J.D. Holmes, ABAA - ILAB

PLAISIRS D'AMOUR: An Erotic Guide to the Senses.

Nash, Elizabeth. · 1995

$19.75 (€17.92 | £14.95 | ¥3,154)

HarperSanFrancisco, 1995. In quality French-fold art paper; A FINE COPY. 192 pages. Square 4to.

THE HOLY GRAIL: Its Origins, Secrets and Meaning Revealed.

Godwin, Malcolm. · 1994

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

London: Bloomsbury, 1994. A FINE CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket. Extraordinary illustrations, rare and scarce plates and figures, in color. Bibliography. 256 pages, indexed. Small 4to.

GNOSIS: A Journal of Western Inner Traditions. ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS, Issue Number 15.

Kinney, Jay. (ed.) · 1990

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.25 | ¥2,795)

San Francisco: Spring, 1990. Stitched wraps as issued; A FINE COPY. Letters, reviews, articles by such as authors as Smoley and Fideler, more. 88 pages. 4to.

NEOPLATONISM AND INDIAN THOUGHT.

Harris, R. Baine. (ed.) · 1982

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, 1982. FIRST EDITION. In premium cloth, sewn; A FINE COPY, still in publisher's original shrink-wrap.. Studies in Neoplatonism: Ancient and Modern Series 353 pages with index. Tall octavo.

THE CHRISTIAN WORLD: A Social and Cultural History.

Barraclough, Geoffrey. (ed.) · 1981

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York: Harry Abrams, 1981. FIRST EDITION. Fine Premium Cloth Copy in fine dust jacket. Three hundred fifty three illustrations, including 85 full-page color plates, and two maps. 328 pages, indexed. Tall 4to.

LETTER FROM T.H. MARTYN TO MRS. ANNIE BESANT.

Martyn, T.H. · 1921

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

Issued to the Australian Branch of the Theosophical Society at Sydney, 1921. Original printed broadside of the notorious letter condemning Leadbeater for immoral practices, and calling on Besant to refute his teachings. A very controversial piece of early Theosophical literatu...

DORIS LESSING: A Bibliography of her First Editions.

Brueck, Eric. · 1984

$22.50 (€20.41 | £17.03 | ¥3,593)

Wellingborough: Metropolis, 1984. Limited edition of 255 copies of which this is number 113. In custom wraps as issued; FINE CONDITION in mylar sleeve. Portrait of Lessing as frontispiece. Lessing studied with Idries Shah in the 70s, and used many esoteric concepts in her scie...

THE EASTERN QUESTION; or, An Outline of Mohammedanism. Its Rise, Progress and Decay.

Son of the East, A. · 1882

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

Boston: A. Williams & Co., 1882. FIRST EDITION. In original wraps as issued; internals clean and free of marking; exterior covers worn and chipped; VERY GOOD. Note: Like the Harvard copy, the Williams label is pasted over the original Tolman & White title page. 65 pages plus ...

THE RIDDLE OF THE 'LABURUM' AND THE ORIGIN OF CHRISTIAN SYMBOLISM.

Pitt-Rivers, George. · 1966

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1966. First Edition. FINE CLOTH VOLUMEin fine dust jacket. Colored frontispiece, and beautifully illustrated and designed. Small octavo.

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RELIGION (Mainly Avestan and Vedic).

Saklawalla, J.E. · 1922

$88.00 (€79.84 | £66.61 | ¥14,052)

Bombay: Alan Press, 1922. FIRST EDITION. Some chipping, else, A GOOD OR BETTER COPY in the original wraps, free of marking. Unusual sizing, being a 3 X 8 narrow volume. 142 pages, [xvii] addenda. Scarce.

THE ARTHUR OF THE ENGLISH POETS.

Maynadier, Howard. · 1907

$31.50 (€28.58 | £23.84 | ¥5,030)

Boston & New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 1907. FIRST U.S. EDITION. Very Good+ Cloth Volume. Excellent work, with specail value for the many annotations to medieval rarities, related to the Romance of the Rose. 454 pages, indexed. Small 8vo.

THE DIARY OF A MODERN ALCHEMIST.

Reyner, J.H. · 1974

$33.00 (€29.94 | £24.98 | ¥5,270)

London, Neville Spearman, 1974. First Edition. VERY GOOD CLOTH COPY in dust jacket. More related to the Fourth Way, and the human machine, than the laboratory. Illustrated. 155 pages, indexed. Octavo.

THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY: Ancient and Mediæval Philosophy. Volume One.

Erdmann, Johann. · 1997

$63.00 (€57.16 | £47.69 | ¥10,060)

Bristol: Thoemmes, 1997. Archival printing of the 1890 Swan Sonnenschein edition. A FINE CLOTH VOLUME, sewn and archival. Translated by Williston S. Hough. Covers the Platonists and other ancient schools, the Gnostics, the Neo-Platonists, Paracelsus, others. 736 pages, indexed...

RELIGIONS OF THE HINDUS: Essays and Lectures.

Wilson, H.H. · 1978

$47.50 (€43.10 | £35.95 | ¥7,585)

New Delhi: Cosmo Publications, 1978. A FINE COPY IN FINE DUST JACKET. Ths material was originally issued in Asiatick Researches between 1828 and 1848. 416 pages, indexed. 8vo.

LIGHT FROM EGYPTIAN PAPYRI, or Jewish History Before Christ.

Wright, C.H.H. · 1908

$72.00 (€65.32 | £54.50 | ¥11,497)

London: Williams and Norgate, 1908. FIRST EDITION. A FINE CLOTH COPY with bright titles, spine and panel. [xvii], 123 pages, indexed, with W & N's 62 pages Catalogue of Publications appended. Small octavo.

SOME MORE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HERMETICS.

Hatch, David Patterson. · 1898

$57.00 (€51.72 | £43.14 | ¥9,102)

LA: Baumgardt & Co., 1898. FIRST EDITION. Binding worn; lower front corner bruised; internals show browning, but no marking; GOOD ONLY, but the scarcest of the Hatch works. 232 pages. Small 8vo.

PRS JOURNAL, Volume 39, numbers 1-4. Four volumes.

Hall, Manly Palmer & Thomas, Pearl. · 1979

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society, 1979. A FINE SET. Partial contents of the volume: Alexandria, the Cradle of Western Mysticism; World Mother; Inner Meaning of Japanese Art; Anatomy of Melancholy; Mr. Bacon of Gray's Inn; much more. Illustrated. Octavo.

ANCIENT WISDOM: Official Publication of the Theosophical Society of St. Louis. Eight numbers.

Luntz, Charles. (ed.) · 1967

$24.75 (€22.46 | £18.73 | ¥3,952)

St. Louis: TS, 1967-68. Numbers from Volume XXXIII and XXXIV. In tall foolscap, folded, in the original mimeograph; FINE. Theosophical essays and curreent events. Eight issues.

RAMON LULL: Treatise on Astronomy. Two volumes.

Shapar, Kris. (tr.) · 1994

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

Berkeley Springs WV: Golden Hind Press, 1994. FIRST EDITIONS of Project Hindsight's Vol. V & VI. In wraps as issued; FINE. Edited by Robert Hand. Raymond Lully's astrological thought and method, and the only English language work offering these insights. V. I; 77 pages. V. II:...

AN INTRODUCTION TO ISLAMIC COSMOLOGICAL DOCTRINES: Conceptions of Nature and Methods Used for Its Study By the Ikhwan Al-Safa, al-Biruni, and Ibn Sina.

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. · 1964

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964. A Fine Cloth Copy in fine dust jacket. Illustrations, plus tables. Bibliography, [xxi], 312 pages, indexed. Tall 8vo.