Of Spirits and Apparations by Dr. John Dee
Publishing: 1974 The Antonine Publishing Company limited to 500 copies [this copy is numbered] first edition thus
Folio, (lxxxiv) + 448 + 46 + iv pp
The most finely produced of all the facsimile editions of John Dee’s A True & Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Years Between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits, compiled by Meric Casaubon. Originally published in 1659, this edition was issued in an Oxford style polished leather binding and limited to just 500 copies. Considered a cornerstone of the Western Magical tradition. It remains among the most extraordinary magical records ever written. The work was compiled from Dee’s diaries and writings some decades after his death by Meric Casaubon; it documents the angelic communications between Dee and Edward Kelly along with their methods of invocation, and the revelation of the angelic or “Enochian” language derived from The Book of Enoch. The text remains the foundation of the Enochian magical system.
Condition: publishers oxford style polished leather binding with five raised bands, there is some natural cracking to front cover, we have recently treated the leather, unsureif the slipcase was issued with all of these but if so it is not present, a clean copy, bindin firm, overall in Very Good condition