THE MYSTERIES AND SECRETS OF MAGIC
Book Details + Condition: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited (London). First Edition, 1927. Very scarce. Hardcover. 320 pages, with b&w illustrations throughout. 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. An overall firm and clean copy of a very scarce First Edition, with tight binding; rubbed corners and edges; interior is clean and free of markings save owner's name on front free endpaper and the occasional discoloration to pages.
