An Encyclopedia Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy. by HALL, MANELY PALMER - 1928

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co First Edition, first printing. Hard cover. Published, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, no date. Volume 2 only. The Origin of the Mental Capacities and Dispositions of Man and their Normal, Abnormal and Supernormal Manifestations. Thick 8vo., 6 1/2"x10," dark blue cloth with gilt lettering. vii+361 pages. Very good plus, clean tight copy. Volume 2 only.. 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo..

Amsterdam: Daniel van den Dalen, 1691-1693. Four books and one pamphlet in two volumes. Quarto. [4],[4],[16],138,[2];[8],262,[2];11; [8],32,188,[2];[6],277,[3] pp., including portrait frontipiece and facing description leaf in first volume and in-text illustration of the Oldenburg Horn on p. 141 of fourth book. Contemporary parchment, manuscript spine titles. Autograph signature of the author on half-title verso of first book, title-page verso of second book, and following the introductions of third and fourth books. Matching contemporary ownership inscriptions of C. V. D. Hell on title pages of first and third books; early ownership inscription of "[?]. [?]. v. d. Bosch" on front free endpaper of both volumes; 1961 gift inscription on front free title page of first volume; occasional contemporary underlining and marginalia throughout; booksellers' pencil notations in front and rear endpapers of both volumes. Boards bowed, parchment moderately soiled and, in first volume, turn-ins separating from… Read More

1792. Venice: Excudebant Fratres Coletii, 1792. Venice: Excudebant Fratres Coletii, 1792. Decriminalizing Witchcraft and Magic in Italy Renazzi, Filippo Maria [1745-1808]. De Sortilegio et Magia. Liber Singularis. Venice: Excudebant Fratres Coletii, 1792. [ii], 44 pp. Quarto (9" x 6-1/4"). Contemporary three-quarter calf over paper-covered boards, gilt ornaments and lettering piece to spine, speckled edges. Light rubbing to boards, some rubbing to spine ends and corners. Light toning to text, slightly heavier at rear of text, light foxing to a few leaves. A well-preserved copy of a scarce title. $2,500. * First edition as an independent work. Renazzi was a Roman Jurist who, like Beccaria, tried to apply the principles of Enlightenment thinking to criminal law. Drawn from Renazzi's four-volume Elementa Juris Criminalis (first edition 1773-1786), De Sortilegio et Magico calls for the decriminalization of witchcraft and magic. Later editions were published in 1793, 1803 and 1821. All are scarce. OCLC… Read More

NY: Pageant Press, Inc., 1959. Second Edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published NY: Pageant Press, Inc., 1959. Thick 8vo., ix+799pp., illustrated with drawings, tables, fold-out plate. Black cloth with gilt titles. Minor rub points to the tips, few small spots on edge of page block, otherwise near fine, clean, crisp, tight, unmarked in very good dust jacket with some chips and longish tears along the folds. From the Preface: "CAN "THE RIDDLE OF THE UNIVERSE" BE SOLVED? SINCE THE DAWN OF recorded history men have tried, but "the riddle" still remains. They failed, and all because they lacked the one essential--the key to Causation. This is the master key that unlocks all mysteries, but that key was lost in the spiritual night of the past 6,000 years. In that mythopoeic age that preceded this, men knew vastly more about Causation and Creation than he does today, but knowing also that an age of darkness was coming upon the world, the wise Initiates hid… Read More

Poona, India: Rajneesh Foundation, 1978. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Poona, India: Rajneesh Foundation, 1978, first printing. 8vo., color frontis+303pp., illustrated. Green cloth with gilt titles, pictorial endpapers. Some foxing to edges of page block, wear at lower tips of covers and spine, mild fade to edge of cloth, otherwise very good, clean, tight in very good minus dust jacket with loss along the top edge. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Paris: Moreau, Libraire, Palais-Royal. Good. 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Lightly soiled tan wraps with edge wear. Darkened fore-edge of pages. Light foxing. Six illustrations. Text is tight & intact. French Text. Magic; Drawings; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 236 pages .

1st edition. Very Good HC, no DJ. Deutsche sprach/text in German. 1/2 cloth: brown and black patterned paper over boards, backed and corners in black vermiform-grain cloth; gilt titles on spine; 2 color added series title page with woodcut illustration. Clean, square, lightly scuffed covers and spine; light edge wear; small split at spine head; light clean interior but for limited ink marginalia on 9 pages; supple leaves. Series: 'Kabbala; quellen und forschungen zur geschichte der jüdischen mystik., bd. II'. 8vo, 230 pp; index. Cf, OCLC #13991048.

London: Privately Printed, 1894. Hardcover. See Description. Tall 4to. (32.5 cm), pp. [4], xvi, 254 with 40 plates and a facsimile of the 1786 title page. Large paper copy #19 of 50 from a limited edition of 500.The preface states: "the present edition, an exact reproduction of that of 1865, but correcting some manifest misprints, is published in the interest of science and scholarship." Bound in later plain black cloth showing rubbing and wear to extremities and to the spine caps. The first few leaves including the title contain a small dark stain near the upper edge. Pages show periodic smudging/soiling; several plates have a damp stain on the outer edge of the margin; occasional edge tears are professionally sealed; 3-4 leaves are carefully tipped back in to place. Richard Payne Knight (1750-1824) was a classical scholar, mythologist and a collector of antiquities. His "Discourse on the worship of Priapus" was first published in London, 1786. Knight argues that a universal… Read More

London, Champante and Whitrow, Undated, Presumed 1794 1st edition.. Collectible-Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1794. First Edition. LeatherBound. Sm 4to., 395 pp. plus 76 pp., Front cover loose. Some foxing. Spine title faint. Cover rubbed. Complete with 30 plates. .

Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Press, Olcott, 1940. Soft cover. Very Good. Staple-bound in wraps with illustrated front cover. Inscribed by Ruth Collier's husband, Richard Sharpe, on the inside of the front cover. Light wear along the fore-edge of the front cover. Four full-page illustrations. 24 pages. 11 x 7.75 inches. Three copies noted on OCLC. (Henry S. Olcott Memorial Library, LOC, Brown University). A scarce copy of The Song of the Paramahamsa, a long-form poem by Ruth Collier (1897-1975), for which she won an Olcott Foundation Award in 1940. The poem is accompanied by four of her original illustrations and was published by the Theosophical Press at the Olcott Campus. Ruth Collier was a member of the Portland Lodge (Oregon) and married Richard Sharpe VI [aka Jr] of the New York Lodge on Sept. 9, 1940 [ref: November 1940 issue of The American Theosophist]. Mr. Sharpe was educated at the Parsons School of Design in New York and did the illustrations for two of his Ruth's books.