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Oxford: Oxford University Press. Good in Good dust jacket. 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. 0199587906 . Xv, 279 pp. References, index. Illustration with maps, figures and tables. Octavo. Dull green dust jacket with medieval woodcut. DJ is clean and unmarked, in Mylar. Book has library stamps (no pockets or stickers) but otherwise clean and nice. Good copy. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 279 pages .

Fintry Brook Near Godalming, Surrey: The Shrine of Wisdom. Good in Good dust jacket. 1978. Fourth Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. 53 pp. Small octavo. Pale blue paper dust jacket with black, sunned at the edges and spine, bit crispy at top edge, flaps intact. Book has date written in ink at the gutter of the inside front cover, occasional tick marks in the margins throughout, most in pencil but a few in black ink -- neatly done but still there. Otherwise a very nice copy. "The high esteem in which the Trismegistic writings were held, both by philosophers and the early Church fathers, is strong evidence of their authenticity. They contain, expressed in the language of Greek philosophy, the Egyptian Wisdom, which is in one sense the foundation upon which Greek thought, from Plato onwards, is built. .. In the words of Cornelius Agrippa, "The Pymander is a book most choice for the elegance of its language, most weighty for the abundance of its information, full of grace and… Read More

Boston: Shambala. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1985. First Edition Thus. Softcover. 0394742303 . [iv], 632 pp. Octavo. Softcover with black and grey has minor shelf wear, interior clean and unmarked. Good copy. In English with some Greek and Latin. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 632 pages .

Rio De Janeiro: Companhia brasileira de artes graficas. Good. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Texts in Ukrainian, English and Spanish. With a color plate of different mandalas tipped onto the page. Cover is white hard paper cover with gold and deep red mandala with the title and artist's name in Cyrillic and English. Condition is good except that the last 3 pages of text and the last two blanks have some small scribbling in ink, affecting two letters on the pages. Scarce and lovely. 5519 ; Color Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

London: Longmans, Green & Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Ix, 157pp + 4 unnumbered pages. Two volumes in one book. Frontis, appendix. Book has red cloth hardcover with gold text on spine and embossing on front cover. Minor wear and marks on front cover, wear on corners, slight bumping on head and tail. Ex-library with stamps, pocket on back pastedown, and slight markings on spine, otherwise text is clear and unmarked. This book contains an attempt to penetrate the mystery of space and time with the help of the most modern resources of scientific research. The treatment extends to the Infinite on one side and the Infinitesimal on the other, and seeks to annex a "first order" of each to the vast realm already surveyed and partly controlled by the human intellect. The main thesis of this work is that a universe constructed on a pattern not widely different from ours is encountered on a definite and measurable scale of smallness, and another on… Read More

Venice: Giovanni Battista Bertoni. Good with no dust jacket. 1600. Second Edition. Vellum. [i],70, [ii] unnumbered leaves, with one blank at the front (probably later) and two at the rear, one of which seems to be original. Bound in full period vellum leather, in good antiquarian condition, in Latin and Italian, with 34 copper plate full page engraved plates, as well as an engraved title page and woodcut engraved initials and head and tail pieces. It measures 8 ¼” by 6/ The series of engravings here are quite important beyond their strange prophetic value; they are by the acclaimed Renaissance Italian engraver and publisher Girolamo Porro, known for fine engravings and maps. The purported author of these cryptic and much discussed prophecies, Joachim of Fiore (c.1132–1202) , was an Italian Cistercian monk and a mystic philosopher who believed that the advent of the Antichrist and a violent end of the age were imminent. Contemporaries considered him a prophet. He was abbot… Read More