Search Results: Occult and Mysterious Phenomena from The Owl at the Bridge

N.Y., Putnam's, 1969.. Hard Cover. 217 p. 21 cm. This is edited Congressional testimony on the possibility of UFOs. One of the testifying scientists was Carl Sagan, then recently transferred from Harvard to Cornell. Stock# 30,924. Vg/ no dj.

Softcover. xv, 133 pages; 18 cm. Reprinted from the 1890 edition. "The result of a ten-year friendship between Leland and Madellana, a semi-literate peasant woman born of an Italian witch family... a picture emerges of an ancient and secret cult, La Vecchia Religione--The Old Religion-- with its distinctive beliefs and practices." "There are old people in the Romagna of the North who know the Etruscan names of the Twelve Gods and the invocations to Bacchus, Jupiter and Venus, Mercury and the Lares or ancestral spirits, and in the cities are women who prepare strange amulets, over which they mutter spells, all known in the old Roman time... Diana is the Goddess, her daughter Aradia (or Herodias) the female Messiah.' New paperback. Stock#23291x/h.

London, George Johnson, 1920; reprint Martino 1998. Hard Cover. 8vo, 84 pages; 23 cm. Particulars for about 2500 publications ranging from leaflets of two or four pages to substantial volumes, and covering a period of 300 years. A comprehensive list of separately printed books and pamphlets dealing with conjurers, tricks, illusions, and varied sidelines from automata to ventriloquism that are usually presented as part of a conjuring entertainment. Stock#34897x/h. Fine, binder's cloth.

San Francisco, CA / Newburyport, MA, Weiser [2008]. Soft Cover. 326 p., illus.; 21 cm. A reproduction of the author's The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts, first published in 1898. "An authoritative, honest and authentic text for students who are interested in magical ritual, and for readers who are interested in the historical roots of ceremonial magic." Stock#46670. Vg, as new / soft cover

Issue dedicated to H. Adrian Smith, Brown Class of 1930, whose gift of books on magic forms the heart of this issue and sizeable shelving footage in the Brown Library. xvi, 156 pages, illustrations; printed wraps; Very Good. Stock#ofc0852,

Glasgow, R. Maclehose, 1943; reprint Martino 2002 with Krown & Spellman. Hard Cover. Ferguson, Regius Professor of Chemistry at Glasgow, is well known among scholars for his 'Bibliotheca Chemica', a catalogue of the alchemical collection of James Young (1811-1883) published in 1906. This two-volume work describing Ferguson's own collection of some 7500 books (about 2500 on alchemy) and 338 manuscripts was first brought out during World War II in only 40 copies due to paper rationing. Two volumes: xv, 384 & [ii], 385-820 pages, oversize octavo; binder's cloth; new from publisher. Besterman 277. Stock#32758x

Boston, Mass., Red Wheel, 2002. 192 p., illus.; 19 cm. + 1 compact disc + 20 totem animal cards. Issued in a box. Compact disc contains 70 minutes of drumming on a sea drum. Foreword by Ari Berk. ISBN (10): 1590030222. Mint, unopened box in plastic wrapping.

London School of Economics, 1955. Hard Cover. 179 p., 6 p. of plates, illus., 23 cm. Published for the Department of Anthropology [by the Royal Anthropological Institute]. Spiritualism as a "manifestation of the major religious orientation of the overseas Chinese." Owner name clipped from flyleaf; VG/no dj. 101464.

Baltimore, 1963 (original limited to 300 copies); reprint Martino 1999. Heyl intended to record all English conjuring books not described in Trevor Hall's A Bibliography of Books on Conjuring. He added 360 items not in Hall. Limited to 150 copies. Hard Cover. 4to; ii leaves, 62 pages; 28 cm. Fine in binder's cloth; new from publisher. Stock#34898x/h.

Biblioteca Orientalista, Editorial Teosófica, Barcelona, 1926 [Imprenta Clarasó]. First Edition. Soft Cover. 126, [2] p., 18.5 cm. Discourse on the Second Coming of the Lord, based in a meeting of the Order of the Eastern Star / Orden de la Estrella de Oriente. Contents include El II advenimiento den Señor; De la Nueva Era y Venida del Avatar; ¿Fué Jesús Avatar o no lo fué?; Cuándo he de venir el Señor; Cómo y quién vendrá, ¿Cristo o Maitreya?; El Cristo cósmico y el Cristo planetario; Cuadros de nuestra Futura Vida sobre la Tierra. Tan stiff-paper covers; spine rubbed, minor soiling; good. Stock#38495.

Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1975. Hard Cover. 252 p., illus.; 22 cm. Traces the deaths of many who came into contact with investigating Egyptian mummies. Stock #29786. Vg, 2 ink notations in index/ no dj.

Crown, NY [c1999]. 'First Edition.'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Human-Animal Bonds; Animals That Know When Their People Are Coming Home (dogs, cats, parrots, horses, other animals); Animal Empathy; Intentions, Calls and Telepathy; The Sense of Direction; Animal Premonitions. 'This is a book of recognition-- a recognition that animals have abilities that we have lost. One part of ourselves has forgotten this; another part has known it all along.' xiv, 352 p., index, diagrams, photos; 24 cm.; color pictorial dj; VG+. 28809

Boston,Marsh, Capen & Lyon. 1836. Hard Cover. xii, [13]-204 p. 2 engraved plates, 19 cm. Combe, inspired by a visit from Prof. Spurzheim to Edinburgh in 1828, became the leading advocate for the "science" in Scotland, England, and America. Stock# 31,646. . Vg, paper toned.

NY, AMS Press, ©1988. Periodical. [viii], 1-208 p., illus.; 23 cm. 4 of the 6 articles based on "papers read at the conference on The European Emblem, held at Glasgow on August 10-14, 1987." Stock#46602. Vg / soft cover.

NY, AMS Press, ©1989. Periodical. [viii], 225-415 p., illus.; 23 cm. 4 articles, 1 Documentation, Bibliography. Daly & Silcox, A Short Title Listing of English Emblem Books and Emblematic Works Printed to 1900. Stock#46601x. Vg, one copy still in shrinkwrap.

NY, University Bks. [1960]. First published 1920 by George Routledge, London, whose editor was Arthur Edward Waite, one of the great scholars in the field. Hard Cover. xxiv, 440 pages, index, bibliography, illustrations. Fine in scuffed slipcase. Stock#25419/h.

[Paris?] Tchou [1965]. Réalités de l'imaginaire 2. Encyclopedia of Divination. "Bibliographie", pages 533-[545]. Hard Cover. 544 pages, 4 leaves, charts, facsimiles, illus.; 28 cm. Vg/ no dj. Stock#37179.

Chartwell [1979]. . Hard Cover. 199 p., illus., diagrams; dj; VG with some small stains.

Preface by Hester E. Hosford: "In this volume Rodman Westcote enters the field of Mysticism." Inscribed by Helen Rodman Westcote. Hardcover. 70 pages; 26 cm. Very Good +/no dust jacket (as issued?). Stock#27107/h.

New York : Cresent Books : distributed by Crown Publishers, 1989.. Hard Cover. 354 p. : over 350 illus. (some col.), facsims., ports. (some col.) ; 30 cm. "Throughout history, and in every culture, mankind's preoccupation with destiny has produced a multitude of ways to foretell the future. The book looks at four methods of prediction, with a chapter on each. " 1.) Horoscopes; 2.)The Book of Change: The I Ching; 3.) Palmistry; 4.) The Tarot. Stock# 44,830. Vg / dj good+, repaired tear front panel.