The I Ching, or, Book of Changes (Bollingen Series XIX) by Wilhelm, Richard; Baynes, Cary; Jung, Carl - 1950

New York: The Philosophical Library. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. xvi, 498 pages. Index. Forty-nine black and white photos and illustrations. Map of India. Frontis portrait of author. "The subtle but definite laws by which yogis perform miracles and attain complete self-mastery are explained with a scientific clarity." - Dust jacket. "His unusual life document is certainly one of the most revealing of the depths of the Hindu mind and heart, and of the spiritual wealth of India, ever to be published in the West." - Preface. Selected as one of the "100 Most Important Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century" by a committee led by Philip Zaleski on behalf of HarperSanFrancisco. Included in the book "50 Spiritual Classics" by Tom Butler-Bowdon. Unmarked with moderate wear to beige publisher's cloth. Binding sound. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Steve Jobs thought so… Read More

New York: The Baker and Taylor Company, 1909. Very Good. Signed by Swami Paramananda and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's orange cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on upper board and spine; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good, cloth lightly rubbed at tips, spine toned and stained at rear cover. A lovely copy, signed by the author.

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh - The Sun Behind the Sun Behind the Sun; a Darshan Diary - India, Rajneesh Foundation, 1980 - 1st Edition - Hardcover with dust jacket - 615pp - 22x15 cmCondition Very Good: Dust jacket some minor damage at corners and edges, pages a bit yellowed. Otherwise almost as new, no names or writing, tight, probably unread. Only 5000 printed for this first edition.If you have any questions or want to see more pictures, feel free to ask.Your book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking number, signed & insured.

Poona, India: Rajneesh Foundation, 1976. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Poona, India: Rajneesh Foundation, 1976, first printing. 8vo., ix+393pp. +4pp. publisher's ads., illustrated. Gold metallic cloth with gilt titles and cover design, pictorial endpapers. Ten or so pages have a single check mark or bracket written in the margin, light foxing to edges, otherwise very good in very good dust jacket.. 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

(4), CXLIV, 474, (2) pages with numerous woodcut head- and tail-pieces, 4 engraved plates (redrawn from those presented in the Chinese editions of the 'Book of Documents' as De Guignes found them in the Royal Library). Contemporary half calf over brown and yellow tree root marbled paper boards, flat spine richly gilt. Green gilt morocco label. Marbled edges. 4to (265 x 200 mm). Cordier BS 1376-77. Lust 727. Walravens, China illustrata 136. Löwendahl 551. First published translation of the 'Book of Documents' (Shu-ching), and also the first of the 'Five Classics' on Confucianism to be translated into an European language. The basis for the translation was a manuscript which had been sent from Peking by Antoine Gaubil (1689-1759). However de Guignes corrected the translation based on the Chinese original which was found in the Royal Library. He also filled in missing pages and extended it with his own notes. Contains a "Discours préliminaire" including a treatise on the early history of the Chinese… Read More

NY: Yogi Gupta New York Center, 1961. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Yogi Gupta New York Center, 1961, first printing. 8vo., xix+240pp., illustrated with b/w photos. Orange cloth with brown titles and design. Bookplate on pastedown, else near fine, clean, bright in very good dust jacket frayed along the top edges with old tape repairs on dust jacket verso. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: The Baker and Taylor Company, 1909. Very Good. Signed by Swami Paramananda and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's orange cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on upper board and spine; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good, cloth lightly rubbed at tips, spine toned and stained at rear cover. A lovely copy, signed by the author.

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh - The Sun Behind the Sun Behind the Sun; a Darshan Diary - India, Rajneesh Foundation, 1980 - 1st Edition - Hardcover with dust jacket - 615pp - 22x15 cmCondition Very Good: Dust jacket some minor damage at corners and edges, pages a bit yellowed. Otherwise almost as new, no names or writing, tight, probably unread. Only 5000 printed for this first edition.If you have any questions or want to see more pictures, feel free to ask.Your book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking number, signed & insured.

Berkeley: Dharma Pub, 1983. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Berkeley: Dharma Pub., 1983, first printing. Small 4to., 7 1/2" x 10 1/4", illustrated with full color frontis, momochrome plates and decorations. Terra cotta cloth with gilt titles and design, colored endpapers, orange ribbon marker bound in. Some discoloration to the perimeter of the pastedowns form binder's glue, light foxing to edges, else near fine, clean, bright, unmarked, in near fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. 4to.

(4), CXLIV, 474, (2) pages with numerous woodcut head- and tail-pieces, 4 engraved plates (redrawn from those presented in the Chinese editions of the 'Book of Documents' as De Guignes found them in the Royal Library). Contemporary half calf over brown and yellow tree root marbled paper boards, flat spine richly gilt. Green gilt morocco label. Marbled edges. 4to (265 x 200 mm). Cordier BS 1376-77. Lust 727. Walravens, China illustrata 136. Löwendahl 551. First published translation of the 'Book of Documents' (Shu-ching), and also the first of the 'Five Classics' on Confucianism to be translated into an European language. The basis for the translation was a manuscript which had been sent from Peking by Antoine Gaubil (1689-1759). However de Guignes corrected the translation based on the Chinese original which was found in the Royal Library. He also filled in missing pages and extended it with his own notes. Contains a "Discours préliminaire" including a treatise on the early history of the Chinese… Read More