200 € Very scarce second edition from 1925 of THE SCIENCE OF FAIRY TALES: AN INQUIRY INTO FAIRY MYTHOLOGY, by Edwin Sidney Hartland, with an Introduction by A.A. Milne. The Art Of Story-telling; Savage Ideas; Fairy Births And Human Midwives; Fairy Births And Human Midwives (continued); Changelings; Robberies From Fairyland; The Supernatural Lapse Of Time In Fairyland; The…
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160 € Scarce and attractive first edition of those Tales of childhood. William Brighty Rands (24 December 1823, Chelsea, Middlesex — 23 April 1882 at the age of 58, East Dulwich, London) was a British writer and one of the major authors of nursery rhymes of the Victorian era. He studied from age 8 to…
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700 € Azoth – Or The Star in the East is a 1893 work by A. E. Waite. Arthur Edward Waite (1857 – 1942), more commonly referred to as A. E. Waite, was an American-born British mystic and poet. He wrote profusely on the subject of the occult and esoteric matters, and is famous for…
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150 € This First Edition by Edward Dwight Walker a Theosophist and author remains one of the more important books on the subject of reincarnation. The book details what is referred to as evidence of reincarnation throughout history, examining ancient civilizations, the Bible, Buddhism and other religions, and the writings of poets and thinkers on the…
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3,000 € First edition of this “rare work on symbols” (Caillet). The first part contains in particular the Greek text and the Latin translation of the famous Hieroglyphica of Horapollo (4th-5th centuries) which have aroused curiosity for Egypt since their rediscovery in the 15th century. The second part has ambition to produce a hieroglyphic and iconological repertoire for…
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105.07 € Varney the Vampire; or, the Feast of Blood is a Victorian era serialized gothic horror story variously attributed to James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest. It first appeared in 1845-1847 as a series of weekly cheap pamphlets of the kind then known as “penny dreadfuls”. The story was published in book form…
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5,500 € First Edition 4 volumes of Anne Radcliffe novel The Mysteries of Udolpho, a gothic novel that tells the story of Emily St. Aubert, who suffers misadventures that include the death of her mother and father, supernatural terrors in a gloomy castle, and machinations of an Italian brigand. Mrs Anne Radcliffe (1764-1823) was a…
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500 € The Castle of Otranto was first published in 1764 and his author is Horace Walpole, but it purports to be a translation of a work printed in Naples in 1529 and newly discovered in the library of ‘an ancient Catholic family in the north of England’. The novel relates the history of Manfred, the…
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300 € The Age of Fable; or, Stories of Gods and Heroes it was written by American Latinist and banker Thomas Bulfinch and published after his death in 1867. The work was a highly successful popularization of Greek mythology for English speaking readers. Illustrated with several wood engravings throughout, including frontispiece with tissue-guard. First state with the names of both…
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5300 € The Three Books of Occult Philosophy is the most complete repository of pagan and Neoplatonic magic ever compiled. It was written by the german Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim. First edition in English of Agrippa’s occult masterpiece, De occulta philosophia libri tres, written prior to 1510, but not published until 1533, two years before Aggripa’s…
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