LURE AND ROMANCE OF ALCHEMY - CJS Thompson, 1st 1932 - HERMETIC OCCULT MAGICK SOCIAL ISSUES bumped corners and lightly rubbed

bumped corners and lightly rubbed edges and spine ends

1932 — Rare

Original dark red boards with gilt title (etc) on front and on spine

with appendix and index

LURE AND ROMANCE OF ALCHEMY - CJS Thompson, 1st 1932 - HERMETIC OCCULT MAGICK SOCIAL ISSUES bumped corners and lightly rubbedTHE 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