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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The original 1915 edition, meticulously preserved. This edition moves beyond the sterile, mass-market reproductions often found today to bring you a premium Collector's Facsimile. Every page maintains the historical pagination and aesthetic of the source text, paired with a bespoke cover design unique to this imprint.In The Magic of the Pyramids and the Mystery of the Sphinx (1915), A. Bothwell-Gosse transforms the silent monuments of Egypt into vivid narrators of their own legends, weaving archaeology, myth, and mysticism into a tapestry of discovery. Written with scholarly precision yet glowing with imaginative verve, the book invites readers into a world where granite corridors whisper the secrets of the ancients, and the Sphinx's inscrutable gaze conceals spiritual truths as much as historical puzzles. Bothwell-Gosse's prose-erudite, poetic, and often delightfully eccentric-makes this more than an antiquarian study; it is an adventure in thought, a celebration of the strange enchantment that still clings to the sands of Gizeh, where science and sorcery, reason and reverence, meet beneath the eternal Egyptian sun.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The original 1946 edition, meticulously preserved. This edition moves beyond the sterile, mass-market reproductions often found today to bring you a premium Collector's Facsimile. Every page maintains the historical pagination and aesthetic of the source text, paired with a bespoke cover design unique to this imprint.Lewis Spence's British Fairy Origins (1946) is a richly scholarly yet delightfully imaginative exploration of the deep roots of Britain's fairy lore. In this study, Spence argues that the belief in fairies is far more than rustic superstition-it is a window into humankind's earliest attempts to understand the unseen world. He contends that the fairy tradition grew out of a primitive cult or faith, expressing ideas about the soul, nature, and the afterlife that predate organized religion. Drawing on decades of research and the work of folklorists like Andrew Lang and James Frazer, Spence traces fairies through their many guises-as ancestral spirits, nature beings, and echoes of ancient deities-while comparing British traditions to those of other cultures. The result is an academic inquiry with a touch of enchantment: a work that treats Faerie not as child's fancy but as an enduring key to the mythic imagination.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The original 1945 edition, meticulously preserved. This edition moves beyond the sterile, mass-market reproductions often found today to bring you a premium Collector's Facsimile. Every page maintains the historical pagination and aesthetic of the source text, paired with a bespoke cover design unique to this imprint.Harold T. Wilkins's Mysteries of Ancient South America is a sweeping, speculative voyage through the jungles, deserts, and mythic memories of the Andes, blending archaeology, legend, and lost-world adventure. Written in the wake of early twentieth-century exploration, it transforms South America into a stage for vanished civilizations, Atlantean colonies, and the echoes of cosmic cataclysms. Wilkins combines an academic curiosity with the fervor of a storyteller, tracing clues from Incan temples to Easter Island's monoliths, and from biblical floods to pre-Columbian myths, all in pursuit of an ancient, 'white' civilization buried beneath time and jungle. The result is a chronicle of speculation and discovery that invites readers to view the continent's mysteries through both scientific inquiry and the enduring power of legend.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The original 1925 edition, meticulously preserved. This edition moves beyond the sterile, mass-market reproductions often found today to bring you a premium Collector's Facsimile. Every page maintains the historical pagination and aesthetic of the source text, paired with a bespoke cover design unique to this imprint.In Atlantis in America, Lewis Spence advances the argument that the Atlantis tradition reflects a genuine historical memory rather than a literary myth. Drawing on archaeology, ethnology, geology, linguistics, and comparative mythology, he contends that ancient American civilizations preserve clear survivals of Atlantean influence. Spence points to parallels in monumental architecture, symbolism, cosmology, and religious tradition, with particular emphasis on Mesoamerican cultures and figures such as Quetzalcoatl, interpreted as remnants of Atlantean culture-heroes. Written in an authoritative Edwardian scholarly style, the book presents Atlantis as a serious historical hypothesis and a unifying explanation for the shared features of early civilizations on both sides of the Atlantic.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The original 1930 edition, meticulously preserved. This edition moves beyond the sterile, mass-market reproductions often found today to bring you a premium Collector's Facsimile. Every page maintains the historical pagination and aesthetic of the source text, paired with a bespoke cover design unique to this imprint.In The Cat in the Mysteries of Religion and Magic, M. Oldfield Howey takes readers on a dazzling, esoteric journey through the shadowy realms where whiskers meet the divine. From the moon-glow eyes of Bast, lioness-goddess of Bubastis, to the spectral feline familiars haunting medieval imagination, this eccentric and richly annotated volume unearths the cat's manifold incarnations across myth, ritual, and superstition. Equal parts scholarly and delightfully arcane, the book seduces the curious mind with tales of sistrums, transmigrating temple cats, and lunar symbolism, revealing how this elegant creature slinked-gracefully and enigmatically-into the heart of humanity's most sacred and magical beliefs.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The original 1931 edition, meticulously preserved. This edition moves beyond the sterile, mass-market reproductions often found today to bring you a premium Collector's Facsimile. Every page maintains the historical pagination and aesthetic of the source text, paired with a bespoke cover design unique to this imprint.Lemuria: The Lost Continent of the Pacific presents an interpretive synthesis of geological speculation, cultural mythology, and esoteric historiography, advancing the author's view that the Pacific basin once supported a prehistoric civilization whose traces persist in mythic memory and scattered ethnographic motifs. Approaching Lemuria as a serious interdisciplinary problem rather than a mere legend, the book contextualizes the continent's hypothesized disappearance within nineteenth- and early twentieth-century scientific debates, while also examining linguistic parallels, migration theories, and symbolic traditions that the author understands as survivals of an otherwise erased world. The result is a study that treats Lemuria not as fantasy but as a conceptual framework for rethinking human antiquity, cultural diffusion, and the methodological boundaries of historical reconstruction.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The original 1929 edition, meticulously preserved. This edition moves beyond the sterile, mass-market reproductions often found today to bring you a premium Collector's Facsimile. Every page maintains the historical pagination and aesthetic of the source text, paired with a bespoke cover design unique to this imprint.The Mysteries of Egypt offers a meticulously researched and intellectually engaging exploration of ancient Egyptian civilization, artfully bridging archaeological evidence with esoteric interpretations. Rooted in a scholarly yet accessible tone, the book examines the spiritual, astronomical, and architectural sophistication of the Egyptians, arguing that their monuments-especially the pyramids and temples-were not merely funerary structures, but embodiments of cosmic principles and metaphysical insight. Drawing from ancient texts, modern Egyptology, and cross-cultural analysis, the author presents Egypt as a civilization driven by a unifying sacred science that encoded knowledge of the soul, the stars, and the structure of reality itself. This work challenges conventional historical narratives, proposing instead that the ancients possessed a profound wisdom that continues to inspire awe and inquiry.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The original 1928 edition, meticulously preserved. This edition moves beyond the sterile, mass-market reproductions often found today to bring you a premium Collector's Facsimile. Every page maintains the historical pagination and aesthetic of the source text, paired with a bespoke cover design unique to this imprint.Alexander Porteous's Forest Folklore, Mythology, and Romance (1928) is a vivid exploration of humanity's deep and enduring enchantment with the wooded world-a sweeping study where botany meets myth and ancient science merges with story. Moving from the primordial forests of Earth's early ages to the sacred groves of Druids and the enchanted woods of Arthurian legend, Porteous gathers centuries of myth, superstition, and poetic reverence into a single, richly textured narrative. Written with both scholarly care and imaginative wonder, the book invites readers to wander through history's most mysterious forests-places where gods whispered in leaves, fairies danced in moonlight, and trees themselves seemed alive with memory and magic.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The original 1923 edition, meticulously preserved. This edition moves beyond the sterile, mass-market reproductions often found today to bring you a premium Collector's Facsimile. Every page maintains the historical pagination and aesthetic of the source text, paired with a bespoke cover design unique to this imprint.In The Magic and Mysteries of Mexico, Lewis Spence leads readers deep into the twilight world of ancient Aztec and Maya belief, where religion and sorcery, myth and history, intertwine in strange and captivating ways. Drawing from decades of study, Spence uncovers the arcane sciences, astrological lore, and occult philosophies that once animated the temples of Tenochtitlan and the jungles of Yucatán. With the authority of a scholar and the imagination of a storyteller, he reconstructs a civilization where gods demanded blood for rain, demons haunted the night skies, and magicians claimed kinship with jaguars and stars. Learned yet luminous with wonder, the book transforms anthropology into an adventure of the mind-an exploration of humanity's oldest enchantments and the mystical pulse that beats beneath the ruins of Mexico.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The original 1932 edition, meticulously preserved. This edition moves beyond the sterile, mass-market reproductions often found today to bring you a premium Collector's Facsimile. Every page maintains the historical pagination and aesthetic of the source text, paired with a bespoke cover design unique to this imprint.Famous Secret Societies by John Heron Lepper offers a richly detailed and intellectually engaging examination of the shadowy networks that have shaped religion, politics, and culture from the medieval world to modernity. Blending historical rigor with a narrative flair, Lepper guides the reader through the intrigues of the Assassins, the Templars, the Rosicrucians, the Illuminati, and other enigmatic brotherhoods whose influence often blurred the line between mysticism and manipulation. While attentive to their philosophical and symbolic dimensions, the book does not romanticize these organizations; rather, it probes their ambitions, hypocrisies, and the recurring human fascination with secrecy and power. Drawing on historical records, mythic traditions, and sociological analysis, Lepper crafts a study that is both erudite and vividly readable-a critical exploration of how clandestine ideals and conspiratorial hierarchies have quietly sculpted the visible world of faith, governance, and intellect.