Occult

A Digest of the Writings of Éliphas Lévi. With biographical and critical essay.London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.. 1897. Second edition, revised and enlarged. 8vo. 190x125mm. pp. xvi, 523 [1]. Bright blue cloth, upper cover with a red border and a central design in gilt of "The Pentagram of Faust" and lettered "Tetragammaton". Spine lettered in gilt. Bumping and some wear to head and foot of spine and slight rubbing to corners. Slight soiling to boards. Some pencil marks to the text.

n.p.. 1875. A manuscript index to a vast, unfinished occult encyclopaedia A manuscript notebook dated 1875 setting out a detailed index to Hezekiah Venman's extensive "Notes" on the Occult. 322x130mm. 77 pages of manuscript bound in vellum and with the title written by hand on the front cover. Somewhat soiled and marked and rubbed at the corners but this was clearly much used by Venman. Internally very clean and clear, written in a large, legible hand. An attractive book and an interesting insight into Venman's working methods and how he planned to organise his monumental study of the occult.

London: Dow & Lester. n.d. [1909]. How to see a ghost 184x117mm. pp. [2], 23. 25 colour plates. Original blue-grey cloth lettered in black and illustrated with a silhouette of a skeleton (one of the images from the book). Some soiling to the boards and slight rubbing to the corners and head and foot of spine. Internally very good but with some offsetting from the images. Rare, only one copy (Ricky Jay's) appearing in the auction records. It seems to have been first published in New York in 1908 with a London edition issued in 1909 and then again 1915.

with 10 plates in colour and 366 illustrations in the text.London: George G. Harrap & Company. 1931. The iconography of occultism First edition. 278x215mm. pp. 394 [2]. Illustrated throughout in the text and with the ten colour plates called for. Black cloth, lettered in gilt. Original illustrated dustjacket.

being facts, records, and traditions Relating to Dreams, Omens, Miraculous Occurrences, Apparitions, Wraiths, Warnings, Second-sight, Witchcraft, Necromancy, etc.London: Henry S. King and Co.. 1875. On an eternal supernatural and supersensuous, life lies the basis of all pity and mercy and sympathy among men. First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. 188x125mm. pp. ix [v], 291 [1]; [6], 241 [1bl], 36pp adverts. Publisher's brown cloth illustrated on the upper cover with a sunburst and three hands emerging from the clouds with, on the lower cover, a strange creature which seems to be a cross between a wasp and a bat.

Wherein, among other things, the sadducism of these times, in denying spirits, witches, and supernatural operations, by pregnant instances, and evidences, is fully confuted: Epicurus his cause, discussed, and the jugling and false dealing, lately used, to bring him, and atheism, into credit, clearly discovered: the use and necessity of ancient learning, against the innovating humour, all along proved, and asserted.London: Printed for T. Garthwait.. 1668. "Unadvised belief". First edition. 8vo. 175x110mm. pp. [16], 316, [4]. Complete with imprimatur and errata leaves. Contemporary calf, boards ruled and decorated in blind. 35mm split to upper joint and some slight cracking.

Including the rites and mysteries of Goëtic Theurgy, Sorcery, and Infernal Necromancy.Privately Printed. 1898. A rare limited edition First edition. Large 8vo. 252x185mm. pp. xvi, 297 [1]. Frontispiece and nine plates printed on blue and pink paper. Original black buckram, repair to head and foot of spine. Boards and spine rubbed and scuffed and with some marking and a scratch on the lower cover. Internally a little toned at the edges, and there is some slight creasing and chipping to edges of front free endpaper but overall in very good condition. Front paste down has the bookplate of A.R.

London: William Rider. 1914. The Astral Tramp Second edition. 8vo. 184x122mm. pp. xiii [1bl], 356, [4pp publisher's adverts]. Original green cloth decorated with the image of a temple printed in white and then, in blind a sacrificial tripod and bowl. Title and author stamped in blind to upper cover and in gilt to spine where the cover design is repeated in white and gilt. Corners a little rubbed and bumped. Some small tears to head and foot of spine.

New York: E.P.Dutton & Company. 1923.First US edition in the scarce dustjacketFirst US edition. 8vo. 185x125mm. pp. [8], 368. Black cloth, lettered in red to upper cover and spine. Original dustjacket. Repaired closed tear to fold of dust jacket at spine and upper cover and small tears at the fold with the flap on the lower cover.