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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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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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POTTS’ DISCOVERY OF WITCHES IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER. [Remains Historical and Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Vol. VI.]
New York/London: The Chetham Society, Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1968. Reprint from the 1613 original, 8vo., pp.lxxix(introduction),main body of text unpaginated,51(notes),unpaginated list of Chetham Society’s members, red hardcover, gilt; very light foxing to endpapers and fore-edge of text block, text block coming away from lower spine, lightly rubbed, a few marks to boards, larger stain to lower margin of rear board, overall a very good copy.
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SORCERY.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. First edition, 8vo., pp.232, black hardcover, gilt, a fine 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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THE GOLDEN DAWN.
An Account of the Teachings, Rites and Ceremonies of the Order of the Golden Dawn.
St. Paul, Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications. Reprint of the fourth, revised and enlarged edition, complete in one volume, 8vo., pp.227,300,276,368, pictorial boards, b/w and colour illustrations; a very good, clean copy, with some rubbing to extremities. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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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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MYTHS OF THE NORSEMEN. From the Eddas and the Sagas.
London: George G. Harrap and Company, 1908. First edition, 8vo., pp.xvi,397,(i), uncut, pictorial green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, pictorial spine, t.e.g., b/w frontispiece and plates; marking to p.207 and margin of adjacent plate, light partial toning to endpapers, foxing to prelims, edges and margins throughout, rubbing and light creasing to extremities, paper-cracking to rear inner hinge (joint fine), a very good, rather bright copy.
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ADVENTURES IN LEGEND. Being the last historic legends of the western highlands.
Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co, 1898. First edition, 8vo., pp. xvi, 340, 32 (publisher’s adverts), uncut, pictorial navy cloth, gilt, pictorial spine in gilt, b/w frontispiece with tissue guard, b/w plates; ink ownership gift inscription, dated 1959, to front free endpaper, toning to prelims, a few very occasional light spots of foxing, spine sunned, gilt still bright, small bruise to fore-edge of lower board, a very good copy.
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SPECULUM MENTIS; Or The Map of Knowledge.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1963. 8vo.,pp.327, navy cloth, gilt; light pencilling, light toning and foxing to edges of text block and endpapers, rubbing to extremities, otherwise a very good copy, in a good price-clipped dust-jacket, which is toned to spine, with some loss to head and foot of spine and corners. Now in a protective cover.
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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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THE LEARNED TALES OF MEDIEVAL IRELAND.
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1980. 8vo., pp.ix,159, green cloth, gilt; light toning to margins, slight rubbing to cloth, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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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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LETTERS ON DEMONOLOGY AND WITCHCRAFT:
Morley’s Universal Library.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1884. 8vo., pp.320, blue cloth with lettering and decorations in black; small abraded area to upper margin of title (tear and small area of loss, presumably to remove a small ownership inscription), foxing to prelims, superficial paper-cracking to inner hinges, rubbing to extremities, a little light marking to cloth, a near-very good copy.
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APPARITIONS; OR, THE MYSTERY OF GHOSTS, HOBGOBLINS, AND HAUNTED HOUSES, DEVELOPED. Being a Collection of Entertaining Stories, Founded on Fact, And selected for the purpose of eradicating those fears, which the ignorant, the weak, and the superstitious, are but too apt to encourage, for want of properly examining into the causes of such absurd impositions.
London: Lackington, Allen, & Co, 1902. 12mo., pp.242,(ii) half bound, rebacked in textured brown cloth with gilt title, paper-covered boards, engraved frontispiece and title; cloth reinforcement to inner hinges, engraved bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, neat ink ownership autograph, dated 1902, to front free endpaper, chip to fore-edge of p.57, corner crease to frontispiece and title, some foxing and surface soil within, surface wear to boards, corners worn, a good+ copy.
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THE NEW REVELATION.
London: Hodder and Stoughton. First edition, 12mo., pp.170, black cloth, gilt; offsetting to endpapers, toning to page margins, light rubbing to extremities, a very good bright copy.
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TROUBLESOME CORPSES: Vampires & Revenants From Antiquity to the Present.
Southend-on-Sea: Desert Island Books, 2007. 8vo., pp. 320, hardcover, silver lettering; a fine copy, in a fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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THE LIBRARY EDITION OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS, ILLUSTRATED. [Set of Twelve Volumes]
London: H.S. Nichols Ltd, 1897. Limited Library edition, one of 570 sets, and one of only a few sets issued in the publisher’s full morocco bindings, set of twelve volumes, full brown bevelled morocco with lavishly decorated boards in gilt, gilt decorations to spine, five raised bands, inner dentelles gilt, t.e.g., patterned endpapers, b/w frontispiece portrait to first volume, b/w plates with caption-sheets; neat ink ownership autograph to front paste-down endpaper and to front free endpaper verso, light wear to leather at extremities, a very good set.
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NALA & DAMAYANTI.
London: A.M. Philpot, 1926. Edition limited to 1000 copies for England and America, of which this is No.416, 8vo.,pp. xi,207, gold coloured boards, vellum spine, gilt lettering to spine, colour plates and colour frontispiece; light off setting to endpapers, rubbing to extremities, lightly worn at corners, light foxing to spine, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE MABINOGION, From the Llyfr Coch o Hergest [Red Book of Hergest], and other Ancient Welsh Manuscripts, With an English Translation and Notes. [Set of Three Volumes]
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans/Llandovery: W. Rees, 1849. Three volumes, royal 8vo., pp.xxiii,412;vi,444;iii,400, half blue morocco, five raised bands, gilt, with gilt decoration to compartments, marbled boards and endpapers, t.e.g., b/w frontispiece, b/w plates; foxing to prelims and ultimate leaves, occasional foxing within, spines uniformly discoloured to dark green, a bright and near-fine set.
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