THE BOOK OF THE SACRED MAGIC OF ABRA=MELIN THE MAGE - 1948 - MAGICK GRIMOIRE

THE BOOK OF THE SACRED MAGIC OF ABRA=MELIN, THE MAGE AS DELIVERED BY ABRAHAM THE JEW UNTO HIS SON LAMECH.Book Details + Condition: The De Laurence Company (Chicago). Third Printing, 1948. Hardcover Quarto, with original lightly pebbled red cloth boards, titled in gold on spine panel, with magic square design on front panel. 268 pages; Illustrated. Translated by S.L. MacGregor-Mathers "from an old and rare French manuscript in the Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal at Paris". Prepared for publication in the United States under the "editorship" of L.W. de Laurence. Subtitled "A Grimoire of the Fifteenth Century", THE BOOK OF THE SACRED MAGIC OF ABRA=MELIN THE MAGE is considered by many to be the most important and powerful grimoire of Western magical tradition. Translated by MacGregor Mathers, one of the founding members of The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, it was used regularly by members of the Order and was a great influence on a young Aleister Crowley, who purchased his famous Boleskine