Introduction by Mclean Adam (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Limited/Numbered. The book is in Fair Condition only Complete but contents are away from the binding and need re-glueing back in.Suggest the binding remains in original state to preserve it;s integrity.Introduction by Adam McLean.Number 10 in the Magnum Opus Series this copy is number 94 of just 250 Copies Issued and SIGNED by Adam Mclean.Bound in Brown Leatherette binding with gilt lettering to spine.This title was acquired from an impressive Private Library of a former Writer and Academic on Occultism,Mysticism and Astrology (Fred Gittings) and his bookplate is to the front endpaper.Contents remain clean internally.Rare title 8vo 77pp [1981]. Signed.…

Limited edition. Signed by the author. Full brown faux leather with gilt titles to the spine, handbound by Adam McLean. Illustrated throughout with a black and white portrait frontispiece and 153 full page black and white emblems by Dionysius Andrea Freher. A fine copy the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Issued in an edition of 250 copies, from which this example is numbered 225. Signed and dated '6th June 1983' by the editor Adam McLean in black ink on the limitation page. The 16th volume in the the 'Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks' series. A collection of sequential 'Paradoxical Emblems' created by the mystic and writer on alchemy, Dionysius Andreas Freher (1649 - 1728). Adam McLean writes 'These emblems are a coherent integrated system of interior exercises. Each of these focusses on a simple fundamental spiritual statement, of which Freher gives us the essence in a picture for us to meditate upon'. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Signed by Author(s). …

Limited edition. Signed by the author. Full brown faux leather with gilt titles to the spine, handbound by Adam McLean. Illustrated throughout with a black and white frontispiece by Matthieu Merian, reproduced from his 'Iconum Biblicarum' (1630) and 14 full page black and white reproductions of woodcuts from Albrecht Durer's 'Apocalypse' series (1498). An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with a touch of rubbing to the corners, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Issued in an edition of 250 copies, from which this example is numbered 217. Signed and dated '14th December 1981' by the author of the introduction Adam McLean in black ink on the limitation page. The 10th volume in the the 'Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks' series. Adam McLean writes 'Jane Leade was a late 17th century English mystic of great importance, whose writings have been much neglected. She worked within the esoteric stream initiated by Jacob Boehme, although her writings draw upon her own independent mystical visions. In this early work she interprets the Book of Revelation, finding there sources of inner inspiration, a spiritual alchemy, rather than Apocalyptic hell fire and millenialist destruction'. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Glasgow: Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks, 2007. "The alchemical manuscript of Honoratus Marinier issued as number 33 in the Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks series, has been produced in a limited edition of only 100 copies, printed and bound by hand by Adam McLean, of which this is number [out of series] This hand made book has been printed and bound by Adam McLean at his workshop in Glasgow", with this copy additionally Hand Coloured by McLean. From the Publisher : "This series of limited edition hand-bound books by Adam McLean were initially produced between 1979 and 1986. They were never sold through book dealers, but only by direct mail order. Consequently, these books became collectors items, often fetching high prices on the second-hand market. This late Eighteenth Century work is preserved in two manuscripts. It is almost completely unknown. It consists of a series of seven 'keys' presenting the alchemical work in a sequence of twenty two emblematic figures. These are provided with explanatory texts, providing practical explanations of the allegorical imagery. The allegorical images present a kind of alchemical drama featuring as its main characters Vulcan, Apollo, Diana, Mercury, Saturn, and the alchemical adept. It follows the conventional alchemical idea of the sequence of colour changes - black, through white, to red. It uses the idea of the hermaphrodite and bird symbols. This work could well be the last alchemical emblematic sequence ever to have been created.". First Edition Limited. Hardcover/Hand Made by McLean. As New. Illus. by Hand Coloured Frontispiece / Hand Coloured Emblems / 24 Full Page Plates - 21 In Full Colour. 4to size - over 11¾" tall. Oversized Safely, Securely Packed.…