Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, with Other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe,POE’S TALES 1903 on Title pg, Early British Edition., Includes Pit & Pendulum,Fall of house of Usher, Black Cat, Gold-Bug,gold bug, by by Edgar Allan Poe, Nice pictorial endpapers by Alfred Garth Jones. Tissue-protected frontis portrait of Poe, by Edmund Sullivan.Inner Hinges Starting ever So Slightly, Illustrated Title page depicting a skull and bearing the initals "H C - 1903

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.

Gouveneur, NY: Brothers of the Book, 1898. First edition. Hardbound in nearly fine condition; Modest gift inscription on front end paper, "K. to J 12/25/'98." (the author's mother was Katherine and her brother was Jay).. Hand-numbered limited edition of 350 copies; Claude Bragdon's first book, a collection of his poems; Printed on handmade paper with edges untrimmed; Paper cover label apparently designed by Bragdon; Original prospectus, subscription form and return envelope laid in; 6" x 4.25"; 42 pages.

1853 Daimonion Spiritual Medium Demons Ghosts OCCULT Salem Witchcraft Samson

George W Samson was a Reverend in Washington City who published many works including 'To Daimonion' in which he explains the phenomena of 'spiritual rappings' or 'spiritual knockings' through the 'nervous principle,' and animal magnetism. His attempt to explain clairvoyance, trances, second-sight, kinesis, and others comes from his thought that the 'daimonion' (the demon), is the spirit of the universe, which when excited causes these phenomena to occur. He uses quotations from Herodotus, Xenophon, Cicero, Pliny, and others to try and illustrate how all of these people were discussing the same thing and simply were conduits being used when the demon or spirit of the universe got excited, which could be done consciously or subconsciously by a person.

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London: Uma Press, 1946. First edition. Covers dulled and quite worn along the edges, though not through the cloth at any point; Longish contemporary gift inscription to end-paper; Contents very good.. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and cover though the gilt is worn off save for a bit of the name and star emblem on the cover; 8.75" x 6"; [viii], 323, [2] ads pp.Top of the title page reads "A Book fo Initiates" and the book is sometimes presented with that title but the cover and spine show the title as The Golden Star. Spiritual journey of Ma-u and Ma-uti who are lead by the Divine Messanger Neteru-Hem through the spiritual hierarchy from the Domains of Night to God. In the introductory Note, the author says the some of the messages are based on the "Secret Doctrine" of Madame Blavatsky.

1635 Feyens on Mystery Imagination Occult Plato Homer Erasmus Albert Magnus

Thomas Feyens' "Da viribus imaginationis" is a 17th-century collection of questions and answers regarding imagination, curious mysteries, and the unknown world. Interestingly, this work is not Feyens own writings but rather a series of excerpts of writings from some of the most well-known writers, historians, and philosophers of all time including:
· Seneca
· Plato
· Plutarch
· Pliny the Younger
· Hippocrates
· Homer
· Erasmus of Rotterdam
· Galen
· Cicero
· Albert Magnus
· Saint Chrysostom

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FEYENS, Thomas

Da viribus imaginationis tractatus

Ludg[uni] Batavorum: ex officina Elseviriana, 1635. First Elzevier edition.

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· Collation: complete with all pages
o 377, [7]
· References: Willems 423; Goldsmid II 46
· Language: Latin
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London: James Collins and Sam. Lowndes 1st first edition, 1682, 1683. Hardcover. Good. Lacks frontispiece (supplied in facsimile). 5 complete titlepages for the. TWO WORKS in One Volume. Octavo newer calf spined marbled boards (tips rubbed/sl.marked) lacks engraved frontis leaf as does the British Library copy but here supplied in facsimile mounted onto old fly leaf. Collation: [46]pp (inc. Titlepage in red & black, titlepage to Lux Orentalis dated 1682 & prelims) +151pp +[13]pp (inc. titlepage to Discourse of Truth dated 1682) +165-195 +[7]pp (inc. titlepage to Annotations upon the Two foregoing Treatises "by one not unexercized in these kinds of Speculation" dated 1682) +171pp +[7]pp (inc. titlepage to Annotations upon the Discourse of Truth .. Dr.Henry More dated 1683) +173-276 +[4]pp catalogue of books printed for Lowndes. Lacks pp131-2 (leaf supplied in facsimile). Titlepage browned/dusty with old name Joh: Wetherby to margin, corners rounded, margins bit chipped, 2nd title with another name… 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.

London: Privately Printed, 1894. Hardcover. See Description. Tall 4to. (32.5 cm), pp. [4], xvi, 254 with 40 plates and a facsimile of the 1786 title page. Large paper copy #19 of 50 from a limited edition of 500.The preface states: "the present edition, an exact reproduction of that of 1865, but correcting some manifest misprints, is published in the interest of science and scholarship." Bound in later plain black cloth showing rubbing and wear to extremities and to the spine caps. The first few leaves including the title contain a small dark stain near the upper edge. Pages show periodic smudging/soiling; several plates have a damp stain on the outer edge of the margin; occasional edge tears are professionally sealed; 3-4 leaves are carefully tipped back in to place. Richard Payne Knight (1750-1824) was a classical scholar, mythologist and a collector of antiquities. His "Discourse on the worship of Priapus" was first published in London, 1786. Knight argues that a universal… Read More

1678 1ed Sibylline Oracles PAGAN Prophecy Occult Philosophy RARE Jesuit Crasset
Jean Crasset was a 17th-century French Jesuit who was best known for his treatises of asceticism and philosophy. One of his many books was 'Dissertation on the Oracles of Sibyl'. At the end of the 17th-century several treatises were written on the
Sibylline Oracles many of which focused on the pagan origins of the oracles. Crasset, according to Buitenwerf,
"firmly believed that the Sibylline Oracles were divine utterances of the Greek prophetess Sibyl."
Crasset sought to prove that the Sibylline Oracles were nothing more than false Christian narratives, He also defended the early church fathers who wrote that the Oracles
were genuinely written by Sibyls, making references to great philosophers and historians such as Suetonius and Saint Augustine and his famous 'City of God'.
Item number: #20488
Price: $550
CRASSET, Jean
Dissertation sur les Oracles des Sibylles
Paris: chez Estienne Michallet, 1678. First edition.

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1866 Ingoldsby Legends Ghost Stories Occult Leech Tenniel Cruikshank ART
Under the penname Thomas Ingoldsby, R.H. Barham wrote the, now famous, 'Ingoldsby Legends.' This work is collection of myths, ghost stories, fables, and poetry. Immediately popular, these "legends" would go onto be read and reprinted well over a century. Illustrated by the beloved John Leech, John Tenniel, and George Cruikshank, this collection includes famous tales such as The Spectre of Tappington, The Witches' Frolic, The Jackdaw of Rheims, Aunt Fanny, The Smuggler's Leap, and much more!
Item number: #40339
Price: $550
INGOLDSBY, Thomas (BARHAM, Richard Harris)
The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels
London: Richard Bentley, 1866. Carmine Editon.

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· Collation: Complete
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xi, [1], 468
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7 illustrations
· Provenance: Bookplate – John S. Hopkinson
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
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Size: ~7.75in X 5.5in (20cm x 14cm)
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