11. AMERICA. 17945 CODEX CORTESIANUS; Manuscrit Hiératique des anciens Indiens de l'Amérique Centrale, conservé au Musée Archéologique de Madrid, photographié et publié pour la première fois, avec un vocabulaire, par Leon de Rosny, 4to. 49 pp. of introduction, 42 pp. of the photographic facsimile, and 26 pp. of vocabulary, in portfolio, £4. Paris, 1883 A very interesting palæographical relic, which is probably mythological in its character. 17946 CORTES (Hernan) Historia de Nueva-Espana, con documentos, y notas por Lorenzana, sm. folio, frontispiece. 2 maps, 2 plates, and 30 facsimiles of Mexican Paintings, vellum, £2. 2s Mexico, 1770 The plates consist of a view of the temple of Mexico, etc. and thirty engravings of a book of Hieroglyphic Paintings, Cordillera de los Pueblos que pagaban tributo a Muctezuma. 17947 KINGSBOROUGH'S (Lord) ANTIQUITIES OF MEXICO; comprising facsimiles of Ancient Mexican Paintings and Hieroglyphics, preserved in the royal libraries of Paris, Berlin, and Dresden; in the Imperial Library of Vienna; in the Vatican Library; in the Borgian Museum at Rome; in the Library of the Institute of Bologna; and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford; together with the Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix ; illustrated by many valuable inedited MSS. 9 vols. impl. folio, containing upwards of 1000 large plates, embracing all the remains of Mexican Architecture, Art, Religion, etc. hf. bd. green morocco, £36. 1830-48 17947* the same, with the plates coloured (pub. at £175.), hf. morocco, gilt tops, £60. 1830-48 "Cet ouvrage de la plus grande magnificence, a été executé aux frais de Lord Kingsborough, qui en a fait hommage à plusieurs bibliothèques du continent, particulièrement à la Bibliothèque royale, à Paris, et à celle de l'Institut de France. Le prix de chaque exemplaire était de 175 livres (2000 fr. Klaproth). Les quatre premiers volumes renfernment les planches lithographiées, au nombre de plus de 1000; les trois autres contiennent l'explication des planches et plusieurs mémoires inédits, écrits en différentes langues, ainsi que des appendices en anglais. Le septième volume est entièrement rempli par un ouvrage important qui a pour titre :-Hist. de las cosas de Nueva Espana, por el M. L. R. P. Fr. Bernardino de Sahagun.”—Brunet. After an interval of seventeen years two more volumes of this extraordinary work were published, in every respect uniform with the preceding, consisting, 1. of Supplementary Notes in English and Spanish; 2. of extracts from the works of Torquemada, Acosta and Garcia, illustrating the last portions of the Mexican paintings, contained in the collection of Mendoza, and shewing the correspondence which exists between many of the Mexican and Hebrew laws; 3. Adair's History of the North American Indians, their customs and descent from the Jews; 4. Cartas ineditas de Hernando Cortez ; 5. Cronica Mexicana de Tezozomoc; 5. Historia Chichimeca y Relaciones por Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl. 17948 THE BOOK OF MORMON, an account written by the hand of Mormon upon plates taken from the plates of Nephi, translated by Joseph Smith, 16mo. bound, 20s Liverpool, 1852 12. POLYNESIA. 17949 FORNANDER (Abraham) Account of the Polynesian Race, its origin and migrations, Vol. I, 8vo. cloth, 78 6d 1878 17950 GREY (Sir George) Polynesian Mythology and ancient traditional history of the New Zealand race, sm. 8vo. music at the end, 28s 1855 17951 GILL (W. Wyatt) Myths and Songs from the South Pacific, with preface by Max Müller, 12mo. cloth, 78 6d 13. SOUTH AFRICA. 1876 17952 CALLAWAY (H.) Nursery Tales, traditions, and histories of the Zulus, Zulu and English, with notes, Vol. I, (all published), 8vo. cloth, 21s 17953 Natal, 1868 Religious system of the Amazulu, parts I, II; Unkulunkulu or tradition of Creation, and Amatongo or Ancestor Worship, 8vo. sd. 15s VII. Natal, 1868-69 OCCULT WISDOM. 1. MYSTERIES, ORACLES, SECRET ASSOCIATIONS. 17954 BLAVATSKY (H. P.) ISIS UNVEILED: a master key to the mysteries of ancient and modern Science and Theology, 2 vols. 8vo. nearly 1400 pp. cloth, 36s 1882 No book was ever written so rich as this in all strange, wondrous, magical, and supernatural lore. It is the Bible of a new Society which threatens to swallow up myriads of minds predisposed to religion but dissatisfied with the insignificance in which the Jehovah of Christendom leaves his worshippers. The authoress is a woman endowed with singular cleverness, subtlety, and accomplishments; and thoroughly well acquainted with "the Rosicrucians of the Middle Ages, such as Robert Fludd, Paracelsus, Thomas Vaughan, Van Helmont, and others" (vol. i, p. xxv). FABER'S Mysteries of the Cabiri—see No. 17688. 17955 JAMBLICHUS de Vita Pythagorica Gr. et Lat. Kusteri aliorumque animadversionibus adjecit suas Theoph. Kiessling, 2 vols. in 1, 8vo. VELLUM PAPER, H. Drury's copy, in red morocca extra, gilt edges, from the Beckford library, £3. 13s 6d Lipsia, 1815-16 17956 LENORMANT (Fr.) Recherches archéologiques à Eleusis, 1860, 8vo. sd. 5s Paris, 1862 17957 MICHAELER (Karl) historisch-kritische Abhandlung über die phönicischen Mysterien, 12mo. bds. 2s Wien, 1796 17958 OUVAROFF's Essays on the Mysteries of Eleusis, translated by J. D. Price, with observations by J. Christie, 8vo. bds. 7s 6d 1817 17959 SAINTE-CROIX, Recherches historiques et critiques sur les Mystères du Paganisme, seconde édition par Silvestre de Sacy, 2 vols. 8vo. hf. calf, 20s Paris, 1817 17960 TAYLOR (T.) Dissertation on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries, 8vo. calf extra, by Kalthoeber, 30s Amst. n. d. (London, 1791) Sibyls: 17961 CLASEN (Dan.) de Oraculis Gentilium et in specie de Vaticiniis Sibyllinis... in fine Carmina Sibyllina, sm. 4to. vellum, 10s Helmstadii, 1673 17962 GALLEI (Servatii) Dissertationes de Sybillis earumque Oraculis, 4to. LARGE PAPER, frontispiece, beautiful plates of the twelve Sibyls, and two other engravings, by Romain de Hooghe, fine copy in vellum, £3. 38 Amstel. 1688 An extremely curious subject exhaustively treated, with a collection of all the Greek and Latin fragments of the Sibylline Oracles. The plates represent perhaps the finest designs ever executed by the artist. Freemasonry: 17963 [PYE (Randall)] Arcana Saitica briefly discussed in three essays on the Masonic tracing-boards, 8vo. sd. 5s Amoy, 1879 17964 SCHAUBERG (Dr. Jos.) vergleichendes Handbuch der Symbolik der Freimaurerei, mit Rücksicht auf die Mythologieen und Mysterien des Alterthums, 2 vols. 8vo. half calf, 15s Schaffhausen, 1861 17965 WEISSE, the Obelisk and Freemasonry, according to the Discoveries of Belzoni and Commander Gorringe; also, a Comparison between Egyptian Symbols and those discovered in American Mounds, 8vo. coloured and plain illustrations, the Hieroglyphs of the American and English Obelisks, and Translations in English by Dr. S. Birch, cloth, 8s 6d New York, 1880 "To the Masonic Fraternity this epitome must prove an astonishing revelation, demonstrating clearly as it does the existence of the craft in a remote antiquity never dreamed of by the highest authorities and most writers on the subject of Freemasonry." "A Chapter, devoted to Masonic Signs, emblems and symbols, used in the Old and New World prior to Columbus, may interest American archæologists." FREEMASONS in England in the XVI-XVII Century - see 2. MAGIC, OCCULT SCIENCE. 17966 AUBREY (John) Miscellanies, on Fatality, Omens, Apparitions, Magick, etc. second edition, with account of his life, 8vo. calf, 248 1721 Aubrey himself entitled the work "A Collection of Hermetick Philosophy." 17967 BARRETT (Francis) THE MAGUS, or Celestial Intelligencer; being a complete system of Occult Philosophy; in three Books: containing the Ancient and Modern Practice of the Cabalistic Art, Natural and Celestial Magic, etc.; showing the wonderful Effects that may be performed by a knowledge of the Celestial Influences, the Occult Properties of Metals, Herbs and Stones, and the application of Active to Passive Principles; exhibiting the Sciences of Natural Magic; Alchymy, or Hermetic Philosophy; also the Nature, Creation, and Fall of Man; his natural and supernatural Gifts; the magical Power inherent in the Soul, &c. To which is added Biographia Antiqua, or the Lives of the most eminent Philosophers, Magi, &c. 4to. with 23 curious engravings, comprising coloured portraits of Apollyon, Belial, Ophis, Antichrist, Asmodeus, Astaroth, Abaddon, and other diabolical Spirits, magical and cabalistical figures, &c. hf. morocco, Roxburghe style, gilt top, £1. 5s 1801 An absolutely necessary book for all who believe or think they believe in a communication between the spiritual and material worlds. 17968 BIZOUARD (Joseph) des Rapports de l'Homme avec le Démon, essai historique et philosophique, 6 vols. 1863-64-BAISSAC (Jules) Histoire de la Diablerie Chretienne, I: le Diable (? 1875) -together 7 vols. 8vo. uniform in hf. blue morocco, gilt tops, uncut, £4. Paris, 1863-(75) 17969 COLLIN DE PLANCY, Dictionnaire Infernal, ou Bibliothèque universelle sur les êtres, les personnages, les choses, qui tiennent aux Apparitions, à la Magie, aux sciences secrètes, aux superstitions, etc. 4 vols. 8vo. India proof plates, bds. uncut, top edges gilt, from the Beckford library, £4. 4s Paris, 1825-26 le Diable peint par lui-même, 8vo. frontispiece, half 17970 purple morocco, gilt edges, by C. Lewis, 25s Paris, 1819 17971 D[AUGIS] (ou DANGY) Traité sur la Magie, le sortilege, les possessions, obsessions, et malefices, 12mo. hf. bd. uncut, 18s Paris, 1732 17972 GODWIN (William) Lives of the Necromancers, 8vo. hf. calf, 18s 1834 17973 HEDELIN (Fr.) des Satyres, Brutes, Monstres et Demons: de leur nature et adoration; contre l'opinion de ceux qui ont estimé les Satyres estre une espece d'hommes distincts & separez des Adamicques, sm. 8vo. vellum, scarce, from the Sunderland library, 36s Paris, 1627 17974 [LE BRUN (Pere)] Lettres qui decouvrent l'illusion des Philosophes sur la Baguette et qui detruisent leurs systemes, 12mo. red morocco, lettered "Divining Rod-Malebranche," 20s Paris, 1693 17975 LENORMANT (François) les Sciences occultes en Asie: la Magie chez les Chaldéens et les origines Accadiennes; la Divination et la science des Présages chez les Chaldéens, 2 vols. 8vo. sd. 7s 6d Paris, 1874-75 17976 CHALDEAN MAGIC: its origin and development, translated from the French, with considerable additions by the author, 8vo. pp. xii, 414, and 18 (sells 12s), cloth gilt, 3s 6d (1877) The only book in existence which treats upon Magic, Astrology, Spells, Talismans and Charms, in their most ancient stage-from which all later phases of Occult Science are admittedly derived. It is besides a work of great learning, not the compilation of any ignorant pretender to adept knowledge; and in its English dress represents the latest and best development of the author's study. 17977 MENGI (H.) FLAGELLUM DEMONUM; Fustis Dæmonum; 2 vols. Bononiæ, 1584-Scribonius (G. A.) de examine et purgatione Sagarum per aquam frigidam, Lemgoviæ, 1583-3 vols. in 1, sm. 8vo. citron morocco, with first arms and monogram of Thuanus in gold on sides and back, £10. 10s 1583-84 1581-92 17978 MONCEJUS (F.) de Magia divinatrice et operatrice, small 4to. red morocco, from the Beckford library, £2. 10s Francof. (1683) 17979 PERERIUS (Benedictus) adversus fallaces & superstitiosas artes, id est, de Magia, etc. Lugd. 1592-SPINEI (Barthol.) Novus Malleus Maleficarum, Colon. 1581-2 vols. in 1, 12mo. vellum, 24s 17980 SALVERTE (Eusebe) des Sciences Occultes, ou essai sur la Magie, les prodiges, et les miracles, 8vo. sd. 9s Paris, 1843 17981 THEOLOGISCHE CURIOSITAETEN, von Hurentracht, Tantzen, frantzösischem Teutschlande, blossen Brusten, Zauber-Künsten, etc. sampt Anhang von Zigeunern, 12mo. with title and contents on two double-sized leaves, 15s Wendel, 1690 Curious essays which would furnish matter for a dozen modern books. The chapter on Magic gives the book a place here. 17982 THE THEOSOPHIST: A Monthly Journal devoted to ORIENTAL PHILOSOPHY, ART, LITERATURE and OCCULTISM; MESMERISM, SPIRITUALISM, and other SECRET SCIENCES, Vols. I-IV, folio, in parts, £4. Bombay, 1879-83 Published monthly at 2s per number. Annual Subscription, £1 payable in advance from October 1. 17983 VANINI (Iulii Cæsaris) Amphitheatrum æternæ Providentiæ divino-magicum, christiano-physicum, nec non astrologo-catholicum, etc. sm. 8vo. old calf, £2. 2s 17984 17985 Lugduni, 1615 de admirandis Naturæ reginæ deæque mortalium Arcanis, 12mo. fine copy in olive morocco extra, gilt edges, by Lewis, 30s Lutetiæ, 1616 the same two works, bound uniform in 2 vols. 12mo. fine copies in citron morocco extra, gilt edges, with the arms of Charron de Menars in gold on the sides, from the Beckford library, £8. 8s 1615-16 17986 [DURAND (David)] La Vie et les Sentimens de Lucilio Vanini, 12mo. from the Sunderland library, bound, 15s Rotterdam, 1717 the same, 12mo. calf gilt, from the Beckford library, 1717 17987 18s The Protestant pastor is as severe upon the poor atheist Vanini, as were the Romanists who condemned him to the stake. 17888 VAUGHAN (T. under the pseudonym, Eugenius Philalethes) Anthroposophia Theomagica, or Discourse of the Nature of Man and his state after Death, portrait of H. C. Agrippa, calf, from the Beckford library, £2. 2s 1650 Alchemy: 17989 ALCHYMIE (New Light of) taken out of the Fountains of Nature and Manual Experience; to which is added a Treatise of Sulphur written by Michael Sandivogius; also nine books of the Nature of Things by Paracelsus; all faithfully translated out of the Latin by J. F., M.D. sm. 4to. old calf, scarce, £1. 16s |