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Newsletter No. 4 of alchemy and hermetic books
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ALCHEMY AND HERMETIC MAILING LIST
NEWSLETTER No 4 - April 1997
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Complete sets of the Hermetic Journal 1978-1992 are now available as 8 substantial hardbound volumes (totalling about 2400 pages) in the same style as the Magnum Opus books. Two years are bound into each volume of approximately 320 pages.
Although the cost of this complete edition, around £360, may be thought expensive, it is on closer inspection a bit of a bargain. The original 15 paperbound volumes for each year cost £20 each - thus to buy the fifteen back issues would have cost £300. The hardbound edition is only a little bit more expensive. I will hold this price for the initial batch, but cannot guarantee to hold the price at this level for subsequent batches. The first batch of only 10 copies is now available. As binding up the 80 books required to make 10 sets necessitates an enormous investment of my time, I will only be able to produce a few batches a year taking into account my other commitments. So only a very small number of copies will be available for sale each year. As these 8 hardback books weigh over 6 kilograms postage costs are a significant factor.
This hardback series of 8 volumes of about 2400 pages in all costs:-
£360.00 including Air mail.
£335.00 including surface mail or Europe postage.
£320.00 inclusive to UK addresses only.
Check the page
http://www.alchemywebsite.com/bookshop/hj-backissues.html
for a full detailed list of contents, current availability, and how to purchase online by credit card.
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The current situation regarding the availability of the Magnum Opus books is as follows
No. 1. The Magical Calendar [Out of print.]
No. 2. The Mosaical Philosophy - Cabala of Robert Fludd [Out of print.]
No. 3. The Crowning of Nature [not available at present.]
No. 4. The Rosicrucian Emblems of Cramer [only 3 copies available at present.]
No. 5. Hermetic Garden of Stolcius [only 5 copies available at present.]
No. 6. The Rosary of the Philosophers [not available at present.]
No. 7. Amphitheatre Engravings of Khunrath [not available at present.]
No. 8. Splendor solis [not available at present.]
No. 9. The Key of Boehme [only 3 copies available at present.]
No. 10. The Revelation of Revelations [not available at present.]
No. 11. Commentary on the Mutus liber [only 3 copies available at present.]
No. 12. Steganographia of Trithemius [New batch ready on April 16.]
No. 13. Fludd - Origin and Structure of Cosmos [not available at present.]
No. 14. Goethe's Fairy Tale [only 6 copies available at present.]
No. 15. Treatise on Angel Magic [only 4 copies available at present.]
No. 16. The Paradoxical Emblems of Freher [not available at present.]
No. 17. Heptarchia Mystica of John Dee [only 6 copies available at present.]
No. 18. Commentary on Chymical Wedding [only 1 copy available at present.]
No. 19. Alchemical Engravings of Mylius [only 6 copies available at present.]
No. 20. Dee - Five books of Mystical Exercises [only 10 copies available at present.]
No. 21. The Dream of Poliphilus [not available at present.]
No. 22. Atalanta fugiens [New batch ready shortly on April 20.]
No. 23. Kabbalistic Diagrams [New batch ready shortly on April 20.]
Check the page
http://www.alchemywebsite.com/bookshop/magnum_opus.html
for current availability, and how to purchase online by credit card.
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I hope to be able to announce some new publications in the next newsletter.
The Alchemy Web bookstore at http://www.alchemywebsite.com/bookshop/index.html still has a number of copies of the 'Tarot Revelations' as well as the 'Compendium on the Rosicrucian Vault' and the ' Sketches of Scottish alchemists' for sale.
With best wishes,
Adam McLean
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