Weirdiana

London: Ward and Downey. . 1889. From the Libraries of Barry Humphries and Montague Summers. First single volume edition. 8vo. 191x125mm. pp. vii [ibl], 351 [1]. Six engraved plates by Brinsley Sheridan Le Fanu. Publisher's decorated cloth. Slight bumping and rubbing to corners and to head and foot of spine which is a little rubbed and darkened. Hinges weak and some minor marking but otherwise a very good copy of the first single volume edition of the novel initially issued in three volumes in 1869.

with some illustrations of human error and impostureLondon: John Maxwell and Company. 1844. First edition. From the Library of the Theosophical Society in England. Two volumes. 8vo. 187x125mm. pp. xx, 315 [1bl]; xv, [ibl], 308. Publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, with library shelfmark at foot of spine. Front pastedown has the bookplate of the Theosophical Library. Some rubbing and bumping to extremities. Internally very good. Davenport Adams is said to have been a voracious reader as a child and this book suggests wide and, it must be said, somewhat directionless reading.

Amsterdam: n.p.. [1964]. Expanded consciousness.The rare English edition of the first manifesto for trepanation. Paper scroll (2760x430mm) with a facsimile (translated into English) 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.

to which is added the remarkable account of the apparition in Sunderland, with other notable relations from England; Together With Observations About Them, And Instructions From Them Designed To Confute And To Prevent The Infidelity Of Denying The Being And Apparition of Spirits; Which Tends To Irreligion and Atheism.n.p. [Trevecca?]. 1780. "a farrago of the most astonishing superstitions". The author's copy First edition. 8vo in 4s. 188x117mm. pp. viii, 134, [2]. Nineteenth century half calf, marbled paper covered boards, slightly bumped and rubbed. Internally a little browned but overall a very good copy of a rare book.

London: The Mitre Press. n.d. [1957/8]. "What has been done was done by fate". Thelemic poetry by Aleister Crowley's artist and disciple. First edition. 8vo 183x122mm. pp. 64. Original bright blue cloth lettered in gilt with original illustrated dust jacket. Some very minor marking and rubbing to the jacket and slight soiling to the spine. Internally there is some mild foxing in one or two places but overall a very good copy. Rare in commerce and with eight copies recorded institutionally. Frieda Harris was, in the words of her husband "an artist and a good one.

Compuesto por el Illuminado Doctor, Y Martyr de Jesu-Christo el Beato Raymundo Llull Mallorquin de la Tercera Orden del S.P.S. Francisco.Mallorca: En la Oficina de la Viuda Frau. 1753. THE LADDER OF UNDERSTANDING First vernacular edition. 4to. 195x140mm. pp.[viii], [2] plates, 252. Folding table of contents and folding woodcut illustration preceding A1, woodcut vignettes to text. Title-page trimmed and extended at lower margin (probably to erase inscription), a couple of pages lightly browned. Contemporary Spanish limp vellum, title in ink to spine, lacking ties. Some internal cracking at the hinges and the usual warping.