United Kingdom: Issued by Imperial Tobacco Company, [1920-1929]. First Edition. From the back of card: "The Batak, or Bark Book of Charms, is a magical ritual implicitly believed in by the natives of Sumatra. It is consulted as a reliable guide and counselor in their private and important affairs. In.....
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[Germany]: [1910]. First Edition. Playing the cards is experimenting with chance. This divinatory card game is a way of unraveling the will of fate and thereby mastering chance. Pythia was the name of the high priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. She specifically served as its oracle and.....
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New York: Joseph Koehler Publisher, c.1890. First Edition. The dual function playing or divination cards are designed for both fortune telling and gaming, handcolored engraving illustrations, with an inset miniature playing card printed on the top left corner of various suit cards. Both in German and English text. Some early.....
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c.1970. Broadside. Theater production handbill for 1970s musical "Hair," illustrated using the modified "Lovers" tarot card from the major arcana deck designed by Pamela Colman Smith. Smith is one of the most recognized book designers and divination deck artists of the Occult Revival period. A seemingly scarce piece of ephemera.....
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Jos. Hallworth, [1915-1916]. Presenting weird demonstrations of occult power, marvelous feats of the Orient and startling wonders of the spirit world. Copyright by Jos. Hallworth. Early specimen of exoticism in turn of the century theater. Occult ephemera. Some chipping, otherwise in very good condition. Newsprint brochure, doublesided with illustrations.
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Terrassiére, Genéve: U.I.P.D (Union Internationale des Professeurs de la Rythmique Jaques-Dalcroze), 1957, 1965-1966, 1971. First Edition. Staplebound. Published journal on the work and writings of Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (6 July 1865 – 1 July 1950) who was a Swiss composer, musician, and music educator who developed Dalcroze eurhythmics, an approach to.....
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[1920s]. Loose cards. A small collection of nine hand-drawn illustrations on card, depicting various states of consciousness, types of spirits, reincarnation, rebirth, karma and the nature of souls. One: Stages of Consciousness, Two: Etheric, Soul, Spirit, Three: Reincarnation/Rebirth, Four: Education Through Karma, Five: Spirits, Six: Thought Forms, Seven: Creation, Preservation.....
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New York: M. Young, 1888. First Edition. Original Wraps. Early trade advertising pamphlet with classic late 19th century occultisms. The first few pages discuss palmistry and studying the body's signals for illnesses and other maladies, astrological horoscopes, how to make talismans, dream analysis, and prophetic palmistry. The term 'gypsy' is.....
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Toronto, Canada: Anathema Publishing, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover/Cloth. "Stories of holy pilgrimages, transformative journeys & revelatory voyages. Come rest by the hearth’s fire and warm yourself, now that your travels are at an end. The night is long, and we are in no hurry. This is a time for reflection.....
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Salem, MA: G. Willis Whipple, c.1903. First Edition. Postcard. Starting in the late 19th century, the image of the witch became synonymous with advertising in Salem, Mass. for both tourism and historical education. Both illustrations feature the 'classic' and costume style of an old witch on a broomstick and with.....
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London: Emerson Press, 1966. First Edition. Staplebound. Deals with 200 subjects relating to esoteric and sacred writings of the ages. there are 1200 author entries, 1630 book entries, and 185 cross references. A reference bibliography for the occult. Light toning and creasing to wrappers, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Original.....
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Nigeria: J.A. Ademakinwa, Printed by Pacific Printing Works, 1958. First Edition. Original Wraps. The central focus is the city of Ile-Ife; the author, the late J. A. Ademakinwa, was an Ife indigene. He puts the mythologies and traditions of his people to good use to speak to a host of.....
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Brabant [Most likely Reading, PA]: In Commission bei Wm. Radde und Sohn, [ca.1857]. Für Städter und Landleute Neueste Ausflage Erster[-Dritter] Theil [First-Third Part]. Quarter Calf. Albertus Magnus (c. 1200-15 November 1280), also known as Saint Albert the Great or Albert of Cologne, was a German Dominican friar, philosopher, scientist, and.....
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Brabant [Most likely New York, NY]: In Commission bei Wm. Radde und Sohn, [ca.1848]. Für Städter und Landleute Neueste Ausflage Erster[-Dritter] Theil [First-Third Part]. Quarter Calf. Albertus Magnus (c. 1200-15 November 1280), also known as Saint Albert the Great or Albert of Cologne, was a German Dominican friar, philosopher, scientist.....
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Brabant [Most likely New York, NY]: In Commission bei Wm. Radde und Sohn, [ca.1858]. Für Städter und Landleute Neueste Ausflage Erster[-Dritter] Theil [First-Third Part]. Original Wraps. Albertus Magnus (c. 1200-15 November 1280), also known as Saint Albert the Great or Albert of Cologne, was a German Dominican friar, philosopher, scientist.....
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Amsterdam [Amstelodami]: Johannes Janssonius [Apud Iodocum Ianssonium], 1643. [Later Edition]. Full Vellum. (On the secrets of women), an immensely popular work which was published many times during the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries, sometimes separately and sometimes in compilations such as this, which also contains "De mirabilibus mundi" as well.....
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New York: Samuel Weiser, 1979. Second Edition (Enlarged). Original Wraps. Sometimes called color therapy, colorology or cromatherapy, it is an alternative healing medicine method, using light in the form of color to balance "energy" lacking from a person's body, whether it be on physical, emotional, spiritual, or mental levels. Using.....
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Los Angeles, CA: Barnhart Press, 1988. First Edition. Original Wraps. A world traveler, John Bainbridge's focus on esoterica has resulted in books published on Huna and comparative religions. Huna Huna (Hawaiian for "secret") is the word adopted by the non-Hawaiian New Age author Max Freedom Long (1890–1971) in 1936 to.....
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Philadelphia, PA: Moncure Biddle & Co., 1943. First Edition. Original Wraps. Moncure Biddle, from the famous Philadelphia Biddle family, was an investment banker. a famous bibliophile, a connoisseur of editions of the classics and, by reputation, an eccentric. During the 1940s, he published an annual "Christmas Letter" on a topic.....
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New York: Pilgrim Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. "Indexed scientific guide to the meaning and use of dreams. The authors, who have specialized in dream research for a dozen years, point out that psychology has found dreams to be among the most effective of all instruments for discovery of one's.....
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London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. "The ritual of rainmaking is one of half a dozen Japanese folk practices and festivals described in this book. The story of rainmaking ceremonies begins with personal experience and then draws on the work of Japanese folklorists to record significant.....
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Germany [Berlin?]: c.1972. Limited Edition. "Uwe Bremer, born 1940, is one of the most prominent German graphic artists due to his fantastical compositions combined with fine-nerved ruling symbolically acting geometric body and surface relationships on mostly bright ground. In his work, elements of old star and sky maps, symbioses of.....
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London: The Society of Herbalists, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Noted Egyptologist Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge discusses earliest Orient herbals in Egypt, Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria; their role as foundations of Greek herbals and subsequent dissemination through Asia and Europe, additional Gods as herbalists, divine medicines, water as divine element.....
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Amersfoort (Netherlands): S.W. Melchior / P. Dz. Veen, 1917. [First Edition]. Hardcover. Beginner's astrology. The book is a comprehensive guide to the world of astrology written by Dutch astrology and author, C. Aq. Libra, born Roelf Jan Takens. Takens' primary vocation was a veterinarian doctor for horses, and he was.....
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New Orleans, Louisiana: Harmanson, 1960. Later Printing. Staplebound. André Cajun (1893-1957) is the pseudonym for Andrew Jackson Navard. He was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and moved to New Orleans as a riverboat captain as a young man. Unhappy in this vocation, he soon found a more suitable career as.....
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