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.
Alchemy & Hermetica
ALCHEMY: Science and Thought Through Books. [ALQUIMIA: Cencia y Pensamiento a Traves de los Libros.]
Madrid: Biblioteca Historica, 2005. FIRST EDITION. Custom wraps with French folds as issued; A FINE COPY. Bi-Lingual: Spanish and English with alchemical articles and contributions by Pariente, Debus, Harold Cook, William Eamon, and others. Plates, vignettes and title pages are superbly reproduced on an enamel sheet, and the binding is.....
KEYNES AND THE QUEST FOR MORAL SCIENCE: A Study in Economics and Alchemy.
Cheltenham: Elgar, 1997. FIRST EDITION. A Fine Cloth Copy in fine dust jacket. 212 pages, indexed. Tall 8vo.
THE JEWISH ALCHEMISTS: A History and Source Book.
Princeton University Press, 1994. FIRST EDITION. A FINE cloth copy in fine dust jacket. With thirty four illustrations. [xiv], 617 pages, indexed. Tall octavo.
FOOL OF LOVE: The Life of Ramon Lull.
London: SCM Press, 1946. FIRST EDITION. A FINECLOTH COPY in dust jacket. 127 pages. Small octavo.
FOOL OF LOVE: The Life of Ramon Lull.
London: SCM Press, 1946. FIRST EDITION. A Very Good cloth copy in dust jacket. 127 pages. Small octavo.
THE ALCHEMICAL CORPUS ATTRIBUTED TO RAYMOND LULL.
London: Warburg Institute, 1989. FIRST EDITION. In academic wraps as issued; lightly rubbed along the spine; otherwise, A FINE COPY. Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts XVIII. 118 pages, indexed. Tall 8vo.
MYTHO-HERMETIC DICTIONARY.
Seattle: Ouroboros, 2018. A FINE PREMIUM CLOTH VOLUME in fine dust jacket. Translated by Joseph Zabinski. Book Design and Typography by Seattle artist, Joseph Uccello. Written in 1758, the Mytho-Hermetic Dictionary defines the most obscure of terms, substances and concepts employed by the authors of the alchemical texts. In addition.....
EUPHRATES, or The Waters of the East.
London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1896. FIRST EDITION. Some light browning to the end papers; otherwise, A FINE CLOTH COPY. Collectanea Hermetica, Vol. 7., Edited by W.W. Westcott. Commentary by S.S.D.D. [Florence Farr]. 91 pages. Small 8vo.
THE FAME AND CONFESSION OF THE FRATERNITY OF THE R:C: Commonly, of the Rosy Cross. With a Praeface annexed thereto, and a short Declaration of their Physical Work.
Cheltenham: Helios Book Service, 1970. Limited hand-numbered edition of 200 copies only of which this number 93. Hand bound in linen and marbled boards; custom end papers; RC device gold pressed on front panel; A FINE COPY. Number Thirteen in the Helios series, "Rare Text Library of Philosophical Research", edited.....
THE SEVEN FOLLIES OF SCIENCE: To Which is Added a Small Budget of Interesting Paradoxes, Illusions, Marvels, and Popular Fallacies; A Popular Account of the Most Famous Scientific Impossibilities and the Attempts Which Have Been Made to Solve Them. With Numerous Illustrations.
New York: Van Nostrand Company, 1912. Third Edition, greatly enlarged. Internals free of marking or defect; A Very Good Cloth Copy. Two sections address transmutation and the Fourth Dimension. 231 pages, indexed, plus book catalogue. Octavo.
ALCHEMISTS IN ART AND LITERATURE. A Lecture.
London: Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland, 1933. FIRST EDITION. In custom wraps as issued; VERY GOOD+ COPY. Seventeen full page plates. 54 pages, indexed. Octavo.
ALCHEMY: Papers Toward a Radical Metaphysics.
Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1983. In wraps as issued; covers show rubbing; internals fine; VERY GOOD. Illustrated. 124 pages. Octavo.
HENRY VAUGHAN: The Unfolding Vision.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982. FIRST EDITION. A FINE CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket. 243 pages with index. 8vo. The Key is a Fine hand-bound linen monograph. Octavo.
ALCHEMY, THE ANCIENT SCIENCE.
New York: Doubleday, 1976. Very Good+ cloth copy in dust jacket. Colored illustrations. 144 pages. Quarto,
TRANSMUTATIONS: Alchemy in Art: Selected Works from the Eddleman and Fisher Collections at the Chemical Heritage Foundation.
Philadelphia: Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2002. In quality text wraps as issued; A FINE COPY. With thirty seven plates and illustrations in color. 40 pages. Landscape quarto,
THE ASPIRING ADEPT: Robert Boyle and his Alchemical Quest. Including Boyle's "Lost" Dialogue on the Transmutation of Metals.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. FIRST EDITION. Very fine cloth copy in fine dust jacket. 339 pages, indexed. Tall octavo.
THE SECRETS OF ALCHEMY.
University of Chicago Press, 2012. FIRST EDITION. A Fine Cloth Volume in fine dust jacket. Twelve color plates, and numerous black and white figures en texte. 281 pages, indexed. Octavo.
ALCHEMY: A Bibliography of English-Language Writings.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul jointly with the Library Association, 1980. FIRST EDITION. Fine cloth volume in fine dust jacket with ribbon place marker. Very useful reference with content blurbs and additional information. Tall 8vo.
PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS IN SCIENCE AND MEDICINE [Catalogue 1148] & SCIENCE [Catalogue 1152]. Two volumes.
London: Bernard Quaritch, circa 2005. FINE COPIES in custom wraps as issued. Includes plates and engravings pertinent to the rarities of which fifty are cited in 1148, and 200 more in number 1152. Small 4to.
SPECULATIVE ART OF ALCHEMY: A Textbook in the Art of Self-Regeneration. The Text of the Hermetic Sermon, ABOUT THE COMMON MIND, Together with the Esoteric Commentary, Giving in Full, the Esoteric Key to this Great Sermon...
Chicago: Hermetic Publishing, 1926. Limited First Edition. Marbled end papers; gilt stamped front panel; A FINE CLOTH VOLUME. 192 pages. Tall Octavo. Still uncut!
THE HERMETIC ART: An Introduction to the Art of Alchemy; the text of the Hermetic Sermons, entitled, The Greatest Ill among Men is Ignorance of God, That no one of Existing Things Doth Perish, and the Sermon on Thought and Sense; Together with: The Esoteric Commentary, giving in Full the Esoteric Key to these Three Great Sermons, the Official Interpretation of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Atlantis, and the Official Text Book in the Hermetic Art.
Chicago: Hermetic Publishing Company, 1919. FIRST EDITION. VERY GOOD+ cloth copy in the Raleigh style with gilt titles and lined panels. Frontispiece portrait of Raleigh. Lesson I: The ill of ignorance and That no one of existing things doth perish, but men in error speak of their changes as destructions.....
THE PHILOSOPHY OF ALCHEMY; Being a Sequel to Philosophia Hermetica, the text of "The Key of Thrice-Greatest Hermes," Together with the Esoteric Commentary, giving in Full the Esoteric Key to this Great Sermon. The Official Interpretation of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Atlantis, and the Official Text Book in the Philosophy of Alchemy. A Course of Private Lessons,
Chicago: Hermetic Publishing, 1924. FIRST EDITION. Owner's name in pencil on front end paper and rear pastedown; A FINE CLOTH COPY. 153 pages, plus advertisement. Tall octavo. Scarce.
A SERIES OF PRIVATE LESSONS in the Science of Alchemy: A Treatise on the Science of Soul-Transmutation...
Chicago: Hermetic Publishing, 1925 LIMITED EDITION. A FINE CLOTH COPY. Some contents of this volume: The All and Good; God and Æon; The Æon Lore; The One Maker of All; The Divine Workman; Life and Death; The Master's Word; more. Scarce. 172 pages. Tall 8vo.
PHILOSOPHIA HERMETICA: A Course of Ten Lessons; Being An Introduction to "The Philosophy of Alchemy".
Chicago: Hermetic Publishing 1916. FIRST EDITION. Some slight evidence of fish on the rear panel; internals clean and free of marking; A VERY GOOD CLOTH COPY with gold stamped front panel WITH Phoenix emblem. 125 pages, plus Raleigh catalogue. Tall 8vo.
