CHYMIA: Annual Studies in the History of Chemistry. Volume XI.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965. VERY GOOD+ CLOTH VOLUME in dust jacket. Illustrated. 208 pages, indexed. Tall octavo.
Alchemy & Hermetica
THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF CHEMISTRY.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1956. FIRST EDITION. Name on fly; else, VERY GOOD in dust jacket. Well researched chapters on Greek and Chinese Alchemy, and the alchemical practices from the 14th to 17th centuries. Illustrated. 260 pages, indexed. Tall 8vo.
BOTTICELLI'S PRIMAVERA: A Botanical Interpretation including Astrology, Alchemy and the Medici.
Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1983. FIRST EDITION. A FINE COPY in fine dust jacket. Biblioteca Di Bibliografia Italiana # 20. Included are eleven of the first color reproductions of the Primavera since its restoration in 1982, and fifty three additional illustrations. 213 pages. Small folio.
DARKE HIEROGLIPHICKS: Alchemy in English Literature from Chaucer to the Restoration.
University Press of Kentucky, 1996. FIRST EDITION. A FINE CLOTH VOLUME IN FINE DUST JACKET. Linden's study of alchemical influence in the 16th and 17th centuries. 373 pages, indexed. Royal 8vo.
THE ALCHEMY READER.: From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton.
UK: Cambridge University Press 2003, FINE CLOTH COPY IN FINE DUST JACKET. With fourteen illustrations. Bibliography. Source material with a number of obscure essays. 260 pages, indexed. Small quarto.
MIRROR OF ALCHIMY; Composed By the thrice-Famous and Learned Fryer, Roger Bachon.
New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1992. A FINE CLOTH COPY, sewn and archival, and issued without jacket. English Renaissance Hermeticism Series. [lx], 144 pages. Octavo.
PART OF THE OPUS TERTIUM OF ROGER BACON; Including a Fragment Now Printed for the First Time.
Aberdeen: The University Press, 1912. FIRST EDITION. British Society of Franciscan Studies, Vol. 4. Sturdy cloth volume; no marking or defect; VERY GOOD+, unopened, or uncut, if you prefer. 93 pages. Octavo.
PART OF THE OPUS TERTIUM OF ROGER BACON; Including a Fragment Now Printed for the First Time.
UK: The Gregg Press, 1966. Sturdy cloth volume, sewn and archival; A FINE COPY. 93 pages, indexed. Octavo.
ETIDORHPA, or The End of Earth; The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey, As communicated in Manuscript to Llewellyn Drury who Promised to Print the Same but Finally Evaded the Responsibility which was Assumed by John Uri Lloyd. A famous novel of Inner Earth.
Cincinnati: Robert Clarke, 1896. Fourth Edition. In publisher's original cloth with silvered vignette on front panel; internals clean and free of marking; colored end papers; front hinge repaired, but rear wholly intact, a rarity as the text was printed on a heavy coated enamel; Knapp frontispiece under original tissue; A......
THE ROMANCE OF THE ROSE.
Princeton University Press, 1971. FIRST EDITION. Short inscription of front free end paper; else, A VERY GOOD+ PREMIUM CLOTH VOLUME without markings, and in a dust jacket with minor chipping. Translated by Charles Dahlberg. Bibliography. Appended plates section with sixty four images taken from the Arsenal and Bodleian. 450 pages.....
ALCHEMISTISCHE UND CHEMISCH ZEICHEN.
Berlin: Gesellschaft fur Geschichte der Pharmazie, 1928. In original wraps as issued; some light shelf fade to the edges; otherwise, A FINE COPY. Text in German. Fifty seven pages of illustrations, including a portrait and facsimiles. 128 tables of alchemical symbols and glyphs on 64 leaves. Tall 4to.
ALCHEMICAL ESSAYS.
Brisbane, Salamander and Sons, 2008. First Edition. In French fold card wraps as issued; A FINE COPY. Edited, with a preface, by Paul Hardacre. Eight colored plates, including two of Adam McLean's hand colored prints, and many other illustrations en texte. Salamander bookmark laid in. 285 pages. Octavo.
A COMMENTARY ON GOETHE'S FAIRY TALE.
Edinburgh: Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks, 1982. Limited to 250 copies, signed and numbered by McLean. This is copy number 132. Hand-bound in full faux leather; A FINE COPY. Translated from the original German text, "Das Märchen", by Donald MacLean. 60 pages. Illustrated. Octavo. Steiner often referred to this tale in.....
MEDICINE, ALCHEMY, ASTROLOGY & NATURAL SCIENCES. No. 520.
London: Maggs Bros., 1929. In wraps as issued; some chipping to the back strip; else, A VERY GOOD or better copy. 1252 items. Fifty three plates (some being foldouts) and other illustrations en texte. Unusual as the catalogue is In chronological order ranging from listing one [] to 1253 [].....
INDIAN ALCHEMY, OR RASAYANA: In The Light of Asceticism And Geriatrics.
Delhi: Motilal Barnasidass, 1991. Second Revised Edition. VERY GOOD+ CLOTH VOLUME IN DUST JACKET. Eight full page plates. 148 pages. 8vo.
ATALANTA FUGIENS: An Edition of the Emblems, Fugues, and Epigrams. With cassette tape.
Grand Rapids: Phanes Press, 1989. Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks 22. A FINE CLOTH COPY IN FINE DUST JACKET. Introductory Essay by Hildemarie Streich. Translated and edited by Joscelyn Godwin. Godwin looks at the 50 esoteric emblems as they relate to the musical fugues of Maier. Cassette tape includes the complete.....
JOCUS SEVERUS; A Serious Joke, that is, the Equitable Tribunal by which the Owl is pronounced Queen of the Birds by the Phoenix Acting as Judge, after Various Disquisitions and Complaints Made by the Birds attacking Her; and in which She is Recognized as Consecrated to Pallas Athena because of her Singular Wisdom.
Seattle: Ouroboros Press, 2010. FIRST EDITION. A FINE CLOTH VOLUME in fine dust jacket. Foldout frontispiece by artist, Benjamin Vierling. Translated from Latin by Darius Klein. 142 pages and added matter. Octavo.
LAWS OF THE FRATERNITY OF THE ROSIE CROSS [Themis Aurea].
Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society 1976. Limited Edition. A FINE CLOTH VOLUME in very good dust jacket. Manly Hall's facsimile edition of the original 1656 English edition. MPH also provides an introductory preface. Small octavo.
HISTOIRE DES DOCTRINES ESOTERIQUES.
Paris: Payot, 1950. In European wraps with some chipping of cover; else, a GOOD, clean copy. Text in French. Examines the Greek mysteries, the Gnostics, the esoteric doctrine of the Cathars, and an exposition of the Jewish Kabbalah. 360 pages. With seven figures.
STUDIES IN THE LIFE OF JACOB BOEHME.
London: Rockliff, 1949. A VERY GOOD or better cloth volume in slightly worn dust jacket. Revised and enhanced edition with notes and appendices by Stephen Hobhouse. Foreword by Canon Peter Green. Translated by T. Rhys Evans. 200 pages with index. Octavo.
THE WORKS OF HENRY VAUGHAN. Two volumes.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1914. FIRST EDITION. A Very Good+ Set in the original cloth with paper titles, mostly uncut. Brother to Eugenius Philalethes. 715 pages, indexed. Octavo.
RABELAISIAN DIALECTIC AND THE PLATONIC-HERMETIC TRADITION.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1969. FIRST EDITION. Fine cloth copy in fine dust jacket. Masters brings three themes to bear on the work of Rabelais: Alchemy & Hermeticism, Platonism, and the Dionysian mysteries. 152 pages. Octavo.
MODERNIST ALCHEMY: Poetry and the Occult.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. FIRST EDITION. FINE CLOTH VOLUME. Looks at the alchemical and occult views of such diverse poets as Yeats, Pound, H.D., Eliot, and Sylvia Plath. Illustrated. 218 pages. Royal octavo.
MODERNIST ALCHEMY: Poetry and the Occult.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. FIRST EDITION. FINE CLOTH VOLUME in fine dust jacket. Looks at the alchemical and occult views of such diverse poets as Yeats, Pound, H.D., Eliot, and Sylvia Plath. Illustrated. 218 pages. Royal octavo.
A COMMENTARY ON THE MUTUS LIBER.
Grand Rapids: Phanes Press, 1991. Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks 11. A FINE PREMIUM CLOTH COPY. With the original prospectus laid in. Illustrated with fifteen mystical plates. Introduction and commentary by Adam McLean. 77 pages. Octavo.
