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Illuminati sacre pagine p.fessoris amplissimi magistri Raymundi Lull. Ars magna, generalis et vltima
Bernardus de Lavinheta, Ramon Llull
1517

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Angelographia, or A discourse concerning the nature and power of the holy angels, and the great benefit which the true fearers of God receive by their ministry: delivered in several sermons

Increase Mather

1696

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The devil turn'd casuist, or, The cheats of Rome laid open, in the exorcism of a despairing devil, at the house of Thomas Pennington in Orrel in the parish of Wigan and county of Lancaster

Zachary Taylor

1696

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[Astronomical anthology]

Jacob ben David ben Yom Tov

1361Hebrew

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Physiognomie and chiromancie, metoposcopie, the symmetrical proportions and signal moles of the body, fully and accurately handled; with their natural-predictive-significations. The subject of dreams; divinative steganographical, and Lullian sciences. Whereunto is added the art of memorie

Richard Saunders

1653

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Richardus de duodecim patriarchis

Richard, of St. Victor Richard

1494Latin

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The third booke of the authour being the high and deepe searching out of the threefold life of men through [or according to] the three principles

Jakob Böhme, John Sparrow

1650

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Fr. Baconis de Verulamio Sylva sylvarvm, sive Historia natvralis, et Nova atlantis

Francis Bacon, Francis 1561-1626 Bacon

1661Latin

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Pyramidographia: or a description of the pyramids in Aegypt

John Greaves

1646

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A detection of that sinnful, shamful, lying, and ridiculous discovrs, of Samuel Harshnet, entituled: A discouerie of the frawdulent practises of John Darrel

John Darrel

1600

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[Alchemical miscellany]

Georg Hayniger

1476Latin

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Prenosticatio

Johannes Lichtenberger

1488German

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Treatises of the true salt, the philosophers secrett, and of the generall spiritt of the world

Clovis Hesteau Nuisement

1650

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Unheard-of curiosities: concerning the talismanical sculpture of the Persians, the horoscope of the Patriarkes; and the reading of the stars

Jacques Gaffarel, Edmund Chilmead

1650

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Of the great mysterie of antimonie

Alexander von Suchten

1600

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The book of palmestry and physiognomy

Johannes ab Indagine, Fabian Withers

1651

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Popery, superstition, ignorance, and knavery, very unjustly by a letter in the general pretended; but as far as was charg'd, very fully proved upon the dissenters that were concerned in the Surey imposture

Zachary Taylor

1698

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Scot's discovery of witchcraft : proving the common opinions of witches contracting with divels, spirits, or familiars, and their power to kill, torment, and consume the bodies of men, women, and children, or other creatures by diseases or otherwise, their flying in the air, &c. to be but imaginary, erronious conceptions and novelties : wherein also the lewde unchristian practices of witchmongers upon aged, melancholy, ignorant, and superstious [sic] people in extorting confessions by inhumane terrors and tortures is notably detected ... : whereunto is added, a treatise upon the nature, and substance of spirits and divels &c.

Mcmanus-Young Collection, Reginald Scot

1651

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A Treatise of Witchcraft

Alexander Roberts

1616

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Alchemical writings

Special Collections

1472Ancient Greek

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Ars artium

Johann Theodor de Bry, Hartmann Schopper

1600Latin

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Artis auriferae, quam chemiam vocent ...

Jean Aubry, Claude De Marne, Conrad Von Waldkirch

1593Latin

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Barptolomaei Coclitis bononiensis, naturalis philosophiae ac medicinae doctoris, Physiognomiae & chiromantiae compendium

Bartolommeo della Rocca Cocles, Corve, André. Chiromantia

1533Latin

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Bifolium from Liber completus in iudiciis stellarum

Ibn Abī al-Rijāl, ʻAlī, 1015 or 1016-1062 or 1063

1320Latin

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Illuminati sacre pagine p.fessoris amplissimi magistri Raymundi Lull. Ars magna, generalis et vltima

Angelographia, or A discourse concerning the nature and power of the holy angels, and the great benefit which the true fearers of God receive by their ministry: delivered in several sermons

The devil turn'd casuist, or, The cheats of Rome laid open, in the exorcism of a despairing devil, at the house of Thomas Pennington in Orrel in the parish of Wigan and county of Lancaster

[Astronomical anthology]

Physiognomie and chiromancie, metoposcopie, the symmetrical proportions and signal moles of the body, fully and accurately handled; with their natural-predictive-significations. The subject of dreams; divinative steganographical, and Lullian sciences. Whereunto is added the art of memorie

Richardus de duodecim patriarchis

The third booke of the authour being the high and deepe searching out of the threefold life of men through [or according to] the three principles

Fr. Baconis de Verulamio Sylva sylvarvm, sive Historia natvralis, et Nova atlantis

Pyramidographia: or a description of the pyramids in Aegypt

A detection of that sinnful, shamful, lying, and ridiculous discovrs, of Samuel Harshnet, entituled: A discouerie of the frawdulent practises of John Darrel

[Alchemical miscellany]

Prenosticatio

Treatises of the true salt, the philosophers secrett, and of the generall spiritt of the world

Unheard-of curiosities: concerning the talismanical sculpture of the Persians, the horoscope of the Patriarkes; and the reading of the stars

Of the great mysterie of antimonie

The book of palmestry and physiognomy

Popery, superstition, ignorance, and knavery, very unjustly by a letter in the general pretended; but as far as was charg'd, very fully proved upon the dissenters that were concerned in the Surey imposture

A Treatise of Witchcraft

Alchemical writings

Ars artium

Artis auriferae, quam chemiam vocent ...

Barptolomaei Coclitis bononiensis, naturalis philosophiae ac medicinae doctoris, Physiognomiae & chiromantiae compendium

Bifolium from Liber completus in iudiciis stellarum