THE METALLIC OILS, or the Alchemical Sulphur.
Chinchwad, 1992. Booklet; A FINE COPY. Translated by Brigitte Donvez. 19 pages.
Alchemy & Hermetica
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.
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 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 the volume also examines the writings of Dee, Ripley, Paracelsus, Valentine, and other alchemists. Tall 8vo. 292 pages.
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 PROPHECIES OF PARACELSUS: Magical Figures and Prognostications Made by Theophrastus Paracelsus von Hohenheim About Four Hundred Years Ago.
Edmonds: The Alchemical Press [Holmes Publishing Group], 1992. Limited to 19 copies, hand-numbered. In wraps as issued; Fine Custom Monograph on fine papers as issued. 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.....
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.....
THE SEVEN DEFENSES OF PARACELUS: Against Those Who Would Seek to Defame Me.
Edmonds, WA: The Alchemical Press, 1994. FIRST EDITION, Limited and Numbered. Stitched monograph as issued; A FINE COPY on fine papers. Numbered and limited to 22 copies only, initialed by the publisher. 36 pages. Octavo.
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: 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.
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.
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. Octavo.
