Conversation with Adam Weinberger on Collecting Rare and Antiquarian Occult Books
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2024
- A conversation with @RareBookBuyer about finding, collecting and dealing in rare, antiquarian occult books.
#rarebooks #occultbooks #grimoire
Find Adam: www.adamweinbergerrarebooks.com/
Make sure to check out his youtube channel - / @rarebookbuyer where he features and discusses some rare occult tomes!
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This definitely calls for a follow up movie review of The Ninth Gate.
my favorite movie, it's bizarre that professional critics hated it so badly, it's like it caused an irrational derangement syndrome among them. Their reviews literally made no sense, it's like they were talking about a different movie.
Do you realise that you have, by far, one of the absolute best intro-music snippets on CZcams. It's short, sweet and well played and recorded. Is that your playing, Dr. Sledge?
It's nice but not me - hurray for open source music !
@@TheEsotericaChannel Well, it was a great choice.
Definitely one of the best intros on youtube ive seen so far!
My favorite part of the intro is when a glimpse of Dr. Sledge's pocket watch seems to reveal that it's running backwards! Einstein would approve.
You do realize it's not a coincidence....
In 1998 a dealer I knew had a 17th century copy of Agrippa's Occult Philosophy Books 1 to 4 ....(yes, books 1 to 4, not just 1 to 3) all bound in a single volume in English. I was filled with 17th century marginalia and was in great condition for its age with full leather binding - I personally have never seen another similar copy come up for sale. He wanted £1200 British pounds (I guess then around $2000) for it and I just couldn't afford that price back then so I had to pass on it. He later told me a friend had sold it on the internet....neither he nor I quite understood how the internet worked in the late '90's, but it sold for £1700.00. Oh how I still badly regret not buying that book....
...apologies for the typo - the book was filled with maginalia, NOT me!
The greatest pick up line "Hey Baby, you wanna come check out my Library?"
Wanna see the 1564 editio princeps of the monas heiroglyphica?
Yes, I love books. I have a small library of 2000, or so. A third are occult.
This was a fantastic dialog and very comprehensive! Your content and presentation are always top notch!
Always helps when I get to chat with a true expert in the field
That is fascinating. I would think the "Malleus" would be one of the last things to wrap in human skin.
*>Echos of The Ninth Gate intensifies
The same here. It's a very unique movie (and novel) . I love the beginning where we see these cutthroat bookdealers , racing each other to buy up priceless books for peanuts from clueless people who inherited a collection.😅
Excellent and useful! Many thanks. Jesse
I was about to say the same thing about the intro music. The Most relaxing 10 seconds of my day. Thank you.
Hello from 7 Mile! I think I speak for everyone when I say that love the interviews as much as all the other formats! Yet another great video.
Wow this video brought back some memories. Back in the stone age my friend braved driving into Manhattan to the old Weiser's bookstore to introduce me to where to get "real" occult books, not pop culture ones. I am glad he validated my feeling the supply was diminishing, a great guest. Thank you.
Great video! Thanks for the upload.
I recently started “attempting” to collect occult books and I figured a good place to look would be in New Orleans since I was traveling there at the time. One store was completely bought out… another had their occult section only bought out. I was discouraged. The latter shared the same block as a Jesuit cathedral. Things that make u go “hmmmm” 🤔🤭🤫
Weird! I've never had much trouble except in some haredi bookshops with reticence to sell me something
@@TheEsotericaChannel ikr! I wasn’t even looking for rare… just anything for my library. And they were cleaned out. This was only a year ago. I am the fool (“0”) rn.
@@jypsywith_a_jae7575 there are a lot of anonymous people who are filthy rich, the kind who could easily buy the bookstore if they wanted, they can sweep up a whole inventory of whatever they happen to focus on, no big deal.
Love your videos, thanks. Toda Raba
So interesting! Great convo
One of the few delightful intros I actually enjoy.
😍🤯❤️ yass!!! ...now to win the lottery...that I need to start playing... a library of dark wood, heavy fabrics and old occult books (that I probably couldn't read). I'd love to make replicas though, like old school monks, sans the time period! LOVE this episode!!!
Yep antique books can run you broke fast - from experience I know this ;)
I hope with the development of digital facsimiles, that these books will be available at affordable prices.
All of the volumes are available digitally for free
Two of my favorite people together. Yes....
I was today old when I learned there is an Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America. Thank you!
Ive got a few books from Dr Israel Regardie,Aryeh Kaplen and Agrippas “3 Books”. Had them for pushing 20 years and cant even think of getting rid of them. I keep them in full view with my Torah and they are just a part of me. Its like they were meant to belong to me and to never part my side. There is a history between me and those books that is a part of my soul and its like the books know it. Its actually my wishes to be buried or cremated with them. Dont know why,havnt studied them in a few years but its like they are suppose to be with me. Kaplans “Sefer Yetzirah” kinda keeps the letters spinning in a circle around my head. I dont know any other way to explain it.
A pity you wish to take them with you. I might die rather than destroy something more rare than myself.
@@MagnumInnominandum I would rather them be buried with me than have them in the hands of the ignorant.
Hmm. Both have a point...
If the previous owner would have decided to be buried/cremated with the books, you wouldn’t have the great pleasure to own them now. Perhaps the book(s) could be left in your will, for example, to the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, a section of the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. Also, see comment from Gerhard Heydrich.
Horrors of horrors to a bibliophile is the destruction by fire of the Library of Alexandria. The scene in "Name of the Rose" burning the labyrinthine library.
Epic convo.
One of the cool perks is having a chance to chat with such fascinating people!
Just to let anyone know if 5hey dont know, Ebay has all these books and more on CD for pennies. That's where I get all my copies. If you have a laptop you can load them all on there and read them. Just got 180 antique occult books on CD for 13 dollars! Theres so many it will blow your mind! It's the cheapest way for knowledge I've ever discovered!
Yes, with the internet we can find almost everything there is. Even very specific arcane books can be found on PDF file . I used to work for a antique dealer .He was specialized in furniture but also bought and sold some books now and then. The people I met mostly bought these books as an investment or as a show piece . Not to read. ( Now I only met a few collectors, so there obviously are also other type of collectors out there who actually read the original text.)
I really love your channel❤
would love to browse your library, probably even contains an original 8th century necronomicon by Abdul Alhazred. I would so watch a video of you s
showing off some of the coolest ones, with a short description. a lot of people might think that boring but I would be spellbound (pun very much intended)
Cool discussion! I own a copy of the Directorium Inquisitorum from 1595 (36:03). It has a very ancient-looking stamp on the title page and a Hebrew manuscript was used as lining for the book's spine. Despite its decrepit appearance, it causes me to pause. a), people were burned at the stake because of this book. b) innocent people of Jewish descent were also persecuted as a result of this book. The fact that a Hebrew manuscript is in the structure of the book itself is mind boggling. It is sobering to know that as I hold this book, several human lives are also held in the balance.
Very cool, if you ever want to sell it let me know! I'd love to have a copy!
@@TheEsotericaChannel Nice of you to offer the option. I got the book from Austria. It's part of an occult book section that I added for my wife. She'd never part with it. I'm so clueless that I tried to have it rebound, but restorers refused to do it. They told me that the Hebrew manuscript that's showing through the spine is priceless. It's an early example of a practice that's supposed to be common as of the 17th century. My copy is from 1595.
Yep, it's binders waste, quite popular with today's collectors. I'd love to see some photos of it if you could send them!
@@rommelrivera1186 this has happened before someplace...
@@joejones9520 She had an automatic in her stocking...
Hi Dr. Sledge. I was wondering if you might have some videos about the book A Suggestive Inquiry Into The Hermetic Mystery by M.A. Atwood. It's a difficult read (for me) and I feel listening to someone talk about it might give me some perspective and maybe help me make some sense of it. Thanks for your time.
I’d love to go to his gallery, but the city has been getting a bit too war zone like lately.
Oh good!
Hei! Love from Finland! I am quite interested to know about real historical spells. I am planing a role playing campaing set during 30 yers war And having flaworful spells would be nice, but I have not found any good resource about individual spells (except you). Do you know sny sourge that has at least summary of spells found in real grimoires?
Check out my episode on the various necromancers manuals
I enjoyed reading Saviolo and his works both about the Code Duello and his essays on women as an early feminist especially in contrast with Swetnam.
"Often we're the stewards of the past, whether we want to be or not". That's got a bit of weight in it sir, and the application can be wildly broad. I've encountered this truth even within my own microscopic universe. Well said.
Cool intro!!
Call me a monster but there would be something uniquely interesting about books that led to the burning or execution of people, either because of the heretical contents or because it extoled the virtue of going after X group. I can't imagine finding it spooky or creepy, a book is just a book, it'd be more of a vehicle for musing about such matters. All in all great discussion, I'd definitely love a follow up of the good Doctor's collection, assuming he has any texts worth mentioning.
Don't know if CZcams is goofing up or not but I'm not getting audio.
Nevermind, audio is working for me now.
Glad it works now!
If I were able to ask a question, I'd ask, What knowledge of non-English languages might be necessary in order to manage effectively in the rare book world, e.g. Latin, Greek, Arabic, etc.? Oh and, of course, Hebrew (duh).
Maybe Adam can field this question if he sees it
What an interesting profession, i bet he has met a few evil Bond villain types..
Dr Sledge looks at these books, like other guys look at expensive cars .. 'Hmmm..nice ! ' 😉
Old books had for cheaper than brill.
; Time and demand is as odd as people are unique.
True story brill money is that real money!
This the guy from Pawn Stars lol
bruh I'm just having trouble trying to pay rent
I don’t remember this guy from ABBA
Ha!