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A.E. WAITE: MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS.
Wellingborough: Crucible, 1987. First edition, 8vo., pp. 208, light grey hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece, b/w illustrations; foxing to edges of text block, a few spots to first few pages but margins of the rest of the text unaffected, very light yellowing to margins of pages, else a very good copy in very good unclipped dust-jacket, lightly rubbed, a few marks to front and rear.
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A TRUE AND FAMOUS RELATION OF WHAT PASSED FOR MANY YEARS BETWEEN DR. JOHN DEE (A MATHEMATICIAN OF GREAT FAME IN Q. ELIZABETH AND KING JAMES THEIR REIGNES) AND SOME SPIRITS: Tending (had it Succeeded) To a General Alteration of Most States and Kingdomes in the World. His Private Conferences with Rodolphe, Emperor of Germany, Stephen K. of Poland, and divers other Princes about it. The Particulars of his Cause, as it was agitated in the Emperor’s Court; By the Pope’s Intervention: His Banishment, and Restoration in Part. As Also, the Letters of Sundry Great Men and Princes to the said D. Dee. Out of The Original Copy, written with Dr. Dees own Hand: Kept in the Library of Sir Tho. Cotton, Kt. Baronet.
Glasgow: The Antonine Publishing Co. Ltd./Portmeirion: The Golden Dragon Press. Limited edition, number 83 of 1000 copies, signed by publisher and printer, folio, pp.unpaginated Preface,448,46, two-tone grey and white cloth with leather labels to spine, gilt, b/w plates; light tobacco odour, light toning to edges and prelims, a very good copy indeed, with limitation bookplate to rear paste-down endpaper, in partially toned dust-jacket, chipped along upper edge of rear panel, and otherwise very good. Housed in patterned card slipcase, with wear to cloth at lower edge, and light wear to corners.
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BODY MAGIC. An encyclopaedia of esoteric man.
Frogmore: Granada Publishing, 1979. 8vo., pp.478, paperback; slight toning to margins, leaves working loose in a couple of places, ownership bookplate sticker to front free endpaper, crease to spine, light rubbing to edges of wrappers, internally clean and otherwise very good.
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CELTIC MYTH AND LEGEND: Poetry and Romance.
London: The Gresham Publishing Company, 1914. 8vo., pp.xiv,450, highly ornamented decorative green cloth, gilt, t.e.g., colour frontispiece with guard leaf, three further colour plates and 20 monochrome plates; ink ownership autograph, dated 1914, to front free endpaper, foxing to prelims and edges, rubbing and slight wear to extremities, darkening and mottling to fore-margins of boards, with crease and stain to rear board, overall a very good copy indeed of this attractive and richly designed edition.
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CULTS & LEGENDS OF ANCIENT IRAN & CHINA.
Bombay: M. J. Karani, 1936. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 308, green cloth, gilt, b/w plate with tissue guard to frontispiece; small ownership label to rear paste down endpaper with number penned in red ink to upper margin of front and rear paste down endpapers, toned and lightly foxed to edges of text block, endpapers and lightly toned to margins, rubbed to spine and extremities of boards, with slight curling to corners of boards and light thinning of the cloth to head and foot of spine, otherwise a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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DER MAGUS. Seine Ursprunge und Seine Geschichte in Versciedenen Kulturen.
Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001. Large 8vo., pp.vi,263, red hardcover, lettered in yellow, b/w illustrations; light bruise to headband, else near-fine, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket, which has tiny closed tear to rear lower edge, and slight rubbing to extremities. German-language.
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DID SPACEMEN COLONISE THE EARTH?
London: Pelham Books, 1974. 8vo., pp.260, blue hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece, 23 b/w plates; very slight toning to endpapers, very light rubbing to boards, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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DRAGONS AND DRAGON LORE
New York: Payson & Clarke Ltd, 1928. 8vo., pp. xii,203, hardcover, quarter bound in black cloth with contrasting marbled paper boards, 20 b/w illustrations; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light staining to front free endpaper where red colouring of the top edge has leached, also affecting margins of several pages, light damp staining to title page, plates and endpapers, two lines of very light scoring where pencil underlining has been rubbed out to a few pages, boards rubbed, sunned to spine, lettering faded, light wear to corners, overall a good+ copy.
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E.S.P.: Beyond Time and Distance.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965. First edition, 8vo., pp.x,148, black hardcover, gilt, with 21 b/w illustrations to text; lightly toned, with a few light spots of foxing to endpapers, else very good indeed, very good unclipped dust-jacket with some light surface soil and marks.
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EARLY IRISH HISTORY AND MYTHOLOGY.
Dublin: The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1976. 8vo., pp.x,568, black hardcover, gilt; a near-fine copy, no dust-jacket.
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EXPERIENCE OF THE INNER WORLDS. A Course in Christian Qabalistic Magic.
Helios, 1975. First edition, 8vo., pp.xii,254, green hardcover, gilt; light marking to endpapers, foxing to top edges, light splash-marks to fore-edges, light sunning to upper edges of boards, a very good+ copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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FABLES AND PROVERBS FROM THE SANSKRIT BEING THE HITOPADESA
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1885. First edition. 8vo., pp.277, hardcover; toned, a few spots of foxing to prelims, rubbed to boards, some light surface soil, else a good+ copy.
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FABLES AND PROVERBS FROM THE SANSKRIT, BEING THE HITOPADESA.
London: George Routledge And Sons, 1885. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 277, decorative blue cloth, black lettering, advertisements to front and rear endpapers; toning to endpapers and edges of text block and lightly foxed to margins, light toning and rubbing to spine and extremities, otherwise a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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FINN AND HIS COMPANIONS.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. 12mo., pp.xvi,182,8(adverts), decorative cloth, with matching endpapers and edges, b/w frontispiece with tissue guard, further b/w plates, decorative b/w headpieces, pictorial half title; foxing to prelims, spine lightly rolled, sunning to spine, with light wear at head- and tailbands, internally fresh, a good+ copy.
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GEORGE OF LYDDA: The Patron Saint of England.
A study of the Cultus of St. George in Ethiopia. Translations of the Ethiopic texts as found in the manuscripts from Makdalâ now in the British Museum and an introduction.
London: Luzac and Co, 1930. First edition thus, limited to 250 copies, 8vo., pp.xviii,284, 13 b/w plates and 5 illustrations in the text, pictorial cloth, gilt, uncut; slightly sunned o/w a very good copy.
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HERMETICA. The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings which Contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings Ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus.
Bath: Solos Press, 1993. Reprint, 8vo., pp.255, blue hardcover, gilt; a very good copy indeed, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket with light partial sunning.
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HEROES: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures. [Part Two of Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths].
London: Michael Joseph, Penguin. Exclusive signed first impression of the first edition, published November 2018, 8vo., pp.xvii,462, black hardcover, copper gilt, pictorial endpapers, two sections of colour plates; slight creasing at foot of spine, an otherwise fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly creased at head and foot of spine. Author’s autograph to prelim.
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HISTORY, PROPHECY, AND THE STARS.
The Christian Astrology of Pierre D’Ailly, 1350-1420.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. 8vo., pp.,xii,233, grey cloth, red lettering, b/w frontispiece, b/w illustrations; neat ink ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper (concealed by flap of dust-jacket), a fresh and near-fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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INHERITING POWER. The Story of an Exorcist.
University of Chicago Press, 1988. 8vo., pp.xviii,209, paperback; a very good, fresh copy, with light curling to wrappers.
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LÉGENDES BOURGUIGNONNES RÉCITS HISTORIQUES ET LÉGENDAIRES. Raoul de Mont-Saint-Jean - Philippe Pot - Petites Légendes. Troisième Édition.
Tours: Alfred Mame et Fils, Éditeurs, 1879. Third edition, 8vo., pp.237, quarter bound in red morocco, four raised bands, gilt, textured red cloth, a.e.g., engraved frontispiece with tissue guard, textured endpapers; prize bookplate, dated 1879, to front paste-down endpaper, paper-cracking between front endpapers, foxing to prelims, with light toning and a little light foxing throughout, rubbing and light wear to extremities, a good+ copy.
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