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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Compendium der gantzen hermetischen Philosophie
Johann Christoph Von Hartmann
1700German
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Pizzimenti 1573 Democritus Abderita, De Arte Magna, Sive De Rebus Naturalibus
Domenico Pizzimenti
1573Latin
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An Hermetical and philosophic manuduction
1797
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Ex Fabri hydrographo spagyrico ; Ex Palladio spagyrico [manuscript]
donor. DSI Burndy Library, Fabri, Honoré, Isaac Newton
1660Latin
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Henrici Cornelii Agrippae ab Nettesheym a consiliis et archiuis Inditiarii sacrae caesarae maiestatis, De occulta philosophia libri tres
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
1533Latin
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A mytho Hermetic dictionary
1798
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Prantl 1856 Die Keime Der Alchemie
Karl von Prantl
1856German
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Notanda chymica [manuscript]
donor. DSI Burndy Library, Michael Maier, Isaac Newton
1660Latin

Alchemical active imagination
Marie-Louise von Franz
1979
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Mellon MS 14, Alchemical and humanistic miscellany
1475Latin
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Perspiratio dicta Hippocrati per universum corpus anatomice illustrata
Abraham Kaau Boerhaave
1738Latin
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Raccolta di celebri arcani chimici da diversi famosi filosofi dati in luce et esperimentati
1500Italian
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[Alchemical compilation]
1797
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Medicine man's pocket notebook, circa 1700-1850
1700Sanskrit
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Mellon MS 10, Alchemical miscellany
1450Latin
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Raimvndi Lvlii Maiorici, philosophi acutissimi, mediciq[ue] celeberrimi, De secretis naturæ siue Quinta essentia libri duo. His accesserunt Alberti Magni, summi philosophi, De mineralibus & rebus metallicis libri quinque.
Albertus, Ramon Llull, Walther Hermann Ryff, Peter Schöffer
1542Latin
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Synagogue Of Satan By Stanisław Przybyszewski
Stanisław Przybyszewski
1897
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Traité du grand oeuvre, ou, Troisième partie du testament de Frère Basile Valentin [manuscript.]
Basilius Valentinus, donor. DSI Burndy Library
1651French
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[Medical and philosophical compilation]
1750
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Della tramutatione metallica sogni tre
Pietro Maria Marchetti
1599Italian

Alchemy tried in the fire
William R. Newman, Lawrence Principe, Lawrence M. Principe
2002
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Mellon MS 26, Alchemical miscellany
1510French
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Des längst gewünschten und versprochenen chymisch-philosophischen Probier-Steins erste Classe
Hermann Fictuld
1784German
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Mellon MS 6, Alchemical miscellany
1435Italian