This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. James Wasserman, author, editor, publisher and occultist, gives us Art and Symbols of the Occult. A disciple of Aleister Crawley’s Ordo Templi Orientis, he has written numerous books on the subject as well as republishing and updating several Read More
Three times as nice
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. We are lucky to have found three first editions of Traité du chanvre in different bindings as we continue to unpack and catalog items from Santo Domingo boxes. From left to right the images reflect the covers of these copies Read More
Before there was Botox
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Before botox, plastic surgery, and aestheticians, L’horreur!, women were forced to combat aging and maintain beauty the old fashioned way- with tips and remedies from publications such as Comment se guérir? This French publication by the mysterious Dr. Read More
Plant-lore for the masses
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Aconitum also known as wolfsbane is a particularly poisonous plant that grows mainly in the Northern hemisphere. Apparently it was historically used to kill wolves thus the reference to the plant as wolfsbane. The image above is Read More
Conjoined twins
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Johann Conrad Brunner was a Swiss anatomist that is best known for his work with the pancreas and duodenum. This fold out plate displays both anatomical and skeletal conjoined twin fetuses, which is part of Brunner’s medical dissertation Foetum Read More