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Two volumes together. Comprising:

• The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses. Egyptian Publishing Company. [Carbondale, Ill.?] , [c. 1900?]. Original red cloth stamped in black and light blue. Early English language reprint.
• The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses. The De Laurence Company, Chicago, no date. Facsimile of the Egyptian Publishing Company edition. Red cloth stamped and lettered in gilt. 

Copies have been traced to 18th-century German pamphlets, but an 1849 printing, aided by the appearance of the popular press in the 19th century, spread the text through Germany and Northern Europe to German Americans and eventually helped popularize the texts among African Americans in the United States, the Caribbean, and Anglophone West Africa. It influenced European Occult Spiritualism as well as African American hoodoo folk magic, and magical-spiritual practices in the Caribbean, and West Africa.