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Magia Adamica, or, The antiquitie of magic

and the descent thereof from Adam downwards, proved : whereunto is added, A perfect and full discoverie of the true coelum terrae, or, The magician's heavenly chaos, and first matter of all things

by Thomas Vaughan

  • First published:
  • 17th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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Signatures: A B-L Library's c. 2 bound after a fragmentary copy of Vaughan's The man-mouse taken in a trap, and tortur'd to death for gnawing the margins of Eugenius Philalethes (Printed in London and sold at the Castle in Corn-hill, 1650). All wanting after p. 25 of The man-mouse Library's c. 2 of Magia Adamica imperfect: A1 (title leaf), A2, G, L8 (blank?) wanting. F occurs twice Hogart, R. Alchemy Wing

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Why this book is in the catalog

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

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Occultism”. Retained metadata contains “Occultism” in the subject metadata.

    • “Occultism”· via Internet Archive
    • “Occultism”· via Open Library
    • “Occultism”· in subject
  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Magic”. Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the title, “Magic” in the subject metadata, and “Magic” in the edition title.

    • “Magic”· via Internet Archive
    • “Magic”· via Open Library
    • “Magic”· in title
    • “Magic”· in subject
    • “Magic”· in edition title
  • Alchemy and Hermeticism

    Retained metadata contains “Alchemy” in the description.

    • “Alchemy”· in description

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and the descent thereof from Adam downwards, proved : whereunto is added, A perfect and full discoverie of the true coelum terrae, or, The magician's heavenly chaos, and first matter of all things

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1650London : Printed by T.W. for H. Blunden ...; Printed by T.W. for H. Blunden ...English—Public

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Getty Research Institute
  • Digitization sponsor: Getty Research Institute
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana; gettyalchemy
  • Scanner: scribe1.santamonica.archive.org
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openlibrary-work:OL15580905W
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