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
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Verae alchemiae artisque metallicae, citra aenigmata, doctrina, certusque modus,
Giovanni Aurelio Augurelli, Guglielmo Gratarolo, Pietro Perna, Heinrich Petri
1561Latin
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Wundt Artzney Büchel Leonhart Bagasser auf das jar 1570
Leonhart Gagasser
1574German
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[Alchemical treatises by Christophorus Parisiensis, including correspondence by and to him]
Christophorus Parisiensis
1500Italian
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«L’altro, il dialogo, lo specchio che ci rifrange»
Dario Collini
2020Italian
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«Si risponde lavorando». Lettere 1941-1992
Andrea Giusti, Oreste Macrí, Giacinto Spagnoletti
2019Italian
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[Alchemical-pharmaceutical notebook]
Federico Gualdi
1739French
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Destillierbuch der rechten Kunst, von Kreutern, Wurtzeln, Blumen, Samen, Früchten, unnd Gethier ware Beschreibung unnd Abcontrafaytung
Hieronymus Brunschwig
1552German
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Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae Solius Verae Theologiae
Michael Maier
1617
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Io. Bap. Portae Neapolitani De distillatione lib. IX
Giacomo Lauro, Giambattista della Porta, printer Stamparia Camerale
1608Latin
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Avrevm vellvs. Oder Gůldin schatz vnd kunstkammer: darinnen der aller fůrnembsten, fůrtreffenlichsten ausserlesenesten, herrlichsten vnd bewehrsten auctorum, schriften, bücher, aus dem gar vhralten schatz der vberblieben, berborgenen, hinterhaltenen reliquien vnd monumenten derÆgyptiorum, Arabum, Chaldæorum & Assyrorum, ko̊nigen vnd weysen.
Basilius Valentinus, Bartholomaeus Korndörffer, Paracelsus, Salomon Trismosin
1599German
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Anaçephaleoses da mónarchia luzitana
Jacob Hebraeus Rosales
1668Latin
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Arts and sciences
1777
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Aurifontina chymica, or, A collection of fourteen small treatises concerning the first matter of philosophers
1680
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Mellon MS 43, Alchemical miscellany
1575
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Particular processes from various experiments
1750
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Segreti
Giambattista della Porta, Antonio de' Medici
1614Italian
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[Alchemical miscellany]
1695
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Théories [et] symboles des alchimistes
Albert Poisson
1891French
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Hermès Trismégiste
Trismegistus Hermes, Louis Ménard
1867French
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Polygraphice: or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming ... : To which also is added, I. The one hundred and twelve chymical arcanums of Petrus Johannes Faber ... II. An abstract of choice chymical preparation, fitted for vulgar use, for curing most diseases incident to humane bodies
Pierre-Jean Fabre, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection Dlc, Thomas Passinger, William Salmon, Thomas Sawbridge
1685
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Eröffnetes philosophisches Vatter-Hertz
1742German
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Collection des Anciens Alchimistes Grecs — Première Livraison
Marcellin Berthelot, Charles-Émile Ruelle
1887French
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Collection des Anciens Alchimistes Grecs — Seconde Livraison
Marcellin Berthelot, Charles-Émile Ruelle
1888French
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Collection des Anciens Alchimistes Grecs — Troisième Livraison
Marcellin Berthelot, Charles-Émile Ruelle
1888French