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LAPIDARIO DEL REY D. ALFONSO X. Codice Original.
Madrid: Imprenta de la Iberia (a Cargo de J. Blasco), 1881. FIRST EDITION. Quarter bound with corners in leather and boards; A FINE COPY. Beautifully printed, and including colored illuminated miniatures representing the symbolism of the Zodiac, alchemy, magic and religion, and said to be the work of the Spanish.....
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE BACON-SHAKESPEARE CONTROVERSY.
Cincinnati: Peter G. Thomson, 1884. FIRST EDITION. Ex-libris with plate and withdrawal stamp; internals excellent; binding firm, but well worn; GOOD or better cloth, Research Copy. With Notes and Extracts. 255 listings, plus an index to titles. Royal 8vo.
ANNUAL REPORT of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution to July, 1897.
Washington: GPO, 1898. Top of spine large chip; internals clean; marbled end papers; RESEARCH COPY ONLY in vinyl protector. Bolton's "The Revival of Alchemy'; Crookes on "Diamonds"; Treatise on "Mescal"; "Archeological Field Work in Arizona" replete with numerous full page plates of native American artifacts, drawings, and symbols. 686 pages.....
DAS AEGYPTISCHE TODTENBUCH DER XVII. BIS XX. DYNASTIE Aus Verschiedenen Urkunden Zusammengestellt un Herausgegeben. Together with: The scarce third volume in the original binding.
Berlin: Verlag Von A. Asher, 1886. FIRST EDITION. In two large folio volumes plus the scarce supplement bound as a tall 4to. Light soiling to the title page; slight mar to rear panel of volume; otherwise, A FINE SET. Two hundred twelve plates, and a selection of vignettes for all.....
SEX MYTHOLOGY; Including an Account of the Masculine Cross.
London: Privately printed, 1898. Limited to 200 copies, unnumbered. Cloth and boards; title page read and black; VERY GOOD+ copy. Preface by Sha Rocco, a pseudonym of Abisha S. Hudson, who is often ascribed as the author as well. However, the more probable author was Francis Forster Arbuthnot, the British.....
SWEDENBORG: A Hermetic Philosopher; Being a Sequel to "Remarks on Alchemy and the Alchemists". Showing that Emanuel Swedenborg was a Hermetic Philosopher and that his Writings may be Interpreted from the Point of View of Hermetic Philosophy.
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1858. FIRST EDITION. A FINE COPY, rebound in a fine brown buckram with leather spine label with gilt title; new end papers; foxing minimal, but rear pages show some edge staining though light in presence. 352 pages, plus General Literature Catalogue for Appleton's. Octavo.....
TETRABIBLIOS; or, Quadripartite of Ptolemy, Being Four Books, Relative to the Starry Influences. Translated from the copy of Leo Allatius, with Critical and Explanatory Notes.
London: Printed and published by William Hughes, Islington Green; and sold by other Booksellers, 1820. FIRST EDITION. This was the third translation of the Ptolemy work, the first by Walley in 1701 and the second much maligned Sibley and Brown in 1786. A GOOD or better copy of a rare.....
THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE, BISHOP OF HIPPO: Writings in Connection with the Manichean Heresy. A New Translation.
Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1872. Ex-libris; binding well worn, but sturdy; internals free of marking; RESEARCH COPY. 571 pages, indexed, plus Clark catalogue appended. Tall octavo.
THE COLUMBUS OF LITERATURE, or Bacon's New World of Sciences.
Chicago: F.J. Schulte, 1892. FIRST EDITION. Top and bottom of spine pulled with corners frayed; internals clean and unmarked; title page printed black and red; A GOOD OR BETTER CLOTH COPY with a bright gilt vignette of Bacon's plate on front panel; Good cloth copy. 217 pages. An analysis of.....
HISTOIRE DE LA CHEMIE Depuis les Temps les Plus Recules Jusqu'a Notre Epoque; Comprenant une analyse detaillee des Manuscrits Alchimiques de la Bibliotheque Royale de Paris... Two volumes.
Paris: Bureau de la Revue Scientifique, 1842. FIRST EDITION. Bound in decorated boards; rubbed at the edges; internals tight, clean and crisp; VERY GOOD+. Text in French. First comprehensive history on the origins of Alchemy. Bolton I, 119. Caillet 5200. Duveen, page 297. Bolton remarked: "A work of great research.....
STUDIES IN MOHAMMEDANISM: Historical and Doctrinal; With a Chapter on Islam in England.
Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1892. FIRST EDITION. Bruise to the lower corners; otherwise, a VERY GOOD or better cloth copy, majority unopened. 419 pages, indexed with the original perfed order slips still attached in the rear of the volume. Small octavo.
WITNESSES FROM THE DUST; or, The Bible Illustrated from the Monuments.
Cincinnati: Cranston & Stowe, 1886. FIRST EDITION. A VERY GOOD+ COPY without markings or defects. Illustrated. 467 pages. Small 8vo.
THE EMPEROR JULIAN, PAGANISM AND CHRISTIANITY; With Genealogical, Chronological and Bibliographical Appendices, Being the Hulsean Essay for the Year 1876.
Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co., 1879. FIRST EDITION. Signed presentation copy dated May, 1879. Bookplate of Vincent Stanton; foxing at the ends; internals fine and partially unopened; A VERY GOOD+ volume. [xii], 299 pages plus G. Bell's catalogue. Octavo.
THE LIFE OF SAINT MARY OF EGYPT, The Example and Model of a True Penitent. To which is added: The Life of Saint Cecilia and the Life of Saint Bridget.
New York: P.J. Kenedy, 1872. Victorian stamped binding shows moderate rubbing; internals free of marking; A VERY GOOD or better volume. Small octavo. Illustrated. 178 pages.
AN INTRODUCTION TO CUDWORTH'S TREATISE: Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality; With a Life of Cudworth and a Few Critical Notes.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1891. FIRST EDITION. Some wear at top of spine; else, a Very Good Cloth Copy. Ralph Cudworth was a leading Cambridge Platonist, and author of the important "True Intellectual System of the Universe" (1678). Small octavo.
THE MONUMENTS OF EGYPT AND THEIR VESTIGES OF PATRIARCHAL TRADITIONS; Forming the Second Part of "The One Primeval Language."
London: Richard Bentley, 1853. FIRST EDITION. Small chip at top of spine; A VERY GOOD+ cloth volume in Victorian blind stamped binding with gilt illustration on front panel depicting the Temple of Osiers at Philae. Full page plates, several folding (large foldout of the Zodiac at Dendera), and including those.....
FOOT-PRINTS OF VANISHED RACES IN THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY; Being an Account of Some of the Monuments and Relics of Pre-Historic Races Scattered Over its Surface, With Suggestions as to Their Origin and Uses.
St. Louis: Chancy Barns, 1879. FIRST EDITION. Minor shelf wear and pulling at top and bottom of spine; A FINE COPY in the original publisher's binding. Scarce work on the Mound builders, and their Mysteries. Illustrated. 122 pages. Small 4to.
ORIGIN AND DESTINY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.
New York: J.W. Bouton, 1876. FIRST EDITION. Front panel pressed and inked, and rear panel blind pressed; gilt titles; free of marking or defect; A FINE CLOTH VOLUME, the condition being surprising for a volume so stout. Usually, the hinges go first, but tomes of this sort usually slip from.....
THE CHRISTIAN CONQUEST OF ASIA: Studies and Personal Observations of Oriental Religions. Being the Morse Lectures of 1898.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. FIRST EDITION. Very Good+ Cloth Volume. [xviii], 258 pages, indexed. Octavo.
ANCIENT SYMBOL WORSHIP: Influence of the Phallic Idea in the Religion of Antiquity. With an Introduction, Additional Notes, and an Appendix, by Alexander Wilder, M.D.
New York: J.W. Bouton, 1875. Second Edition, Illustrated. A FINE CLOTH COPY. Engraving of Ganesa at the frontispiece, with nine additional full page plates, some of which were absent in the first edition which was issued a year earlier. Royal 8vo.
MYSTICAL BUDDHISM AND THE CONTRAST BETWEEN BUDDHISM AND CHRISTIANITY.
London: The Victoria Institute, 1888. Address to the Annual Meeting. Offprint in side-bound wraps; A FINE COPY. Monier-Williams was Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford. Scarce. 8vo.
SOME ACCOUNT OF THE WRITINGS AND OPINIONS OF JUSTIN MARTYR.
London: Rivington, 1836. Second edition, revised. Bound in full leather binding with bands and titles; front board detached and light rubbing along spine and edges; internals fine; VERY GOOD copy. A portion of the lectures delivered at Cambridge in 1821. [ viii], 222 pages. Octavo.
CONTINUATION OF THE COMTE DE GABALIS, or New Discourses Upon the Secret Sciences; Touching upon the New Philosophy.
Bath: Robert H. Fryar, 1897. FIRST EDITION. Limited to 100 copies of which this is number 44. In wraps as issued; some edge chipping to cover; internals clean and tight; VERY GOOD+ rarity. Fryar did the first part of Gabalis in 1886. He also published Kingsford and Westcott in small.....
THE BOOK OF GOD: The Apocalypse of Adam-Oannes.
London: Reeves & Turner, [1867]. FIRST EDITION. Rebound in a sturdy cloth with slight wear; gilt title; binding very firm; no markings; printed in red and black where called for; A VERY GOOD+ COPY. Attribution by symbol of dot inside circle on the title page. Very scarce, and most difficult.....
