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The Last Alchemist: Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason
by McCalman, Iain
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Inscription belived to be signed "Iain".
- ISBN 10
- 0060006900
- ISBN 13
- 9780060006907
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About This Item
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Inscription belived to be signed "Iain".. xii, 272p. Illustrations. Notes. In this biography of the 18th-century occultist, a scholar provides the historical facts as well as the controversy. Cagliostro was well-known across Europe, and knew the rich, famous, and powerful, such as Catherine the Great. He elicited strong reactions from others, including the Church, which had him imprisoned. Was he a total fake? Professor McAlman here explores Cagliostro's ideas of freemasonry and of healing, which seem to prefigure the New Age thought in modern times.
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- Title
- The Last Alchemist: Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason
- Author
- McCalman, Iain
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Inscription belived to be signed "Iain".
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]
- ISBN 10
- 0060006900
- ISBN 13
- 9780060006907
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- Alchemist, Magic, Freemasonary, Catherine the Great, Marie Antoinette, Pope Pius Vi, William Blake, Mozart, Goethe, Louis XVI, Bastille, Healing CLinics, Spiritualism, Illuminati, Secret Society, Heresy
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