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Henry Cornelius Agrippa his Fourth book of occult philosophy ; Of geomancy. Magical elements of Peter de Abano. Astronomical geomancy. The nature of spirits. Arbatel of magick

by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim

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  • 17th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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16 unnumbered pages, 217, that is, 207 pages : 19 cm (4to) The Fourth book was originally published in French as IV. livre de la philosophie occulte, in 1565, without name of printer or place. It was not introduced into the collected works to Agrippa until after his death (cf. NUC-pre 56) The Heptameron, or, Magical elements of Peter de Abano is a spurious work attributed to Petrus de Abano (cf. NUC pre-1956) Possibly printed by James Cottrell Of geomancy / Henry Cornelius Agrippa -- Of occult philosophy, or, Of magical ceremonies, the fourth book / written by Henry Cornelius Agrippa -- Heptameron, or, Magical elements of Peter de Abano ... -- Isagoge : an introductory discourse of the nature of such spirits as are exercised in the sublunary bounds ... [The nature of spirits] / by Geo. Pictorius Villinganus ... -- Of astronomical geomancy / Gerard Cremonensis -- Arbatel of magic, or, The spiritual wisdom of the ancients ..

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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 internet-archive matched “Occultism”. Retained metadata contains “occult” in the title, “occult” in the description, “Occultism” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

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  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive matched “Magic”. Retained metadata contains “magick” in the title, “Magic” in the description, “Magic” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

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    • “magick”· in title
    • “Magic”· in description
    • “Magic”· in subject
    • “magick”· in edition title
  • Divination and oracles

    Retained metadata contains “Geomancy” in the title, “Geomancy” in the description, and “Geomancy” in the edition title.

    • “Geomancy”· in title
    • “Geomancy”· in description
    • “Geomancy”· in edition title

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1655-01-01T00:00:00ZLondon : Printed by J.C. for John Harrison, at the Lamb at the East-end of PaulsEnglish—Public digitized item

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  • Contributing institution: Wellcome Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Wellcome Library
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  • Internet Archive institutional collection: europeanlibraries; medicalheritagelibrary; wellcomelibrary
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  • Source-reported rights: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" rel="ugc nofollow">This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark</a>
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