THE MYSTERIES AND SECRETS OF MAGIC
Book Details + Condition: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited (London). First Edition, 1927. Hardcover with black cloth boards with red titling and occult decoration to front and spine. 320 pages, with b&w illustrations throughout. Very scarce. By Charles John Samuel Thompson. Contents include:
- Magic and Religion
- Supernatural Beings
- Powers of Evil
- The Cult of Magic - The Magi and their Mysteries
- Magic in Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Jewish Magic - The Kabbala
- Greek and Roman Magic
- Celtic Magic
- Necromancy
- Witchcraft and Demonology
- The Black Mass
- Divination
- Crystal Gazing
- Magical Talismans
- Love and Magic
- Babylonian and Assyrian Magic
- And much more.
Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; wear to boards; chafed spine ends; small section of spine edge's cloth has been rubbed off; ex libris bookplates to inside front board; front & rear ffep missing; remnants of penciled notations to rear endpapers; interior is otherwise clean and free of markings. All books are carefully packed, and shipped in boxes.
