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Brotherton Collection16
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Leeds Russian Archive1
Ripon Cathedral1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

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magic62
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Egypt2
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Frazer, Sir James George (1854-1941)7
Collin De Plancy, Jacques Albin Simon (1794-1881)5
Levi, Eliphas (1810-1875)4
Weyer, Johann (1515-1588)4
Papus (1865-1916)3
Bodin, Jean (1530-1596)2
Buchanan, George2
Buchanan, George (1506-1582)2
Cavendish, Richard2
Du Prel, Carl (1839-1899)2

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The Conjuror's magazine, or, Magical and physiognomical mirror : including a superb edition of Lavater's essays on physiognomy

1791-1793

v.1-2 (Sep. 1791-July 1793) Title pages include table of contents. Some issues have astrological charts below caption titles. Printed in two columns, with charts of the hand and tables of planet...

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Man, myth & magic : an illustrated encyclopedia of the supernatural

Cavendish, Richard

c1970-1971

v.1-v.2 (1970); v.10 (1970); v.43 (1970)

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The man-mouse taken in a trap : and tortur'd to death for gnawing the margins of Eugenius Philalethes

Vaughan, Thomas (1622-1666)

1650

A reply to Henry More's "Observations upon Anthroposophia theomagica, and Anima magica abscondita." "Eugenius Philalethes" is a pseudonym for Thomas Vaughan.

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Ioannis VVieri De praestigiis daemonum, et incantationibus ac ueneficijs libri sex, aucti et recogniti. Accessit rerum & uerborum copiosus index

Weyer, Johann (1515-1588); Oporinus, Joannes (1507-1568); Buchanan, George (1506-1582)

1568

"Censura quorundam doctorum piorumq[ue] uirorum de hoc opere..." (p. 680-692) includes letters by Boudewijn Ronsse and Johann von Ewich; "E Georg. Buchanani Scoti eximij poetae Satyra, quam Franciscan...

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De la demonomanie des sorciers

Bodin, Jean (1530-1596)

1593

Printer's device on t.p.

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Demonomania de gli stregoni, cioè fvrori, et malie de' demoni, col mezo de gl'hvomini: Diuisa in libri IIII. di Gio. Bodino Francese. Tradotta dal KR. Hercole Cato... Con vna confutatione dell'opinione di Gio. Vuier; laquale serue per confermare quanto nell'opera si contiene, & contra quelli, iquali niente credono à cosi fatte materie. Di nuouo purgata, & ricorretta. Con privilegi

Bodin, Jean (1530-1596); Cato, Ercole; Manuzio, Aldo (1547-1597)

1592

Original title in French: De la demonamanie des sorciers. Signatures: *⁴, **⁶, ***-****⁸, A-Z⁸, Aa-Bb⁸, Cc¹⁰. Printer's device on the title page. Head- and tail-pieces; initials. "T...

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Sadducismus triumphatus: or, A full and plain evidence, concerning witches and apparitions. In two parts. The first treating of their possibility. The second of their real existence

Glanvill, Joseph (1636-1680); More, Henry (1614-1687); Horneck, Anthony (1641-1697)

1726

With two final leaves of advertisements.

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The magus : or Celestial intelligencer; being a complete system of occult philosophy. In three books: containing the ancient and modern practice of the cabalistic art, natural and celestial magic, &c.; shewing the wonderful effects that may be performed by a knowledge of the celestial influences, the occult properties of metals, herbs, and stones, and the application of active to passive principles exhibiting the sciences of natural magic; alchymy, or hermetic philosophy; and also the nature, creation, and fall of man; his natural and supernatural gifts; the magical power inherent in the soul, &c.; with a great variety of experiments in natural magic: the constellatory practice, or talismanic magic; the nature of the elements, stars, planets, signs, &c.; the construction and composition of all sorts of magic seals, images, rings, glasses, &c.; the virtue and efficacy of numbers, characters, and figures, of good and evil spirits. Magnetism, and cabalistical or ceremonial magic; in which the secret mysteries of the Cabala are explained; the operations of good and evil spirits; all kinds of cabalistic figures, tables, seals, and names, with their use, &c. The times, bonds, offices, and conjuration of spirits. To which is added Biographia antiqua, or The lives of the most eminent philosophers, maji, &c. The whole illustrated with a great variety of curious engravings, magical and cabalistical figures, &c

Barrett, Francis

1801

Separate title pages: The true secret of the philosophers' stone: p.[51]; The magus; or, Celestial intelligencer: p.[71]; The magus; or celestial intelligencer, book II. Part I. Containing magnetism, ...

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Magic in names and in other things

Clodd, Edward (1840-1930)

1920

Includes bibliographical footnotes and index.

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