LURE AND ROMANCE OF ALCHEMY - CJS Thompson, 1st 1932 - HERMETIC OCCULT MAGICK SOCIAL ISSUES Original dark red boards with

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

Book Details + Condition: Apocalyptic Publishing Company (London and New York)

bumped corners and lightly rubbed edges and spine ends

Overall a beautiful and scarce find

1932 — Rare

LURE AND ROMANCE OF ALCHEMY - CJS Thompson, 1st 1932 - HERMETIC OCCULT MAGICK SOCIAL ISSUES Original dark red boards withTHE 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