Book – PDF Stephanie Diakité (tr.) - The Treasure of the Old Man from the Pyramids / The Black Screech Owl (double-page scan)

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Reproduces all 24 black and white plates from the original edition, as well as additional plates included by the publisher. Dual text, French original and English translation. The first English translation of the 1839 de Blocquel edition of "Treasure of the Old Man of the Pyramids" ("Trésor Du Vieillard des Pyramides"), a grimoire which describes and illustrates a series of talismans attributed to an "old man of pyramids." Typically the grimoire is said to be of great antiquity, having been originally discovered in the "Great Mosque of Cairo" and to have gone through various hands in manuscript form etc. before finally achieving publication. This edition includes introduction and postscript by the original editors of the book, the "Van Meulsten Brothers," as well as a new introduction by the translator of the work.

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