HISTORY OF MAGIC - Eliphas Levi, 1922 - MAGICK SORCERY OCCULT GRIMOIRE RITES

THE HISTORY OF MAGIC: INCLUDING A CLEAR AND PRECISE EXPOSITION OF ITS PROCEDURE, ITS RITES AND ITS MYSTERIESBook Details + Condition: William Rider & Son, Limited (London). Increasingly scarce Second Edition, 1922. Hardcover with publisher's blue cloth ruled with ornamental gilt borders, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. 536 pages. Translated with a Preface and Notes by Arthur Edward Waite. Frontispiece photo portrait of the author, with illustrated plates from diagrams and drawings by the author throughout the volume. Eliphas Lévi Zahed, born Alphonse Louis Constant, was a French occult author, socialist, and ceremonial magician. His "Histoire de la Magie" was first published in 1860. (Please see our available copy of this original First Edition.) Lévi exerted a profound influence on those occultists who would follow, including the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Helen Blavatsky, and Aleister Crowley, among others. The work is divided into 7 "Books":- The Derivat