Books, Up to 1700

Astrological (?) fragment

100 CE·Greek

Psalms 1.3 (amulet?)

600 CE·Greek

Horoscope

260 CE·Greek

Two pages from Acts of the Apostles ('The Laudian Acts')

William Laud

575 CE·Greek

A prognostication for ever

Thomas Bassett, Erra Pater

1694

An alarm to unconverted sinners, in a serious treatise

Joseph Alleine

1672

Anima magica abscondita, or a discourse of the universall spirit of nature

Thomas Vaughan

1650

Anthroposophia Theomagica or a Discourse of the Nature of Man and his State after Death

Thomas Vaughan

1650

Nicholas Flammel, his exposition of the hieroglyphicall figures which he caused to bee painted upon an arch in St. Innocents church-yard, in Paris

Eirenaeus Orandus, N, Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, Artephius

1624

Poemander

Hermes Trismegistus

1584·Latin

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

Joseph Glanvill, Henry More

1682

Sal, lumen, et spiritus mundi philosophici or the dawning of the day, discovered by the beams of light: shewing the true salt and secret of the philosophers, the first and universal spirit of the world

Ludwig Combach

1657

Symbolical representation of alchemical processes.

1450

The art of distillation, or, A treatise of the choisest spagyricall preparations performed by way of distillation

John French

1651

The divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus

Hermes Trismegistus, John Everard

1650

The world turn'd upside down, or, A plain detection of errors, in the common or vulgar belief, relating to spirits, spectres or ghosts, dmons, witches, &c

Balthasar Bekker

1700

XL. questions concerning the soule

Balthasar Walther, Jakob Böhme

1647

displaying of supposed witchcraft

John Webster

1677

true & faithful relation of what passed for many yeers between ... John Dee ... and some spirits tending (had it succeeded) to a general alteration of most states and kingdomes in the world

John Dee

1659

De Magorum Daemonomania

Jean Bodin, Johann Fischart, Tobias Bulang, Nicolai Dollt, Joana van de Löcht

1581·German

Lexicon Alchemiae

Martin Ruland

1661·NOT

Scary stories to tell in the dark

Alvin Schwartz

1605