Weirdiana

And an Analysis of the Inter-Relation Between the Craft and the High Grades in Respect of Their Term of Research, Expressed by the Way of Symbolism. London: Rebman Limited. 1911 First edition. Two volumes. 250x185mm. pp. [iv adverts and reviews], v-xxxv [i], 417 [1, 2bl]; vii [i], 447 [1]. Each volume has a frontispiece and thirteen plates showing portraits of celebrated freemasons. Volume two has a folding table. Bound in white cloth with a Square and Compass in gilt on the upper cover and the rosicrucian rose and cross in gilt on the lower cover.

A Digest of the Writings of Éliphas Lévi. With biographical and critical essay. London: George Redway 1886 First edition. 8vo. 225x135mm. pp. xliii, [ibl], 349, [3bl], 38pp adverts, [2 index to adverts]. 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. Corners bumped and rubbed. Spine soiled and worn at head and foot. Some soiling to edges of boards. Internally very good with some toning to edges.

Amsterdam: Barbara Huges. 1968 [1969/1970] Second edition expanded with the inclusion of an additional ten page essay “Het Taboe op de Ziel” (On the Taboo of the Soul) by Dr R.A. Hübner. 290x205mm. ff. [2], 34. Printed on recto only. Text in Dutch. Bound in textured card wrappers with grey cloth spine. The upper cover has the title printed in red, author in blue and in the centre (in green) is a triangle inside which is Huges’s stylised diagram of a brain on which the process of trepanation is being undertaken.

With a preface by R. B. Cunninghame Graham.London: Elkin Matthews. 1897. A rare work revealing "the magnitudes of the sun, moon, and other planets". First edition. 8vo. 225x145mm. pp. xiv, [2], 403 [1]. Blue paper covered boards, backed in white cloth. Paper label to spine. Joints cracked and tender but boards holding. Tears to spine and slight loss to label. Corners and edges a little worn and some marks and fading to boards. Pages uncut. Some toning to edges but otherwise internally in very good condition.

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.

London: William Rider. 1914. If these stones could speak First edition. 8vo. 217x135mm. pp. xix, [ibl], 292. Coloured frontispiece and ten black and white plates. Original blue cloth, illustrated and lettered in gilt. Some rubbing to extremities, slight fading to spine and a mark on the lower cover. Internally very good. A nice copy of this extensive and important study of the symbolism of precious stones. It examines the Hindu, Jewish, Chinese, Egyptian, Roman, Gnostic, and Christian lore of gems. The final section discusses the astrological connections of key gems, sign by sign. Ref.

Amsterdam: n.p.. 1964. Inscribed by Huges: the Dutch version of his trepanation manifesto. Inscribed by Huges - "Voor Peter - van Bart" with a stylised diagram representing the brain. Paper scroll (2760x430mm) with a facsimile, in the original Dutch, of Huges's manifesto, written while in prison, for an expanded consciousness achieved through the control of blood to the brain. which gives the work its alternative name: The Mechanism of BrainBloodVolume (BBV). The original manuscript of Homo Sapiens Correctus was written in Dutch in 1962. In 1964, a facsimile was issued in both Dutch and in an English translation.

London: Printed by A.J.Valpy. 1833. Impious First and only edition. 8vo. 208x130mm. pp. 155 [1bl], [2]. Four tipped-in slips of text. Eight plates, two of which are hand-coloured and one diagram in the text. Contemporary red morocco, gilt decoration to boards, spine lavishly decorated, and lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Some wear to joints, corners very slightly bumped and rubbed.

London. 1934. Moon Trail and White Hawk. Messages from the Spirit World. An archive of manuscript and typed material relating to the Great Metropolitan Spiritualist Association (GMSA).1. Eleven typed transcripts of addresses and messages from the spirit world. These are from spirits known as Moon Trail and White Hawk. One was channelled through a Mrs Hambling and the others are, given the provenance, probably through Harold Jones himself as he was a well known medium. The earliest is dated July 13th 1930 and the latest January 1943. 2. Minute book of the Finsbury Park Church of Spirit Teaching.

Potentissimorum, efficacissimorum, cum PRACTICA probatissima: QUIBUS SPIRITUS MALIGNI, Daemones Maleficiaeq[ue], omnia de Corporibus humanis obsessis, tanquam FLAGELLIS FUSTIBUSQUE FUGANTUR, expelluntur, doctrinis refertissimus atq[ue] uberrimus: Ad maximam EXORCITARUM commoditatem in lucem editus & recusus: Cujus Authores, ut & singuli tractatus, sequente pagella consignati, inveniunturColoniae [Cologne]: Lazarus Zetzner.. 1608. The complete guide to exorcism First edition thus. 8vo. 152x92mm. pp. [16], 1272, [46]. Bound by Hatton of Manchester (ticket on front pastedown) in nineteenth century tan half calf, cloth covered boards. Spine with five raised bands, second compartment with red morocco label lettered in gilt.

n.p. [Germany]. 1674. "the perfect Cure of all Diseases". The search for the Philosopher's Stone. First edition. 12mo. pp. [10], 37 [1bl]. Text in Latin. Bound in 19th century decorated cloth covered boards.

von Dr Med. A. Freiherrn von Schrenck-Notzing aus dem Nachlaß herausgegeben von Gabriele Freifrau von Schrenck-Notzing mit einer Einleitung von Professor Dr Eugen Bleuler.Berlin und Leipzig: Verlag Walter de Gruyter & Co.. 1933. Rudi Schneider's own copy inscribed to him by the author's wife. First edition. Front free endpaper is inscribed, "Dem lieben Rudi, zu Weihnachten 1932. Gabriele Freifrau von Schrenck-Notzing". 8vo. 232x152mm. pp. viii, 170. With a frontispiece and five plates of black and white photographs, illustrations in the text. Black cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt. Rubbing to extremities and some marking to boards.

an account of the rites and mysteries connected with the origin, rise, and development of Serpent Worship in various parts of the world, enriched with interesting traditions, and a full description of the celebrated Serpent Mounds and Temples, the whole froming an exposition of one of the phases of Phallic, or Sex Worship.n.p. Privately printed. 1889. Phallism First edition. 8vo. 194x122mm. pp. 103 [1bl]. Original cream paper covered boards, decorated with a red caduceus and lettered in red. Bevelled edges. Some slight soiling to boards, spine darkened and corners bumped. Internally very good. Edges uncut, offsetting to endpapers.

the world of spirits, its location, extent, appearance; the route thither; inhabitants; customs; societies; also sex and its uses there, etc. etc.; with much matter pertinent to the question of human immortality.Boston: Randolph and Company.. 1870. Thank God for Death. Third edition, revised, corrected and enlarged. 202x130mm. pp. [2], 6, 9-260, [6]. Black cloth, decorated in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Some rubbing and bumping to extremities and slight marking to boards. A little foxed and soiled internally but overall a very good copy of a commercially rare book, none appearing in the auction records.

Utica, N.Y. Published by M.J. Randolph. 1861-62. "It is of my death that first I wish to speak, and of what took place thereafter" First edition. 181x110mm. pp. [2], 268 [4pp adverts]. Brown cloth, blindstamped decoration to upper and lower covers and lettered in gilt to spine. Corners bumped and rubbed and some wear to edges and head and foot of spine. Joints a little tender but holding. Some soiling and marking to the edges but overall a very good copy of a book that is extremely rare in commerce, none appearing in the auction records.

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.

ou, Calculs indubitables et combinaisons savantes trouvées dans les papiers du célèbre Cagliostro, lors de son arrestation à Rome.Paris: Chez Granion.. 1791. The Quack of Quacks First edition. 8vo in 4s. 198x115mm. pp. [10], 1-33 [32], 34-152. Frontispiece. 32 pages of tables, one folding leaf, 15 pages illustrated with 90 vignettes]. At the beginning is a leaf entitled "Combinaisons de Jeux des Loterie Royales" with a newspaper clipping pasted on the verso. Bound in at the end is Histoire de la Loterie depuis la première jusqu'à la dernière Loterie La Loterie des Lingots d'or par Alexandre Dumas fils.

with an Introduction by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.London: Cassell and Company, Ltd.. 1918. Signed by Conan Doyle. First edition. 8vo. 204x130mm. pp. xxii, 270. Blue cloth, lettered in dark blue to upper cover and gilt to spine. Fading to spine and some marking to boards, corners a little worn. Head and foot of spine slightly bumped. Joints a little tender but otherwise a very good copy of this celebrated and important introduction to spiritualism which ties together various themes and loose ends from his four previous books on the subject. Signed "A.

shewing the sign, and signification of the severall forms and shapes in the creation: and what the beginning, ruin, and cure of every thing is; it proceeds out of eternity into time, and again out of time into eternity, and comprizeth all mysteries. Written in High Dutch, MDCXXII. by Jacob Behmen, alias Teutonicus Phylosophus.London: Printed by John Macock for Giles Calvert.. 1651. "the first German philosopher" First edition. Small 4to. 178x130mm. pp. [8], 224. Collates A4-Ff4. Contemporary calf, double fillet borders in blind. Rebacked to style with red morocco label lettered in gilt.

Paris: Éditions Montaigne.. [1931]. Inscribed by Richet First edition. 8vo. 188x120mm. pp. 248, [2], 6pp adverts. Original red wrappers but the upper cover and spine have faded. Creasing to upper wrapper, spine and to some of the pages, particularly towards the end. Pages uncut and last two leaves unopened. Some foxing and toning but overall a nice copy of Richet's penultimate book. Front free endpaper is inscribed "à Madame Salter, Respecteusement, Charles Richet". Beneath this is the ownership inscription of "W.H.Salter, The Crown House, Newport, Essex".

Paris: Éditions Montaigne.. [1933]. Why do you exist? Inscribed by Richet First edition. 8vo. 188x120mm. pp. 292, [2], 16pp adverts. Original red wrappers. Fading to a small strip at the top edge of the upper wrapper. Some slight fading and creasing to spine. Pages uncut. A very good copy of Richet's last work, representing the final working out of his parapsychological ideas. Half title is inscribed "À Madame H. Salter, en respectueux sympathie Charles Richet".

London: The Psychological Press.. 1886. The life of a chancer First edition. 285x220mm. pp. [4], 196. Frontispiece portrait of William Eglinton, eight full page chromolithographs and thirty-three illustrations in the text. Original grey cloth, lettered and decorated in red and black and in gilt on the spine. Soiling to upper cover and spine. Head and foot of spine rubbed and corners a little worn.

London: Rider & Co.. 1937. In the rare dust jacket. First edition. Large 8vo. 230x145mm. pp.323 [1bl], 16pp adverts. With twelve illustrations. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Original dust jacket. Toning to spine and edges of jacket. Internally excellent. A near fine copy in the scarce dust jacket. Mary Neff (1877-1948) was born in Akron, Ohio where she became a teacher. She joined the Theosophical Society in 1908 and three years later went to work for the Theosophical Publishing House at Adyar where she was also the private secretary to Charles Leadbeater.

London: The Psychic Press and Bookshop.. n.d. [1927]. "Love, not fear, must reign in each heart". First edition. Published at the same time as the George H. Doran edition in blue cloth. 186x125mm. pp. 216 [1, 3pp adverts]. Publisher's pale blue wrappers. Spine toned and some soiling to wrappers. Slight chipping to, and small tears to joints at head and foot of spine. A little foxed and browned but otherwise a very good copy. Pheneas was a communicating entity who became the principal spirit guide of Conan Doyle and his family.