Knapp J Augustus Illustrations (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. Good+ to Very Good-. Light-to-moderate rubbing and edge/corner wear. Gilt remains legible. Interior appears generally clean. A photographed inner hinge/endpaper area is starting/open with visible gutter separation. Masonic symbolism; Hermeticism; Qabbalah; Rosicrucianism; occult and esoteric philosophy; symbolism; ancient mysteries. Box 1A. J. Augustus Knapp — color illustrations (illustrator). …

245 p. Golden Anniversary Edition, Reduced Facsimile. 33x23 cm Encuadernación rústica editorial.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Tenth Edition. Stated Tenth Edition, 1968. With a new preface for this tenth edition by Manly Hall, Los Angeles 1967. Matches earlier editions or printings design, text layout, etc. Handy 5 1/4" x 7 5/8" design. Deep blue cloth boards, black cover and spine titles, moderate shelf, corner wear. Pages near fine, clean; no writing. Toning inside back cover. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Illustrated seven dynamic and intriguing full-page plates by J. Augustus Knapp. Printed in the United States of America. 100 pages. Insured post. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Knapp, J. Augustus (Full-page Illustrations) (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Subscribers' Edition: #44/550. Folio, [6], cclxv pages, plus 51 colored plates including frontispiece. In Very Good condition, housed in a Very Good slipcase. Volume in publisher's vellum half binding with tan patterned paper boards; brown leather label to spine with gilt titling; text block with gilt top edge, deckled fore edge, and laid-in ribbon bookmarks. Slipcase is brown cloth with same tan patterned paper. Slipcase shows rubbing along the joints and at the corners. Some splitting to cloth at the top corners. Some scuff to paper side panels. Peeling to paper at the top of the interior. Volume shows mild shelving wear to boards, with some rubbing along board edges. Small closed tear in the paper at the top edge of the front board. Splitting at the top edge of the rear joint. Chipping to label on spine. Text block is lightly age toned and worn along edges, with a faint stain on the top edge. Some very sparse, scattered foxing on early pages. Interior otherwise clean. Signed flat in black ink by Hall on limitation page "Manly P. Hall" to a subscriber J. Hodgson Smart. Shelved in Room F Elephant. Manly P. Hall (1901-1990) was a Canadian-born author and mystic, known for founding the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles and his large body of work, the most prominent of which is An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy (commonly known as The Secret Teachings of All Ages) This volume is one of 550 copies of the rare, original subscribers' edition, which was celebrated for its typography and striking, full-page illustrations. Published when Hall was 27, The Secret Teachings of All Ages was immediately successful, and established Hall as a prominent voice in America's growing metaphysical movement. The text remains one of the most influential reference works in 20th-century esoteric literature today. 1414272. Special Collections - Upstairs. Signed.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Fifth Edition. An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolic Philosophy Title page dated MCMXXVIII (1928) and stated Fifth Edition. Published in same year as the stated first edition. Essentially the fifth printing or variation of the first edition, and the final printing or "edition" with the mesmerizing color illustrations by J. Augustus Knapp. Signed and inscribed by Manly Hall at limitation page: "Of the Fifth Edition of An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolic Philosophy, 800 copies have been printed by the H. S. Crocker Company, Incorporated, from plans by John Henry Nash of San Francisco. This copy is Number 722. 'Sheila Bromley.' 'To Sheila & Arthur, with my very deepest regards, Manly P. Hall, July 15, 1972.'" Screen and television actress Sheila Bromley and her husband Arthur Applebaum were neighbors of Manly and interestingly shared the same driveway. Bromley was born in San Francisco, attended Hollywood High School, was a Miss California, and her first acting experience came at the Pasadena Playhouse. She worked often for the USO, continuing her service until the end of war in 1945. She is credited with seventy-five films in her career, of which seventeen were westerns. Gigantic elephant folio measuring apprx. 13" x 19" and weighing over 14 lbs. in case. Tan textured boards, vellum (leather) spine with gilt printed leather label and corner tips, moderate shelf wear, chip to spine label, rub, discoloration, little adhesive to leather corners. Fiber decorated endpapers. Top edge in bright gilt. Thick, smooth pages near fine, clean. A near illuminated volume with intricately colored and ornate chapter initials and facsimile title pages from historical masterpieces throughout. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Preserved and protected in attractive natural wood patterned slipcase. Rare near very good printing with near fine interior and original slipcase from the first year of publication. Better known as "The Secret Teachings of All Ages," this work was first published for an estimated $150,000. It was planned by the renowned book designer John Henry Nash and was the only edition published by H. S. Crocker Co. There were a total of just twenty-two hundred printed for the first five color illustrated editions of 1928. These first five are essentially the same in size and quality with the main variation being that the first was a signed subscriber's edition of 550; and, each had a unique limitation page. In order, the five 1928 editions with print numbers are: The Subscriber's Edition (550); the King Solomon Edition (550); the Theosophical Edition (200); the Rosicrucian Edition (100); and, the Fifth Edtion (800). Following these, the sixth edition of 1936 featured black and white plates only and later printings became progressively smaller in size and of lesser quality. Hall dedicated this tome to: ". the proposition that concealed within the emblematic figures, allegories and rituals of the ancients, is a secret doctrine concerning the inner mysteries of life, which doctrine has been preserved in toto among a small band of initiated minds." Comment on this volume by biographer Louis Sahagun: "The result was a gorgeous, dreamlike book of mysterious symbols, concise essays and colorful renderings of mythical beasts rising out of the sea, and angelic beings with lions' heads presiding over somber initiation rites in torch-lit temples of ancestral civilizations that had mastered latent powers beyond the reach of modern man." - "Master of Mysteries: The Life of Manly Palmer Hall." Frontispiece color plate of Prince Ragoczy of Transylvania - Comte de St.-Germain. Includes original 1928 preface by Manly Hall. Truly rich and impressive work of informative, mysterious and archaic wisdom. Pleasingly detailed reproduced and original illustrations, prints of powerful import. Answers much to the seeker of hidden history and cloaked wisdom. Several fold-out pages. Interp. Knapp, J. Augustus (Full-page Illustrations) (illustrator). Signed by Author. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Folio. Published by the Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA. 1977. 245 pgs. Illustrated in color. Golden Anniversary Edition. Second Printing. Bound in 1/2 cloth boards with gilt titles present to the front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Manly Palmer Hall (18 March 1901 29 August 1990) was a Canadian author, lecturer, astrologer and mystic. Over his 70-year career he gave thousands of lectures, including two at Carnegie Hall, and published over 150 volumes, of which the best known is The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928). In 1934 he founded The Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles. It includes a research library, lecture hall, and publishing house. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…