LURE AND ROMANCE OF ALCHEMY - CJS Thompson, 1st 1932 - HERMETIC OCCULT MAGICK SOCIAL ISSUES Fauns and Fairies and much

Fauns and Fairies and much more

perhaps dating from the 1940s

with one additional card displaying the name

Contents very good

Overall a beautiful and scarce find

LURE AND ROMANCE OF ALCHEMY - CJS Thompson, 1st 1932 - HERMETIC OCCULT MAGICK SOCIAL ISSUES Fauns and Fairies and muchTHE 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