Ward, Chas. A.MareMagnum
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1993375p. 8vo. Original cloth backed paper boards. Very slight damp staining bottom of pages not effecting text. OCC 9.
1847pp. 392, 40. Numerous portrait engravings. 8vo. Original cloth binding. Small loss at top of spine. Text very damp stained and foxed. Early ownership of John B. Bachman. PHREN 1 **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
1856pp. vi, 273 (2) (6) [Publisher's catalogue]. Engraved frontis. All edges gold. 16mo. Original full dark blue cloth binding embossed in gold and blind. Worn with small loss at top and bottom of spine. Slight soiling. An interesting little American version. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PHREN 2
1914pp. xi, 193. With 56 illustrations from original drawings by Carl Bohnen. 8vo. Library binding. XLib. PHREN 2.
1873pp. xviii, 1211. Numerous text engravings. 8vo. Original gold decorated full purple cloth binding. Extremities bumped. Phrenology; its preservation restoration etc. Mental Philosophy, human and self i mprovement, civilization, home, country, commerce, rights, duties, ethics, etc. God, His existence, attributes, laws, worship, natural theology, etc. Immortality, its evidences, conditions, relations to time, rewards, punishments, sin, faith, prayer, etc. Intellect, memory, juvenile and self education, literature, mental discipline, the senses, sciences, arts, avocations, a perfect life, etc. A thorough phrenological guide to every aspect of human life. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PHREN 1
1871Two volumes in one. pp. 436, 426. Numerous engravings. Small. 4to. Original half leather binding. Rear board detached. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PHREN 1
1872Two volumes in one. pp. 424, 426. Numerous engravings. Small 4to. Original half leather. Boards detached. First title page repaired. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PHREN 1
1880Two volumes in one. pp. 336, 336. Numerous engravings. Small 4to. Half leather. Marbled boards. Bound by Quinter & Brumbaugh Bros., Huntingdon, PA. XLib. A nice copy. PHREN 1
191390p. 12mo. Original decorative printed wraps. Character reading by Prof. Otto Hatry for Edwin R. Kurtz. Prof. Otto Hatry's folded full page advertisement with prices. Small tear on front cover otherwise a nice copy. Very scarce. PHREN 2
1926400p. Small 4to. Original full red cloth binding. Twelfth edition. Early ownership on title page. Under the pseudonym Edmund Shaftesbury, Webster Edgerly was a prolific author, and his books were very influential in the era. His promotion of whole grain cereals through his Ralston Health Club and University was responsible for the founding success of the Ralston Purina company. PHREN 2
1869Five volumes in one. pp. 41, 46, 58, 63, 65 (12) [Publisher's catalogue]. Numerous text engravings. 12mo. Original full publisher's cloth binding. Text has some staining. PHREN 2
1924125p. Illustrated. 8vo. Original very worn full cloth binding. Slight damp stain. From the working magic library of Bill Lieberman (Master of Magic) MAG 3
1902190p. + Plus frontis and full page illustrations by Newell, Frost, and Richards. Title page printed in red and black. Uncut. Top edge gold. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding. Heavily dust spotted. Gilt decorated spine. John Kendrick Bangs (18621922) was an American author, humorist, editor and satirist. He wrote many popular books. The most famous might be: A House-Boat on the Styx. HUMOR 1
1909164p. + Frontis. Foxed. 12mo. Original full red cloth binding. OCC 15
1962A whole collection of mimeographed Cayce materials, contained in a binder. Large 4to. Really quite unusual and scarce. The COMMENTARY ON THE BOOK OF THE REVELATION. is a 2nd printing - issued just a year after the first. OCC 14
1922129 p. Tall thin 8vo. Original vellum backed printed paper boards. Chuang-tzu or Chuang-tze (Ca. 369-286 B.C.), Chinese Taoist writer, was a native of the state of Meng, on the border of present-day Shandong and Henan provinces, where lived as a hermit. The collection of essays attributed to him, called the Chuang-tzu, is distinguished by its brilliant and original style, with abundant use of satire, paradox, and seemingly nonsensical stories. Chuang-tzu emphasizes the relativity of all ideas and conventions that are the basis of judgments and distinctions; he puts forward as the solution to the problems of the human condition freedom in identification with the universal Tao, or principle of Nature. He is less political in his orientation than the earlier Taoist Lao Tzu. He is also called Chuang Chou." - Columbia Encyclopedia. It is remarkable to have here a German edition translated and edited by the Jewish philosopher, Martin Buber. OCC 14
1965549 p. Highly illustrated. French language text. Large 4to. XLib. Original full cloth binding. Extremely useful reference to the occult sciences. OCCULT; REFERENCE; MYSTICISM; PHILOSOPHY; ESOTERIC; NEW AGE; HERMETIC; ARCANE; TRANSCENDENTAL; FRENCH; FORTUNE TELLING OCC 15
1793pp. (vi), 275 + Plus seven engraved plates, each with six illustrations of heads. 12mo. Uncut. Original marbled boards binding, paper spine gone. Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801), Swiss theologian and mystic is chiefly remembered for this work on physiognomy. Derived from the works of Giambattista della Porta, this is the art of determining character and personality from facial characteristics and shapes. It was a concept that was continued in the phrenological researches of Victorian times. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! OCC 16
1930ff. (2), 90 leaves mimeographed on one side. Large 4to. Stapled. Wraps. First Edition. A remarkable work of metaphysics, economics, and philosophy. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! OCC14
1906310 p. + Photographic portraits + Publisher's advertisements. "A brief treatise for busy people and specially intended for ministers and teachers" exploring the role and relationship of the masonic order and other secret societies in Christian America. OCC 17
1943Two volumes in one. pp. 365; 292. Small 8vo. Original red full cloth binding. Original dust jacket with some edge chips and tears. Many of these stories appeared in Great Ghost Stories and Ghosts Grim and Gentle. Among the authors represented are: H.G. Wells; Fitz-James O'Brien,; Thomas Hardy; Algernon Blackwood, Ambrose Bierce; and many others. This collection first appeared in 1918. Makes fine guest room reading in an old country house. OCC 3
2003pp. xix, 282. Illustrated. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Dust Jacket. Excellent new study of the mystical community at Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. PGS BEFORE ORDERING PLEASE Email to RareBooks@POBox.com so that we can CONFIRM AVAILABILITY
1820359 p. 12mo. 16 cm. Foxed. Contemporary full leather binding. (American) manuscript ownership of John Meyers. An important collection of German Christian mystical texts. This edition is very scarce, and especially more interesting for its American ownership. Jakob Boehme (or Böhme) [1575-1624], German religious mystic, a cobbler of Görlitz, in England also called Behmen. He was a student of the Bible and was influenced by Paracelsus. In his major works, De signatura rerum (The Signature of all Things) and Mysterium magnum, Boehme describes God as the abyss, the nothing and the all, the primordial depths from which the creative will struggles forth to find manifestation and self-consciousness. Evil is a result of the striving of single elements of Deity to become the whole; conflict ensues as man and nature strive to achieve God who, in himself, contains all antithetical principles. Boehme exerted a profound influence on the philosophies of Baader, Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer. Boehme claimed divine revelation and had many followers in Germany and Holland. Societies of Behmenites were formed in England; many of them were later absorbed by the Quakers. QUITE SCARCE AND IMPORTANT. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA 011A. BEFORE ORDERING - PLEASE Email to RareBooks@POBox.com so that we can CONFIRM AVAILABILITY
1968Nine Volumes. 12mo. Original printed wraps. Extensive pencil notes and underlinings in a couple volumes. Owners name (Grace E. Rightmeyer) on the upper edge of each volume. The Second Edition of this classic compilation of observations, instructions, philosophy, and interpretations by one of the "best of modern esoteric astrologers." OCC5
1787pp. (x) 178 + Publisher's broadsheet (1). 12mo. Damp and age stained. Stencil and manuscript ownerships of Robert Gill. Plain modern wraps. Swedish philosopher, scientist and religious writer, Emanuel Sewdenborg (Swedenbourg) [1688-1772] established himself as an inventor and scientist. He started having visions in 1743, and devoted himself thereafter to psychical and spiritual research. interpreting the scriptures as the immediate voice of God. He taught that all scripture contains an inner, spiritual sense which is not at all obvious from the natural sense of the word, or our understanding of the world. Among other things, he taught: that the universe is filled with inhabited planets, which are peopled by perfect human forms just like those on our earth; that their spirits in the spirit world can be seen and contacted, and he proceeds to describe some of their inhabitants ('Worlds in Space'); in 'Heaven and Hell' he describes in detail the heaven and hell of the spirit world, and how people and societies there function and are organized; in 'Divine Love and Wisdom' he describes the nature of that divine Spirit which emanates from the Deity, called in the scriptures the Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost, and which appears in the spirit world as the sun, and gives light and heat to the inhabitants of that world - its light having the effect of intelligence, and its heat having the effect of love; in 'The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Concerning the Lord' he discusses the spiritual interpretation of the doctrine of the Godhead; Etc. Although he never preached publicly or formally founded a religious sect, his followers which included many artisits and freethinkers (among them William Blake) constituted a considerable society which became known as the New Jerusalem Church. This is the rare "Second Edition" published in the same year as the first. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W140Rt