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Bacstrom's Alchemical Anthology.
London: John M. Watkins, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. "Dr. Sigismund Bacstrom was one of the most important scholars of alchemy in the last few centuries, being active at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century. Little is known of his life, except that he was probably of Scandinavian extraction, and that he spent a deal of his early life travelling around the world as a ship's surgeon."--Adam McLean.
From the personal library collection of Brian Cotnoir, alchemist, artist and award-winning filmmaker. Author of Practical Alchemy: Guide to the Great Work, The Emerald Tablet, a series of Alchemical ‘Zines, Alchemical Meditations, Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter and most recently On Alchemy: Essential Practices and Making Art as Alchemy. He has presented seminars and workshops around the world on various aspects of the alchemy.
Khepri Press was started in 2014 as a place to organize and distribute his work. It is a very small press dedicated to alchemical book arts. Some of this work is publishable and others may exist only in manuscript or object form – alchemical results or talismans. Near Fine. Near fine, light shelfwear, foxing, else tight, bright, and unmarred. 8vo. 152pp. Illus. (b/w). Blue paper/cloth boards. Former owner library stamp. Lacking dj. Annotations on ffep. Item #13494
Price: $500.00