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1963354p. 8vo. Original coarse linen cloth binding. Also issued as: Pennsylvania German Folklore Society. Volume XXV. A noted semi-monastic (utopian) religious community was founded (c.1732) there by Seventh-Day Baptist Brethren, under the leadership of Johann Conrad Beissel. This austere colony, the Ephrata Cloisters, was famous for its music and mysticism, and established (1745) one of the most important early printing presses in the country. The well-preserved buildings are still maintained as a monument by the state. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! BEFORE ORDERING PLEASE Email to RareBooks@POBox.com so that we can CONFIRM AVAILABILITY
1779pp. [42], 1484 + Engraved frontis portrait of Arndt. Title printed in red and black. Small thick 8vo. 185 mm. German text. Some age stain. Full leather binding with brass clasps on leather straps. Boards worn and nearly detached. Spine worn, lacking half inch at tail. Johann Arndt (1555-1621) German Lutheran theologian, churchman, and author of two devotional books which exerted a far-reaching influence upon the Protestant world. Called the "Father of German Pietism" he is also considered the most significant mystic in Lutheranism next to Jakob Boehme and Valentin Weigel. His 'Wahres Christentum' is an edifying reader of meditations and prayers of great emotional warmth. Along with the smaller 'Paradiesgartlein' it was especially popular in Mennonite circles. In fact the 'Wahres Christentum' was the most used devotional book in German (and German-American) Mennonite families for over two centuries. This particular edition is really quite scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! GER-GER 1
1908452 p. + Color frontispiece. 8vo. 210 mm. Original pictorial cloth binding is washed out, but the interesting map on the cover, dated 9262 B.C. is still easily read. This is a rather important, but often overlooked utopian novel. There is much dealing with the roles of Christianity and Communism in political and social organization. Most interesting are the arguments and scientific theories which demonstrate the existence of a mother-continent (as well as a lost race) within the Arctic Circle. Bibliographers in the field have long noted its significance - see: Clareson, The Emergence of American Science Fiction, p. 149; Anatomy of Wonder 2-92; Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1063; Clareson, Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s, 407; Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 83; Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 107; Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 536; Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985, p. 142; Reginald 06912; Smith, American Fiction 1901-1925, H-368; Etc. First edition. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! OCCULT 7
1943158p. 12mo. Original full cloth binding. Scarce. OCC 1
191770p. Small 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Slightly soiled. Annie Besant (1847-1933) was an influential English social and political reformer before converting to Theosophy. She quickly became a major force in the movement. She was President of the Theosophical Society from 1907 to her death in 1933. OCC 5
1915191p. 8vo. Original worn full cloth binding. Stamped XLib. Theosophical Society of St. Paul Lodge. Fifth reprint. Annie Besant (1847-1933) was an influential English social and political reformer before converting to Theosophy. She quickly became a major force in the movement. She was President of the Theosophical Society from 1907 to her death in 1933. OCC 4
1915pp. 66, (2) [Publisher's catalogue]. 12mo. Original full cloth binding. Old tape spine repair. XLib. Annie Besant (1847-1933) was an influential English social and political reformer before converting to Theosophy. She quickly became a major force in the movement. She was President of the Theosophical Society from 1907 to her death in 1933. OCC 7
1913pp. 94, (2) [Catalogue of the People's Books]. 12mo. Original full green cloth binding. From the Library of the Theosophical Society of Maryland. Annie Besant (1847-1933) was an influential English social and political reformer before converting to Theosophy. She quickly became a major force in the movement. She was President of the Theosophical Society from 1907 to her death in 1933. OCC 8
1989207p. Warner paperback. OCC 2
1973170p. Perennial Library paperback. OCC 2
1991214p. Illustrated. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. A fictional recreation of the journals of seven alchemists, starting with Paracelsus, the 16th century alchemist. With beautiful wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. OCC 2
1975309p. Ballantine paperback. Here is the true story of Cayce's psychic awakening, his greatest challenges and his tormenting dilemmas. With all the immediacy of an exciting novel, Jess Stearn completes the portrait he began in his best-selling 'Edgar Cayce, The Sleeping Prophet.' OCC 2
1971344p. Photos by Frank Stork. Drawings by Goldie Libson. A Bantam paperback. Text underlined. OCC 2
1911388 p. Original paper wraps binding, worn. Scarce Italian edition of STUDY ON THE CONSCIENCE. Contribution To Science of the Psychology. Annie Besant (1847-1933) was an influential English social and political reformer before converting to Theosophy. She quickly became a major force in the movement. She was President of the Theosophical Society from 1907 to her death in 1933. OCC 16
1908134 p. 16mo. Original stiff printed wraps. Scarce Italian edition of this Theosophical classic. Annie Besant (1847-1933) was an influential English social and political reformer before converting to Theosophy. She quickly became a major force in the movement. She was President of the Theosophical Society from 1907 to her death in 1933. OCC 14
1908pp. xxiii, 477 + Color Frontis and full page plates. Text drawings. Top edge gilt. Uncut. Inner hinges cracked. Tipped in printed slip "Please acknowledge receipt to Julius F. Sachse, Librarian R.W. Grand Lodge, F.& A.M. of Pennsylvania, Masonic Temple, Philadelphia, PA". 4to. Original full purple cloth binding, decorated and lettered in gold. Spine worn and faded. Damp stains at end. This is the first volume of what was intended to be a five volume work. Apparently only three volumes were issued. PA SHELF 53 x2
1768Full Title: "L'ALBERT MODERNE; OU, NOUVEAUX SECRETS EPROUVES, ET LICITES, Recueillis D'Apres les Decouvertes les Plus Recentes. Les uns ayant pour objet de remedier a un grand nombre d'accidens qui interessent la sante: Les autres, quantitite de choses utiles a scavoir pour les differens besoins de la vie." pp. xxiv, 430. 12 mo. 18 cm. Attractive 18th century full leather binding. Chip at head repaired. Marbled edges. Marbled endpapers. Hardbound. Very good. A rare French medical and cooking text. Really worthy of further research. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! CLEO 2/1
1847416p. Lithographed frontis. 8vo. Original full brown publisher's cloth binding. Spine decorated in gold. Top and bottom of spine torn. Five leaves torn. Dampstained. Foxed. Early inked ownership. Book plate of Beverley Robinson Potter. verse drama that enjoyed a phenomenal success in the nineteenth century, a retelling of the Faust legend, full of Byronic diction, liberal theology, and Victorian social and political aspirations. OCC 12
1937pp. xii, 153. Frontis. 12mo. Original full gold decorated cloth binding. Fourteenth edition. First copyrighted in 1893 by Wm. Judge. A very nice copy. The Earth chain; Manas; Astral body; Devachan, Ka ma Loka; General Theosophical topics; etc. OCC 8/OCC 1
1821267p. Foxed. Mildly XLib. Early inked ownership of Francis Allen, NY, on title page. Tall 8vo. Original full leather binding, very worn. Front board detached. S&S #5030. Hardbound. Good. Quite scarce. Rev. Colton is most famous for a pamphlet that he wrote on GHOSTS. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUN5 BOX 7
1611Fuller title: LES PROPHETIES DE M. MICHEL NOSTRADAMUS. Dont il y en a trois cens qui n'ont encores iamais este imprimees. Adioustees de nouueau par ledict Auteur. [BOUND WITH] RECUEIL DES PROPHETIES ET REVELATIONS, TANT ANCIENNES QUE MODERNES. Contenant un sommaire des revelations de Saincte Brigide, S. Cyrille, & plusieurs autres Saincts & religieux personnages: nouvellement reveues & corrigees. Et de nouveau augmentees outre les precedentes impressions. Three volumes in one. ff. 64 leaves; 48 leaves; 64 leaves (with various errors in pagination). Loss of a corner and a few letters from one leaf of volume two. Last leaf of the third work lacks a half page containing part of the Table. Some age and damp staining. Old manuscript notes. There is also an manuscript quatrain at the end of the first volume of Centurie XI [actually 12]. It is numbered LVI or 56. "Roy contre Roy et Le Duc contre Prince / Haine entre iceux, dissension horrible / Rage et fureur sera toute province / France grand guerre et changement terrible. It apparently was left out in the printing of this edition. This is usually taken to refer to "The War of the Three Henrys" [Guerre des trois Henri - Valois, Bourbon et Guise]. Small 8vo. 170 cm. Modern full blue leather binding, with raised bands. The original French marbled endpapers are preserved. Michel de Nostredame (1503-1566), usually Latinized to Nostradamus, was a French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies that have since become famous world-wide. He is best known for this book Les Propheties, which first appeared in 1555. The book has rarely been out of print since his death. All the early editions are very idiosyncratic and deserving of study. Nostradamus attracted an enthusiastic following who, along with the popular press, credit him with predicting many major world events. Interest in the work of this prominent figure of the French Renaissance is still considerable, especially in the media and in popular culture, and the prophecies have in some cases been assimilated to the results of applying the alleged Bible Code, as well as to other purported prophetic works. Benazra pag 170; Chomarat 176; Ruzo 53. A decent example of a very scarce edition. CHEST 2/1
1922pp. xii, 158 + Frontis photo. 12mo. 187 mm. Green full cloth binding. Title lettered in gold gilt. Slight rubbing to binding. Manuscript ownership of Nellie L. Horst (Reading, PA) 1930. Hardbound. Very good. OCC 1
1836Two Volumes bound in one. pp. (4), (vii)-xxviii, (21)-231; (4), (vii)-xxiv, (25)-220, 8 [Publisher's catalogue]. Occult symbol on title page and in text. Foxed. Uncut. Early manuscript ownership of Edward Baurn? May 1835 on first fly leaf. Printed bookplate of Charles A. Curtis on front paste down. 12mo. 190 mm. Original patterned cloth binding, worn and soiled. Original paper spine label, worn. Front joint cracked. Head and tail of spine worn with slight loss.First U.S. edition. This Harper edition prints the first volumes of this literary miscellany published in England in seven volumes between 1834 and 1847. It is a "Collection of articles on a great variety of subjects, differing from a commonplace book in that they are connected together, somewhat loosely, by the story that runs through them of an imaginary Dr. Daniel Dove of Doncaster and his horse Nobs. It contains the nursery story of The Three Bears, and its humor is occasionally Rabelaisian." - OCEL, p. 228; S&S/AI 40270. Hardbound. Good. AI BX 7
1950195p. Original full cloth binding. Limited edition. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
1665pp. [24], 528 Including illustrated title page engraved by C. Hagen [Christiaan Hagen / van der Hagen / Hagens of Bremen (ca. 1635-1707). Latin text with some Hebrew. Includes a brief but interesting section on Kabbalah. Though this work is held by a few major European libraries, we can find no holdings among U.S. libraries. / BOUND WITH / Geier, Martin (1614-1680); Maimonides, Moses (1135-1204). MARTINI GEIERI L. DE EBRAORUM LUCTU lugentiumq[ue]; ritibus; E Sacris pracipue, nec non R. Mosis B. Maimon tit. Efel, alijsq[ue]. Impensis Hared. Henningi Grossi, Lipsiae (Leipzig, Germany): 1656. pp. [24], 432 [i.e. 434], [34]. Latin with some Hebrew text. 24 mo.140 x 90 x 56 mm. Bound in old full vellum, with much of the covering gone from the front board. The colophon reads: Lipsiae, Literis Friderici Lanckisii imprimebat Christophorum Cellarius, 1656. Very Good. For this work there are a few U.S. holdings and about a dozen in Europe. SCARCE. CHEST 2/1