THE ALCHEMICAL TRADITION IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY: IO 31.
Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 1991. Quality trade paper edition; A FINE COPY. Illustrated. 326 pages. Tall octavo.
Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 1991. Quality trade paper edition; A FINE COPY. Illustrated. 326 pages. Tall octavo.
Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 1979. FIRST EDITION. Quality trade paper edition; slight rubbing to binding; small spot on fore edge; internals clean and firm; VERY GOOD+. Illustrated. Three plates in rear. 256 pages.
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1966. In folio wraps as issued; A VERY GOOD+ COPY. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge. New Series, V. 56, # 9. Material on Taoist methods of life extension, and those works of Alchemy addressing the subject. Plus ancient.....
Los Angeles: PRS, 1976. Second Edition. A FINE CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket. First issue was in wraps in the four volume series, Adepts of the Western Tradition. Illustrated. 107 pages. 8vo.
Los Angeles: PRS, 1971. Custom end papers; VERY GOOD+. Rosicrucian plate on front panel. Two full color plates, plus foldout. Hall offers a facsimile text and translation of the eighteenth century German "D.O.M.A. manuscript" entitled "Codex Rosae Crucis." [printed red and black], and adds several essays on the groups involved.....
Los Angeles, CA: The Philosopher's Press, 1938. FIRST EDITION, limited to 1000 copies. VERY GOOD+ CLOTH VOLUME with gilt titles to spine and Rosicrucian cross device on front panel. Two full color plates, plus foldout and duo-tone illustrations. Hall offers a facsimile text and translation of the eighteenth century German.....
Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1981. A FINE HARDCOVER VOLUME. Greek/French translation facing. 235 pages, indexed, with Table des Matieres appended. Octavo.
London John M. Watkins, 1951. FIRST EDITION. Limited to 450 copies only, 200 for sale. A FINE COPY IN FINE DUST JACKET. Frontispiece. [xiii],159 pages. Small 8vo. Signed by Hamilton-Jones on rear of front free end paper. The attributed author was said to be an Asiatic Mauritanian, but recently identified.....
London: John M. Watkins, 1960. FIRST EDITION, Limited to 500 copies. A FINE CLOTH COPY IN FINE DUST JACKET. Introduction by Hamilton-Jones. Facsimile of Bacstrom's bookplate as frontispiece. 152 pages. Small 8vo.
Dordecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994. FIRST EDITION. FINE PREMIUM CLOTH COPY IN FINE DUST JACKET. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 158. A critical edition with English translation. 284 pages, indexed. Royal 8vo.
Brisbane: Salamander and Sons, 2008. Limited Edition. In custom wraps as issued; A FINE COPY. Illustrated. Articles by Mack, Hardacre, McLean, Hauck, and others. 84 pages. 4to.
San Diego: Wizard's Bookshelf, 1985. FIRST EDITION. A Fine Cloth Volume. Secret Doctrine Reference Series 35. Richard Robb always included additional material in his series, and in this case, an article from the Theosophical Forum on Paracelsus by HPB, and a short biographical sketch of Hartmann on the rear end.....
York Beach: Samuel Weiser, 1994. Limited edition of 999 hand-numbered copies of which this number 47. Heavily penciled with marginalia; Research volume with a hand typed Geber dictionary [English/Russian] tacked onto the rear end papers. It appears as this was the beginning of either a Russian translation, or an index.....
UK: Scarlet Imprint, 2015. Limited Edition of 666 hand-numbered exemplars. A FINE CLOTH VOLUME in gray batistse with colored inset like unto the Cosway style on front panel. Beautifully designed. The first in a projected trilogy by the author that aims to unveil the Sacred Art. This work is concerned.....
UK: Scarlet Imprint, 2015. DeLuxe Special Edition of 69 signed copies of which this is #50. Half bound in grey goatskin with marbled boards & endpapers, gilt edges, ribbon marker, and lodged in a slipcase. FINE IN FINE SLIPCASE. Beautifully designed. With 80 colored illustrations. 208 pages. Small 4to.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971. FIRST EDITION. A Fine Premium Cloth Volume in a nice jacket with a minor chip top of spine. Oxford - Warburg Series. Sixteen plates. Bibliography. [xxvii], 504 pages, indexed. Royal octavo.
Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins 1928. First Edition. Top and bottom of spine shows slight rubbing; else, A VERY GOOD CLOTH VOLUME free of marking or defect. Papers by David Eugene Smith, DC. Miller, Michael Idovorsky, William Wallace Campbell, George David Birkhoff, and others. [ix], 351 pages. Royal Octavo.
New York: James Miller, 1865. FIRST EDITION. Light wear along the edges; gilt titles are bright; internals free and clear of marking except for a page in the catalogue appended to the rear; end papers and binding sound; FINE COPY. 258 pages, plus 4 pages Miller catalogue. Scarce. Octavo.
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1858. FIRST EDITION. 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; A FINE COPY. 352 pages, plus General Literature Catalogue for Appleton's.
New York: James Miller, 1865. Second Edition. Very slight rubbing along edge of spine; gilt titles bright; coated ends in superb condition; A FINE COPY in mylar protector. Rear panel blind stamped with publisher Miller's device. 352 pages, plus D. Appleton's six page catalogue. Small octavo.
Paris: Bureau de la Revue Scientifique, 1842. FIRST EDITION. Bound in decorated boards; rubbed at the edges; internals tight, clean and crisp; VERY GOOD+. 1028 pages. Text in French. First comprehensive history on the origins of Alchemy. Bolton I, 119. Caillet 5200. Duveen, page 297. Bolton remarked: "A work of.....
Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society, 1986. FIRST EDITION. Limited to 1000 copies only. Quarter bound in cloth and blond linen boards; A FINE COPY. No jacket issued. Introduction by Manly Palmer Hall. Eight color plates, and 71 black & white. [xiv], 314 pages. Tall quarto.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1932. FIRST EDITION. VERY GOOD+ volume in dark blue cloth with gilt titles. 62 pages. Octavo.
New York: Dover, 1990. Quality trade paper; VERY GOOD. Illustrated. 288 pages, indexed. 8vo.
Paris: Paul Geuthner. 1927. FIRST EDITION. Old light water stain to lower right corner not effecting text; else, A VERY GOOD+ COPY rebound in buckram. No markings. Includes a complete English translation, the original Arabic text, and the Latin text, plus an introduction by Holmyard. 97 pages. Tall octavo.