LURE AND ROMANCE OF ALCHEMY - CJS Thompson, 1st 1932 - HERMETIC OCCULT MAGICK ANTIQUE & VINTAGE COLLECTIBLES Edited and with an introduction

Edited and with an introduction by Chas Bogan

and songs passed down from generations past

"Translated from the Hebrew by William Wynn Westcott

1848 ~ TWO VOLUMES

and violet and gilt decoration on front cover of each volume

LURE AND ROMANCE OF ALCHEMY - CJS Thompson, 1st 1932 - HERMETIC OCCULT MAGICK ANTIQUE & VINTAGE COLLECTIBLES Edited and with an introductionTHE LURE AND ROMANCE OF ALCHEMY Book Details + Condition: George G. Harrap & Company (London). Very scarce First Edition, 1932. Hardcover. 249 pages. Original cloth with titling and gilt embellishments to spine, frontis, black and white illustrations, index. This is one of the better researched and illustrated popular histories of alchemy. Its author, C. J. S. Thompson (1862 1943), was in charge of acquisitions for Henry Wellcome, and thus had access