[Burgoyne, Thomas]^[1] ‘The Light of Egypt, or the Science of the Soul and the Stars, in Two Parts’ Religio-Philosophical Publishing House, Chicago, 1889. Publisher’s errata slip laid in.

Original cloth (moderate wear to extremities of spine and outer corners of boards) with gilt titling to spine. (Moderate separation between pp. 192-3, but cords beneath holding.) [2] + [1 leaf] + [pp. v-vii] + [pp. ix-xi] + [plate] + 161 + [plate] + [pp. 163-170] + [plate] + [pp. 171-188] + [plate] + [pp. 189-194] + [plate] + [pp. 195-202] + [partly coloured plate] + [pp. 203-210] + [plate] + [pp. 211-238] + [plate] + [pp. 239-287] + [pp. 289-292]

[1] In this first edition, the author’s identity is not revealed. He is represented merely by a swastika symbol on the title page – an early example of the popularity of this symbol in turn-of-the-twentieth-century occult and astrological circles long before it was misappropriated by the Nazi Party in Germany

About this Book Scan

Carefully scanned in full colour from our original printing of the first American edition of 1889.

Thomas Burgoyne’s The Light of Egypt, or the Science of the Soul and the Stars (1889) was an influential esoterically framed overview of astrology. The first edition was published in both British and American editions in the same year.