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
Dreyfaches hermetishes Kleeblat
Clovis Hesteau sieur de Nuisement, Marsilio Ficino, Samuel Norton
1667German
Du vitriol philosophique et de sa préparation
Tripied
1896French
Edouardi Kellæi Angli tractatus duo egregii, de lapide philosophorum
Edward Kelly, J. L. M. C, Duveen Alchemy and Chemistry Collection
1676Latin
Eduard Plusii Spiegel der heutigen Alchimie
Edvardus Plusius
1725German
Een schoon tractaet van sommighe werckingen der alchemistische dingen, om gout, siluer te maken, ende oock van alle calcioneringhe der planeten, ende andere materien, waeteren ende olyen der seluer te maeken, om wonderlicken daer mede te wercken
Simon Andree
1581Dutch
Eenige philosophische en medicinale tractaatjes beschrijvende de liquor alchahest
Eirenaeus Philalethes, Jean Baptiste van Helmot, Francis Anthony, Bernard of Trevisan, George Ripley, Roger Bacon, George Starkey
1688Dutch
Ein Kurtzer summarischer Tractat Fratris Basilij Valentini ... von dem grossen Stein der Uhralten, daran so viel Tausent Meister Anfangs der Welt hero gemacht haben ..
Johannes Thölde
1602German
El hermitano,y Torres
Diego de Torres Villarroel
1726Spanish
Elementa chemiae, quibus subjuncta est confectura lapidis philosophici imaginibus repraesentata
Joannes Conrad Barchusen
1717Latin
Eliksir i kamień
Michael Baigent
2000Polish
Emotionale Alchemie
Jack Vane
2026German
Enigmes et hieroglifs physiques
Gobineau de Montluisant Esprit
1754French
Entrée alchimique par la voie du milieu
Philomène philosophe par le feu
2021French
Entstehung und Ausbreiting der Alchemie mit einem Anhange
Edmund Oskar von Lippmann
1978German
Epistola scripta Theophrasto Paracelso: in qua rario ordinis & nominum, adeóq
Peder Sørenson, Paracelsus
1572Latin
Ermete Trismegisto: gli inni
Antonino Proto
2000Ancient Greek
Ermetismo
Beatrice Stasi
2000Italian
Ermetismo e mistica pagana
André-Jean Festugière
1991Italian
Euphrates, oder, Die Wasser vom Auffgang
Thomas Vaughan, Johann Langen
1689German
Examen fvcorvm psevdo-Chymicorvm
Michael Maier
1617Latin
Exercitatio medico-chymica de cinnabari antimonii
Friedrich Hoffmann
1685Latin
Explicatio verborum Salomonis
Johann Rudolf Glauber
1664Latin
Extrait d'un livre qui se peut difficilement trouver, du plus grand de tous les philosophes dans la plus curieuse biblioteque (sic) d'Angleterre
Noel Charles Laget
1709French
Figli di Ermete
Andrea Aromatico
1999Italian