Eliphas Levi - The History of Magic [...]

Eliphas Levi - The History of Magic. Including a Clear and Precise Exposition of it's Procedure, its Rites and its Mysteries. Translated, with a Preface and Notes by Arthur Edward Waite - New York - Samuel Weiser - 1973 - 1st edition, 2nd impression - 384 pp - Paperback - 13.5 x 21.5 cm.

Condition: Good - ex-library W.N. Schors (with his ex-libris seal "Librairie des Sciences Occultes").

English translation of Histoire de la magie (1859); the history of magical practices by the French sorcerer Eliphas Lévi (pseudonym of Alphonse Louis Constant, 1810-1873). Illustrated with black-and-white reproductions. With index.

¶ "The contents include: Magic of the Magi, Magic in India, Greece, Pythagoras, the Cabalah, Magic and Christianity, Pagan Magic, the Illuminati, Mesmerists, Occult Sciences, Magic and Freemasonry."