PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION Modern, Mysticism from Fortuna Books

London: Morgan & Scott, 1901 blue cloth with decorative titling in gilt to upper board , gilt to spine, covers soiled lightly, rubbed to fore edge through to board in some places, nearing VG condition, ink inscr to fep, minor foxing mainly to prelims, rubricated title page, 105pp + 4 pp adverts +plates + frontis with tissue guard, nice… Read more about this item

London: George Allen Unwin, 1967 second impression of first edition, price clipped DW, 230pp. reprint. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Cambridge: Quinta Essentia, 1995 some minor handling soiling to wrappers, xiv 325pp, first English translation of the selection compiled by Michel Valsan, in this work, probably the most significant in a modern Western language concerning symbolism, Guénon deals with the metaphysical and cosmological meaning of symbols drawn from traditions as far apart as the Greek and the Buddhist, the Druid,… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Quinta Essentia, 1991 near fine, distributor's label to rear cover, 171pp, translated from French by Peter Kingsley, Centered on Taoism, this text is also characteristically rich in illuminating cross-references to other traditions. The ternary in question - Heaven, Earth, and Human - is an inescapable feature of all spirituality; it possesses the possibility of functioning as an initiatory means… Read more about this item

London: Oxford University Press, 1951 free end paper has three line name and address in biro, green cloth with lmild wear/ discolouration, gilt titled spine and decorative upper board including dorge and swastika, l [50] + 249pp, tidy clean copy, second impression of the second edition of seminal work, scarce. Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?… Read more about this item

New Delhi: Sagar Publications, 1976 glossy red cloth boards with dancing shiva design, 187pp ;what has India contributed to human welfare? / Hindu view of art / that beauty is a state / buddhist primitives / dance of Shiva / Indian images with many arms / indian music / status of Indian women / sahaja / intellectual fraternity / cosmopolitan… Read more about this item

London: Rationalist Press , 1950 near fine in same DW, includes 'An anthropological view of mysticism' by Raymond Firth, 'A Rationalist approach to the problem of sexual relations' by JBS Haldane, 100pp (500 gram rate) . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Christchurch: Masters and Past Masters Lodge, 1972 blue papered board sunned to spine, finger marks to boards otherwise VG, no DW, 369pp, Questions and Answers on all aspects of Freemasonry published by the Christchurch, New Zealand Masters and Past Masters Lodge #130. revised. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, 1977 facsimile reprint , fifth combined edition, three works in one vol, papered boards, unclipped DW light wear, top corner fep removed, 689pp . reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Cheapside: Thomas Tegg, 1842 full calf well rubbed to edges and joints worn through and split, lacking top and lower two sections of the backstrip, needs rebinding, nice marbled endpapers intact, lower board detached, marbled closed edges, two parts in one as printed, viii + 591pp + 1pp advert, solid binding, clean and tidy but needs new boards or… Read more about this item

London: Fowler all are first editions and have the same faults etc as described, Ex-psychic library issues with stamps , tape stains and label remains to the endpapers and paste downs, some tape staining onto the edges of the boards as well, DW are under plastic sleeves but they have had a library plate pasted down to… Read more about this item

Poona: Rajneesh Foundation, 1975 plain wraps with large black titling, wraps rubbed and uniformly soiled, joints worn, gift inscription to fep, colour portrait frontis detached and with a name written to its reverse, 508 +1 pp. good reading / study copy. First Edition. Original Wraps. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Christchurch: Masters and Past Masters Lodge, 1973 blue papered board sunned to spine, finger marks to boards otherwise VG, no DW, 369pp, Questions and Answers on all aspects of Freemasonry published by the Christchurch, New Zealand Masters and Past Masters Lodge #130. revised. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Cambridge University Press, 1968 DW price clipped, spine slight fade otherwise VG. Book VG+. The Wiles Lectures 1962-63. 144pp. i- man and the material world ii- man and the daemonic world iii- man and the divine world iv- dialogue of paganism with chrisitianity. The Wiles Lectures 1962-63. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over… Read more about this item

London: Chapman and Hall Has 24 exceptional colored reproductions from the old masters with gilt borders etc in icon style. Cover is faded maroon with gold calligraphy DW is sunned with splitting to spine folds and some parts detached but present, tipped on plate to front of dust jacket, 218pp + plates very clean and tidy internally.. Decorative… Read more about this item

London: Richard Priestley, 1820 "published from the author's ms. by John Clarke DD late Dean of Sarum, with a preface (in vol 1). . . to which are added the sermons preached before the House of Commons &c a new edition in seven volumes" printed for Richard Priestley by Nathaniel Bliss Water Lane Fleet Street. only vol 3… Read more about this item

London: Fowler, 1958 Ex-psychic library issue with stamps , tape stains and label remains to the endpapers and paste downs, some tape staining onto the edges of the boards as well, DW under plastic sleeve has had a library plate pasted down to the bottom half of the cover obscuring Goldsmith's name, label with shelfmark pasted… Read more about this item

London: Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co, 1936 Scarce book by an anthroposophically inspired genius who shows the spiritual heritage of Greek and Indian theatre and how this sacred drama continued on into the middle ages, covers theatre in ancient India and Greece as well as an interpretation of Goethe and Wagner, Sakuntala, Aeschylus and Sophocles and much on the Eleusinian… Read more about this item

Boston: First Church of Christ Scientist, 1971 as new, thin paper edition, blue limp card, 700pp. Many more Christian Science works available on request.. reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

New York: Vedanta Society, 1903 green cloth with gilt Vedanta Society logo to upper board, titled to spine, edges rubbed, [Vedanta Reading Club | Christchurch NZ] stamp in gothic script to paste down, fep, and four preliminary pages, as well as fianl page of index, rear free fly and rear paste down, quite an attractive and… Read more about this item