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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The Falcon's Wing Press, Indian Hills, CO. 1955. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. A Manuscript Facsimile With Over 150 Diagrams and Illustrations By The Author. Book is tight, square, and unmarked, but for a F/O bookplate on the front pastedown. Book Condition: Very Good; suntoning to spine; glue browning to endpapers. No DJ. Ivory paper over boards with burgundy cloth overlay on the spine; gilt lettering on the spine. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split 127 pp 8vo. Printed on parchment-style paper with over 150 illustrations by the author. Presents the facsimile of a manuscript attributed to Walewski, a Polish-born diplomat who ran a shop selling mystic and occult curios and antiquities in New York City and was renowned for his huge occult library. The manuscript is said to reveal the teachings Walewski received from two members of a secret society he met in the 1920s in the Caucasus Mountains. These teachings outline a "Master System" of yoga through which the practitioner can attain mastery of body and thought and communion with broader creative powers. The pages are exact reproductions of the Walewski manuscript on Caucasian yoga and secret doctrine. A clean very presentable copy.…