(14 volume set) Miscellaneous Notes and Queries: A Monthly Journal of History, Follklore, Mathematics, Mysticism, Art, Science, Arcana Societies, etc. by C.S. Gould

(14 volume set) Miscellaneous Notes and Queries: A Monthly Journal of History, Follklore, Mathematics, Mysticism, Art, Science, Arcana Societies, etc. by C. S. Gould, published from 1889 to 1900. Fourteen consecutive volumes from the original and only run. Missing only two volumes. (1 &15). The author was connected to the Rosicrucian order established by George Plummer and the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor. The journal was a mouthpiece for occultism and his Rosicrucian teachings, which extended into alchemy and hermeticism. Original copies are coveted and difficult to obtain. “Notes and Queries reprinted P.B. Randolph’s curious The Riddle of Hermes (1870), a broadside riddle for the solution of which Randolph offered-with complete safety-$5,000, and gave parts of F. Leigh Gardner’s, A.L. Cahagnet’s and Robert H. Fryar’s works on magic mirrors. The learned comments of Alexander Wilder-the editor of H.P. Blavatsky’s Isis Unveiled and the editor of the Journal of American Akademe-were also frequently featured, as were articles by W. Wynn Westcott (on the Isaic Tablet) and John Yarker “The Society of the Rosy Cross,” in which Yarker affirmed the possibility of drawing down a guardian spirit to possess another’s body). Gould also exchanged advertising space with (or sold space to) T.M. Johnson’s The Platonist, W.P. Phelon and his wife’s The Hermetist, Ezra Heywood’s The Word, The Theosophist, The Occult Magazine (of Glasgow and Georgia), Robert H. Fryar’s phallic “Bath Occult Reprint” series (which was featured regularly for decades), Hiram E. Butler’s Solar Biology etc.” All fourteen volumes hardcover in black with gilt lettering and only the very lightest shelfwear.