Apr 02, 2009 - Sale 2175

Sale 2175 - Lot 30

Price Realized: $ 540
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
LÉVI, ÉLIPHAS [pseud. of Alphonse-Louis Constant]. The Magical Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum interpreted by the Tarot Trumps. Translated from the Mss. of Éliphaz Lévi and edited by W. Wynn Westcott, M.D. 8 plates * The History of Magic . . . Translated, with a Preface and Notes, by Arthur Edward Waite. 20 plates. Together, 2 volumes. Small 8vo and 8vo, original cloth, spine of the second work slightly darkened, with short crack at top of rear joint; scattered pencil marginalia in both volumes. London, 1896; 1913

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first editions in english. The second volume is from the collection of Montgomery Evans II, with his bookplate and with an als to him from waite regarding arrangements for a meeting with their mutual friend the author Arthur Machen. One page on lined yellow paper, 4to; with original envelope addressed in Waite''s hand. Ramsgate, 2 December 1924.