Circa a year and a half ago, I worked in a real estate company and had to check an apartment. When I got there, I saw several - I mean, a LOT - of black garbage bags filled with books, all around the floor. I went to check, it was this huge library of occult books from the 19th century.
Picked up a few out of curiosity (was not interested in magic back then), and asked the lady if I could keep them. She said that they would end up in the garbage anyway, so it was ok. I asked her if I could come back to pick up more and she said it would be no problem. But for some reason I never did it. Now I regret this, how I do.
However, the ones I got were:
-3 tomes from ARCANES CELESTES by Swedenborg
-3 tomes of Mme Blavatsky's LA DOCTRINE SECRET
-1 called MAGIE ROUGE ET NOIR (I really don't remember the author. Tomorrow I'll post his name).
-And 1 called ESSAIS DE SCIENCE MAUDIS (forgot the author too).
What kept me from reading them is that they're all in French, and I don't know French.
They're all covered in dust and my cats once sharpened their claws on their covers, but besides that they are ok.
DO you guys know anything about these books?
Mm Blavatsky's stuff, is it worth trying to translate?
And in a related note, do you think/know if there are good prices for selling this kind of one century-old books?
And, YES, I AM A STUPID PIECE OF ROTTEN CHEESE for wasting the chance of getting my hands in more of this shit.  |
