Description

Two volume facsimile set, hardcovers bound in blue cloth and lettered in gold on spines. Vol. I. xv, 1- 384 pp., vol. II. 385-820 pp. Each volume contains two title pages, the original 1943 Robert Maclehose & Co. Ltd and the Martino title. A quality facsimile reprint of this important collection of 7500 volumes whose “main strengths … lie in alchemy, chemistry and related topics such as books of secrets, with important offshoots into the occult sciences and witchcraft, Cabbalism, Rosicrucianism, Free Masonry and Gypsy literature.” [Glasgow University, ARCHIVES & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS]. No previous ownership marks. Mild, nearly invisible mark (coffee?) on bottom edge of volume I, not affecting interior pages. Else a clean, tight, fresh and unmarked set. Near fine.