There were only about 150 copies of this book, and they are probably not available even if you wanted to spend beaucoup bucks, like more than five hundred bucks.
Long long ago... I belonged to a chaos magic group with Daniel and he wrote for a short-lived journal out of Santa Cruz called Widdershins. Rarely have I met anyone who had such a massive knowledge of plants, their habitats, chemical structures and so on. And his genius is that he personally gathered or grew hundreds of them and meticulously detailed his experiments in doing various types of extractions and tinctures. He would bathe in them, ingest them, smoke them, sleep with them... and more. That is why I have such a deep respect for his knowledge, and the fact that he also revived many old practices of brewing up potions. I have a copy of Viridarium Umbriis (also now super rare). He is currently the head of the Cultus Sabbati and is reclusive and I have no idea how to contact him. He only self publishes through Xoanon, and they do not respond to any emails and you have to basically write them and ask if you might please be placed on a list to buy future books. I will dig through some of his old articles to see what I might find if there is something specific you are searching for.

I just saw a copy of the Ars Philton being sold through Caduceus Books in England for £2000. That's over 4k USD. Needless to say and sadly unfortunate, I do not own a copy. Fortunately I do have a friend who has a copy that I can reference when need be.

A dear friend of mine just purchased 'Viridarium Umbris' a few days ago for £275 w/ shipping it came out to about $600. Another friend of mine found one in the US for a bit less 6 months ago. Aprox. $550 -$600 seems to be the going rate right now.

I think I paid £39 for my copy a few years ago when the book was first released. All of Xoanan Press books become 'rare' shortly after they are released and the price rises in turn.

~*) Cat

Friends,

For those that haven't heard, Ars Philtron is being republished by Xoanon this summer.

The Ars Philtron, Edition Codex Vasculum is being published in a run of 720 standard copies, 72 deluxe editions and 11 special editions for private distribution. The book has been expanded "with revised text, additional formulae and illustrations not present in the 2001 release." The new edition has 272 pages, with 27 illustrations.

Xoanon is taking pre-orders for this book. I've ordered mine, and thought I'd share the information for those interested, since the original text is hard to find and quite expensive at this point.

The new edition is $75.00 plus shipping and such. Can't beat it.

Enjoy!

Veg