Matrix IV: The Equivideum Paradigms and Dimensions of Human Evolution anf Consciousness by Valdmar Valerian, with Michael Topper - 1994

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1924 first American edition in this English translation, near fine, light rubbing to cloth, pencil to endpaper, top edge dusted red, dust jacket is unclipped but rubbed to joints and corners with some splitting along the folds and minor edge chipping to spine ends, 317pp, translated by Keene Wallis, dust jacket design by Gropper. First Thus. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Gropper . 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Reading: Gedruckt fur Charles M’Williams, 1820. Hardcover. See Description. First American Edition. 12mo. 142p. With a dramatic woodcut frontispiece depicting the Anti-Christ as a seven headed dragon. Re-bound in quarter calf with marbled boards preserving the original calf spine. Title page shows age-toning, soiling and staining; a small darker spot of staining is present near the upper corner. The inside margin of the frontispiece is carefully restored with some spots of loss to the inner black border-line of the illustration. End papers are stained; notations in an early hand are scrawled on the front free end paper. Interior pages contain light age toning, scattered marginal foxing, soiling and wear. A German mystic named Christian Armbruster penned this apocalyptic work (first published in Germany in either 1813 or 1814). The author predicts the immanent end of days by comparing current events at that time – i.e. the rise of the Emperor Napoleon – to the prophecies in the Book of… Read More

Oceanside California: The Rosicrucian Fellowship, 1926. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Fourth Edition. Fine but for sticker on front pastedown, with proclaimer's name scratched out. ( I think this actually enhances this copy )..

Manchester University Press, 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Edited and translated by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart. Original cloth, pp. xi, 290. Bumped at the spine tips, slightly dust-marked top edge but a Fine copy in Fine, clean dustjacket with minor creasing to the top edge. Very scarce in hardcover format.

First printing (number line contains "1").
Book cover like new, slight wear at end caps - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.
Jacket like new, slight shelf wear.
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This remarkable and groundbreaking study explores the author's view that there is a close correspondence between the basic tenets of alchemy and those of Jewish esoteric tradition, generally known as Kabbalah.
The author, Arturo Schwarz, points out that both alchemy and Kabbalah are frequently distorted in popular as well as scholarly literature. The real concern of alchemy is not to transmute lead into gold, but rather, through the investigation of the self, to evolve from the state of ignorance (symbolized by lead) to that of awareness (symbolized by gold). As Schwarz points out, "this drive toward self-awareness is also basic in the teachings of the major kabbalists."
Schwarz goes on to explain that in both systems… Read More

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1924 first American edition in this English translation, near fine, light rubbing to cloth, pencil to endpaper, top edge dusted red, dust jacket is unclipped but rubbed to joints and corners with some splitting along the folds and minor edge chipping to spine ends, 317pp, translated by Keene Wallis, dust jacket design by Gropper. First Thus. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Gropper . 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1830. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. First Edition. 8vo. pp. xvi, 430, [2]. Bound in original quarter gray cloth and paper boards. Re-backed preserving the original spine. Paper boards are rubbed, discolored and aged. Board corners are carefully repaired/strengthened. Interior contains scattered foxing and splotching; some leaves possess a rough or chipped marginal edge (due to careless opening); outer marginal tearing is neatly and professionally sealed on several leaves; pages 1 and 413 display a light corner crease or stress mark. Crabtree states that this is "A little known work of real significance for the history of both animal magnetism and of physical research. Newnham wrote the book under the patronage of the Bishop of Winchester and it was clearly an attempt to use physiological and psychological terms to explain supernatural or supernormal phenomena which embarrass the Church… Newnham’s chapters on sleep, dreams and somnambulism… Read More

A Lyons: chez les Heritiers de Beringos fraters, a l’enseigne d’Agrippa, 1791. Stiff Wraps. See Description. Probably dates to late 18th – early 19th century. 16mo. pp. [20], 252, [10]. With frontispiece engraving and 4 full page wood cuts. Bound in modern stiff paper wraps. Text block is untrimmed. Interior pages contain occasional mild spotting, soiling and wear. Half-title is age-toned. A long strip is excised / torn-out of the outer margin on p. 221, running right up to the edge of the text, and obscuring a few letters; a piece is also torn from the bottom corner of p. 227 obstructing the last words in a couple of text lines. Some very miniscule holes on pp. 245/246 partially obstruct a couple of letters. There are several versions of "Les admirables secrets" with the date 1791, each with differences and with a different pagination (see WorldCat). The copy here offered is not the edition listed in Caillet and Dorbon-Ainé with the false 1791 date (attributed to… Read More

Oceanside California: The Rosicrucian Fellowship, 1926. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Fourth Edition. Fine but for sticker on front pastedown, with proclaimer's name scratched out. ( I think this actually enhances this copy )..

Pocket Book, 1977. Softcover. Fine.