Essays On Superstitions Of The Highlanders Of Scotland: To Which Are Added Translations From The Gaelic; And Letters Connected With Those Formerly Published. Two Volumes In One. by By Mrs. Grant (Anne Macvicar) Of Laggan, Author Of "Letters From The Mountains - 1813

London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1830. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. First Edition. 8vo. pp. xvi, 430, [2]. Bound in original quarter gray cloth and paper boards. Re-backed preserving the original spine. Paper boards are rubbed, discolored and aged. Board corners are carefully repaired/strengthened. Interior contains scattered foxing and splotching; some leaves possess a rough or chipped marginal edge (due to careless opening); outer marginal tearing is neatly and professionally sealed on several leaves; pages 1 and 413 display a light corner crease or stress mark. Crabtree states that this is "A little known work of real significance for the history of both animal magnetism and of physical research. Newnham wrote the book under the patronage of the Bishop of Winchester and it was clearly an attempt to use physiological and psychological terms to explain supernatural or supernormal phenomena which embarrass the Church… Newnham’s chapters on sleep, dreams and somnambulism… Read More

Reading: Gedruckt fur Charles M’Williams, 1820. Hardcover. See Description. First American Edition. 12mo. 142p. With a dramatic woodcut frontispiece depicting the Anti-Christ as a seven headed dragon. Re-bound in quarter calf with marbled boards preserving the original calf spine. Title page shows age-toning, soiling and staining; a small darker spot of staining is present near the upper corner. The inside margin of the frontispiece is carefully restored with some spots of loss to the inner black border-line of the illustration. End papers are stained; notations in an early hand are scrawled on the front free end paper. Interior pages contain light age toning, scattered marginal foxing, soiling and wear. A German mystic named Christian Armbruster penned this apocalyptic work (first published in Germany in either 1813 or 1814). The author predicts the immanent end of days by comparing current events at that time – i.e. the rise of the Emperor Napoleon – to the prophecies in the Book of… Read More

A Lyons: chez les Heritiers de Beringos fraters, a l’enseigne d’Agrippa, 1791. Stiff Wraps. See Description. Probably dates to late 18th – early 19th century. 16mo. pp. [20], 252, [10]. With frontispiece engraving and 4 full page wood cuts. Bound in modern stiff paper wraps. Text block is untrimmed. Interior pages contain occasional mild spotting, soiling and wear. Half-title is age-toned. A long strip is excised / torn-out of the outer margin on p. 221, running right up to the edge of the text, and obscuring a few letters; a piece is also torn from the bottom corner of p. 227 obstructing the last words in a couple of text lines. Some very miniscule holes on pp. 245/246 partially obstruct a couple of letters. There are several versions of "Les admirables secrets" with the date 1791, each with differences and with a different pagination (see WorldCat). The copy here offered is not the edition listed in Caillet and Dorbon-Ainé with the false 1791 date (attributed to… Read More

MODERN LIBRARY NY, 1939 and Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, & The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling, Apparition of Mrs. Veal ,In Gold & Black Decorated DJ ,HBDJ, UNDATED 1939 ?, NOT A 1ST BUT EARLY REPRINT,275 TITLES ON BACK OF DJ WITH PRE ZIPCODE DJ & 95 cents, & 281 Titles on DJ Verso, Hardcover. VG+/VG-, Book Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Red cloth with black box with Gold gilt title, bright with very tiny corner bent, former owners' names inside front. In edge worn, chipped DJ. Now protected in a mylar jacket. ; 12mo , 217 PGS + ADS End with Man?s Hope. Spine DJ Nice Bright, Approx. 5 x 7.25 IN. Tiny chips tears DJ Extremities, Red cloth with Bright gold Gilt ,Interior clean with Light FOX , TINY CHIPS SPINE DJ ends, Light faded blue Topstain. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Paris: Moreau, Libraire, Palais-Royal. Good. 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Lightly soiled tan wraps with edge wear. Darkened fore-edge of pages. Light foxing. Six illustrations. Text is tight & intact. French Text. Magic; Drawings; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 236 pages .

C.W. Leadbeater - The World-Mother as Symbol and Fact - Adyar (India) - Theosophical Publishing House, 1928 - First Edition - Hardcover - 67pp - 19x13 cmCondition Good: Small bookseller label in front, maybe the book has new end papers? I'm not sure. Cover has some light damage at corners and edges, some very faint underlining and marking, small split in the middle ( please see pictures). The binding is good (despite the small split) and the book shows little signs of use.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.

Cincinnati: Robert Clarke, 1897. First edition. Cloth bound in very good condition; Slight wear to spine ends; Front seam repaire; Modest toning to end papers; First page of text and facing page have short tearsat the inner seam.. 101 pages; 16mo, 6 1/2" x 4 1/2

Poona, India: Rajneesh Foundation, 1978. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Poona, India: Rajneesh Foundation, 1978, first printing. 8vo., color frontis+303pp., illustrated. Green cloth with gilt titles, pictorial endpapers. Some foxing to edges of page block, wear at lower tips of covers and spine, mild fade to edge of cloth, otherwise very good, clean, tight in very good minus dust jacket with loss along the top edge. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Mason Brothers, 1853. 192 pages. Illustrated with in-text wood engravings. Binding is embossed brown cloth, with gilt lettering on front cover. Hiram Mattison (1811-1868) was a prominent Methodist minister in New York, who, in addion to his opposition to fraudulent psychics, was an active proponent of temperance and abolition of slavery. In this book he debunks his era's fad of "spirit-rapping" and other practices by which mediums or spiritualists claim to communicate with the dead. As Mattison states in the preface, spirit-rapping "is the grand climax of soothsaying, astrology, witchcraft, phrenology, mesmerism, clairvoyance, Psychology, Fourierism, Millerism, Mormonism, and all other superstitions, delusions, and isms that have ever been, or probably ever will be." The book is in about very good condition: clean and tight, with some minor edgewear and shallow chipping of cloth at head and foot of spine. Pages are moderately foxed. Previous owner's name… Read More

A bundle of nine issues from the first series of this important and influential theosophy magazine, published in 1936. Includes "Special Number" issue (February 1936), Issue #1 (March 1936), Issue #2 (April 1936), Issue #4 (June 1936), Issue #5 (July 1936), Issue #6 (August 1936), Issue #7 (September 1936), Issue #9 (November 1936), Issue #10 (December 1936).Also includes a beautiful custom box I created for storage and preservation.Digest size. Stapled bindings. Color illustrations. A couple of issues have pen/pencil markings on the covers. There is some visible wear to edges, tips, and along the spine on a couple of issues, as well as some minor page discolorization. But overall these are in beautiful condition. Please see pictures.From the title page: "Voice of the I Am is the mouth-piece through which the Ascended Masters' instruction can reach the students quickly, so that the most powerful work possible for America and the world may be done by the students to release the greatest Light in the… Read More