Glasgow: William Mackenzie, 1852. First Edition. 12mo, 15 pages, bound in modern red cloth with paper label. Mesmerism Considered is a scarce mid-Victorian pamphlet on mesmerism, animal magnetism, trance, and the controversial powers attributed to mesmeric influence. Published in Glasgow by William Mackenzie in 1852, the work belongs to the.....
London: Robert Triphook and Thomas Rodd, 1822. First Edition Thus. First Thomas Taylor translation. Octavo, xxiv, 400 pages, rebound in red buckram with gilt-lettered spine label and new endpapers. This copy is without the final “Passages Suppressed” leaves, if called for. Thomas Taylor’s 1822 translation of The Metamorphosis; or, Golden.....
London: George Bell and Sons, 1879. 12mo, iii, 567 pages, bound in period quarter leather over marbled boards. Spine with gilt-lettering and decoration. Marbled endpapers and edges. An important nineteenth-century collected edition of Francis Bacon’s major philosophical writings, The Physical and Metaphysical Works of Lord Bacon brings together some of.....
London: The Theosophical Publishing Society, 1890. First Edition. Two small slim quartos, 64; 47 pages, bound in quarter leather over pebbled boards. Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge of the Theosophical Society: Discussions on the Stanzas of the First Volume of The Secret Doctrine is an important early Theosophical publication preserving.....
London: George Redway, 1887. First English Edition. Octavo, xxiv, 360, 39, [1] pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered blue cloth covered boards. Uncommon first English edition of Adolphe d’Assier’s Posthumous Humanity: A Study of Phantoms, a substantial Victorian investigation of apparitions, ghosts, phantoms, post-mortem survival, and the persistence of the human entity.....
New York: The Path, 1890. Second Edition. 12mo, xiv, 64, [1] pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered and decorated blue cloth covered boards. Early Theosophical interpretation of Patanjali’s Yoga Aphorisms, rendered by William Q. Judge with the assistance of James Henderson Connelly. Published in New York by The Path in 1890, this.....
London: T. Longman, and T. Shewell; and J. Brackstone, 1745. The Eighth Edition, Corrected. Octavo, iv, 365, [4], [1] pages, bound in period full leather with raised bands to spine. Isaac Watts’s Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth is an important 18th-century work on.....