[Serpent Worship]. [JENNINGS, Hargrave]

Ophiolatreia. An Account of the Rites and Mysteries connected with the Origin, Rise and Development of Serpent Worship in Various Parts of the World, enriched with Interesting Traditions, and a Full Description of the Celebrated Serpent Mounds & Temples. The Whole forming an Exposition of One of the Phases of Phallic, or Sex Worship. Including 'The Snake as Keeper of the Secrets' by E. Culver [and] 'Rough Notes on the Snake Symbol in India, in Connection with the Worship of Siva' by J.H. Rivett-Carnac

[Cobb], Transmutation Publishing, 2013 (expanded edition)/ 1889.

Octavo, 218 pages plus 12 pages of plates (illustrations by Lis Wright-Ivec).

Quarter snakeskin (apparently cobra) and red foil-decorated white cloth (lightly marked); trifling production blemish to the front pastedown; a near-fine copy.

Number 141 of only 200 copies of this deluxe edition. Although published anonymously, the work is reliably attributed to Hargrave Jennings (1817-1890), a 'British Freemason, Rosicrucian, author on occultism and esotericism, and amateur student of comparative religion' (Wikipedia: the article contains a lengthy list of his works).

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