Keyword: Divination

Sort

Showing 1-7 of 7

THE MAGICAL ARTS: A SHORT HISTORY

By: Burland, C. A.

Price: $32.50 USD

Publisher: London, Arthur Barker: 1966

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25897

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

196 pp, 8vo (8 11/16" H). B&w illustrations. "From the earliest time man has been fascinated by visions and dreams, and by the discovery that there were men who could, by magical powers, improve a crop or foretell the weather. As civilization grew there were demands for knowledge which would give control over other men or protection from the wiles of enemies. The study of magic and counter magic became important in the policy of states. Later magic was denounced as a work of the Devil, and then the Devil himself was demoted to become a laughing stock. Yet even nowadays there exis...
View More...

NATURAL OR SUPERNATURAL? A CASEBOOK OF TRUE, UNEXPLAINED MYSTERIES.

By: Caidin, Martin S.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Chicago, Contemporary Books: 1993

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27163

ISBN: 0809238047

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good+

221 pp, large 8vo (9" H). B&w illustrations. "Throughout history and continuing to this day, occurrences have been reported that are so extraordinary there seem to be no possible natural explanations. Yet the credibility of the witnesses - often including thousands who have simultaneously observed the same mysterious event - and the consistency of these events across centuries of time and disparate parts of the earth indicate that they cannot be easily dismissed. (P)opular writer and aeronautics expert Martin Caidin reviews some of the most fascinating of these observations. Among...
View More...

ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION. OCTOBER 1958. VOL. LXII, NO. 2.

By: Campbell, John W., Jr., ed. (Clifford D. Simak, Paul Ash, Randall Garrett, Rog Phillips, Jay Williams, Murray F. Yaco, P. Schuyler Miller). Cover art by Freas.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Street & Smith, New York, 1958.:

Seller ID: 11653

162 pp, soft cover (digest size), stapled inside wraps. B&w illustrations by Freas, Schoenherr, van Dongen and Vegh. Contents: The Big Front Yard by Clifford D. Simak; Big Sword by Paul Ash; ...And Check the Oil by Randall Garrett; The Yellow Pill by Rog Phillips; False Image by Jay Williams; Divining Rod: Standard Equipment (article) by Murray F. Yaco; The Editor's Page; In Times to Come; Journal of the IES; The Analytical Laboratory; The Reference Library by P. Schuyler Miller, Brass Tacks. Interior - light browning to pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. E...
View More...

THE CELTS.

By: Dottin, Georges. Translated by David Macrae.

Price: $32.50 USD

Publisher: Minerva, Geneve, 1977.:

Seller ID: 21693

142 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers. Profusely illustrated with b&w and colour photographs. Contents: A portrait of the Celts; Housing, food and clothing; Women and children. Death; The land. Hunting. Industry; Divinities. Divination. Forms of Worship; Bards and Druids; Governments and Society. Justice and War; The Celtic expansion. Minor edgewear. Dust jacket has areas of light edge wrinkling, very light rubbing. Very Good/Very Good
View More...

THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE DRUIDS: A JOURNEY AMONG THE ANCIENT CELTS.

By: Freeman, Philip.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 2006

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30268

ISBN: 978074326280

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

221 pp, 8 11/16" H. B&w maps, photographs. "Early in the first century B.C. a Greek philosopher named Posidonius began an ambitious and dangerous journey into the little-known land of the Celts. A man of great intellectual curiosity and considerable daring, (he) traveled from his home on the island of Rhodes to Rome, the capital of the expanding empire that had begun to dominate the Mediterranean. From there he planned to investigate for himself the mysterious Celts, reputed to be cannibals and savages. His journey would be one of the great adventures of the ancient world. Posidonius...
View More...

A HISTORY OF MAGIC AND EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE. VOLUME I. DURING THE FIRST THIRTEEN CENTURIES OF OUR ERA. SECOND PRINTING WITH CORRRECTIONS.

By: Thorndike, Lynn.

Price: $95.00 USD

Publisher: Macmillan, New York, 1929, 2nd printing with corrections.:

Seller ID: 13586

835 pp, 8vo (8 11/16" H), hard cover (dark green cloth) - no dust jacket. VOLUME I ONLY. Major sub-headings: The Roman Empire; Early Christian Thought; The Eary Middle Ages. Interior - small bookstore label on rear pastedown, very light browning to endpapers and pages. Exterior - light edge wear, browning to edges of textblock, darkening to spine and lettering, light fraying and 1/2" tear to cloth at top of spine, wrinkling to bottom of spine VG-
View More...

A HISTORY OF MAGIC AND EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE. VOLUME II. DURING THE FIRST THIRTEEN CENTURIES OF OUR ERA. SECOND PRINTING WITH CORRECTIONS.

By: Thorndike, Lynn.

Price: $85.00 USD

Publisher: Macmillan, New York, 1929, 2nd printing with corrections.:

Seller ID: 13587

1036 pp, 8vo (8 11/16" H), hard cover (dark green cloth) - no dust jacket. VOLUME II ONLY. Major sub-headings: The Twelfth Century; The Thirteenth Century. Interior - small bookstore label on rear pastedown, very light browning to endpapers and pages, soft wrinkles to approx. page 500 to end of book, wrinkle down rear pastedown - migrates into pages. Exterior - light edge wear, browning to edges of textblock, three small water stains to top of textblock - watermark migrates down into some pages for approx. 1/4", darkening to spine and lettering, fraying/tear to cloth at top of spin...
View More...

$0.00 USD (0 Items)

Keyword: Divination

THE MAGICAL ARTS: A SHORT HISTORY

NATURAL OR SUPERNATURAL? A CASEBOOK OF TRUE, UNEXPLAINED MYSTERIES.

ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION. OCTOBER 1958. VOL. LXII, NO. 2.

THE CELTS.

THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE DRUIDS: A JOURNEY AMONG THE ANCIENT CELTS.

A HISTORY OF MAGIC AND EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE. VOLUME I. DURING THE FIRST THIRTEEN CENTURIES OF OUR ERA. SECOND PRINTING WITH CORRRECTIONS.

A HISTORY OF MAGIC AND EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE. VOLUME II. DURING THE FIRST THIRTEEN CENTURIES OF OUR ERA. SECOND PRINTING WITH CORRECTIONS.