Sepharial – The Kabala of Numbers Part 2 1913, Copy 2

£145.00

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hb Sepharial The Kabala of Numbers Part II: A Handbook of Interpretation 1st William Rider and Son, Limited, London 1913 £145 The rare true first edition of this sequel to ‘The Kabala of Numbers’. Complete in 240 pages + 16-page Rider book catalogue Original full blue patterned cloth in vgc, with moderate wear to cloth at extremities of spine and upper outer corners of boards; cloth worn slightly more heavily from lower outer corners. This copy with both title and emblematic diagram to front board in gilt (the diagram is often found only blind-stamped), and titling to spine likewise. Vintage Australian bookseller address sticker to front paste-down. Old plain-pencilled bookseller notes to ffep (faint). Foxing to front end-papers and preliminaries, with occasional minor foxing elsewhere in book. Upper margin of title page with early owner’s signature, dated 8/6/17, in dark ink. ‘Hebraic system’ to p. 130 has been underlined in red ink, with a connected red-inked marginal bracket and arrow. Three lines of text underlined in black ink to p. 162, with associated black-inked marginal bracketing. No other permanent markings found. Occasional minor plain-pencilled mark-up to a handful of pages. Occasional corrected dog-ears. Binding slightly strained at inner paper hinges between pp. 112 and 113 and pp. 128 and 129. Overall, a near-very-good copy of this sought-after first edition

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Weight 0.375 kg