LURE AND ROMANCE OF ALCHEMY - CJS Thompson, 1st 1932 - HERMETIC OCCULT MAGICK SOCIAL ISSUES Contents very good

Contents very good

Overall a beautiful and scarce find

perhaps dating from the 1940s

1932 — Rare

with one additional card displaying the name

LURE AND ROMANCE OF ALCHEMY - CJS Thompson, 1st 1932 - HERMETIC OCCULT MAGICK SOCIAL ISSUES Contents very goodTHE 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