Bilder-Zauberei [BLOW BOOK / MAGIC PICTURE BOOK]. c.[1870].
12mo. 14 x 9.7cm. Instructions in Spanish, Italian and Hungarian to rear pastedown. No title or publishing details as usual, several ills. with light crayoning, lacking upper wrapp. but supplied in colour photocopy, some browning, light browning, original chipped lower wrapp. present.
Magician's blow book. These books were so designed that a blow of air by the conjuror and a swift riffling through the pages produced a different set of images or indeed showed a seemingly blank volume - depending on which way up the book was held and from which notch on the fore-edge it was thumbed. Seven topics each with 8 plates each, including Animals, Fairy Stories, Nursery Rhymes, Trades?men, all colour printed or chromolitho; alphabet, music and silhouettes in black and white. See Barbara Maria Stafford and Frances Terpak, Devices of Wonder, pp.252-255.
£350.00 [ref: 283200]

Bolton, Henry Carrington. THE COUNTING-OUT RHYMES OF CHILDREN. Their Antiquity, Origin and Wide Distribution. A Study in Folk-Lore. Elliot Stock 1888.
1st Ed. Sm. Slim 4to. [x] + 121pp. + [iii]. Dec. initial letters. Light marginal browning, from the Library of Dr James Bynon, hinges tender but firm, dec. e.ps., original gilt lettered green cloth, soiled, edges rubbed, corners and head and tail of spine bumped, gilt lettering dulled, fore and lower edge uncut.
£25.00 [ref: 287084]

Briggs, Robin. THE WITCHES OF LORRAINE. OUP 2007.
1st Ed. xii + 404pp. 2 maps, 6 graphs, 2 tables. Very good in d/w.
£100.00 [ref: 282888]

Clodd, Edward. TOM TIT TOT. An Essay on Savage Philosophy in Folk-Tale. Duckworth and Co. 1898.
1st Ed. x + 249pp. + [i] + [vi] adverts. From the Library of Dr James Bynon, hinges cracked but firm, light marginal browning, e.ps. lightly browned, contemporary ownership inscription, original gilt lettered red cloth, some minor soiling and rubbing, edges of upper board sl. faded, spine browned and sl. bumped at head and tail.
£25.00 [ref: 286844]

Elmer, Peter. WITCHCRAFT, WITCH-HUNTING, AND POLITICS IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND. OUP 2016.
1st Ed. x + 369pp. Very good in pictorial d/w.
£80.00 [ref: 282785]

Frazer, James George. ADONIS Étude de Religions Orientales Comparées. Traduction Française par Lady Frazer. Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris 1921.
2 vols. in 1. Large 8vo. [viii] + 316pp. + 185pp. + [v]. French text. Original black lettered green limp paper wrapps. bound in, marginal browning throughout, ex.-lib. with several sm. marginal lib. ink stamps, title page in vol. 1 rebacked, lib. label to lower pastedown, bound in dark green lib. cloth with blind embossed lib. stamp to both boards, some rubbing minor soiling and fading, gilt bands gilt title and gilt accession nos. to darkened spine.
Ministrère de l’Instructions Publique et des Béaux-Arts. Annales du Musée Guimet, Bibliothèque d’Études Tomes Vingt-Neuvième et Trentième
£25.00 [ref: 289141]

Frazer, Sir James George. FOLK-LORE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. Studies in Comparative Religion Legend and Law. Macmillan and Co. 1919.
Reprint. 3 vols. E.ps. lightly browned, some very light marginal age toning, much of vol. 1 unopened including title page, original gilt lettered green cloth, some minor soiling, good in lightly browned and chipped d/ws. browned to fore edges and spines.
£175.00 [ref: 292926]

Frazer, Sir James George. THE GOLDEN BOUGH. A Study in Magic and Religion: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings (2 vols). Taboo and the Perils of the Soul. The Dying God. Adonis Attis Osiris (2 vols). Spritis of the Corn and of the Wild (2 vols). The Scapegoat. Balder the Beautiful (2 vols). Bibliography and General Index. Macmillan and Co., Limited 1919-20.
Reprint. of 3rd Ed., Revised and Enlarged. 12 vols. in total. Frontis. F.e.ps. and half titles sl. browned, original gilt lettered green cloth with gilt mistletoe device to upper boards, some very minor signs of wear, in lightly soiled and sl. chipped d/ws. browned to fore edges and spines, sl. water staining to spines of d/ws. to vol. 1 and 2, different style of d/w. to ‘The Dying God’ vol. which is lightly faded to spine and with 12/6 nett label, d/w. to ‘Taboo ...’ vol. torn with some loss to top edge, fore edge of leaves uncut.
£500.00 [ref: 292930]

Garnett, Lucy M.J. GREEK FOLK POESY: Annotated Translations, From the Whole Cycle of Romaic Folk-Verse and Folk-Prose. Edited With Essays on the Science of Folklore, Greek Folkspeech, and the Survival of Paganism, by J.S. Stuart-Glennie. Guildford: .... Billings and Sons ... David Nutt ... 1896.
1st Ed. 2 vols. xlv + 477pp. + vii + 541pp. + [ii]. Ink ownership stamps to half title and t.ps., original gilt lettered cloth with gilt devices to upper boards, minor marking, sm. dent to head of upper board of vol. 1., spines sl. bumped.
Including the Science of Folk-Lore; Translations of Folk-Verse- Mythological Folk-Idylls, Social Folk-Songs, Historical Folk-Ballads; Translations of Folk Prose Mythological, Social and Historical Folk Legends; the Survival of Paganism. With a useful bibliography of Greek Folk-Lore.
£150.00 [ref: 185887]

Goodland, Roger. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SEX RITES AND CUSTOMS. An Annotated Record of Books, Articles, and Illustrations in all Languages George Routledge & Sons Ltd. 1931.
1st Ed. 4to. [vi] + 752pp. F.e.ps. very lightly browned, good in original gilt lettered green cloth, some minor dampspotting to lower board, spine lightly faded, t.e.green.
£35.00 [ref: 288638]