CULTUS ARBORUM
Book Details + Condition: Privately printed. First of this edition, 1890. Scarce. Hardcover. 111 pages. Vellum covered boards with printed red lettering and symbol to front. Volume by English occultist Hargrave Jennings, also known as Sha Rocco, who published this work anonymously. Subtitle reads, "A descriptive account of phallic tree worship with illustrative legends, superstitions, usages, etc, exhibiting its origin and development amongst the Eastern and Western nations of the world from the earliest to modern times; with a bibliography of works upon and referring to the phallic cultus." Divided into seven chapters, with each focusing on an area of the world and its native trees. Firm binding; light wear to original boards; toning / discoloration to first few pages; interior is clean and free of markings.
