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10/05/2025

Homeric Synchronism: an Enquiry Into the Time and Place of Homer by the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, published in 1876. The personal copy of Atlantean scholar Ignatius Donnelly with his signature and “Nininger MN May 6th 1882” on title page. Nininger is now a ghost town, with very little remaining of the original town, Donnelly was referred to as “The Sage of Nininger.” A scholarly work that investigates the historical authenticity and the specific time and place of Homer's epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Gladstone argues the epics are grounded in historical reality, not just oral tradition, and uses archaeological findings (especially Schliemann's discoveries in Troy) and other evidence to propose a more precise chronology for Homer and his works. The book is a comparative study of ancient civilizations, examining the historical influences on Homer's poetry. Occasional underlining and marginalia from Donnelly, along with a leaf preserved between two pages. Hardcover with gilt decorated boards and light shelfwear.

09/13/2025

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Just in from Rose Ankh Publishing Ltd:
PROSPERO'S ISLE: Gerald Gardner and Witchcraft on the Isle of Man by John Callow

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As rebel, adventurer, and religious visionary, Gerald Gardner forged Wicca upon the Isle of Man. His powerful re-imagining of modern witchcraft as a nature religion and source of female empowerment, stripped of its demonic current, was profoundly shaped by the folklore and landscape of this rugged Celtic island, set adrift in the Irish Sea.

It found its form in his writings and in the creation of The Witches’ Mill, a Manx museum devoted to the Craft, which for more than twenty years served to challenge and change popular attitudes towards the witch and her art, and to usher in a new and surprising age of tolerance to a figure that was once so bitterly feared and despised.

This modern day ‘Prospero’ had found both his Isle and his purpose, honing and defining a form of magical practice that was capable of reviving the worship of the ‘old gods’ and of inspiring feminist and environmental movements from the late Twentieth Century through to the new Millenium.

This book provides a gateway to his ideas and achievement, an insight into the genesis of a new religion that took on the mantle of the old, and to a magic that acted to dispel fear, to give delight, and to hurt not.

07/01/2025

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07/03/2024

Illustration from "Legends and Superstitions of the Sea and of Sailors In All of Sailors in All Lands and at All Times by Fletcher S. Bassett, published in 1885"

07/03/2024

(Three Volume Set) The Papyrus of Ani A Reproduction in Facsimile Edited, with Hieroglyphic Transcript, Translation, and Introduction by E. A. Wallis Budge, published in 1913. Sections Include: The Recensions of the Book of the Dead, The Legend of Osiris, The Doctrine of Eternal Life, Egyptian Ideas about God and the “Gods”, List of the Gods Whose Names Were Recited by the Deceased to Perfect His Spirit Soul, The Abode of the Blessed, The Gods of the Book of the Dead, Hymn to Ra the Sun God, Hymn to Osiris, The Chapters of Coming Forth by Day, etc. etc. The third volume contains fold out colored plates in pristine condition. All volumes hardcover in blue with gilt Egyptian motif on boards. Light shelfwear to corners and ends only. $1200.00

07/02/2024

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