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1. Armstrong, A.H, editor. - CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATER GREEK AND EARLY ME-DIEVAL PHILOSOPHY. Cambridge University Press 1967 first printing of the first and only edition, large 8vo, stout cloth, 714pp, foredge is slightly spotted else fine in nearly fine jacket. Originally conceived to be a volume in W.K.C. Guthrie’s History of Greek Philosophy, the peri-od was felt to be so significantly different that Cambridge issued this separately. It is the defini-tive handbook to the period. There are eight sections each by a different authority, including Armstrong, Merlan and Chadwick. The sections are: Greek philosophy from Plato to Plotinus; Philo and the Beginnings of Christian Thought; Plotinus (by Armstrong); The Later Neopla-tonists; Marius Victorinus and Augustine; The Greek Christian Platonist Tradition from the Cappadocians to Maximus and Eriugena; Western Christian Thought from Boethius to Anselm; Early Islamic Philosophy; plus 54pp of index, notes, bibliographies etc. CUP has reprinted this many times, this is the first printing. The latest reprint is $340.00. $300.00

2. Avalon, Arthur & Ellen, [translators]. – HYMNS TO THE GODDESS. Madras: Ganesh 1964

“third reprint” (1st ed c.1913), tall 8vo, publ’s red fabrikoid in worn dj, 222pp, margins starting to brown else vg. Texts taken from various Tantras and Puranas, with footnotes and annotations. Avalon is the pseudonym of Sir John Woodroffe. $45.00

3. Balfour, Michael. – STONEHENGE AND ITS MYSTERIES. NY: Scribner’s 1980, tall 8vo,

cloth & dj, 189pp, well illustrated, fine copy. Balfour founded Garnstone Press in 1966, one of the pioneering publishers to take on the then radical writings of John Michell and others. $12.00

4. Beck, Peggy V, and Anna L. Walters. - THE SACRED WAYS OF KNOWLEDGE, SOURCES

OF LIFE. Navajo Community College 1980, small quarto, paperback, 369pp double-columned, illustrated, mint copy. This little known classic is one of the best volumes I’ve ever seen on tra-ditional Native beliefs and ceremonies. Written by two Navaho women, it is crammed with all kinds of authentic knowledge and wisdom, much of it practical as opposed to speculative or his-torical. Fully annotated with suggestions for further reading throughout. After encountering Ward Churchill I’ve stopped reading all but the best “native” books by non-indigenous writers, most of it is fallacious. $12.00

5. Besant) Nethercot, Arthur H. - THE FIRST FIVE LIVES OF ANNIE BESANT. London: Ru-

pert Hart-Davis 1961, hardcover with dj, 419pp, jacket rubbed else vg-f. Exhaustive, with many plates. $14.00

6. Blake) Davies, J. G. – THE THEOLOGY OF WILLIAM BLAKE. Oxford: Clarendon Press

1948, publ’s cloth, 167pp, spine a trifle faded else vg, very scarce. $75.00

7. Blavatsky) Guignette, Jean-Paul, Compiler. - BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BIOGRAPHICAL STUD-IES ON HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY (1831-1891). Theosophical History Centre 1987, stapled pamphlet, 12pp, vg-f. $16.00

8. Brewer, [Ebenezer]. - BREWER’S DICTIONARY OF PHRASE & FABLE. NY: Harper nd

(c.1950), publ’s cloth, 977pp, vg cond. A timeless book first published in 1870. This is a good quality cloth edition, beware the crappy reprints. $10.00

9. Brotherston, Gordon. - BOOK OF THE FOURTH WORLD: Reading the Native Americas

Through Their Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP 1992, large 8vo, cloth & dj, 478pp, illus-

trated with 18 color plates and 68 figures, plus maps, tables, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index, fine condition. Following in the steps of Jerome Rothenberg and Dennis Tedlock, Broth-erston’s focus is the texts by native peoples themselves, the prime repositories we should be studying and not the observations of culturally handicapped anthropologists. In so doing, a rad-ically new and much more authentic account of Native American history is revealed. Additional-ly, Brotherston examines exactly how this knowledge was preserved and passed on in the New World, through symbolism, story, petroglyphs, cosmologies, the Incan quipu (knotted strings that told stories), Navaho sand paintings, the scrolls of the Algonquin, screenfold books, and other methods. Published at $49.95. $18.00

10. Burnet, John. – EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY. London: Black 1920, 3rd (and best) edition,

original publisher’s blue cloth, 375pp, a fine copy with the ownership signature of the philoso-pher Stephen C. Pepper and a few penciled notes by him on the rear fly. A pioneering work that remains a standard, amongst a handful of great books on the subject. $115.00

11. Caird, Edward. - THE EVOLUTION OF THEOLOGY IN THE GREEK PHILOSOPHERS.

Glasgow: MacLehhose 1904, two volumes, publ’s polished blue cloth, 382+385pp, besides some trivial pencil marks in the margins a nice copy with the library label of James K. Moffitt, in whose honor the Moffitt Library at Berkeley was named. $130.00

12. Carlson, Maria. - NO RELIGION HIGHER THAN TRUTH: A History of the Theosophical

Movement in Russia, 1875-1922. Princeton: Princeton UP 1993, cloth with dj, 298pp; 14 B&W photographs of leading Russian luminaries associated with Theosophy, along with title pages from their publications; notes, glossary, bibliographies, and index, jacket a bit torn else fine. More interesting than it may sound, Carlson branches way beyond Theosophy to explore the oc-cult in general in Russia during that fruitful time. The paperback is $59.95, OP in cloth. $110.00

13. Chaney, William A. - THE CULT OF KINGSHIP IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND. Manches-

ter UP & Sandpiper Books Ltd 1999 (1970), cloth in dj, sewn signatures, alkaline paper, 276pp, fine. Fans of Margaret Murray’s The Divine King in England (1956) will find this interesting. The author’s focus is to unearth all possible traces of pagan cosmology and practice in English royal ritual and culture. $20.00

14. Corpus Hermeticum) Salaman, Clement Dorine van Oyen, William D. Wharton, Jean-Pierre

Mahe, editors & translators. – THE WAY OF HERMES. New Translations of the Corpus Her-meticum and the Definitions of Hermes Trismegistus to Asclepius. Inner Traditions 2000, 1st American edition (published by Duckworth in London), small 8vo, boards & dj, 124pp, four plates on matte paper, mint copy. Includes a preface by Gilles Quispel. A very sincere and scholarly attempt to put the Corpus Hermeticum into modern idiom, and one that obviously meets with Quispel’s approval. $45.00

15. Dames, Michael. – THE SILBURY TREASURE. The Great Goddess Rediscovered. London: T

& H 1976, sewn paperback, 192pp, well illustrated, vg-f. $11.00

16. Elkin, A. P. – ABORIGINAL MEN OF HIGH DEGREE. NY: St. Martins 1977, 2nd ed, hard-cover & dj, 184pp, a few passages lightly underlined in pencil else vf. $34.00

17. Elliott, Aubrey. THE MAGIC WORLD OF THE XHOSA. London: Collins, 1972 (1970), ob-long quarto, cloth & dj, 144pp, printed on lightly coated stock, profusely illustrated with photo-graphs, many of which are in color, and some of which are full-page, b & w double-page fron-tispiece and several woodcuts, index, fine copy. A mix of scholarly text and fine photography. $14.00

18. Flaherty, Gloria. - SHAMANISM AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Princeton: Princeton

University Press 1992, cloth with dj, 320pp, fine copy. Goethe, Mozart, Diderot etc. $95.00

19. Fort) Knight, Damon. - CHARLES FORT: Prophet of the Unexplained. Garden City: Double-day & Company 1970 1st ed, cloth in rubbed dj, 224pp. In 2008 Jim Steinmeyer’s biography Charles Fort, The Man Who Invented the Supernatural was published, which is more like a long gossip column than Knight’s thoughtful and more compelling exploration of Fort’s ideas. $18.00

20. Gandhi) Ashe, Geoffrey. - GANDHI. New York: Stein and Day 1968, large octavo, cloth with

dj, 404pp, 18 illustrations, mostly B&W photographs, bibliography, and index, jacket a little torn and four small marks from tape residue. Ashe, known for his many books on Arthurian and Celtic history gives a complete history and biography, passionate is his love of Gandhi and what he stood for, yet critical of the many failures, failures of the heart and failures of the political Gandhi. $24.00

21. Gardiner, Alan. - EGYPTIAN GRAMMAR. Being an Introduction to the Study of Egyptian Hi-

eroglyphs. London & Oxford: Ashmolean Museum and OUP 1957, third edition, large heavy quarto, publ’s blue polished cloth, 646pp, frontis, some faint water staining to front cover o/w a vg copy. Still a standard work. $55.00

22. Gardiner, Alan. – EGYPT OF THE PHARAOHS. An Introduction. Oxford: Clarendon Press

1961, 1st ed 1st printing, large heavy 8vo, publ’s green buckram, 461pp printed on coated stock, 22 plates, 17 text figures, three maps, fine in worn jacket. $77.00

23. George, Leonard. - CRIMES OF PERCEPTION: An Encyclopedia of Heresies and Heretics.

Paragon House 1995, large octavo, hardcover with dj, 358pp, fine copy. Entries organized by topic with suggestions for further reading and periodicals on alternative-reality traditions for each subject. Detailed biographies of hundreds and hundreds of spiritual, religious and philo-sophical outsiders from the most ancient times up through the renaissance. $10.00

24. Gillipsie, Charles Coulston & Dewachter, Michael. - MONUMENTS OF EGYPT. THE NA-

POLEONIC EDITION. Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1987, heavy quarto, two vol-umes in slipcase, cloth & dj, erratic pagination but about 400pp total with 421 plates, many fold-ing, 31 in color, plus 46pp of text in volume two which is devoted to the folding and extending plates, very fine copy. A complete reproduction of the famed work begun in 1809 and printed in 23 mammoth elephant folios, the fruits of 400 engravers and 160 scholars. $150.00

25. Ginzburg, Carlo. - ECSTASIES: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath. NY: Pantheon

Books 1991, cloth with dj, 339pp, fine condition. Massive notes for each chapter. $18.00

26. Ginzburg, Carlo. - THE CHEESE AND THE WORMS: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller. London: Routledge 1980 1st ed, cloth & dj, XXVII+177pp, B&W illustrations, notes and index of names, fine in sl worn dj. A lively and ingenious reconstruction of the intellectual world of a sixteenth-century miller who lived in a remote Friulian village, a reconstruction made possible by the meticulous records kept by the Roman Holy Office of the Inquisition, which charged him with heresy. The resultant trial, here stripped down to the most interesting parts, de-lineates the miller’s religious, folk, and spiritual beliefs, especially astrology and cosmology. $65.00

27. Ginzburg, Carlo. - THE NIGHT BATTLES: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and

Seventeenth Centuries. Foreword by Eric Hobsbawn. London: Routledge 1983 1st ed, cloth & dj, XXII+209pp, notes, index of names, and appendix, tiny tear in dj else fine. The agrarian cults referred to are the ‘good walkers’, a body of men chosen from those born with ‘the caul’, men who fell into a trance or deep sleep on certain nights of the year while their souls (sometimes in the form of small animals) left their bodies to do battle for the fate of the season’s crops, armed with stalks of fennel, against analogous companies of male witches. Of particular value to stu-dents of the Inquisition, and to fans of Margaret Murray, since the folk-religious traditions of Europe are lucidly detailed here. $55.00

28. Green, Miranda J. - THE WORLD OF THE DRUIDS. London: Thames & Hudson 1997, hard-

bound in jacket, small quarto, profusely illustrated. Green, now known as Miranda Jane Ald-house-Green is a respected archaeologist and one time president of The Prehistoric Society, thus the book is devoid of the silly speculation that mars so many others. $12.00

29. Guenon, Rene. – MAN & HIS BECOMING ACCORDING TO THE VEDANTA. Translated

by Charles Whitby. London: Rider nd c.1928, 1st ed, publ’s brown cloth, 267pp, very nice copy, rare. $200.00

30. Guest, Edwin. – ORIGINES CELTICAE, A FRAGMENT, AND OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS

TO THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND. London: Macmillan 1883 1st ed, two volumes, publ’s green ribbed cloth, XXVIII+409+538pp plus errata, portrait frontis, one color plate, and eight folding color maps, one hinge cracked and strained, spine edges a bit rubbed, one cover a bit scuffed else a vg-f set with the engraved bookplates of Marlborough College (no other library markings). Guest was vice chancellor of Cambridge University and a renown antiquary. Wil-liam Stubbs, another front rank historian edited this selection for publication after Guest’s death in 1880. Volume one with chapters on the Kimmerioi and the Cimbri; the Iberes and Aquitani; early languages; early Bible chronology; and many papers on the language, ethnology and folk-lore of Near Eastern peoples, volume two concerns ancient British history, the Picts and others up to the time of the Roman invasion. $110.00

31. Gupte, Ramesh Shankar and B. D. Mahajan. – AJANTA, ELLORA AND AURANGABAD

CAVES. Bombay: Taraporevala 1962 1st ed, quarto, publ’s green fabrikoid, XX+288pp, 150 il-lustrations on glossy stock, many full page, some in color with glassine guards, vg-f copy with the signature of the Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy on the front flyleaf. These temple-caves are best known for their erotic iconography. $70.00

32. Gurdjieff] Pauwels, Louis. - GURDJIEFF. NY: Weiser 1972 paperback, first published in

1954 and first translated into English and published by the Times Press in 1964, 456pp, with

two photographs of Gurdjieff and 70 plates with paintings by Labisse, Ferro, and Rohner. Easily one of the strangest treatments of Gurdjieff ever penned. $18.00

33. Guthrie, W. K. C. – A HISTORY OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY. Volume I The Earlier Presocrat-

ics and the Pythagoreans. Cambridge CUP 1962, 1st printing of the 1st edition, polished green gilt cloth with gold coin device to front cover, 538pp, fine copy in a fine dj of this handsome volume. Sold with: Guthrie. – A HISTORY OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY. Volume II The Presocratic Tradition From Parmenides to Democritus. CUP 1965, 1st ed, 1st printing, as above but jacket a tiny bit edgeworn. Sold with: Guthrie. – A HISTORY OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY. Volume III The Fifth-Century Enlightenment CUP 1969 1st ed, as above, 543pp, fine copy. $320.00

34. Hall, Manly P. - ORDERS OF UNIVERSAL REFORMATION: UTOPIAS. LA: Philosophical

Research Society 1949, small 8vo, cloth & dj, 102pp, illustrations, and notes, fine condition. Hidebound scholars will be aghast by the lack of footnotes or bibliography, but the late Manly Hall was a different scholar altogether, he lived and breathed his work. Once a week for almost 40 years he lectured in Los Angeles, without prepared notes, from his vast memory gleaned from one of the greatest esoteric libraries in the world, a library he founded and built up almost single-handedly. The utopias refereed to here are mainly Rosicrucian, Christian, and Freemason-ic. $40.00

35. Halliwell, James Orchard. – A DICTIONARY OF ARCHAIC AND PROVINCIAL WORDS.

Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. London: John Russell Smith 1887, two volumes, contemporary diced cloth, paper spine labels (chipped and defective), XXXVI+960pp, hinges cracked or cracking otherwise a very good copy of this the tenth edition, first published in 1847. Halliwell provides the definitions, and frequently the ori-gins, of thousands of words, usually giving an example of usage in the style of the OED, quoting from such sources as Ashmole’s Theatrum Chemicum, Sloane MSS, Harleian MSS, and many classics of Old English literature. The citations are for the most part short, shorter than those in Brewer’s, but providing many more words. Very scarce. $115.00

36. Harpur, Patrick. - DAIMONIC REALITY: A Field Guide to the Underworld. Viking Arcana

1994 1st ed, hardcover & dj, 330pp, plates, fine copy. Harpur casts his net wide over phenomena areas esotericists are no more comfortable with than scientists: UFO contacts and abductions; crop circles; cattle mutilations; stigmata; visions of the Virgin Mary; the “phantom menagerie” of Bigfoot, Yeti, black dogs and lake monsters; Men in Black, the Gray Aliens, and the myth of satanic child abuse. He follows Jung in seeing these phenomena as psychologically real and mythically significant, fully worth the attention of the best philosophical minds. To explain them, he draws on the Neoplatonic cosmology, in which the daimonic realm is intermediate be-tween earth and the gods. As in ancient times, it occasionally breaks through into the physical world, with disconcerting results. $45.00

37. Heninger, S. K. – THE COSMOGRAPHICAL GLASS. Renaissance Diagrams of the Universe.

San Marino: Huntington Library 1977 1st ed, quarto, cloth & dj, 209pp, 117 plates and text illus-trations, jacket a touch sun-faded but a fine copy. One of my favorite books. $110.00

38. Herbert of Cherbury. – THE LIFE OF EDWARD LORD HERBERT, OF CHERBURY. Edin-

burgh: Ballantyne & Co 1809, somewhat later polished calf, gilt edged covers and lovely gilt

ribbed spine, XVI+XXXVI+281pp plus three blanks, engraved frontis, fine condition, the title and famed frontis (of Herbert reclining in a forest) are bright with deep impressions of the type. With a prefatory dedication by Horace Walpole who edited the text, nice edition. $280.00

39. Herbert of Cherbury) Bedford, R.D. - THE DEFENSE OF TRUTH: Herbert of Cherbury and

the Seventeenth Century. Manchester University Press 1979, cloth with dj 271pp, notes, bibli-ography, and index, vf. $18.00

40. Herbert, Jean. – SHINTO, AT THE FOUNTAINHEAD OF JAPAN. Preface by Marquis Yukit-

ada Sasaki. London: George Allen and Unwin 1967 1st ed, large 8vo, hardcover with dj, 622pp, many woodcuts and line-drawings in the text, front fly neatly removed, a fine copy of this lovely book which dates from the publisher’s golden years of book design. Herbert’s work was the first major study and forms a comprehensive survey of Shinto, its history and internal organization, its gods and mythology, its temples and priests, the metaphysics, and especially the mystical and spiritual disciplines. Reviewed at length in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol 36, No.1 and in Studies in Comparative Religion, Vol. 1, No.4, where Herbert was taken to task for being too sympathetic to Shinto and over relying on the priests themselves. Yet to date it remains one of the few large histories. Good copies are scarce. $140.00

41. Hinze, Oscar Marcel. - TANTRA VIDYA. Based on Archaic Astronomy and Tantric Yoga.

Delhi: Motilal 1997 (1979), small 8vo, handsome sienna cloth in dj, 116pp, illustrated, very fi-ne. Really two books here, both of which are highly original. The first is a study of the interior symbolism of astronomy as elucidate by the great Arthur Avalon (esp the seven lotus flowers of Kundalini Yoga), juxtaposed with the astronomy of Ptolemy. The second is a comparison of Tantric Yoga, Kundalini Yoga and the teachings of Parmenides. The author quotes Gichtel the Bemenist, Kepler, Sanskrit classics and is obviously a mature scholar whose goal is a reconcilia-tion of science with traditional cosmology and occult thought. $55.00

42. Houlihan, Patrick F. - THE ANIMAL WORLD OF THE PHARAOHS. London: Thames and

Hudson 1996, quarto, hardcover with dj, 245pp on coated stock, 153 B&W figures and 35 color plates plus map, notes, bibliography, indexes, and chronology, fine copy. Beautiful art book from Thames & Hudson, one of the last few publishers who knows how to do it. Much on Egyp-tian religion and mythology. $16.00

43. Hurry, Jamieson B. – IMHOTEP. The Vizier and Physician of King Zoser and Afterwards The

God of Egyptian Medicine. OUP & Humphrey Milford 1926, first edition, polished blue cloth with gilt portrait of Hermes on the front cover, 118pp printed on thick laid paper, frontis plus 16 plates on coated stock, a few marks to cloth but fine, autographed, “P. C. Varriers-Jones with the author’s compliments” on front fly, name stamp of Dr. F. B. Lorch on pastedown. Sir Pendrill Charles Varrier-Jones created Papworth Village Settlement, an industrial colony for the treat-ment and rehabilitation of tuberculosis patients, later a hub for the first non-beating heart trans-plants, Dr. Lorch was a book collector whose library was partly documented and published in 1951. Hurry writes from a medical perspective. He dedicated the book to Imhotep. There is a new reprint that is easily available, this first edition is very scarce. $110.00

44. LaCroix, Paul - HISTORY OF PROSTITUTION. Among All the Peoples of the World, From

the Most Remote Antiquity to the Present Day. Translated from the French, with an Introduction by Samuel Putnam. New York: Covici, Friede 1931 (1926), two volumes, heavy octavo, publ’s

cloth, 1481pp, extensive notes and index, spines a bit faded and gilt lettering is dull. First pub-lished in English in three volumes, this two volume set is revised and expanded (in spite of the number of volumes). Massive libertine history not entirely on prostitution but also sexual prac-tices and morals. The first 500pp take us from Babylonia up through Rome, the rest of volume one follows history up to the renaissance. Volume two begins with Renaissance kings and their courts and ends with the French Revolution with a concluding chapter on prostitution in the the-ater. Paul LaCroix (1806-1884), aka “P.L. Bibliophile” may not have actually written this work, the true authorship has never been established as far as I know, Goodland’s Bibliography of Sex Rites & Customs is of no help. $135.00

45. Lacy, Norris J. & Geoffrey Ashe, editors. – THE ARTHURIAN HANDBOOK. NY: Garland

1997, 2nd edition, cloth-backed glossy boards, 409pp, illustrated, mint copy. This second edi-tion contains considerable revisions and additions. Published at $80.00. $32.00

46. Linn, William Alexander. - THE STORY OF THE MORMONS: From the Date of Their Origin

to the Year 1901. New York: Macmillan & Company 1923 (1902), heavy octavo, publ’s cloth, 637pp, six B&W illustrations, notes, index, discrete private library markings else vg-f. A large history. $90.00

47. Mackenzie, W. Mackay. – THE MEDIAEVAL CASTLE IN SCOTLAND. Rhind Lectures in

Archaeology 1925-26. London: Methuen 1927 1st ed, cloth & dj, 249pp, 31 plates and 19 text il-lustrations, the entire text printed on excellent paper, jacket is a bit worn around the head and foot else a fine copy. $90.00

48. Malinowski, Bronislaw. - SEX AND REPRESSION IN SAVAGE SOCIETY. NY: Humanities

Press 1951 (1927), cloth & dj, 285pp, jacket chipped else fine. $18.00

49. Meaden, George Terence. – THE STONEHENGE SOLUTION. Sacred Marriage and the God-dess. London: Souvenir Press 1992, tall 8vo, hardcover & dj, 222pp, well illustrated, fine copy. In spite of the screaming 30pt type on the cover reading “The Secret Revealed!”, this is a serious book with some excellent and curious photographs. Meaden went on to write a few books on crop circles. $16.00

50. Miller, Hamish and Paul Broadhurst. - THE SUN AND THE SERPENT. Pendragon Press 1994

(1989), large octavo, sewn paperback, 216pp, eight color plates and many B&W text illustra-tions, maps, and photographs, bibliography, and index, mint copy. Author Broadhurst and dowser Miller track the course of the enigmatic St. Michael Line for 300 miles through some of the most notable ancient monuments and shrines in Britain. “One of the strangest, most stirring books I have ever read, and it may prove through its implications to be one of the most im-portant. For if the authors are correct in what they affirm, they have uncovered in the English landscape the most remarkable of ancient secrets.” (John Michell). $14.00

51. Morrill, Sibley S. - AMBROSE BIERCE, F.A. MITCHELL-HEDGES AND THE CRYSTAL

SKULL. San Francisco: Cadleon Press 1972, slim octavo, plain glued wraps but text printed on laid paper, 82pp, a few photos, vg-f. A fascinating book with much information about the most famous crystal skull, the Mitchell-Hedges skull, an exact anatomically correct (with moving jawbone) crystal skull found on a search for Atlantis. A true archeological enigma? Not to be confused with many other crude examples in the British Museum and elsewhere. In the end it

looks not. But this is also a serious detective story exposing Bierce and Mitchell-Hedges as spies for the US Government. Very scarce. $70.00

52. Murray, Margaret. - THE SPLENDOUR THAT WAS EGYPT. London: Sidgwick 1977

(1964), 2nd ed, cloth & dj, 256pp, wonderful B&W plates throughout, a fine volume in fine condition. $28.00

53. Murthy, S.R.N. - ANCIENT INDIAN THEORIES OF THE EARTH. Poona: Centre of Ad-

vanced Study in Sanskrit, University of Poona 1992, sewn paperback, 118pp, notes, vg. Extracts from ancient texts with modern scientific analysis. Scarce, no copies online. $40.00

54. Napaljarri, Peggy Rockman and Lee Cataldi, editors. - YIMIKRLI. Warlpiri Dreamings and

Histories. SF: Harper 1994, cloth in dj, 193pp, plus nine color plates, mint copy. Important col-lection of 15 stories recited by Walpiri elders. Part of Harper’s admirable Sacred Literature se-ries. $11.00

55. Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. – ISLAMIC SCIENCE. An Illustrated Study. NP: World of Islam Festi-

val Publ Co. 1976, quarto, richly gilt thick cloth binding with dj, 273pp, fine copy. One of the most handsomely illustrated books on science and Hermetica, with two good sections on Indian and Muslim alchemy. $45.00

56. Needham, Joseph. – TIME: THE REFRESHING RIVER. Essays and Addresses 1932-1942.

London: G A & U 1944 (1943), publ’s cloth, 280pp, vg. Includes a reappraisal of Henry Drum-mond, and one paper on the Levellers. $35.00

57. Opie, Iona & Moira Tatem. - A DICTIONARY OF SUPERSTITIONS. NY: Oxford University

Press 1989, large 8vo, hardcover, 494pp, vg-f. A compendious scholarly reference touching salt, seaweed, ravens, oak trees, and thousands of other subjects. $10.00

58. Pang, Hildegard Delgado. - PRE-COLUMBIAN ART. Investigations and Insights. Norman:

University of Oklahoma 1992, large quarto, cloth in jacket, 330pp, illustrated with line drawing-reproductions of glyphs and art and black & white photographs of monuments, mint copy. Fan-tastic presentation. Published at $70.00. $23.00

59. Petrarch. THE TRIUMPHS OF FRANCESCO PETRARCH, FLORENTINE POET LAURE-

ATE. Translated by Henry Boyd with an Introduction by Doctor Guido Biagi, Librarian of the Royal Medicean Laurentian Library, Florence. London: Murray 1906, one of 100 copies printed, quarto, publ’s blue cloth heavily embossed in blind with gilt lettered spine and raised bands, un-paginated [181pp], six initial letters handpainted in gold (or perhaps applied gold foil), six full page (copperplate?) engravings, rear joint a bit worn else fine copy of this handsome and strong-ly bound quarto, an important sourcework for the history of the tarot. Another 200 copies were printed in Boston, both are rare, combined WorldCat records only three copies, (however there is one copy for sale online, $2,000). Boyd’s translation was first published in London in 1807, here with a new afterword by Sydney Colvin, who writes “the plates are by an unknown artist from the early Florentine school, each illustrating a personified triumph.” Colvin was keeper of prints and drawings at the British Museum. $800.00

60. Plato.- THE DIALOGUES OF PLATO. Translated into English with Analyses and Introduc-tions by B. Jowett. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1953, 4th ed, four volumes, publ’s beautiful pol-ished blue cloth, a marvelous set in near flawless condition, rare as such. I waited 25 years to find this. Most are familiar with the third edition, selling for $500+ these days, this is the 4th and last Jowett edition and superior in all respects. It was considerably revised and enlarged by D. J. Allan and H. E. Dale who provide a 15 page description of the changes in the preface. $520.00

61. Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli, editor. – HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY EASTERN AND WEST-

ERN. London: George Allen & Unwin 1952 1st ed, two volumes, tall 8vo, publ’s purple cloth, 617+462pp, spines a bit dull else fine condition. A massive and historic compilation of scholar-ship from the crème de la crème of eastern authorities, no westerners were included and this is what makes it unique. For those interested in the most ancient beliefs and sciences this will be particularly valuable. $55.00

62. Radhakrishnan) Murty, K. Satchidananda & Ashok Vohra. – RADHAKRISHNAN, HIS LIFE

AND WORKS. SUNY 1990 cloth & dj (one of the few such bindings SUNY has done), 239pp, mint. The only critical and comprehensive biography of Radhakrishnan, one of India’s most re-spected scholars and statesmen. He held both a British Knighthood and Oxford professorship, and was president of India after Nehru. His books remain some of the finest English language texts on Hinduism for the mature western student. This work gives you a synthesis of his philo-sophical and religious beliefs, his biography with an up close glimpse into his personal life, (one that was complicated by his twin loyalties), but also a fine look at Indian history during his long life. Published at $54.50 then remaindered… $9.00

63. Raine, Kathleen, John S. Allitt, et al. – MONARCHY. A Series of Papers Delivered to the Te-

menos Academy. Published to Mark the Golden Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. London: Temenos Academy 2002, sewn paperback, 122pp, elegantly designed and printed, mint copy. $26.00

64. Redgrove, H. Stanley. – BYGONE BELIEFS. Being a Series of Excursions in the Byways of

Thought. London: Rider 1920 1st ed, publ’s red cloth, 205pp plus ads, 53 plates and text illustra-tions including frontis, rear joint worn and fraying, spine lettering dull, a good copy with Josce-lyn Godwin’s bookplate, scarce. Redgrove has been unfairly marginalized because he wrote in popular tones, but he was a recognized scientist also fascinated by the occult, a Fellow of the Chemical Society, and editor of the Journal of the Alchemical Society. Chapters on Pythagoras, folklore of birds, talismans, ceremonial magic, phallic symbolism, the Cambridge Platonists and much else. A very enjoyable reading experience with plenty of meaty footnotes. $55.00

65. ROSA ANGLICA. Sev Rosa Medicinae. Johannis Anglici. Edited with Introduction, Glossary

and English Version by Winifred Wulff. London: Simpkin Marshall for the Irish Texts Society 1929 (1923), publ’s green cloth, elaborate gilt decorated spine, 434pp plus 27pp catalogue mounted to the rear paste-down, old call numbers neatly painted in white on spine else a fine copy. The medieval medical handbook reputed to be by John of Gadesden. $90.00

66. Schwaller de Lubicz, R.A. - SACRED SCIENCE: The King of Pharonic Theocracy. New

York: Inner Traditions International 1961 1st ed, hardcover with dj, 302pp, fine copy. 54 dia-grams and illustrations, four B&W plates, notes, bibliography, index, three tables showing the Principal Philosophical Schools and Chronological Relationships; and nine appendices: Excerpts

from Greek Philosophers, Excerpts from Laplace and Berthelot, From the Infinite to the Trans-finite, Clement of Alexandria and Egypt, Catalogue of Egyptian Books, The Egyptian's Knowledge of Astronomy, The Monuments and Astronomy, The Establishment of the Calendar, and Alternation in Developmental Growth. $65.00

67. Sharpe, Samuel. - THE HISTORY OF EGYPT: From the Earliest Times till the Conquest by

the Arabs, A.D. 640. London: Edward Moxon 1859 4th edition, publ’s red gilt & embossed cloth, two volumes 407+411pp, top of one spine a bit chipped, one cover a bit marked else fine and mostly unopened. Hundreds of woodcuts (234 in vol 1 and 135 in vol 2), each wonderfully described, plus foldout color map as frontis, the entire text indexed by person, subject and quota-tions from the Bible. Sharpe (1799-1881) was a Unitarian banker whose passion for the ancient world fueled his many books, including his own (partial) translation of the Bible. This was a popular one, going into at least six editions, with only minor changes of the text in each, now surprisingly scarce. $110.00

68. Silverman, David P, editor. - SEARCHING FOR ANCIENT EGYPT. Art, Architecture, and Ar-

tifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Dallas Museum of Art & Cornell University Press 1997, heavy quarto, cloth in jacket, 342pp, profusely illustrated in color and black & white, mint copy. The collection, which includes architectural pieces from an Old Kingdom tomb chapel, is divided up into sections such as private art, royal art, divine art, etc. Published at $60.00 but remaindered hence the low price. $12.00

69. Smiles, Sam. - THE IMAGE OF ANTIQUITY: Ancient Britain and the Romantic Imagination.

Yale 1994, small quarto, cloth with dj, 252pp, 128 B&W photographs and reproductions, notes, bibliography, and index, mint copy. In exploring how the remote past of England was imagined, and the role the visual arts played in this romance, Smiles brings us valuable information re-garding the antiquarians of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, those who did the research and wrote the many books we now treasure as our sources of Druidical and Bardic history and the megalithic sites associated with them. An important book for those wishing to define fact from fancy, and for those interested in the mythologizing of the past, Blake, the Celtic Revival, etc. $55.00

70. Squier, E. G. & E. H. Davis. – ANCIENT MONUMENTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY.

NY: Bartlett & Welford 1847-8, [for the Smithsonian Institute], 1st ed, large quarto, publ’s gilt blue-green cloth, X+306pp plus three pages of blanks, two title pages, 48 plates and 207 wood-cuts in the text, most of the plates are steel engravings printed on cardstock, the frontis is in se-pia, the binding though quite worn and waterstained is strong, there are a few bits of foxing and the waterstaining has intruded into the margins of a number of plates but the paper is cotton based and mostly white and clear. Dedicated to Albert Gallatin, (founder of the American Eth-nological Society). Very rare, no copies online and the only copy I’ve seen for sale in at least 28 years. This is a real piece of occult Americana. Ephraim George Squier (1821 – 1888) was an autodidact and prodigy whose profound erudition here inspired the Smithsonian to make this their inaugural publication. $1100.00

71. Standish, David. HOLLOW EARTH. The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange

Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surface. NP [Cambridge]: Da Capo, 2006, cloth-backed boards 303pp, printed on coated stock, b & w illustrations throughout, several of which are full-page, mint copy. Delightful work

of serious investigation, invaluable for those like me pondering the weird edges of literary crea-tion. $12.00

72. Stein, Walter Johannes. - THE DEATH OF MERLIN. Arthurian Myth and Alchemy. Floris

Books 1984, 240pp, dj. Stein was a brilliant scholar and follower of Rudolf Steiner. Stein founded the first Waldorf school. Chapter titles: The fate of Nations; Is King Arthur a historical character, the revival of the Arthurian Legend in the Fifteenth Century; the legend of Basil Val-entine; Thomas Aquinas and the Grail; Tristan & Isolde; the hare in myth and alchemy; etc. $30.00

73. Stevenson, Ian. - CASES OF THE REINCARNATION TYPE. Volume 1: Ten Cases in India.

University Press of Virginia 1975 large 8vo, cloth & dj, 374pp, very well bound in stout open-weave cloth, jacket torn else fine. Later expanded into three more volumes each with a geo-graphical focus. Stevenson is the acknowledge authority on the subject, simply amazing. $26.00

74. Suzuki, D. T. – THE ZEN DOCTRINE OF NO MIND. London: Rider 1958 (1949), small 8vo,

159pp, dj, front fly torn out else nice. Foreword by Christmas Humphries. $65.00

75. Taylor, G. Rattray. - SEX IN HISTORY. London: T & H 1954, cloth & dj, 336pp, dj very slightly chipped but a fine copy. Remains one of the great histories of sex, particularly for the understanding of the critical role of Christianity in perverting sex with religious guilt. $28.00

76. Thoreau) Bonner, Willard H. – HARP ON THE SEA. Thoreau and the Sea. Edited and Com-

piled by George R. Levine. Albany: SUNY 1985, glossy boards, sewn, 128pp. Published at $59.50. Bonner has written many books on Thoreau, whose love of the sea has not been often recognized. Thoreau’s passion for New England’s maritime culture, and his metaphors of the ocean, water, and sea are here explored in a subtle way without the pedantry one might expect. This was Bonner’s last book before he died in 1988. $12.00

77. Todd, Ruthven. - TRACKS IN THE SNOW: Studies in English Science and Art. London: The

Grey Walls Press 1946, slim octavo, cloth with dj, 133pp, mostly fine copy with Joscelyn God-win’s bookplate and signature. Important chapters on Blake, Higgins, etc. $12.00

78. Tompkins, Peter. - SECRETS OF THE GREAT PYRAMID. With an Appendix by Livio Ca-

tullo Stecchini. Harper 1971, quarto, cloth & dj, 416pp, fine copy of a book usually found worn, with famed psychologist Carl R. Rogers’s signature on the title page, (I bought this in La Jolla where Rogers lived and where I grew up). Superbly illustrated throughout, this is the single best book on the subject (and that is saying a lot). It is great because Tompkins was able to distill in-to one volume the essence of hundreds of years of exploration, scholarship, and philosophy, and digest the thousands of books written before him. There is little he seems to have missed. Most importantly, he did it with a rare and marvelously enlightened style, with a wit and precision that often reminds me of John Michell, his friend. It is this work more than any other that was re-sponsible for the renewed popular interest in the ignored origins of civilization. The appendix is a 100-page mathematical treatise understandable only, I am sure, by those with a strong amateur knowledge of pyramidology, geometry, and mathematics. There is also an extremely useful glossary that includes biographies of various personages and significant antiquarians, and a lengthy bibliography. The illustrations, mostly taken from old books, are exceptional and a joy. Among other historical books, Tompkins wrote The Eunuch and the Virgin (1963), a fascinating

work on sexual custom and perversity in the antique and primitive world, a world he first en-countered during his espionage days for the British Government in the east. $60.00

79. Vickery, Roy, compiler. - UNLUCKY PLANTS. A Folklore Survey. London: The Folklore So-

ciety 1985, small 8vo wraps, 92pp. Though this is a recent book, already the paper is browning due to acid content. The text is divided up by plant species, with accounts of their various un-luckiness. These stories were collected in the field. Scarce. $55.00

80. Waddell, L. A. - THE MAKERS OF CIVILIZATION IN RACE & HISTORY. Showing the

Rise of the Aryans or Sumerians, their Origination & Propagation of Civilization, their Exten-sion of it to Egypt & Crete Personalities & Achievements of their Kings, Historical Originals of Mythic Gods & Heroes with Dates from the Rise of Civilization about 3380 B.C. Reconstructed from Babylonian, Egyptian, Hittite, Indian & Gothic Sources. London: Luzac 1929 1st ed, large heavy 8vo, publ‘s gilt cloth, LVI+646pp plus unpaginated plates II-XXIV, with an additional 25 b & w plates on coated stock including frontispiece and over 150 b & w figures, maps, charts & tables, some of which are full-page several of which are folding & extending, index & notes, the frontis is detached (publ’s poor gluing), otherwise a lovely copy of this huge work, inscribed by the author on the title page. Waddell (1854-1938) is easily one of the most fascinating and con-founding historians of the ancient world, said by some to be the real life inspiration of ‘Indian Jones’. Of all his books this is surely his magnum opus, of course rejected whole-heartedly by the establishment. Rare. $220.00

81. Waite, A. E., Editor. - THE HERMETIC MUSEUM, RESTORED & ENLARGED: Most Faith-

fully Instructing all Disciples of the Sopho-Spagyric Art, How That Greatest & Truest Medicine of the Philosopher’s Stone man be Found and Held. Now First Done Into English from the Lat-in Original Published at Frankfort in the Year 1678. Containing Twenty-Two Most Celebrated Chemical Tracts. Complete in One Volume. York Beach: Weiser 1999 (1893), heavy octavo, stout green cloth, gilt, in dust jacket, two volumes in one, 357+322pp, illustrated with engrav-ings from Maier and others, fine copy. $90.00

82. Whatmough, Joshua. – POETIC, SCIENTIFIC AND OTHER FORMS OF DISCOURSE. A

New Approach to Greek and Latin Literature. Berkeley: UC Pr. 1956, publ’s cloth, 285pp, fine copy with the signature of the (anonymous) editor John Fontenrose, “editor’s copy” penned to the fly. Sather Classical Lectures, No.23. Fontenrose (1903 – 1986) wrote a number of books on ancient Greece, in particular on Dionysus. $16.00

83. Williams, Monier. – INDIAN WISDOM, OR EXAMPLES OF THE RELIGIOUS PHILO-

SOPHICAL AND ETHICAL DOCTRINES OF THE HINDUS. With a Brief History of the Chief Departments of Sanskrit Literature and Some Account of the Past and Present Condition of India, Moral and Intellectual. London: Wm. H. Allen 1876 3rd ed, publ’s red pebbled cloth, gilt lettered spine, XLVII+541pp plus ads, spine a trifle worn in a few places else vg-f copy. $55.00

84. Wilson, Colin. – BRANDY OF THE DAMNED. London: Baker 1964 1st ed, fine tan cloth with

dj, 182pp, frontis, nice in lightly rubbed jacket. Rare copy of Wilson’s epic rant on music, later revised in 1967. $68.00

85. Woodroffe, John & Pramatha Natha Mukhyopadhyaya. MAHAMAYA. The World as Power: Power as Consciousness (Chit-Shakti). Madras: Ganesh 1964, (1929), tall 8vo, cloth, VII+260pp, lightly torn and chipped jacket, vg-f condition. In the introduction by M. Pandit he confirms that this Englishman had a rare and at times unique ability--still unsurpassed in some cases--to convey the inscrutable complexities of the Tantras and other Indian texts to the West-ern reader without loosing any of the subtleties. It should also be known that while his books are all still inprint in India and available in any really good esoteric bookshop (such as there are these days), the new publishers have made the poor decision to re-issue them in cheap plastic bindings, and in some cases have deleted the original Sanskrit words! $45.00

86. Yeats, W. B. – IDEAS OF GOOD AND EVIL. London: Bullen 1903, 2nd ed, publ’s ribbed

cloth handsomely gilt lettered on spine and front cover, 341pp, title rubricated, small old address label on fly, covers a bit scuffed else vg-f. Published in the same year as the 1st ed. Wade 46. $65.00

87. Yeats) Henn, T.R. - THE LONELY TOWER. Studies in the Poetry of W.B.Yeats. NY: Pelle-

grini & Cudahy 1952, publ’s cloth, 362pp, plates, spine lettering dull else vg. Henn is obviously sympathetic to Yeats’ esoteric side. Chapters include Image & Symbol; Myth & Magic; A Vi-sion; Phases of the Moon. $28.00

88. Yeats) O'Donnell, William H., editor. PREFACES AND INTRODUCTIONS. Uncollected Pref-

aces and Introductions by Yeats to Works by Other Authors and to Anthologies Edited by Yeats. New York: Macmillan, 1989, first printing, hardcover & dj, 370pp, six b & w illustrations on coated stock, two of which are full-page, extensive notes and scholarly apparatus, vg copy. The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats series, volume VI. This volume, unlike most of the others, con-tains many texts that are nearly impossible to buy on the open book market. $40.00

89. Yu-Lan, Fung. - A HISTORY OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY. Princeton: Princeton University

Press 1952 & 1953, 2nd ed, two volumes, publ’s stout black cloth, 455+783pp, about 15 passag-es in volume two underlined in ink, cloth a bit marked else vg-f. The paperback is still in print at $120.00. Was for long the definitive history, and unlike most previous ones it does not obsess on Confucian schools. Almost half the text concerns Taoism. Volume one is unaccountably scarce. $150.00

90. Zink, David. - THE STONES OF ATLANTIS. NY: Prentice-Hall 1990 revised edition paper-

back, 299pp, illustrated, vg-f. Greatly expanded from the 1978 edition. Zink is the author-explorer who supposedly found the stones predicted by Edgar Cayce. $16.00