A.E. Waite. Offered Individually as priced, post extra, or as a lot (5 titles in 6 volumes) at $435 US postpaid within North America. PM for details. I am in Canada so postage for one book is a bit more then within the USA. 1. WAITE, A.E. [Arthur Edward] [Editor]. THE HERMETIC MUSEUM, Restored and Enlarged: Most faithfully instructing all disciples of the sopho-spagyric art how that greatest and truest medicine of the philosophers stone may be found and held. New York: Samuel Weiser 1974. Third edition. Reprint, originally issued in 1893. The copyright page states Third Impression 1973, this is in fact the first impression of the third edition (the first Weiser Edition); the reference being to the first UK edition of 1893 (London: James Elliott and Co.) and the Second Edition of 1953 (London: Watkins). Two Volumes. Octavo, original gray cloth titled in gold on spines. 358 + 322pp. Illustrated. Neat modern bookplates on front paste-downs, otherwise a fine set in dust jackets, the jackets lightly rubbed at the extremities, price corners clipped. ¶ Originally published in Latin in 1678, The Hermetic Museum is a representative collection of significant works of alchemy. Included are Included are many rare and curious tracts, including THE BOOK OF LAMBSPRING with all of the fabulous plates by Michael Maier reproduced in full. Waite edited and revised the text and issued it in 1893, this is an exact photolithographic reprint of that edition. R.A. Gilbert, A.E. WAITE: A Bibliography, Item B7, noting that this edition was issued conjointly by Robinson & Watkins of London and Samuel Weiser, the edition was printed in the USA and half the impression bears the Weiser imprint (as this set) while the other half bears that of Robinson and Watkins. $150.00 2. WAITE, A.E. [Arthur Edward]. THE HIDDEN CHURCH OF THE HOLY GRAIL. Its Legends and Symbolism. Considered in their Affinity with certain Mysteries of Initiation and other Traces of a Secret Tradition in Christian Times. Des Plaines, Iowa: Yogi Publication Society. 1975. Reprint. Reprint. An exact photographic reproduction of the 1909 first edition issued by Rebman, London. Octavo, original red cloth titled in gilt on spine and front panel. [714] pp, Index at rear. A fine copy, without dust jacket, as issued. ¶ R.A. Gilbert, A.E. WAITE: A Bibliography, Item A22 (Notes). The book is significant in that it was the first to suggest the hypothesis that the Grail Hallows can be identified with the four suits of the Tarot cards. In the section on the Celtic Church Waite acknowledges the extensive help of Arthur Machen in collecting the material, a point overlooked by bibliographers of Machen.. $45.00 3. WAITE, A.E. [Arthur Edward]. THE HOLY GRAIL: The Galahad Quest in the Arthurian Literature. New Hyde Park, NY: University Books 1961. First American Edition. First American edition. Octavo, original brownish-orange cloth with red cloth spine, titles stamped in gilt on black on spine panel. 524 pp, index, [4] pp publishers ads at rear. Issued as a volume in the publishers Library of the Mystic Arts. Small tear to cloth at spine head, a very good clean copy in a somewhat rubbed & worn dust jacket, price clipped. ¶ A Photolithographic reprint of the 1933 Edition published by Rider, the subtitle here altered from the original, The entire work is effectively The Hidden Church of the Holy Grail revised, expanded and rewritten, but maintaining the same thesis: that the Grail was essentially a Christian Mystery. The Introduction to this edition (by John C. Winston, a pseudonym for Felix Morrow) is both fatuous and inaccurate. Morrow attempts to align Waites thinking with that of the Gnostics - a suggestion which would have enraged Waite - and then, after taking ten years from his age, kills Waite off prematurely in 1940. See R.A. Gilbert, A.E. WAITE: A Bibliography, Item A42 (b). $35.00 4. WAITE, A.E. [Arthur Edward]. THE SECRET TRADITION IN ALCHEMY. Its Development and Records. London: Kegan paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd. 1926. First Edition, First Printing. First Edition. Large octavo, original steel blue buckram boards titled in gilt on spine panel. 415 pp., Index. Spine panel tanned, small marks to the cloth, corners slightly bruised; a solid, clean, very good copy. ¶ R.A. Gilbert, A.E. WAITE: A Bibliography, Item A39. Gilbert observes that : The book has been critized . for rejecting a spiritual interpretation of pre-Renaissance alchemy, but it remains, for all its shortcomings, the only accessible study of the occult ramifications of alchemy in the 18th Century and of such odd theorists as Mrs Atwood and General Hitchcock.. $175.00 5. WAITE, A.E. (Arthur Edward) [Editor & Translator]. THE TURBA PHILOSOPHORUM: Or Assembly of the Sages, Called also The Book of Truth in the Art and the Third Pythagorean Synod. London: William Rider & Son Ltd. 1914. First Edition. First Edition, Second issue. Octavo, original red cloth, titled in blind on front cover, spine titled in gilt. 211 pp, Index. Spine panel just a touch faded, corners lightly bumped, light rubbing to cloth. A very good copy, clean and bright.¶ An ancient alchemical treatise translated from the Latin, the chief readings of the Shorter Codex, parallels from the Greek Alchemists, and explanations of obscure terms. The second issue, bound from the sheets of the first edition with the title leaf reprinted and mounted on a stub. Originally issued by George Redway in 1896. Rider would have acquired the remaining unbound sheets of this edition when they took over Philip Welbys imprint and stockthey had previously passed from Redway to Welby in 1900. See R.A. Gilbert, A.E. WAITE: A Bibliography, Item B17(b). $175.00
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