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Rare, Fine and Academic book especially in the fields of spiritual traditions and esoterica, East and West.
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De Clifford, Norman Frederick Egypt the Cradle of Ancient Masonry Comprising A History of Egypt, With A Comprehensive And Authentic Account Of The Antiquity Of Masonry Resulting From Many Years Of Personal Investigation And Exhaustive Research In India, Persia, Syria And The Valley Of The Nile
$1,200.00
Philadelphia: Lincoln Publishing, 1902. First edition. Tooled leather boards with spine rebacked retaining majority of original spine; 12” x 9”; 644 pages and illustrated with 49 black-and-white photos; All edges gilt.
Very good condition; Board edges worn with corners worn through; Small chip to the leather of the front cover.
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First-edition costume history, 30 colored plates
Hinton, Henry L. Select Historical Costumes Compiled From the Most Reliable Sources
$250.00Under The Covers Antique And Vintage Books
New York: Wynkoop & Sherwood, 1868. Hardcover. 8vo. Very good. FIRST EDITION. Original ornate green cloth with elaborate armorial design in gilt on cover. Gilt lettering on spine. Gilt still very bright. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners with small 1 1/2″ split at bottom of upper joint and a small chip to cloth at head of spine. Book slightly splayed. Brown colored endpapers with recent bookplate to front pastedown. Archival fabric tape epair to hinge of a few pages where they appear to have been reattached. Contents very good with only a few smudges and spots of foxing. 30 full page hand colored plates each with 2 to 3 pages of text. Plates extremely bright and good, very good copy in attractive binding. Auction invoice from 1949 and illustrated article about historic costumes laid in. FASH/010826
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Numbered first edition occult work, copy 455/576
Schulke, Daniel A. Viridarium Umbris The Pleasure Garden of Shadows
$2,000.00Xoanon Limited, 2005. First edition. Limited edition of 576 hand-bound and numbered copies, this one #455; pp. [xvi], 520. Item #36128 Cloth bound in very good condition; Bottom spine title rule somewhat worn; Modest bump to upper corner of rear board.
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Facsimile of 1874 occult manuscript, 196 copies
Irwin, Herbert The Books of Magic
$1,800.00Society of Esoteric Endeavour, 2014. First edition. Two volumes: Facsimile of Manuscript — Hardback in full calf leather binding incorporating skrying mirror. 416pp coloured pages (of which 209pp are blank) It is clearly stated to be the book of the Fratres Lucis and is bound to match the appearance of the book as Herbert envisaged and drew it in the frontispiece of the manuscript. All edges are hand gilded, thus avoiding the too shiny gaudiness of machine gilding. Leather joint, decorated endpapers. The front cover has a real satin silk doublure (a traditional bookbinding device, a panel of silk set into the inside of the boards). Inset into the doublure on the front board is a reproduction of a sigil from the book which features an eye within concentric circles. The actual eye itself if formed with a portion of paper from the original manuscript, so as to create a magical link with the original. In a recess of the doublure on the rear board is set a glass magic mirror, to facilitate the practitioner’s access to the mindspaces from whence this book arose. The black mirror’s convex design follows Herbert Irwin’s recommendations in the book. The full colour facsimile is a very high quality reproduction and is designed to have the same appearance as original manuscript, rather than modern shiny photographs of it. The manuscript was completed in 1874 and this facsimile utilises a specifically Victorian binding method called “gutta percha”, then used for upmarket art books. However, modern materials are used that solve the longevity issues that resulted in the binding method being discontinued in the early 20th Century. Transcript. Hardback cloth binding. Typeset as in the original 408pp (of which 205 are blank), and also gives translations of the occasional Latin. It also reproduces all the illustrations so the text can be seen in context, but is in monochrome. There is no decoration to the cover, so visually it merges with the slipcase. Herbert Irwin’s handwriting is not always easily read. As can be seen from these images, the transcript overcomes this issue. Plus, Talismans in Folder. Talismans from the manuscript. They can be removed from the recesses in which they are held, for ease of use by the practitioner. As with the transcript, for aesthetic reasons there is no decoration to the cover. When in position, the talismans are framed by a gilt border. The manuscript states that the talismans should be made either of pure gold or drawn on parchment. Inspired by this, these are blocked in pure gold on vellum (the terms vellum and parchment were used interchangeably in the 19th Century). Limited to 196 copies and housed in a slipcase; Limitation, copy number and original purchaser noted on bookplate at rear of Facsimile volume. Item #32952 Volumes in fine condition; Bump to one corner of slipcase.
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Last signed copy (#69 of 69) of Alchemy Rising
Heliophilus Alchemy Rising The Green Book
$1,800.00London: Scarlet Imprint, 2015. First edition. Special Edition of 69 signed copies of which this is #69 (last of the series!); Half bound in grey goatskin with marbled boards & endpapers, gilt edges, ribbon marker, and lodged in a slipcase. Beautifully designed. With 80 colored illustrations. 193 pages. Item #34066 Leather bound in fine condition in a fine slip-case.
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