Hermetic Philosophy, including Lessons, General Discourses, and Explications of "Fragments" from the Schools of Egypt, Chaldea, Greece, Italy, Scandinavia, etc. designed for Students of the Hermetic, Pythagorean, and Platonic Sciences, and Western Occultism. Volume I
Publication: 1890 J.B. Lippincott Company First Edition
"A rare first edition and first of three volumes, it comprises a lengthy Preface, and then two parts: the first "The Things that Are" and the second an extract from the works of Plotinus: "The Nature of the Good and the One." This volume is completely anonymous, although contemporary advertisements reveal it to have been written by "Styx" of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light. The catalogue of the Harry Houdini library identifies the author as one Jonathan S. McDonald but we do not know on what basis."
Condition: original publishers boards, with title to spine and front board also with ouroboros emblem, gilt library imprint on lower spine, corner edges with some discoloring, Columbia College book plate to front plate, title page has perfin stamp imprint to top corner (see photo) the rear pastedown has remnants of a removed bookplate, despite the flaws still overall in Very Good condition, Very scarce