Books, Up to 1700

Aesop's fables with his life

ca. v6. Jh Aesopus

1687

Blagraves astrological practice of physick discovering the true way to cure all kinds of diseases ... being performed by such herbs and plants which grow within our own nation, directing the way to distil and extract their vertues and making up of medicines. Also a discovery of some notable phylosophical secrets ... relating to a discovery of all kinds of evils, whether natural, or such which come from sorcery or witchcraft ... directing how to cast forth the said evil spirit out of any one which is possessed with sundry examples thereof

Joseph Blagrave

1671

Certaine rules, directions, or advertisments for this time of pestilentiall contagion; with a caveat to those that weare about their neckes impoisoned amulets as a preservative from the plague

Francis Herring

1625

Eniautos terastios, mirabilis annus, or The year of prodigies and wonders

1661

Fr. Baconis de Verulamio. Sylva sylvarvm (nunc Latio transscripta a Jacobo Grutero), sive Hist. naturalis, et Nova atlantis (cum praefatione W. Rawley)

Francis Bacon, Jacob Gruterus, William Rawley

1661

Historie of the damnable life, and deserued death of Doctor John Faustus

1592

Judicial astrologers totally routed, and their pretence to Scripture, reason and experience ... answered. Or a brief discourse, wherein is clearly manifested, that divination by the stars hath no solid foundation

John Allen

1659

Popery, superstition, ignorance, and knavery, confess'd, and fully proved on the Surey dissenters, from the second letter of an apostate friend, to Zach. Taylor

Zachary Taylor

1699

Preservatives against the plague, or directions and advertisements for this time of pestilentiall contagion ... Also a caveat to those that weare about their necks impoisoned amulets as a preservative ... First published for the behoofe of the City of London, in ... 1603 and 1625 and reprinted for the benefit of the said citie, now visited

Francis Herring

1641

The Lancashire Levite rebuk'd, or, a farther vindication of the dissenters from popery, superstition, ignorance and knavery; unjustly charged on them, by Mr. Zachary Taylor, in his two books about the Surey demoniack. In a second letter to himself

John Carrington, Charlwood Lawton

1698

The Lancashire Levite rebuk'd, or, a vindication of the dissenters from popery, superstition, ignorance, and knavery, unjustly charged on them by Mr. Zachary Taylor, in his book, entituled, The Surey impostor. In a letter to himself

John Carrington, Charlwood Lawton

1698

The Tempest or The Enchanted Island

William Shakespeare

1670

The admirable historie of the possession and conversion of a penitent woman. Seduced by a magician that made her to become a witch and the princes of sorcerers in the country of Province, who was brought to S. Baume to be exorcised in the yeere 1610 in the moneth of November

Sébastien Michaelis, William Badcock

1613

The strange and wonderful prophecies of Mother Shipton: plainly setting forth her prodigious birth, life, death, and burial

Mother Shipton

1700

Astrological, musical and other treatises.

1400·Latin

Treatise on evil spirits and witchcraft.

1490·French

Calendar. Astrological notes and tables.

1300·Latin

Miscellaneous astrological drawings and tables.

1200·Latin

Miscellaneous alchemical, astrological, astronomical, and medical treatises.

1300·Latin

Book of Hours. Use of Rome.

1470·French

Apocalypse with commentary (known as the 'Douce Apocalypse').

1265

Calendar and astrological treatise Roman Diurnal.

1400·Norwegian