Tradition 04 of 33
Alchemy and Hermeticism
Alchemy, Hermetic philosophy, Hermetica, and spiritual or laboratory transformation traditions.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 4,074
- Earliest
- 1 CE
- to 2026
- Read free
- 61%
- 2,499 with public full text
- With covers
- 67%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match3,013
- Metadata match182
- Query match873
- Source classification (retained through merging)6
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- Alchemy1.6K
- Early works to 1800770
- History234
- Chemistry231
- Alchemy, Magic and Kabbalah (C.G. Jung collection)229
- occultism197
- Alchimie160
- Medicine150
- Alchemie141
- Philosophy120
- Social Sciences110
- Hermetism109
- Art101
- Magic97
- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric91
- Arts and Humanities86
- Literature69
- Early works to 190062
- Rosicrucians57
- Astrology56
- Hermeticism51
- Text51
- Archeology50
- Art history46
Top languages
- German1,160 · 28%
- English882 · 22%
- Latin783 · 19%
- French392 · 10%
- NOT344 · 8%
Notable authors
All authors- Paracelsus272 in this tradition292 books
- Trismegistus Hermes75 in this tradition89 books
- Basilius Valentinus49 in this tradition50 books
- Michael Maier48 in this tradition53 books
- University of Glasgow. Library39 in this tradition71 books
- Ramon Llull36 in this tradition42 books
- Johann Joachim Becher34 in this tradition35 books
- George Starkey33 in this tradition35 books
- Jābir ibn Ḥayyān32 books
- Pierre Joseph Macquer29 books
- Johann Rudolf Glauber27 in this tradition30 books
- Roger Bacon27 in this tradition29 books
4,074 books
Adams und Alabanda im chymischen Lustgärtlein
Artur R. Bölderl
1993German
Alchemia Andreae Libavii Med. D. Poet. Physici Rotembvrg. operâ ... In integrum corpus redacta. Accesserunt Tractatus nonnulli Physici Chymici ... Sunt etiam in Chymicis eiusdem D. Libavii epistolis, iam antè impressis, multa, huic operi lucem allatura
Andreas Libavius
1597Latin
Alchemiae Gebri Arabis philosophi solertissimi, Libri, cum Reliquis
Ǧābir Ibn-Ḥaiyān, Rogerius Bacon, Ricardus, Halid ibn Yazid ibn Mu awiyah ibn Abu Sufyan, Hermes, Johannes de Garland, Chrysogonus Polydorus
1545Latin
Alchimie
Titus Burckhardt
1974French
"Alkühmisten" und "Decoctores"
Misia Sophia Doms
2006German
"Aurora consurgens"
Thomas, Marie-Louise von Franz
1985German
"Turba Philosophorum"
Grégoire Lacaze
2018
2: L'alchimia spiegata sui suoi testi classici
Eugène Canseliet
1985Italian
7000 Jahre Chemie
Otto Krätz
1999German
ABC de l'alchimie
Carole Sédillot
2001French
Acerca de los hornos
Geber
2000Spanish
Achilles panoplos redivivus
Johann Ernst Burggrav, Marcell Vranckheim
1612Latin
Actorum laboratorii chymici monacensis
Johann Joachim Becher
1669Latin
Agricultura celeste =
Francisco Clemente, José Antonio Puche Riart, Manlio Padovano Valeri
2020French
Aktive Imagination und Alchemie
Marie-Louise von Franz
2009
Akustische Alchemie
Markus Ivanov
2025German
Al carro triunfal del Antimonio
Basilius Valentinus
1981Spanish
Alchemia
Andrea Aromatico
2002Polish
Alchemia Andreae Libavii Operâ e dispersis passim optimorum autorum, veterum & recentium exemplis potissimum
Andreas Libavius
1597Latin
Alchemical laboratory notebooks and correspondence
George Starkey, William R. Newman
2004
Alchemical mercury
Karen Pinkus
2010
Alchemical poetry, 1575-1700
Robert M. Schuler
1995
Alchemical treatises
British Museum
1200Latin
Alchemie
Jörg Völlnagel
2012German