The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus : AE Waite 1910 [ DeLaurence , Smith Ely Jelliffe ]
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Pirated DeLaurence First American Edition Of the Collected Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus by AE Waite Owned By Early Psychoanalyst Smith Ely Jelliffe
Waite, Arthur Edward. The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Aureolus Phillipus Theophastus Bombast, called Paracelsus, The Great. Chicago, Il. DeLaurence and Company. 1910. Edition De Luxe. Two Volumes. Pirated First American Edition.
The first American edition of the pioneering English translation of the writings of the revolutionary Swiss alchemist, Paracelsus, republished without permission from the 1894 translation by Arthur Edward Waite by the infamous book pirate LW deLaurence.
This copy was owned by Smith Ely Jelliffe, noted book collector, early Freudian psychoanalyst, and cofounder of the influential Psychoanalytic Review who continued to publish Carl Jung in English after the latter’s break with mainline psychoanalysis over his interest in psychic phenomenon.
Noted for his belief in the power of suggestion and influence on New Thought, Jelliffe was also the English translator of early Viennese psychoanalyst Herbert Silberer’s Probleme der Mystik und ihrer Symbolik later republished under the title, Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts, which was revolutionary in its application of Freudian analysis to alchemical symbolism and heavily informed Jung’s own later work on Alchemy.
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394, 396 respectively. Corners bumped. Some wear and scratches to leather boards. Back board fore edge bruised vol 1. Spine ends bumped with minor losses to bottom spine vol 2. Textblock and pages toned. Gutter tear vol 1 front pastedown. Vol 1 frontis portrait detached up present with minor tearing to wrinkling to bottom edge. Ownership signatures to front pastedowns and title pages both volumes. Good.
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