On Jan 16, 2008 4:18 PM, D E <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

absolutely good for buyers, I saw some of an earlier auction of his books that the Museum of Witchcraft acquired, and stunning items they were, but IMO there is a (kind of) spirit of place that a large personal library creates, and every time one is split up and sold then something intangible is lost, even if we have a catalogue listing of what Robert owned, that will never all be in one place again

dave e

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There must be lots of cases where someone's precious book collection gets dispersed after death - yes, it is sad, but perhaps not sad for buyers?

~Caroline.

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rather sad to see this- I remember when Robert died and there was a grand scheme to house all of his books (about 3/4 of a million was the estimate) in a study centre, to (a) keep them together and (b) allow free access to researchers; which we reported in JSM1

dave e

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Weiser Antiquarian Books Catalog Twenty-Eight:

Alchemy and Hermetica. Books from the collection of

Robert Lenkiewicz. Part II.

may now be viewed at:

www.weiserantiquarian.com/catalog

To view the catalog simply click on the link above. If the link does not work direct from your email, please cut and paste it into your web browser. If your web-browser shows an earlier catalog of ours at the above link (ie it is not 'refreshing' properly) a duplicate copy of our new catalog is on-line at: www.weiserantiquarian.com/catalogtwentyeight

Weiser Antiquarian Books is pleased to announce the issue of our twenty-eighth on-line catalog. This is the second of two catalogs (the other was Catalog Twenty-Three) devoted to Used, Out-of-Print, and Rare books on Alchemy, Hermetica, and related subjects from the library of Robert Oscar Lenkiewicz (1941 - 2002).

Lenkiewicz was a well-known British artist, eccentric, and book collector who owned over 25,000 books at the time of his death. One room of his studio was termed by Lenkiewicz the "Occult Philosophy Room," and contained a world-class library on the subject, with a special emphasis on alchemy and alchemical symbolism, Neo-Platonism and Renaissance occultism, and the Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism.
Weiser Antiquarian Books was fortunate enough acquire a small selection of these books, which are now offered for sale in this catalog, and in our earlier Catalog Twenty-Three.

The first section of Catalog Twenty-Eight is a miscellany of books from the "Occult Philosophy Room," and includes a number of serious, scholarly studies of alchemy, some of which are quite scarce. Most of the books in this section are in pristine condition, though some have obviously seen a lot of practical use, such as one of the copies of Atwood's A Suggestive Inquiry Into Hermetic Philosophy and Alchemy which is interleaved with closely written scraps of paper, on which Lenkiewicz has made notes in a miniscule handwriting. The second section of the catalog comprises three handwritten copies of rare alchemical manuscripts made by Lenkiewicz from the originals in the British Library. Two of these include delightful hand-drawn illustrations by Lenkiewicz, after originals in the texts. The third section comprises a number of bound off-prints (or photocopies thereof) of journal articles which Lenkiewicz obviously found to be of special significance. Both the manuscripts and the journal articles have been ingeniously (if rather crudely) bound by Lenkiewicz in thin plywood boards, with cloth spines which he hand-lettered, giving them a rather 'folk-art' look and feel. The final section contains a number of limited edition books from the Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks series produced by Adam McLean, the highly-regarded scholar of alchemical texts, who is well known for his alchemy website, and as the editor and publisher of numerous important hermetic texts.

At present we have a number of other catalogs in preparation. Our next catalogs, are due out in February and early March. The first will be on Spiritualism and the second will be a Miscellany of New Arrivals, featuring a selection of interesting and unusual books and manuscripts from across our fields of speciality. During that period we will probably also squeeze in another catalog of Works by and Relating to Aleister Crowley. Future catalogs will be devoted to The Occult Review, Rosicrucianism, Mythology, Theosophy, Magic, Grimoires, and other of our specialties. Of course we will also continue to regularly issue our special Aleister Crowley catalogs.

The books in these catalogs represent just a fraction of a percent of our overall holdings. We currently list nearly 10,000 other mostly esoteric-related titles on our main website: www.weiserantiquarian.com with new stock added weekly.

Again, if you wish to view the books in this current catalog simply click on:

www.weiserantiquarian.com/catalog

or go to

www.weiserantiquarian.com/catalogtwentyeight