PALISSY THE POTTER; The Life of Bernard Palissy, of Saintes.
London : Cassell, Petter and Galpin 1869. Missing front free end paper; Reading Copy in original publisher's cloth. 320 pages, indexed, plus catalogue. Octavo.
Alchemy & Hermetica
THE 'CHYMICK BOOKES' OF SIR OWEN WYNNE OF GWYDIR: An Annotated Catalogue.
Toronto: MRTS, 1997. In academic wraps. A FINE UNREAD COPY. Excellent alchemical reference material and a superb introduction by Mr. Morris. Small 4to.
THE 'CHYMICK BOOKES' OF SIR OWEN WYNNE OF GWYDIR: An Annotated Catalogue.
Toronto: MRTS, 1997. In academic wraps. A FINE UNREAD COPY. Excellent alchemical reference material and a superb introduction by Mr. Morris. Small 4to.
MODERN ALCHEMY: Occultism and the Emergence of Atomic Theory.
Cary: Oxford University Press, 2007. FIRST EDITION. Top corners pushed; else, A FINE COPY in dust jacket. 272 pages, indexed. Octavo.
THE WEALTH OF INDIAN ALCHEMY & ITS MEDICINAL USES; Being an English Translation of Rasajalanidhi. Two volumes.
Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications, 1998. Revised Edition. Fine cloth Set in fine dust jackets. Indian Medical Science Series, numbers 63-64. New introduction. [lxii], 690 pages, indexed. Octavo.
ILLUMINATION OF JACOB BOEHME: The Work of Dionysius Andreas Freher.
New York: King's Crown Press (Columbia University), 1951. FIRST EDITION. Very Good+ cloth copy with original errata slip laid in. At the time of writing, Muses was deeply involved with the Jacob Boehme Society in New York, and was the editor of their quarterly. 201 pages. Octavo.
THE ALCHEMICAL ENGRAVINGS OF MYLIUS; With the Texts of Part Four of the First Book of the "Philosophia Reformata".
Edinburgh: Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks, 1984. Limited to 250 copies of which this is signed, numbered copy 185. Full color end papers of a Mylius work; A FINE COPY, hand bound in faux leather. Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks series 19. Edited, with a commentary, by Adam McLean. Translated By Patricia.....
SCIENCE AND CIVILIZATION IN ISLAM.
Lahore, Pakistan: Suhail Academy, 1987. VERY GOOD+ cloth volume in dust jacket. Extensive material on alchemy in the Arab world. With a preface by Giorgio deSantillana. 384 pages, indexed. Octavo.
SCIENCE AND CIVILIZATION IN ISLAM.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968. FIRST EDITION. Some hand marginalia, not profuse; VERY GOOD+ cloth volume in dust jacket. Extensive material on alchemy in the Arab world. With a preface by Giorgio deSantillana. Illustrations, and one map. [xiv], 384 pages, indexed. Octavo.
THE REFINER'S FIRE: The Enigma of Alchemy in East and West.
London: Birkbeck College, 1971. FIRST EDITION. In academic wraps as issued; ex-libris with minimal markings; VERY GOOD. Second J. D. Bernal Lecture, delivered at Birkbeck College on 4 February 1971. 31 pages. Tall octavo.
CHEMICAL, MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL BOOKS PRINTED BEFORE 1800 IN THE COLLECTIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LIBRARIES.
Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1965. First Edition. Owner's name on front free end paper; VERY GOOD+ CLOTH COPY, free of marking, in edge worn dust jacket. Compiled by Samuel Ives, Reese Jenkins, and John Neu. 4442 listings. [viii], 280 pages.
GEHENNICAL FIRE: The Lives of George Starkey, An American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. FIRST EDITION. FINE Premium Cloth Copy in fine dust jacket. Illustrated. 348 pages. Tall octavo.
PROMETHEAN AMBITIONS: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature.
University of Chicago Press, 2004. FIRST EDITION. A Fine Premium Cloth Volume in fine dust jacket. With nine full page plates and 23 alchemical figures. 333 pages, indexed. Tall 8vo.
THE SUMMA PERFECTIONIS OF PSEUDO-GEBER: A Critical Edition, Translation, and Study.
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1991. FIRST EDITION. A FINE PREMIUM CLOTH VOLUME IN FINE DUST JACKET. Collections de Travaux de l'Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences, number 35. A study of Geber the Arabian, and alchemical works attributed to him, including an annotated English translation of the "Summa Perfectionis". Illustrations from old.....
THE CHEMICAL THEATRE.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980. FIRST EDITION. Fine cloth copy in fine dust jacket. A study of alchemical symbolism and themes in the work of Shakespeare and contemporaries but it examines the writings of Dee, Ripley, Paracelsus, Valentine, etc. Tall 8vo. 292 pages.
THE CHEMICAL THEATRE.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980. FIRST EDITION. Fine cloth copy in fine dust jacket. A study of alchemical symbolism and themes in the work of Shakespeare and contemporaries but it examines the writings of Dee, Ripley, Paracelsus, Valentine, etc. Tall 8vo. 292 pages.
THE LITTLE MYSTIC-MAGIC PICTURE BOOK
Chicago: The Aries Press [George Engelke], 1937. FIRST EDITION. Lightly rubbed at the tips; otherwise, A FINE CLOTH COPY. No jacket issued. Illustrated with more than two hundred alchemical figures. 231 pages. Royal octavo.
THE BOOK OF THE SECRETS OF ALCHEMY -- Constantine of Pisa: Introduction, Critical Edition, Translation and Commentary.
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1990. FIRST EDITION. A FINE PREMIUM CLOTH COPY. Seven pages of rare figures. Selected bibliography. Brill's "Collection de travaux de l'Academie Collection de travaux de l'Academie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences". [x], 339 pages, indexed. Tall octavo.
SALE 692: Art & Illustration; Occult & Hermeticism.
San Francisco: PBA, [January 9] 2020. In tall premium wraps as issued; A FINE COPY. In the occult section, there are 160 listings catalogues, including images for most lots. Excellent reference material. 4to.
PARACELSUS: An Introduction to Philosophical Medicine in the Era of the Renaissance.
Basel: S. Karger, 1958. FIRST EDITION. Name on flyleaf; Small binding imperfection top of rear panel where the cloth became thread bare; internals tight, and free of marking; A VERY GOOD+ COPY. Thirty six illustrations. Includes an Introduction; The Life of Paracelsus; The Philosophy of Paracelsus; Medicine; The Sources of.....
THE HERMETIC & ALCHEMICAL WRITINGS.
Edmonds, WA: The Alchemical Press, 1992. Limited edition of 1000 hand numbered copies, and signed by the publisher on the verso. Text paper edition with sewn binding as issued; archival quality; A FINE COPY. 816 pages. Out of print. Complete and unabridged facsimile of the 1894 edition; two volumes bound.....
THE PROPHECIES OF PARACELSUS: Magical Figures and Prognostications Made by Theophrastus Paracelsus von Hohenheim About Four Hundred Years Ago.
Edmonds: The Alchemical Press, 1992. Limited to 19 copies, hand-numbered. In wraps as issued; A FINE CUSTOM MONOGRAPH on fine papers. Thirty-two magic figures and prognostications made more than four centuries ago. The 11th figure representing the Bear of Russia is most illuminating, and reminiscent of Nostradamus. From the Strassburg.....
THE PROPHECIES OF PARACELSUS: Magical Figures and Prognostications Made by Theophrastus Paracelsus von Hohenheim About Four Hundred Years Ago.
London: Rider and Company, 1974. A VERY GOOD+ CLOTH COPY in dust jacket. Translated by Julius Kohn. Illustrated. 115 pages.
MEDICINA DIASTATICA, [PHOTOCOPY, circa 1990, in binder] or Sympatheticall Mumie: Containing Many Mysterious and Hidden Secrets in Philosophy and Physick. By the: 1. Construction 2. Extraction 3. Transplantation 4. and Application of Microcosmical & Spiritual Mumie. Teaching the Magneticall cure of Diseases at Distance, etc. Abstracted from the Works of Dr. Theophr. Paracelsus by the Labour and Industry of Andrea Tentzelius, Phil. & Med. Translated out of Latine by Ferdinando Parkhurst, Gent.
London: Printed by T. Newcomb for T. Heath, and are to be sold in his shop in Russell-street, neer the Piazzas of Covent Garden, 1653. FIRST EDITION. In notebook binder; all copies under mylar and nicely done; original letter from an anonymous source to HPG suggesting we publish this piece.....
JABIR IBN HAYYAN: A Paragon Summary.
London: Paragon Press, 2000. In monograph wraps; A FINE COPY. Succinct study of the life and though of Geber, and other Arabian alchemists up to the time of Paracelsus. 44 pages. 8vo.
