MACGREGOR MATHERS, S. L.
The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage, as Delivered by Abraham the Jew unto his Son Lamech, A.D. 1458.
John M. Watkins, London 1898 Translated from the Original Hebrew into the French, and now Rendered from the Latter Language into English. From a Unique and Valuable MS. in the "Bibliothèque de L'Arsenal" at Paris. By S. L. MacGregor - Mathers, Author of "The Kabbalah Unveiled," "The Key of Solomon," "The Tarot," etc. in Three Books, with a Special and Copious Introduction and Explanatory Notes by the Translator, and Numerous Magical Squares of Letters. London: John M. Watkins, 1898. First edition. Large octavo (20 x 26 cm). xlviii+268pp. Publisher's black cloth, gilt magic square to upper, gilt tiltes to spine between three sets of double rules, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, white endpapers. This copy does not have the additional illustrated title page by Moina Mathers which is only found in a few copies (see the other copy of the book we have for sale). Some wear to extremities, otherwise a very clean and firm copy [One of the best we have seen]. Very rare! [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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