VII Sermones ad Mortuos: The Seven Sermons to the Dead written by Basilides in Alexandria, the City where the East Toucheth the West. 
Carl Jung
Edinburgh, 1925
 
First edition in English of a key Jung rarity, with a special provenance - the translator’s copy.
 
Original gilt-lettered vellum boards with some modest scratches and stains, pages very fresh with red-ruled margins and rubrication throughout. Overall, a Near Fine copy of a scarce book - no appearances of this deluxe binding in the auction records.
 
The Seven Sermons to the Dead was the only part of Jung's deeply mystical and personal Red Book that circulated in his lifetime - first published in 1916, this English translation followed in 1925. Both editions were published by him for private circulation amongst friends and trusted associates. Jung adopted the pseudonym, Basilides - a mysterious second century Gnostic author and teacher.
 
Dr. Helton Godwin Baynes, physician, founding member of London's Analytical Psychology Club, and Jung’s medical assistant in Zurich, served as translator - he translated a number of Jung's works as well as writing his own books on Jungian themes, leading the British Jungian community for twenty years. A special provenance for a special book.
 
Ref:
 
Jung’s Apprentice, Diana Baynes Jansen