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Art in Esotericism at Mortlake and Company including other titles on the Thought and Practice of Occult Science

Welcome to the Mortlake and Company Winter catalogue featuring a selection of books on Art in Esotericism. Many of these books are new titles focusing on important figures or topics in the field of esoteric art. These are books that we highly recommend as holding relevance in the field and are beautiful examples of book arts. Since 2017 Mortlake and Company has hosted monthly esoteric exhibitions in our gallery as well as offering an exceptional selection of books on the Thought and Practice of the Occult Sciences.

Recently we have expanded the art books section in our brick-and-mortar shop to in-clude more titles representative of the esoteric influence in the art world. Esoteric art monographs, limited edition prints and original artwork are available for purchase at our gallery.

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Art in Esotericism at Mortlake and Company


Hilma af KlintPaintings for the Future

Edited with text by Tracy Bashkoff. Contributions by Tessel M. Bauduin, Daniel Birnbaum, Briony Fer, Vivien Greene, David Max Horowitz, Andrea Kollnitz, Helen Molesworth and Julien Voss. 2018. Guggenheim Museum Publications. Quarto with full color paper over boards. 244 pages with 220 color plates. New Book $65.00

“When Swedish artist Hilma af Klint died in 1944 at the age of 81, she left behind more than 1,000 paintings and works on paper that she had kept largely private during her lifetime. Believing the world was not yet ready for her art, she stipulated that it should remain unseen for another 20 years. But only in recent decades has the public had a chance to reckon with af Klint’s radically abstract painting practice—one which predates the work of Vasily Kandinsky and other artists widely considered trailblazers of modernist abstraction. Her boldly colorful works, many of them large-scale, reflect an ambitious, spiritually informed attempt to chart an invisible, totalizing world order through a synthesis of natural and geometric forms, textual elements and esoteric symbolism.” Hilma af Klint was steeped in Theosophical thought and practice and her work is emerging from obscurity and bringing with it light for modern esotericism.

Hilma af Klint: Notes and Methods

Edited by Christine Burgin. Introduction and commentary by Iris Muller-Westermann. With translations by Kerstin Lind Bonnier, Elizabeth Clark Wessel and Anne Posten. 2018. Christine Burgin and University of Chicago Press. Quarto. 288 pages. Full color facsimile of af Klint’s notebook studies on her paintings. Text in English translations. New Book $45.00

“Notes and Methods presents facsimile reproductions of a wide array of af Klint’s early notebooks accompanied by the first English translation of af Klint’s extensive writings. It contains the rarely seen “Blue Notebooks,” hand-painted and annotated catalogues af Klint created of her most famous series “Paintings for the Temple,” and a dictionary compiled by af Klint of the words and letters found in her work. This extraordinary collection is edited by and copublished with Christine Burgin, and features an introduction by Iris Müller-Westermann. It will stand as an important and timely contribution to the legacy of Hilma af Klint.”


Hagen von Tulien. Occult Psaligraphy: The Hidden Art of Papercutting

With a forward by William Kiesel and introduction by the artist. Bi-Lingual Edition English and German Text. 126 pages with over 100 illustrations. 2013. Ouroboros Press. Quarto. Black cloth with printed dust jacket. This book is a treasure house of ritual papercuts executed by Berlin occult Artist Hagen von Tulien who describes his methods of working in terms of art and esoteric praxis. Themes include voodoo, gnosticism, Fraternitas Saturni, Goetia, witchcraft and Sabbatic Mysteries. New Book $50.00

Hildegard von Bingen: A Journey into the Images

Edited with Text by Sara Salvadori. 2019. Skira. Large quarto. 224 pages with 136 color illustrations. New Book $55.00

“In obedience to the voice of God, von Bingen wrote down her visions in a precious manuscript, with images added to make the story come alive. This volume brings Hildegard’s visionary text, in all its dense symbolism and prophetic sweep, alive to contemporary readers. At the core of the book are the manuscript’s 35 miniatures, reproduced at their original size alongside an accompanying key. Each element of the images—colors, frames, forms, numbers—was precisely chosen and leads deeper into the meaning of the work; the key decodes these symbols in each image and concisely describes each vision. A text by musician and scholar Sara Salvadori crosses the entire work, highlighting these interlinking details and revealing Hildegard’s dense, unified design. This volume presents Hildegard von Bingen’s endlessly compelling prophetic text in all its inspired beauty.” Absolutely the best book on Hildegard von Bingen’s art available.

Jesse Bransford. A Book of Staves

With a forward by Bransford and an introdcution by Robert J. Wallis. 2018 Fulgur Press. Quarto. Full black, silver blocked cloth in printed dust jacket. 120 pages with 41 color plates. New Book $45.00

“An original and contemporary interpretation of ‘Old North’ magic and culture, drawn from experiences within the Icelandic landscape and presented as a series of abstract, ethereal visual spells.” Bransford is the chair of the art department at NYU and the co-host of the Occult Humanities Conference as well as on the committee for the Black Mirror Network.


Occult Photography

Ira Cohen: Into the Mylar Chamber

Edited with text by Allan Graubard. Text by Ira Cohen, Timothy Baum, Ian MacFadyen, Alice Farley, Ira Landgartenand Thurston Moore. 2019. Fulgur Press. 144 pages, 80 color plates and 3 black-and-white. Silver blocked cover in full color printed dust jacket. New Book $50.00

“Between 1968 and 1971, in a loft on New York’s Jefferson Street, the poet, photographer and filmmaker Ira Cohen created some of the most mythic images of the late 1960s. Inspired by his friends Jack Smith and Bill Devore, Cohen’s initial experiments with black light developed into an experimental ritual space he termed the Mylar Chamber—a simple room of hinged boards hung with reflective Mylar film. Through his extended network, and with the support of artist and set designer Robert LaVigne, Cohen invited visitors to play another self within this small theater, among them Jimi Hendrix, William Burroughs, Vali Myers, Jack Smith, Angus MacLise, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Lionel Ziprin, Ching Ho Cheng, Petra Vogt, Charles Ludlam, John McLaughlin and the rock group Spirit. In December 1969, in a summary of the past decade, Life magazine declared that “few came as close to explaining the euphoric distortions of hallucinogenics” as Cohen through his Mylar Chamber photographs, but the full story draws upon much deeper ideas surrounding identity and the power of the image. This is the first book to explore Cohen’s iconic Mylar Chamber photographs.” New Book $50.00

Rik Garrett: SUBTLE BODIES

Exhibition Catalogue. Design by Joseph Uccello. 2019. 60 pages with full color photographs by the photographer and goetic sigils in black ink. Includes an introduction by the author, sections on Kirilian Photography, the Chronovisor, Spirit Photography, and Goetigraphs. Published on the occasion of Garrett’s exhibition of the same title at Mortlake and Company 2019. Hand numbered and limited to 100 copies. Fine in wraps. New Book $30.00

Carlos Melgoza. Anima Nocturna. ECSTATIC ORDEAL

Mortlake Monograph No. 3 Ouroboros Press. Unpaginated 24 pages. Saddle stitched. 13 full color plates plus images on the front and back covers. Includes introductory verse by the photographer and an essay The Clairvoyant Camera: The Occult Photography of Anima Nocturna by William Kiesel. Published for the Ecstatic Ordeal exhibition at Mortlake and Company 2017. New $30.00


Remedios VaroLetters, Dreams, and Other Writings

Introduction and translation by Margaret Carson. 2018. Wakefield Press. Small octavo in printed French flaps. 128 pages with a 1 color and 3 black-and-white illustrations. New Book $15.00

“While the reputation of Remedios Varo (1908–63) the surrealist painter is now well established, Remedios Varo the writer has yet to be fully discovered. Her writings, which were never published during her life let alone translated into English, present something of a missing chapter and offer the same qualities to be found in her visual work: an engagement with mysticism and magic, a breakdown of the border between the everyday and the marvelous, a love of mischief and an ongoing meditation on the need for (and the trauma of) escape in all its forms.”

Remedios Varo: The Mexican Years

Text by Masayo Nonaka. 2012. RM. Quarto. 120 pages illustrated with color plates. New Book $45.00

“Remedios Varo: The Mexican Years offers a definitive survey of the life and work of a singularly appealing and mysterious Surrealist painter. Born and raised in Spain, Remedios Varo received her earliest training in Madrid before fleeing the Spanish Civil War in 1937 to join Surrealist circles in Paris. The outbreak of World War II forced her to take refuge in Mexico, where she remained until her untimely death in 1963, and where she created her most enduring work. Known as one of the three “brujas” (witches) active in the Mexico City art milieu, Varo shared an interest in esotericism with fellow painter Leonora Carrington and a range of interests in science, philosophy and the literature of German Romanticism with the photographer Kati Horna. For some ten years, from the mid–1950s until her death in 1963, Varo devoted herself to creating an extraordinary dreamlike oeuvre, on the threshold between mysticism and modernity. Her beautifully crafted images of medieval interiors, occult workshops and androgynous figures engaged in alchemical pursuits evoke the eerie allegories of Hieronymus Bosch, esoteric engravings and the charm and lure of fairytales. This catalogue includes a complete illustrated chronology with never before published images and describes Varo’s role in the Mexican Surrealist movement and her relations with Luis Buñuel, Octavio Paz, Benjamin Péret, Alice Rahon, Wolfgang Paalen and many others.”


Ian Whittlesea

Becoming Invisible

Small octavo. 48 pages. 20 color plates and 3 in black-and-white. 2019. The Everyday Press. Printed paper over boards. New Book $25.00

Both an artist’s book and a would-be practical guide, this beautiful little book offers occult instructions for becoming invisible by meditating on the color spectrum. It draws on the literature of Rosicrucianism, theosophy and esoteric yoga to demonstrate how, through breathing exercises and visualization, the reader can learn to split light into its constituent parts, then recombine the seven colours of the spectrum to form a glowing white cloud that envelops its creator, rendering him or her invisible.

Its author, London-based artist Ian Whittlesea—well known for his book works based on spiritual-physical exercises, such as Yves Klein: The Foundations of Judo and Mazdaznan Health & Breath Culture—notes in the preface: “These exercises are intended to allow you to become invisible. This does not, however, mean that you will physically disappear or dematerialize. Instead you will be hidden from view, concealed within a cloud of your own creation.”Gorgeous colour abstractions by Whittlesea illustrate the book throughout.

On Colour . . .

Small octavo. 52 pages. 20 color plates and 4 in black-and-white. The Everyday Press. Printed paper over boards. New Book $28.00

On Colour… extends the theories of color harmony that Joahnnes Itten taught at the Bauhaus and describes how “through perfect control of breath and color one will eventually be able to generate a luminous cloud of such purity and intensity that it renders all inside it invisible.

Beautifully designed and printed, it describes how one can, potentially, produce the “white cloud of invisibility” and documents the author’s own attempts to manifest the cloud.

These manifestations have a complex group of antecedents that include Lawrence Weiner’s early spray-painted works, John Latham’s One Second Drawings, Robert Irwin’s luminous disc paintings of the 1960s and representations of the ineffable made by spiritualists and occultists.


Bruderlin, Markus; Groos, Ulrike (eds.). Rudolf Steiner and Contemporary Art. DuMont Buchverlag: Cologne. First edition. 223 pp. 4to hardcover edition in a dust jacket. Slight shelf wear to jacket and covers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Very Good. $225.00

Carrington, Leonora. The Seventh Horse and Other Tales. 1988. E. P. Dutton: New York. 197 pp. First edition. 8vo trade paperback edition. Light wear to wraps; gentle bumping to corners. Pages are clean and unmarked. Very Good. $40.00

Pamela Coleman Smith: The Untold Story

Kaplan, Stuart R. 2018. U. S. Games Systems: Stamford. First edition. 440 pp. Quarto hardcover edition. Many color illustrations. The over due history of a remarkable woman whose art is well known in the Rider Waite Tarot. Here many of her othewr artistic pursuits are shown in a remarkable New Book $45.

Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy, the Arts and the American West

Edited with text by Christopher V. Scheer, Sarah Victoria Turner, James G. Mansell. Text by Helena Capkova, Deniz Ertan, Anna Gawboy, Katie J.T. Herrington, Paul Ivey, Katie Lee-Koven, Rachel Middleman, Christine Ödlund, Marco Pasi, Gauri Viswanathan, David Wall. Quarto. 160 pages with 61 color plates and 13 in black-and-white. Blue cloth with color inset to front board. New Book $55.00

“The first publication to explore the impact of Theosophy on the art of the American West, from Agnes Pelton, Beatrice Wood and the Dynaton Group to Lee Mullican and Jess. Edited by Sarah Victoria Turner, Christopher M. Scheer and James G. Mansell.”

Wroblewski, W. The Art Alphabet. N.D. The Theosophical Publishing House: London. First edition. 87 pp. With many illustrations and diagrams. Quarto hardcover edition in a mylar-protected dust jacket. Rubbing, scuffing and some soiling to jacket; creasing and tearing (with loss) to jacket edges; small sticker to front jacket flap. Light sunning to spine; faint scuffing to covers; light bumping to edges and corners; minor soiling to text block edges. Front hinge is starting; age toning and some foxing to endpapers; sparse foxing to a few pages; text is otherwise clean and unmarked. Very Good in a Good Jacket. $25.00

Other Titles on the Thought and Practice of Occult Science

[Anonymous] The Initiate: Some Impressions of a Great Soul by His Pupil. 1955. Routledge & Kegan Paul: London. Later printing. 381 pp. 8vo hardcover edition, lacking a dust jacket. In blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Slight cocking to spine; light rubbing, soiling and staining to cloth; bumping to edges and corners; age toning and minor soiling to text block edges. Hinges are starting; very sparse smudging to some pages; text is otherwise clean and unmarked. Good. $20.00

Albumasar; Pingree, David (ed.). Albumasaris de Revolutionibus Nativitatum. 1968. B. G. Teubner: Leipzig. First edition. 362 pp. 8vo hardcover edition, lacking a dust jacket. Slight soiling to cloth; some bumping to corners; minor soiling to text block edges. Binding is a bit cracked at last signature; faint creasing to upper corner of some pages. Text is clean and unmarked. Very Good. $25.00

Ashmole, Elias; Josten, C. H. (ed.). Elias Ashmole (1617-1692): His Autobiographical and Historical Notes, His Correspondence, and Other Contemporary Sources Relating to His Life and Work. 1966. Oxford University Press: Oxford. In five volumes. First edition. 8vo hardcover edition in mylar-protected dust jackets. Sunning to jacket spines, front jacket panel of vol. 1 and rear jacket panel of vol. 3; light rubbing and scuffing to jackets; minor bumping to jacket edges; jackets are price-clipped. Slight cocking to spine of vol. 1; gentle bumping to cloth corners. Pages are clean and unmarked. A Very Good Set. $400.00

Bacon, Roger. Roger Bacon on the Nullity of Magic. 1982. AMS Press: New York. Reprint. 76 pp. 12mo hardcover edition, lacking a dust jacket. Slight shelf wear to cloth. Pages are clean and unmarked. Very Good. $20.00

Berkson, Carmel. The Divine and the Demoniac: Mahisa’s Heroic Struggle with Durga. 1995. Oxford University Press: Delhi. First edition. 318 pp. 8vo hardcover edition in a dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper. Light scuffing and creasing to jacket; minor bumping to jacket edges. Light rubbing to boards; minor bumping to edges and corners; slight soiling to text block edges. Slight wrinkling to front and rear pastedowns; faint age toning to endpapers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Very Good. $30.00

Bilardi, C. R. The Red Church, or the Art of Pennsylvania German Braucherei. 2009. Pendraig Publishing: Los Angeles. First edition. 545 pp. 8vo paperback edition. Negligible shelf wear to covers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Very Good. $100.00

Boyer, Corrine. Plants of the Devil. 2017. Three Hands Press. 157 pp. Deluxe edition. In red quarter leather over black cloth, in slipcase. #9 of 41 hand-numbered copies. 8vo hardcover edition. Negligible shelf wear to slipcase and binding. Pages are clean and bright, with no markings of any kind. Very Good. $360.00

Britten, Emma Hardinge. Ghost Land: Or Researches into the Mysteries of Occultism. 1897. Progressive Thinker Publishing House: Chicago. First edition thus. 357 pp. + 20 pp. of ads. 8vo hardcover edition, lacking a dust jacket. Light rubbing to cloth; some bumping to edges and corners; foxing to top edge; minor soiling to text block edges. Cracked hinges have been repaired; some tearing to front endpapers at hinge; minor tearing to rear flyleaf at hinge; light age toning to text block; discreet pencil name and date to upper edge of title page; previous owner’s pencil name and date to copyright page; 1.5” tear to fore edge of p. 145. Text is clean and unmarked. Very Good. $225.00

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward. Zanoni. 1853. Chapman and Hall: London. Reprint. 303 pp. Small 8vo hardcover edition. In brown leather, with gilt-stamped borders to covers; decorative gilt stamping, label and raised bands to spine; marbled endpapers. Some scuffing and soiling to covers; bumping to edges and corners; age toning to endpapers. Previous owner’s disreet bookplate to front pastedown; light foxing to text block; there are no ink or pencil markings to text. Very Good. $85.00

Burgoyne, Thomas H. The Light of Egypt, or the Science of the Soul and the Stars. 1965. H. O. Wagner: Denver. Reprint. 2 volumes. 289 pp. + 212 pp. 8vo hardcover edition, lacking dust jackets. In brown cloth, stamped in pictorial gilt. Some rubbing and scuffing to cloth; bumping to edges and corners; minor soiling to text block edges. Text is clean and unmarked. A Very Good Set. $125.00

[Comte de Volney] Chasseboeuf, Constantin Francois de. Les Ruines, ou Meditations sur les Revolutions des Empires. 1871. Garnier Freres: Paris. Reprint. 438 pp. Small 8vo hardcover edition. In ¾ brown leather over cloth; with two folding plates. Light sunning to spine; rubbing, scuffing and some soiling to covers; bumping and wear to edges and corners; light age toning to text block edges. Some age toning and soiling to endpapers; previous owner’s pencil writing to front free endpaper; light foxing to text block; sparse pencil underlining to a few pages; closed tear to first folding plate. Hinges are tight. Good+. $25.00

Christian, Paul. The History and Practice of Magic. 1952. Forge Press: London. First edition. Two volumes in green cloth, spines stamped in gilt; top edges gilt; sewn-in ribbon book markers. 324 pp. + 621 pp. 8vo hardcover edition, lacking dust jackets. Faint sunning to spines; light rubbing and fading to cloth; minor bumping to corners; some foxing to text block edges. Front hinge of vol. 1 is a bit shaken; minor foxing to a few pages of vol. 1; pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. A Very Good Set. $175.00

Chumbley, Andrew D. QUTUB, also called the Point. 2008. Xoanon Publishing. 88 pages. Second editions. Octavo in black cloth with gilt title. Illustrated buy the author with black sigillic devices. With commentary, glossary and bibilography. One of only 700 copies printed, hand numbered. Out of Print. A Fine Copy. $100.00

[Cagliostro] Guenther, Johannes von. Cagliostro. 1929. Harper and Brothers: New York and London. First edition. 445 pp. 8vo hardcover edition in a mylar-protected dust jacket. Light rubbing, age toning and soiling to jacket; some foxing to rear jacket panel; minor bumping to jacket edges. Negligible shelf wear to boards; foxing to top edge. Light age toning and foxing to endpapers; pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. A Very Good copy with stunning jacket art. $40.00

Connelly, Joan Breton. Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece. 2007. Princeton University Press: Princeton and London. First edition, second printing. 415 pp. 4to hardcover edition in a dust jacket. Slight rubbing to jacket; minor bumping to jacket edges. Light bumping to cloth corners. Pages are clean and unmarked. Very Good. $30.00

Crawford, F. Marion. Zoroaster. 1894. Macmillan and Company: London and New York. Later printing. 290 pp. + 8 pp. of ads. 8vo hardcover edition, lacking a dust jacket. Some age toning to spine; light rubbing and soiling to cloth; bumping to edges and corners; light fraying to corners and spine tips; age toning and soiling to text block edges. Some soiling to endpapers; previous owner’s ink name to front free endpaper; minor soiling to a few pages; there are no ink or pencil markings to text. Very Good. $45.00

Crookall, Robert. Out-of-the-Body Experiences: A Fourth Analysis. 1970. University Books: New York. First edition. 219 pp. 8vo hardcover edition in a dust jacket. Some rubbing, scuffing and soiling to jacket; minor bumping and small tears to jacket edges; old price is marked out on front jacket flap. Light age toning, foxing and previous owner’s stamps and ink writing to endpapers; previous owner’s stamp to some page margins; text is otherwise clean and unmarked. Very Good-. $15.00

[Crowley, Aleister]. The Commentaries of AL: Being The Equinox Volume V, No. 1. 1975. Samuel Weiser: New York. 288 pp. + facsimile. First edition. 8vo hardcover edition, lacking a dust jacket. Light rubbing to cloth; minor bumping to corners; light soiling to text block edges. Front hinge is a bit shaken but intact; ink gift inscription from “Frater 250” to half-title page; discreet ink marking to margin of p. 1; ink underlining to two lines of p. 13; text is otherwise unmarked. Good+. $300.00

[Crowley, Aleister]. The Equinox: Volume V, No. 2. 1979. Thelema Publishing Company: Nashville. 404 pp. First edition thus. Large 8vo hardcover edition, lacking a dust jacket. Light rubbing and soiling to covers; minor bumping to edges and corners; light soiling to text block edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Very Good-. $300.00

[Crowley, Aleister]. The Equinox: Volume V, Number 3. 1980. Thelema Publishing Company: Nashville. 483 pp. First edition thus. Large 8vo hardcover edition, lacking a dust jacket. Light rubbing and soiling to covers; minor bumping to edges and corners; light soiling to text block edges. Previous owner’s ink name to front pastedown; pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Very Good-. $300.00

[Crowley, Aleister]. The Equinox: Volume V, Number 4. 1981. Thelema Publishing Company: Nashville. 693 pp. First edition thus. Large 8vo hardcover edition, lacking a dust jacket. Minor rubbing to covers; faint scuffing to front cover; gentle bumping to edges and corners; minor soiling to text block edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Very Good-. $300.00

[Crowley, Aleister]. The Equinox: Volume VII, Number 1. 1992. Silver Star Publications: Tampa. 259 pp. First edition thus. 8vo hardcover edition, lacking a dust jacket. Minor wear to cloth; gentle bumping to edges and corners; negligible soiling to fore edge. Pages are clean and bright, with no markings of any kind. Very Good. $275.00

Dickerson, Cody. The Language of the Corpse: The Power of the Cadaver in Germanic and Icelandic Sorcery. 2016. Three Hands Press. 76 pp. Deluxe edition. Signed by the author. In ¾ leather over marbled boards. #30 of 33 hand-numbered copies. 8vo hardcover edition. Negligible shelf wear to slipcase and binding. Pages are clean and bright, with no markings of any kind. Very Good. $275.00

Donnelly, Ignatius. Atlantis: The Antediluvian World. 1882. Harper & Brothers: New York. Twenty-first edition. 490 pp. 8vo hardcover edition, lacking a dust jacket. In green cloth, with a nice illustration of Poseidon stamped in gilt on front cover. Some fading to spine; rubbing, scuffing and minor soiling to cloth; bumping to edges and corners; some fraying to corners ans spine tips; age toning and light soiling to text block edges. Front hinge is a bit shaken; previous owner’s ink name to front pastedown; binding is a bit loose at a few signatures; negligible soiling to some pages; there are no ink or pencil markings to text. Very Good. $45.00

Duffy, Martin. Effigy of Graven Image & Holy Idol. 2015. Three Hands Press. 558 pp. Deluxe edition. In quarter leather over cloth, in slipcase. #58 of 63 hand-numbered copies. 4to hardcover edition, lacking a dust jacket (as issued); ribbon book marker sewn in. Negligible shelf wear to slipcase and covers. Pages are clean and bright, with no markings of any kind. Very Good. $300.00

Forsyth, Neil. The Old Enemy: Satan & the Combat Myth. 1987. Princeton University Press: Princeton. 506 pp. First edition. 8vo hardcover edition in a mylar-protected dust jacket. Slight wear to jacket and cloth; minor bumping to corners; slight soiling to text block edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Very Good. $75.00

Freher, Dionysus Andreas. The Paradoxical Emblems of Dionysus Andreas Freher. 1983. Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks: Glasgow. 85 pp. Limited edition. #208 of 250 handbound copies signed by Adam McLean. Small 8vo faux-leather edition. Slight bumping to corners. Pages are clean and bright, with no markings of any kind. Very Good. $200.00

Gilly, Carlos; van Heertum, Cis (eds.). Magic, Alchemy and Science 15th-18th Centuries: The Influence of Hermes Trismegistus. 2002. Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica: Amsterdam. First edition. 2 volumes. 588 pp. + 333 pp. 4to hardcover edition in very good dust jackets. Negligible shelf wear to jackets and bindings. Pages are clean and bright, with no markings of any kind. A Near Fine Set. $160.

[Grimoire] Petit Albert: The Marvelous Secrets of Natural and Cabalistic Magic. 2016. Ouroboros Press. First English Translation. Small octavo. 177 pages, illustrated with woodcuts, talismans, and magic squares. Full black leather with red leather spine label and gilt stamping. Hand marble endsheets. Among the most infamous and sought after of the grimoires. A Fine Copy: $250.00

[Grimoire] Touch Me Not: A Most Rare Compendium of the Whole Magical Art. Edited and translated by Hereward Tilton and Merlin Cox. 2019 Fulgur. 160 pages with 111 color plates. Quarter cloth with printed paper over boards. “Hidden for decades within the Wellcome Library collection, Touch Me Not is published here as a full-color facsimile. The German and Latin texts have been translated by Hereward Tilton and Merlin Cox, scholars who have explored the sources for the various elements and provided copious references. Tilton provides an introduction that lays out the context for the survival of this extraordinary manuscript.” New Book $45.00

Gundarsson, Kveldulfr Hagan (ed.). Our Troth. 1993. The Ring of Troth: Seattle. 711 pp. First edition. 8vo trade paperback edition. Light wear to wraps; minor bumping to edges and corners; light soiling to text block edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Very Good. $100.00

Heindel, Max. Rosicrucian Christianity Series. Undated. Rosicrucian Fellowship: Seattle. First edition thus. Incomplete set of stapled pamphlets, numbered 1 through 20 (missing vols. 4 and 9). 12mo softcover edition. Some rubbing, scuffing, soiling and creasing to wraps; minor tearing to edges of some volumes; previous owner’s ink and pencil writing to front covers of some volumes. Some age toning to pages; sparse ink underlining and pencil annotations to one volume; text is otherwise clean and unmarked. Good. $50.00

Hildegard of Bingen. Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen. 1985. Bear and Company: Santa Fe. First edition, later printing. 128 pp. 4to trade paperback edition. Light shelf wear to wraps; minor bumping and creasing to edges and corners. Pages are clean and unmarked. Very Good. $12.00

[Hildegard of Bingen] Flanagan, Sabina. Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179: A Visionary Life. 1993. Routledge: London and New York. Later printing. 230 pp. 8vo trade paperback edition. Slight shelf wear to wraps; minor bumping to edges and corners; negligible soiling to text block edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Very Good. $12.00

Hildegard of Bingen. Scivias. 1990. Paulist Press: New York. First edition. 545 pp. 8vo trade paperback edition. Faint scuffing to wraps; minor bumping to corners. Pages are clean and unmarked. Very Good. $32.00

Hildegard of Bingen. Hildegard of Bingen: Devotions, Prayers and Living Wisdom. 2008. Sounds True: Boulder. First edition. 125 pp. 12mo hardcover edition in a dust jacket. Slight shelf wear to jacket; gentle bumping to jacket edges. Negligible wear to covers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Very Good. $12.00

Hildegard von Bingen: A Journey into the Images. Edited with Text by Sara Salvadori. 2019. Skira. Large quarto. 224 pages with 136 color illustrations. “In obedience to the voice of God, von Bingen wrote down her visions in a precious manuscript, with images added to make the story come alive. This volume brings Hildegard’s visionary text, in all its dense symbolism and prophetic sweep, alive to contemporary readers. At the core of the book are the manuscript’s 35 miniatures, reproduced at their original size alongside an accompanying key. Each element of the images—colors, frames, forms, numbers—was precisely chosen and leads deeper into the meaning of the work; the key decodes these symbols in each image and concisely describes each vision. A text by musician and scholar Sara Salvadori crosses the entire work, highlighting these interlinking details and revealing Hildegard’s dense, unified design. This volume presents Hildegard von Bingen’s endlessly compelling prophetic text in all its inspired beauty.” Absolutely the best book on Hildegard von Bingen’s art available. New Book $55.00

Howard, Michael; Schulke, Daniel A. (eds.). The Luminous Stone: Lucifer in Western Esotericism. 2016. Three Hands Press. 153 pp. Deluxe edition. In ¾ leather over marbled boards, in slipcase. #16 of 49 hand-numbered copies. 8vo hardcover edition, lacking a dust jacket (as issued). Negligible shelf wear to slipcase and covers. Pages are clean and bright, with no markings of any kind. Very Good. $400.00

Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s “New Woman”. 1975. Colin Smythe: Gerrards Cross. First edition. 8vo hardcover edition in a dust jacket. Rubbing, scuffing and minor soiling to jacket; bumping and slight tearing to jacket edges; closed tear to bottom edge of rear jacket panel at flap. Gentle bumping to corners; faint foxing to text block edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Very Good. $35.00

Kingsford, Anna. Clothed with the Sun: Being the Book of Illuminations of Anna (Bonus) Kingsford. 1937. John M. Watkins: London. Third edition. 210 pp. + 9 pp. of ads. 8vo hardcover edition, lacking a dust jacket. Minor wear to cloth; bumping to corners and spine tips. Hinges are shaken; tearing to rear hinge. Text is clean and unmarked. Very Good. $125.00

Kunz, George Frederick. The Magic of Jewels and Charms. 1915. J. B. Lippincott Company: Philadelphia and London. First edition. 422 pp. 8vo hardcover edition, lacking a dust jacket; top edge gilt. Light rubbing, scuffing and soiling to cloth; bumping and minor fraying to edges and corners; slight scuffing to top edge. Hinges are a bit shaken but intact; previous owner’s ink writing to front free endpaper; minor soiling to rear endpapers and fore edge of last few pages; light tearing to a few page edges. Text is otherwise clean and unmarked. Very Good. $300.00

Leadbeater, C. W. The Hidden Life in Freemasonry. 1926. The Theosophical Publishing House: Adyar. First edition. 352 pp. 8vo hardcover edition, lacking a dust jacket. In light blue cloth, stamped in gilt. Rubbing, fading and soiling to cloth; some staining to front cover; bumping to edges and corners; some fraying to corners and spine tips; age toning, soiling and foxing to text block edges. Hinges are shaken; binding is a bit loose at a few signatures; foxing, pencil underlining and annotations throughout text; some tearing to plate at p. 45 (also missing tissue guard). Still a Good vintage copy. $100.00

Lovecraft, H. P. The Shadow Over Innsmouth. 2015. Heavenly Monkey Editions: Vancouver. Limited edition; the “Batrachian issue”. 148 pp. #55 of 125 hand-numbered copies. With wood engravings by Shinsuke Minegishi. Small 8vo hardcover edition, lacking a dust jacket (as issued). Negligible shelf wear to binding. Pages are clean and bright, with no markings of any kind. Near Fine. $750.00

[Lovecraft, H. P.] Minegishi, Shinsuke. The “Innsmouth Look”. 2003. Heavenly Monkey: Vancouver. “Engravings by Sinsuke Minegishi, based on drawings by Hieronymus Bosch, from the Heavenly Monkey Studio Edition of the Howard Phillips Lovecraft novella The Shadow Over Innsmouth”. Limited edition. #25 of 55 hand-numbered copies, signed by the artist. 12mo hardcover edition, lacking a dust jacket (as issued). Negligible shelf wear to binding. Pages are clean and unmarked. Near Fine. $475.00

Mackenzie, D. R. The Spirit-Ridden Konde. 1925. J. B. Lippincott: Philadelphia. First edition. 318 pp. 8vo hardcover edition, lacking a dust jacket. Faint age toning to spine; light rubbing and scuffing to cloth; minor bumping to edges and corners; slight fraying to corners; age toning and foxing to text block edges. Rear hinge is a bit shaken, with some tearing to rear pastedown at hinge; previous owner’s stamp to front free endpaper; foxing throughout text; there are no ink or pencil markings to text. Very Good. $35.00

Mead, G. R. S. Thrice-Greatest Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis. 1964. John M. Watkins: London. In three volumes. 336 pp.; 252 pp.; 231 pp. Third printing. 8vo hardcover edition in good mylar-protected dust jackets. Minor sunning to jacket spines; light rubbing and soiling to jackets; tearing (with minor loss) to jacket spine tips; some tearing and tape repair to jacket edges, corners and spine tips (vol. 1); tearing and tape repair to upper jacket spine tip (vol. 3); discreet ink Roman numerals to upper edge of front jacket panels. Bumping to edges and corners; minor soiling to text block edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Very Good. $175.00

Mullin, Glenn H. Female Buddhas: Women of Enlightenment in Tibetan Mystical Art. 2003. Clear Light Publishers: Santa Fe. First edition. 231 pp. 4to hardcover edition in a mylar-protected dust jacket. Minor scuffing to jacket; slight bumping to jacket edges. Minor shelf wear to cloth. Pages are clean and unmarked. Very Good. $39.00

Nicholson, D. H. S.; Lee, A. H. E. (eds.). The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1932. Oxford University Press: Oxford. Later printing. 644 pp. 12mo hardcover edition, lacking a dust jacket. In blue cloth, stamped in gilt; all edges gilt. Slight wear to cloth; some bumping to corners; minor scuffing to text block edges. Faint smudging to endpapers; pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Very Good. $50.00

Pancoast, S. The Kabbala: Or, The True Science of Light; An Introduction to the Philosophy and Theosophy of the Ancient Sages; Together with a Chapter on Light in the Vegetable Kingdom. 1883. R. Worthington: New York. First edition. 312 pp. 8vo hardcover edition, lacking a dust jacket. In red cloth, stamped in pictorial black and gold. Minor age toning to spine; rubbing, soiling and faint staining to cloth; bumping and slight fraying to corners; age toning and some soiling to text block edges. Slight tearing to bottom edges of rear endpapers; previous owner’s ink name and faint smudging to flyleaf; slight age toning to text block. Pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Good+. $125.00

Papus. The Qabalah: Secret Tradition of the West. 1977. Samuel Weiser: New York. First edition thus. 384 pp. 8vo hardcover edition in a mylar-protected dust jacket. Slight shelf wear to jacket; minor bumping to jacket edges; minor sunning to upper edges of jacket flaps. Gentle bumping to cloth corners; slight soiling to text block edges. Text is clean and unmarked. Very Good. $60.00

Penzer, N. M. Poison-Damsels and Other Essays in Folklore and Anthropology. 1952. Privately Printed: London. First edition. Large 8vo hardcover edition, lacking a dust jacket. Light sunning to spine; faint rubbing and scuffing to cloth; some bumping to corners; minor soiling to text block edges. Negligible smudging to bottom edge of title page; pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Very Good. $25.00

Phylos the Tibetan. An Earth Dweller’s Return. 1969. Borden Publishing Company: Alhambra. Reprint. 509 pp. 8vo hardcover edition, lacking a dust jacket. Some scuffing and soiling to cloth; bumping to edges and corners; some staining and soiling to text block edges. Rear hinge is shaken; staining to front endpapers and first few pages; text is otherwise clean and unmarked. Good. $15.00

Pocknee, Cyril E. Liturgical Vesture: Its Origins and Development. 1960. A. R. Mowbray: London. First edition. 57 pp. Large 8vo hardcover edition, lacking a dust jacket. Sunning to upper edge of front cover; light rubbing and soiling to cloth; some bumping to edges and corners; age toning to text block edges. Discreet ink marking to margin of p. 43; text is otherwise clean and unmarked. Very Good. $15.00

Pritchard, James B. (ed.). Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament. 1969. Princeton University Press: Princeton. Third edition. 710 pp. 4to hardcover edition, lacking a dust jacket. Faint rubbing and soiling to cloth; minor bumping to edges and corners; foxing to top edge; some soiling and staining to text block edges. Hinges are shaken. Text is clean and unmarked. Very Good. $150.00

Rawlinson, George. History of Ancient Egypt. N.D. Worthington Co.: New York. Early edition. 2 volumes. 312 pp. + 336 pp. 8vo hardcover edition, lacking dust jackets. In blue cloth, spines stamped in gilt. Light rubbing, scuffing and soiling to cloth; bumping to edges and corners; foxing to top edges; age toning and some soiling to text block edges. Vol. 1 hinges are starting, with tearing to rear endpapers; previous owner’s stamps to front pastedown; minor foxing and smudging to some pages; there are no ink or pencil markings to text. Very Good. $50.00

Reichenbach, Karl von. The Odic Force: Letters on Od and Magnetism. 1968. University Books: New Hyde Park. First edition thus. 199 pp. 8vo hardcover edition in a dust jacket. Light rubbing, scuffing and soiling to jacket; bumping, creasing and a few closed tears to jacket edges; slight discoloration to jacket flaps. Light rubbing and fading to cloth; minor bumping to edges and corners; light foxing and soiling to text block edges. Age toning, foxing and previous owner’s stamps and ink writing to endpapers; previous owner’s stamps to bottom edge of some pages; pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. As is. $15.00

Reichenbach, Karl von. Researches on Magnetism, Electricity, Heat, Light, Crystallization and Chemical Attraction in Relation to the Vital Force. 1974. University Books: Seacaucus. First edition thus. 463 pp. 8vo hardcover edition in a dust jacket. Faint sunning to jacket spine; some rubbing and scuffing to jacket; bumping, creasing and a few closed tears to jacket edges. Negligible shelf wear to cloth; slight soiling to text block edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Very Good-. $20.00

Rogers, L. W. Elementary Theosophy. 1929. Theosophical Press: Wheaton. Fourth edition. 288 pp. + 4 pp. of ads. 8vo hardcover edition in blue cloth, stamped in gilt. Slight rubbing to cloth; faint fading to top edge of rear cover; minor bumping to edges and corners; light age toning and soiling to text block edges; some staining to bottom edge. Previous owner’s ink name to front free endpaper. Text is clean and unmarked. Very Good. $20.00

Runia, David T. Philo in Early Christian Literature: A Survey. 1993. Van Gorcum: Assen. First edition. 418 pp. 8vo hardcover edition, lacking a dust jacket (as issued). Light rubbing and scuffing to boards; minor bumping to corners. Pages are clean and unmarked. Very Good. $15.00

Salmonson, Jessica Amanda. The Goddess Under Siege. 1992. Street of Crocodiles: Seattle. Limited edition. 20 pp. #42 of 200 hand-numbered copies. ¼ grey cloth over marbled boards. Small 8vo hardcover edition in mylar sleeve, lacking a dust jacket (as issued). Slight bumping to corners. Pages are clean and unmarked. Very Good. $50.00

Schulke, Daniel A. Idolatry Restor’d: Witchcraft and the Imaging of Power. 2013. Three Hands Press. 93 pp. Deluxe edition. In green mohair cloth. #101 of 111 hand-numbered copies. Negligible shelf wear to binding. Pages are clean and bright, with no markings of any kind. Very Good. $150.00

Schulke, Daniel A. Idolatry Restor’d: Witchcraft and the Imaging of Power. 2013. Three Hands Press. 93 pp. Special edition. In full green goatskin with marbled endpapers. #36 of 66 hand-numbered copies. Small 8vo hardcover edition. Pages are clean and bright, with no markings of any kind. Very Good. $300.00

Seiss, Joseph A. A Miracle in Stone: Or The Great Pyramid of Egypt. 1877. Porter & Coates: Philadelphia. Fourth edition. 346 pp. + 4 pp. of ads. 8vo hardcover edition, lacking a dust jacket. In blue cloth, stamped in pictorial gilt. Some rubbing, scuffing and soiling to cloth; bumping to edges and corners; light fraying to corners and spine tips; age toning and minor soiling to text block edges. Hinges are shaken; front hinge is starting; binding is a bit loose at first few signatures; slight tearing to a few page edges; minor soiling to some pages; there are no ink or pencil markings to text. Very Good. $18.00

Simon. The Necronomicon. 1977. Schlangekraft, Inc./Barnes Graphics, Inc.: New York. First edition. 218 pp. Large 8vo hardcover edition, lacking a dust jacket. In black cloth, stamped in silver. Light rubbing and scuffing to cloth; some bumping to corners; foxing and minor soiling to text block edges. Some foxing to text block; pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Very Good. $350.00

Spare, Austin Osman. Two Grimoires. 2011. Starfire Publishing: London. 104 pp. First edition. 8vo hardcover edition in a dust jacket. Slight rubbing and scuffing to jacket; gentle bumping to jacket edges; negligible wear to covers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Near Fine. $125.00

Sutherland, Beth Benton. The Romance of Seals and Engraved Gems. 1965. The Macmillan Company: New York. First edition. 174 pp. 8vo hardcover edition in a mylar-protected dust jacket. Light rubbing and soiling to jacket; minor bumping to jacket edges; tearing (with minor loss) to bottom edge of front jacket panel; creasing to rear jacket flap; front jacket flap is price-clipped. Slight wear to cloth; some soiling to bottom edge. Old bookseller’s stamp to front free endpaper; pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Very Good. $20.00

Thomson, H. L. Legends of Gems: The Strange Beliefs Which the Astrological Birthstones Have Collected Through the Ages. 1937. Graphic Press: Los Angeles. First edition. 124 pp. + 11 pp. of plates. 8vo hardcover edition, lacking a dust jacket. Some scuffing and soiling to cloth; bumping and fraying to edges and corners; minor age toning and soiling to text block edges. Previous owner’s ink name to front pastedown; ink gift inscription to front free endpaper; discreet tape residue and soiling to endpapers; binding is a bit cracked at pp. 108-109. Text is otherwise clean and unmarked. Very Good. $30.00

Wagenknecht, Edward (ed.). Joan of Arc: An Anthology of History and Literature. 1948. Creative Age Press: New York. First edition. 421 pp. 8vo hardcover edition in a mylar-protected dust jacket. Slight rubbing and soiling to jacket; minor bumping to jacket edges; minor foxing to rear jacket flap. Light bumping to edges and corners; minor foxing to text block edges. Light age toning to endpapers; pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Very Good. $15.00

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