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De Occulta Philosophia

a complete work on natural magic, white magic, black magic, divination, occult binding, sorceries, and their power. Unctions, love medicines and their virtues

Also known as De occulta philosophia. Book 1. English; Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's von Nettesheim Magische Werke : sammt den geheimnitzvollen Schriften des Petrus von Abano, Pictorius von Villingen, Gerhard von Cremona, Abt Tritheim von Spanheim, dem Buche Arbatel, der sogenannten Heil. Geist-Kunst und verschiedenen anderen. Zweites Bändchen; The philosophy of natural magic

by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Donald Tyson, Harry Houdini Collection, Henry Morley & Willis F Whitehead

  • First published:
  • 16th century
  • Languages: English, German, Latin, Russian
  • Content type: Fiction

"By direction of the Brotherhood of Magic: The magic mirror, a message to mystics, containing full instructions on its make and use." Includes extracts from Henry Morley's "Life of Cornelius Agrippa": p. 221-277. Also available in digital form. LAC ecr 2018-08-20 LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2018-08-27

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Divination and oracles, Occultism and esotericism, and Ritual magic and grimoires.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-title-seed matched “Three Books of Occult Philosophy”. Retained metadata contains “occult” in the subtitle, “occult” in the alternative title, “Three Books of Occult Philosophy” in the alternative title, and 4 additional metadata match(es).

    • Three Books of Occult Philosophy· via Open Library
    • occult· in subtitle
    • occult· in alternative title
    • Three Books of Occult Philosophy· in alternative title
    • Occultism· in subject
    • occult· in edition title
  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Controlled discovery queries from library-of-congress and openlibrary-title-seed matched “magic occult” and “Three Books of Occult Philosophy”. Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the subtitle, “Magic” in the alternative title, “Three Books of Occult Philosophy” in the alternative title, and 5 additional metadata match(es).

    • magic occult· via Library of Congress
    • Three Books of Occult Philosophy· via Open Library
    • Magic· in subtitle
    • Magic· in alternative title
    • Three Books of Occult Philosophy· in alternative title
    • Magic· in description
  • Divination and oracles

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary and wellcome matched “divination” and “Geomancy”. Retained metadata contains “Divination” in the subtitle, “Geomancy” in the subject metadata, “Divination” in the edition title, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • Geomancy· via Open Library
    • divination· via Wellcome Collection
    • Divination· in subtitle
    • Geomancy· in subject
    • Divination· in edition title
    • Divination· in edition subtitle

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Editions

Open Library reports 19 editions; 5 cataloged here.

The philosophy of natural magic : a complete work on natural magic, white magic, black magic, divination, occult binding, sorceries, and their power. Unctions, love medicines and their virtues ....

HathiTrust catalog record

1974
  • 9780821602188
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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's von Nettesheim Magische Werke : sammt den geheimnitzvollen Schriften des Petrus von Abano, Pictorius von Villingen, Gerhard von Cremona, Abt Tritheim von Spanheim, dem Buche Arbatel, der sogenannten Heil. Geist-Kunst und verschiedenen anderen. Zweites Bändchen

Library of Congress digitized edition

1855GermanPublic digital item

Three books of occult philosophy or magic

Library of Congress digitized edition

1898Hahn & WhiteheadEnglishPublic

Subjects

18 subject headings

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Identifiers

Library of Congress
  • 11008996
  • 2008570112
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Cataloging notes

  • Open Library reports 19 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL1114830W
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