Occult & Esoterica
[PLANGIERE (Translator)] Grimoirium Verum: Containing the Most Approved Keys of Solomon (Trident Books, Full Leather Edition)
[PLANGIERE (Translator)] Grimoirium Verum: Containing the Most Approved Keys of Solomon (Trident Books, Full Leather Edition)
Full title: Grimoirium Verum: Containing the Most Approved Keys of Solomon Wherein the Most Hidden Secrets Both Natural and Supernatural are Immediately Exhibited
Translated from the Hebrew
Seattle: Trident Books, 1997. Second Edition. Hardcover (issued without dust jacket). Octavo. xiv + 86pp. The entire print run (standard and deluxe) was limited to 500 total hand-numbered copies, this one being No. 101. Bound in full black kid with gilt title to front and spine. Spine with 5 raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Black page-marker ribbon. Title page in red and black. Illustrated with sigils. Publisher's information sheet is laid in. Some light rubbing to gilt title on spine and to front cover, otherwise a near fine copy in like slipcase.
The Grimoirium Verum (or True Grimoire) was allegedly written by Alibeck the Egyptian in Memphis in 1517 but most likely finds it origins in Rome, with the oldest surviving copies in French and Italian, starting from 1817. Like many grimoires, it claims to contain the sacred knowledge of biblical figure and legendary demon summoner King Solomon. As such this often overlooked grimoire takes up a place in the so-called Solomonic cycle. This edition of Grimoirium Verum is unique in its completeness, verifiable authenticity and never-before published material. An appendix, The Book of the Black Serpent (An Earnest Paper in the Interest of Truth by a Fellow of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn), has been added to this edition. Previously unpublished, it supplements the demonology in Grimoirium Verum in addition to making a rare Golden Dawn tract on angelology available.