gilt; A FINE COPY. Sixteen full-page plates in halftone. 649 pages plus index. Small 4to. Gilbert A37(a).
FLUDD & FREEMASONRY: The Rosicrucian and Masonic Connection.
Holmes Publishing Group, 1994. Custom hand bound monograph with special frosted parchment overlay and printed on a special sheet; A FINE COPY. Waite seeks to show the connection of the Rosicrucian stream of initiation, and its relationship to mystic Freemasonry, and the liaison between them, Dr. Robert Fludd. In custom.....
THE HERMETIC MUSEUM; Containing Twenty-Two Most Celebrated Chemical Tracts.
York Beach: Samuel Weiser, 1990. This is the limited, hand-numbered edition of 750 copies of which this is #322. A FINE COPY IN FINE DUST JACKET. Illustrated. Two volumes bound as one. Royal 8vo.
MYSTICAL QUEST OF FREEMASONRY.
Holmes Publishing Group, 1994. Custom hand bound monograph with special frosted parchment overlay and printed on a special sheet; A FINE COPY. The metaphysical basis of this symbolism being a doctrine of identity between Thought and the Word, as taught in the Secret Tradition. Octavo.
THE SECRET DOCTRINE IN ISRAEL: A Study of the Zohar and it's Connections.
New York: Occult Research Press (Weiser), circa 1955. Very good+ cloth copy in dust jacket. A facsimile of the original edition. With four illustrations. Octavo.
THE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY.
Holmes Publishing Group, 1991. Waite's examination of this mystical order, and its historical relationship with the Masonic Fraternity. A FINE COPY, hand bound monograph in custom papers with a Patapar overlay. 8vo.
SELECTED WRITINGS ON MYSTICAL & SPECULATIVE MASONRY. Four volumes in slipcase with title label and includes new editions of: MYSTICAL QUEST OF FREEMASONRY; SPECULATIVE FREEMASONRY; THE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY; FLUDD & FREEMASONRY: The Rosicrucian and Masonic Connection.
Sequim: Holmes Publishing Group LLC, 2010. A FINE SET. Hand-bound monographs in custom papers, parchment overlays, and enclosed in a protective slip case. Octavo.
THE CHINESE IDEA OF THE SECOND SELF.
Edmonds: Oriental Classics [Holes Publishing Group], 1989. FIRST EDITION. A FINE COPY in custom linen wraps. Signed by the publisher on the verso. 50 pages. Octavo.
THE SERPENT MYTH.
Holmes Publishing Group, 1996. Hand-bound booklet; A FINE COPY. Special publisher's edition with parchment overlay. Two excellent treatises on this ancient symbol from the inner knowledge of the Golden Dawn. Golden Dawn Studies series 9, With additional notes by Darcy Kuntz.
