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Click here to subscribeBudge (Sir E.A. Wallis) [Books on Egypt and Chaldaea] comprising: vol. I. Egyptian Religion. Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life; vol. II Egyptian Magic; vol. III Easy Lessons in Egyptian Hieroglyphics together 3 vol. bound in 1 autograph manuscript c. 360pp. written on rectos including numerous pen and ink examples of hieroglyphs many corrections in text publisher's pencil notes in red ff. tipped-in on stubs some ff. soiled many ff. browned contemporary half red morocco gilt spine slightly faded 4to [1899]. ***Wallis Budge was the foremost Semitic scholar of his generation and combined with great energy wrote and often contributed illustrations to numerous works on Egyptian and Assyrian texts. In 1894 he was appointed keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian collections of the British Museum a position he retained until 1928. .
Salverte (Eusebe) The Occult Sciences: The Philosophy of Magic... edited by Anthony Todd Thomson 2 vol. 1846 Gaster (Moses) Studies and Texts in Folklore Magic... 3 vol. 1925-28 § Frazer (J.G.) Totemism 1887 § Penzer (N.M.) Poison-Damsels and other essays in Folklore and Anthropology privately printed 1952 plates and illustrations original cloth the first rubbed last with slightly frayed dust-jacket; and c.45 others on myth folklore etc. 8vo & 4to (c.50)
Robertson (Bruce). Sopwith - The Man and His Aircraft, pub. Air Review, 1970, col. frontis., numerous b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, together with Knott (Capt. Richard C.), The American Flying Boat, An Illustrated History, 1st ed., 1979, numerous b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, plus Shaw (W. Hudson, & Ruhen, Olaf), Lawrence Hargrave, Explorer, Inventor & Aviation Experimenter, pub. Cassell Australia, 1977, numerous b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., a little faded to spine, large 8vo, and Wragg (David), Boats of the Air, an Illustrated History of Flying Boats, Sea Planes and Amphibians, 1st ed., 1984, numerous b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus Pugh (Peter), The Magic of a Name, The Rolls-Royce Story, 3 vols., 2001-2002, b&w illusts. after photos., all orig. cloth in d.j.s, with slipcase, VG, and others on the history of aviation, mostly modern pubs., including biographies, etc., many large format (3 shelves)
* Biunial Lantern. A handsome mahogany-body biunial magic lantern, late 19th-century, with lacquered-brass fittings, a pair of rack and pinion focusing lenses, black japanned chimney, the lens panel engraved 'Newton & Co., Opticians to her Majesty the Queen, and the Government, 3 Fleet Street, London', overall height 28.5 in (72 cm) (1)
* Magic Lanterns. A Beard magic lantern, mahogany-body with lacquered brass lens and added electric illumination, (lacking chimney), together with a tinplate magic lantern with lacquered brass lens and triple-wick burner, complete with chimney, with four other bygone tinplate magic lanterns and a group of assorted lacquered brass lenses and fittings (-)
Pratt (George C.). Spellbound in Darkness, A History of the Silent Film, revised ed., pub. New York Graphic Society, 1973, numerous b&w illusts. after photos., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, together with Slide (Anthony), The Idols of Silence, 1st ed., 1976, b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, plus Butler (Ivan), Silent Magic, Rediscovering the silent film era, 1st ed., 1987, numerous b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, and Kerr (Walter), The Silent Clowns, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1975, numerous b&w illusts. after photos., orig. boards in sl. frayed d.j., large 4to, plus others on silent films, and the silent film era, mostly modern pubs., mainly orig. cloth in d.j.s, 8vo (28)
Finch (Christopher). The Art of Walt Disney, from Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdom, 1st ed., New York, Abrams, 1973, numerous col. and b&w plts. and illusts., including some folding, orig. pict. cloth, in torn glassine d.j., thick folio, together with Holliss (Richard, and Sibley, Brian), The Disney Studio Story, pub. Octopus Books, 1988, numerous col. and b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., folio, plus Feild (Robert D.), The Art of Walt Disney, reprinted, 1944, some col. plts., numerous b&w plts. and illusts., orig. cloth, a few minor marks, 4to, and four others related (Walt Disney and Assorted Other Characters, by Jack Kinney, 1988, Felix, The Twisted Tale of the World's Most Famous Cat, by John Canemaker, 1991, Walt Disney, Hollywood's Dark Prince, by Marc Eliot, 1993 & Walt Disney, by Richard Schickel, 1968), all orig. cloth in d.j.s, mostly 8vo, plus a six-page series of synopses for Disney shorts, dated 1939, typescript copy, a 1964 campaign book for Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and an album of modern souvenir and commemorative colour-printed stamps, all featuring Disney cartoons, issued in Grenada, Guyana, Dominica, Antigua, etc., modern mock leather album, with slipcase, large 4to (10)
The Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly, ed. Theodore Brown, 2 bound vols., May-November 1907 & July-September 1911, b&w illusts., ads., etc., one or two leaves supplied in facsimile, near-contemp. maroon cloth, rubbed and marked, 4to, together with Crompton (Dennis, Henry, David & Herbert, Stephen, eds.), Magic Images, The Art of Hand-Painted and Photograph Lantern Slides, pub. Magic Lantern Society of Great Britain, 1990, numerous col. and b&w illusts., orig. printed boards, 4to, plus Remise (Jac & Pascale, and Walle, Regis van de), Magie Lumineuse du théâtre d'ombres à la lanterne magique, 1979, numerous col. and b&w illusts., orig. cloth, some minor marks, large 4to, and Auer (Michel & Ory, Michèle), Histoire de la Caméra Ciné Amateur, 1979, numerous b&w illusts, orig. cloth in d.j., square 4to, plus Wills (Canfield & Deirdre), History of Photography, Techniques and Equipment, 1980, some col. and numerous b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, and others on magic lanterns, optical toys, and related, including six vols. The Kinematograph Year Book, 1916, 1917, 1934-1936, & 1948, Cinematographic Annual, vol. 2, 1931, twenty-eight catalogues of films sold by The Kinema Auction Mart, all 1914, and various pamphlets, etc. (a carton)
Malins (Lieut. Geoffrey H.). How I Filmed the War. A Record of the Extraordinary Experiences of the Man who Filmed the Great Somme Battles etc., edited by Low Warren, 1st ed., 1922, b & w plts., frontis. lacking, free endpapers browned, orig. cloth, spine faded and repaired at head, a few marks to covers, 8vo, together with Talbot (Frederick A.), Moving Pictures, how they are Made and Worked, 1st ed., 1912, b & w plts. (some staining), one with small piece missing from blank fore-margin, occn. foxing, B4 with small tear and sl. loss of text, hinges split, orig. cloth, rubbed and marked, 8vo, plus Quigley (Martin), Magic Shadows, 1st ed., Washington D.C., 1948, b & w plts., orig. cloth, spine darkened, and rubbed at ends, upper cover a little marked, plus three others similar (6)
MAGIC & CONJURING. – John Northern HILLIARD. Greater Magic… revised edition. Minneapolis: 1947. Eighth impression, 8vo (230 x 153mm.) Numerous illustrations. Original red cloth, dust-jacket. – And forty-six other volumes, including a number of pamphlets, all on magic, conjuring and illusions (47).
MacGregor-Mathers, S. L. (translator) Dr, L. W. De Laurence (Editor) The Book of Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin, the Mage, As Delivered by Abraham the Jew unto his son, Lamech, A Grimoire of The Fifteenth Century. From an Old and Rare French Manuscript In the Bibliotheque de lArsenal at Paris, Chicago, The de Laurence Companyce, 1948, third printing, 4to, red cloth covered boards, gilt
Waite, Arthur Edward, The Book of Ceremonial Magic, The Secret Tradition in Goetia, including the rites and mysteries of Goetic theurgy, sorcery and infernal necromancy, New York, 1961, 8vo, A complete Grimoire, illustrated, original publishers quarter red cloth over black hard covers, gilt, illustrated dustwrapper
Barrett, Francis, The Magus Or, Celestial Intelligencer, being a complete system of occult philosophy... to which is added Biographia antiqua or, The lives of the most eminent philosophers, magi etc, Cheltenham, Relios Books, 1964-66, 9 volumes, royal 8vo, publishers decorated quarter cream cloth over decorated paper boards, comprising: The Study of Natural Magic; Jewel of Alchemy; Talismanic Magic; Magnetism; The Cabala; Ceremonial Magic; Magical Circle; Thrithemius of Spanheim; Biographia Antiqua, each a numbered limited edition of 200, in typed manuscript form, scarce copy
Grillot De Givry, Emile, (translated by Locke, J. Courtenay) Picture Museum of Sorcery Magic and Alchemy, New Hyde Park, NY University Books Inc, 1963, 367 illustrations, royal 8vo, 396 pp, protected in illustrated slipcase, quarter black cloth over red cloth covered boards, gilt, pictorial endpapers, scarce copy in fine condition
Levi, Eliphas (Alphonse Louis Constant), Transcendental Magic Its Doctrine and Ritual By Eliphas Levi a Complete Translation of Dogme et Ritual De La Haute magie with a Biographical Preface By Arthur Edward Waite Including All the Original Engravings and a Portrait of the Author, London, 1896, 8vo, half title, frontis port, first English translation of Levis 1881 works, publishers original blue cloth covered boards, gilt, rubbed to extremes, spine faded, generally dusty copy, many annotations, scarce; Waite, Arthur Edward, The Occult Sciences, A compendium of Transcendental Doctrine and Experiment, London, 1891, 8vo, publishers boards, gilt(2)
NESBIT (E.) THE MAGIC CITY, cloth, pictorial gilt, worn, 8vo, 1910; Lewis (C. S.) The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader, cloth, dustwrapper, 8vo, n. d.; Farjeon (Eleanor) The Little Bookroom, cloth, dustwrapper, 8vo, Oxford, 1955; Johnston (Arnrid) Illustrator, Fables From Aesop, cloth backed boards, dustwrapper, 4to, Ipswich, n. d.( 4).
Soyer (Alexis). The Modern Housewife or Ménagere. Comprising nearly one thousand receipts for the economic and judicious preparation of every meal of the day, and those for the nursery and sick room; with minute directions for family management in all its branches , 14th ed., London, 1850, eng. frontis. portrait of the author, slightly spotted, eng. pictorial dedication leaf, 6 plates (Soyer's kitchen apparatus, Soyer's magic stove, dining room scene, 2 various scenes of a party cooking a meal on top of the Egyptian pyramids using Soyer's magic stove!, Soyer's sauce bottle), few text illustrations, orig. green embossed cloth gilt, 8vo Author's presentation copy to his friend H. Morrish. Simon 1402: Bitting 443; Vicaire 798. (1)