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The Paradise of the Holy Fathers by Ernest A. Wallis Budge
£90.00
The Paradise of the Holy Fathers - Being Histories of the Achorites, Recluses, Monks, Coenobites and Ascetic Fathers of the Deserts of Egypt between AD CCL and AD CCCC circiter, compiled by Athenasius Archbishop of Alexandria, Palladius Bishop of Helenopolis, Saint Jerome and others.
Translated from the Syriac with notes and introduction by Ernest A. Wallis Budge, Keeper of the Assyrian & Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum.
Published by Chatto & Windus (2 volumes), London, 1907
Condition: Good. No dust jacket, title on spine is faded. Name of previous owner inscribed on front flyleaf. Boards rather worn and dented on corners of volume
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Secrets of a Painting by Loel Guinness
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SECRETS OF A PAINTING: Leonardo Da Vinci's The Adoration of the Magi — A Scientific Investigation by Maurizio Seracini, Edited by Loel Guinness
In 1989, shortly before a scheduled restoration of Leonardo da Vinci’s Adoration of the Magi, Florence’s Superintendent for Artistic Heritage approached the engineer Maurizio Seracini with a request to undertake an analysis of the unfinished masterpiece. Using the diagnostic procedures that would make him internationally famous, Seracini was able to peer behind the painting and the thick layer of dark varnish that coated it to discover, to his amazement, the sketches of over fifty human faces, a dozen animals and the shape of a building—unsuspected images drawn by the hand of the master himself that had remained invisible to the naked eye for over 500 years.
Twelve years later, in the face of mounting international opposition to the restoration project, Seracini was asked to carry out a second, more thorough, study of the painting. Faced with a lack of funding, the study would not have been carried out had it not been for Loel Guinness. For the previous two years he had been supporting Seracini in a major undertaking to find Leonardo’s lost mural The Battle of Anghiari, and now agreed to support this study. This book tells the story of the events that led up to that encounter and presents the results of Seracini’s remarkable diagnostic study. Featuring an interview with Loel Guinness and a personal account of his engagement with the project, together with two sections by the late Carlo Pedretti, one of the greatest specialists on the work of Leonardo, as well as other contributions on the history and composition of the Adoration, this book is a testimony to what can be achieved by well-funded, innovative scientific techniques applied in concert with the methods of classical art history.
Commentaries on the Holy Books - Aleister Crowley
£500.00
Second hand / Antiquarian
Very good: Tight binding, slight foxing to the top book block (ever so mininal). Faint scratch to the front cover of the dust jacket, slight warping top of the dust jacket, otherwise very good condition. Clean pages with no markings or inscriptions.
This issue of The Equinox is a companion volume to The Holy Books of Thelema (The Equinox Volume Three Number Nine, also published by Weiser). It is, however, a coherent textbook in its own right. It covers the essentials of the A.:A:: system of initiation, from the preliminary stage of Student to the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. For the first time it makes available practical details that will be of immense value to students of Thelema.
The Law is for All - Aleister Crowley
£150.00
Second hand / Antiquarian
Good condition: Tight binding, no foxing, slight warping to the top and bottom book block. Crease to the front book block. Scratches on the front cover. Otherwise, clean copy with no inscriptions or markings.
The Law is for All: The Authorized Popular Commentary of Liber AL Vel Legis Sub Figura CCXX, the Book of the Law
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