The half title page is foxed and has a bookseller's stamp at its head: "Libreria ARCADIA CAPRI (Italia). 232 pages. "Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (Russian: Yelena Petrovna Blavatskaya; 12 August [O.S. 31 July] 1831- 8 May 1891) was a Russian occultist, spirit medium, and author who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. She gained an international following as the leading theoretician of Theosophy, the esoteric religion that the society promoted."