Primary sources [1-193]. Secondary literature [201-345].

Magic: Natural Magic [1-15]; Spiritual Magic [18-36]; Demonic Magic [41-81]. Astrology [91-117]. Hermeticism [131-156]. Ancient Wisdom [161-1731. Secret Societies [181-193].

The bibliography includes (in alphabetical order of authors) only literature mentioned in the text.

1. Francis Bacon: Sylva sylvarum, ed. William Rawley (London: J. Haviland 1627) 266 pp. in 4°.

2. Tommaso Campanella: De sensu rerum et magia rerum libri IV, ed. Tobias Adami (Frankfurt: G. Tampachius 1620) 371 pp. in 4°.

3. Kenelm Digby: Two treatises, in the one of which the nature of bodies, in the other the nature of mans soule is looked into: in way of discovery of the immortality of reasonable soules (Paris: Gilles Blaizot 1644) 466 pp. in 2°.

4. Kenelm Digby: Discours fait en une celèbre assemblée ... touchant la guerison des playes par la poudre de sympathie ... (Paris: Augustin Courbé et Pierre Moët 1658) 197 pp. in 8°.

5. Christian Friedrich Garmann: De miraculis mortuorum, ed. Immanuel Heinrich Garmann (Dresden, Leipzig: J. C. Zimmermann 1709) 1404 pp. in 4°.

6. Rudolph Goclenius: Mirabilium naturae liber concordias et repugnantias rerum in plantis, animalibus, animaliumque morbis et partibus manifestans (Frankfurt: J. C. Unckel 1625) 303 pp. in 8°.

7. Wolfgang Hildebrand: Magia naturalis, das ist, Kunst und Wunderbuch, darinnen begriffen Wunderbare Secreta, Geheimnüsse und Künststucke (Leipzig: W. H. 1610) 554 pp. in 8°.

8. Antoine Le Grand: Historia naturae variis experimentis et ratiociniis elucidata (London: J. Martyn 1673) 416 pp. in 8°.

9. Antoine Le Grand: Curiosus rerum abditarum naturaeque arcanorum perscrutator (Nuremberg: Ch. Gerhard 1681) 250 pp. in 8°.

10. Valerio Martini: Magia physica foecunda, 3 parts in 1 vol. (Venice: M. A. Brogiollus 1639-1641) 236: 138: 110 pp. in 4°.

11. Johannes N. Martius: Dissertatio inauguralis physico-medica, de magia naturali) (Erfurt: J. H. Grosch 1700) 44 pp. in 4°.

12. Giovanni Battista Della Porta: Magiae naturalis libri XX (Naples: H. Salvianus, 1589) 303 pp. in 2°. – A much enlarged edition of: Magiae naturalis libri IV (Naples: Cancer 1558) 163 pp. in 2° (of which there were many French editions). During the seventeenth century there were many editions and translations, e.g.: Frankfurt 1607, Naples 1611, Hanover 1619, 1644, Leyden 1644, 1651, 1657, London 1650, 1669, Rouen 1650, Amsterdam 1664, Venice 1665, Nuremberg 1680. English: Natural magick (London: T. Young & S. Speed 1658) 409 pp. in 2°; Reprint: New York 1957.

13. Sylvester Rattray: Aditus novus ad occultas sympathiae et antipathiae causas inveniendas (Glasgow: A. Anderson 1658) 135 pp. in 8°.

14. G. B. de Saint-Romain: La science naturelle, dégagée des chicanes de l’Ecole (Paris: A. Cellier 1679) 391 pp. in 12°.

15. Antonio Zara: Anatomia ingeniorum et scientiarum (Venice: A. Dei 1615) 592 pp. in 4°.

18. At the Healing, 2 pp. in 2°. — inserted between Godly Prayers and the Ordinal in the British Library copy (c.130.i.2) of the Book of Common Prayer (London: Bill and Barker 1633 [really 1634]). This example has no heading, but the heading is included in later editions, e.g. the one inserted between the Commination and the Psalms in The Book of Common Prayer (London: Bill 1661) in 2°, British Library c.37.l.2. The inclusion of At the Healing was common only late in the reign of Queen Anne (1702–1714).

19. Robert Boyle: Works, ed. T. Birch, 5 vols. (London 1744) 152, 583; 565; 652; 556; 736 pp.

20. Candido Brognolo: Alexicacon, hoc est, opus de maleficiis, ac morbis maleficis, 2 vols. (Venice: I.B. Cataneus 1668) 285; 379 pp. in 2°.

21. John Browne: Charisma basilicon (London: S. Lowndes 1684) 196 pp. in 8°.

22. Etienne (Stephanus) Chauvin: Lexicon rationale, sive thesaurus philosophicus (Rotterdam: P. van der Slaart 1692) 676 pp. in 2°.

23. Conway Letters. The Correspondence of Anne, Viscountess Conway, Henry More and their friends, 1642–1684, ed. M. H. Nicolson (London 1930) 517 pp.

24. John Evelyn: The Diary, ed. E. S. de Beer, 6 vols. (Oxford 1955) 171; 579; 639; 654; 622; 626 pp.

25. Robert Fludd: Tractatus de geomantia, in: Fasciculus geomanticus, in quo varia variorum opera geomantica continentur (Verona [in fact: Frankfurt: J. D. Zunner] 1687) pp. 3–170 in 8°.

26. Johann Christian Frommann: Tractatus de fascinatione novus et singularis, in quo fascinatio vulgaris profligatur, naturalis confirmatur, et magica examinatur (Nuremberg: Endter 1675) 1067 pp. in 4°.

27. Joseph Glanvill: Saducismus triumphatus, 2 parts. in 1 vol. (London: J. Collins & S. Lownds 1681) 328 pp. in 8°.

28. Valentine Greatrakes: A brief account of Mr. Valentine Greatrak’s, and divers of the strange cures by him (London: J. Starkey 1666) 96 pp. in 4°.

29. Juan Lazaro Gutiérrez: Opusculum de fascino (Lyons: P. Borde et al. 1653) 210 pp. in 4°.

30. Athanasius Kircher: Mundus subterraneus, 2 vols. (Amsterdam: J. Janssonius & E. Weyerstraten 1664–1665) 346; 487 pp. in 2°.

31. Emanuel König the Elder: Regnum animale (Basel: E. König 1682) 176 pp. in 4°.

32. William Lilly: History of his life and times, from the year 1602 to 1684 written by himself (London: J. Roberts 1715) 116 pp. in 12°. - Elias Ashmole, for whom the work was written, completed the final pages, and it was published by Charles Burman. Reprint: The Last of the Astrologers, ed. K. M. Briggs (London 1974) 108 pp.

33. Reginald Scot: The discoverie of witchcraft ... Hereunto is added a treatise upon the nature and substances of spirits and devils (London: W. Brome 1584) 560 pp. in 4°.

34. Daniel Sennert: Medicina practica, in: Opera, vols. 2–3 (Paris: Societas [Jesu] 1641) 816; 1162 pp. in 2°.

35. Henry Stubbe: The miraculous conformist (Oxford: R. Davis 1666) 44 pp. in 4°.

36. John Wilkins: Mercury, or the secret and swift messenger (London: I. Norton 1641) 180 pp. in 8°.

37. Caspar Schott, Physica curiosa . . . , second, enlarged edition (Würzburg, J. Endter etc. 1667) 1349 pp., in-4° (1st edn., Würzburg, J. Endter etc. 1662, in-4°).

41. Thomas Ady: A candle in the dark (London: R. I. 1656) 172 pp. in 4°.

42. Pierre de l’Ancre: L’incrédulité et mescréance du sortilège plainement convaincue (Paris: N. Buon 1622) 841 pp. in 4°.

43. Jacques d’Autun: L’incrédulité sçavante et la crédulité ignorante au sujet des magiciens et des sorciers (Lyons: J. Molin 1671) 1108 pp. in 4°.

44. Richard Baxter: The certainty of the worlds of spirits (London: T. Parkhurst 1691) 252 pp. in 8°.

45. Pierre Bayle: Réponse aux questions d’un Provincial, Part 1 (Rotterdam: R. Leers 1704 [in fact: 1703]) 644 pp. in 8°.

46. Balthasar Bekker: De betoverde weereld (Leeuwarden: H. Nauta 1691) 658 pp.

47. Henri Boguet: Discours des sorciers (Lyons: J. Pillehotte 1602) 191 pp. in 8°.

48. Bouvet [Prevost Général des Armées du Roy en Italie]: Les manières admirables pour découvrir toutes sortes de crimes et sortilèges (Paris: I. de la Caille 1659) 342 pp. in 8°.

49. Richard Burthogge: An essay upon reason, and the nature of spirits (London: J. Dunton 1694) 280 pp. in 8°.

50. Robert Burton: The anatomy of melancholy (Oxford: H. Cripps 1652) 801 pp. in 2°. – the last edition revised by Burton himself. 1st edn.: Oxford: H. Cripps 1621, 880 pp. in 4°.

51. Méric Casaubon: A true and faithful relation of ... Dr John Dee ... and some spirits (London: T. Garthwait 1659) 493 pp. in 2°.

52. Méric Casaubon: Of credulity and incredulity in things natural, civil and divine (London: T. Garthwait 1668) 316 pp. in 8°.

53. Johann Amos Comenius: Lux in tenebris, hoc est prophetiae donum ([Amsterdam] 1657) 673 pp. in 4°.

54. Johann Heinrich Decker: Spectrologia (Hamburg: G. Liebernickel 1690) 198 pp. in 12°.

55. Martin Anton Delrio: Disquisitionum magicarum libri VI, 3 vols. (Louvain: G. Rivius 1599–1600) 374; 373; 340 pp. in 4°.

56. Jean Filesac: De idolatria magica dissertatio (Paris: S. Cramoisy 1609) 73 pp. in 8°.

57. Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle: Histoire des oracles (Paris: G. de Luyne 1686) 324 pp. in 12°.

58. Maria-Francesco Guazzo: Compendium maleficarum (Milan: B. Lantonus 1608) 245 pp. in 8°.

60. James I.: Anno primo Jacobi I (1604), cap. XII: An acte against conjuration, witchcrafte and dealinge with evill and wicked spirits, in: The statutes of the realm, vol. 4 (London 1819) pp. 1028–1029.

61. James I.: The Holy Bible ... translated ... by His Majesty’s special command (London: R. Barker 1611) 714 pp. in 2°.

62. Robert Kirk of Aberfoyle: The secret commonwealth, ed. S. F. Sanderson (Cambridge, Totowa 1976) 134 pp. - the only complete printed version. The work was written 1690–1691.

63. Marin Mersenne: Quaestiones celeberrimae in Genesim (Paris: S. Cramoisy 1623) 958 pp. in 2°.

64. Henry More: An antidote against atheisme (London: R. Daniel 1653) 162 pp. in 8°.

65. Henry More: Enchiridion metaphysicum (London: E. Flesher 1671) 403 pp. in 4°.

66. Gabriel Naudé: Apologie pour tous les grands personnages qui ont estés faussement soupçonnez de magie (Paris: F. Targa 1625) 649 pp. in 8°.

67. Agostino Oregio: De angelis. Tractatus tertius (Rome 1632) 216 pp. in 4°.

68. Claude Pithoys: La descouverture des faux possedez (Chalons: G. Nobily 1621) 110 pp. in 8°. - Also in: P. J. S. Whitmore (ed.): A seventeenth-century exposure of superstition. Select texts of Claude Pithoys (1587–1676) (The Hague 1972) pp. 1–44. The title is misleading: Pithoys merely argues that witches are aided rather than possessed by devils.

69. Johann Heinrich Pott: Specimen juridicum, de nefando lamiarum cum diabolo coitu (Jena: T. Ohrlingius 1689) 72 pp. in 4°.

70. Théophile Reynaud: Opera omnia, 19 vols. (Lyons: H. Boissat 1665) in 2°.

71. Johann Rudinger: De magia illicita decas concionum (Jena: J. Reissenberger 1630) 405 pp. in 4°.

72. Johann Rudinger: Decas concionum secunda, de magia illicita (Jena: J. Reissenberger 1635) 444 pp. in 4°.

73. Friedrich Spee: Cautio criminalis (Rinteln: P. Lucius 1631) 398 pp. in 8°.

74. Tobias Tandler: Dissertationes physicae-medicae: I. de spectris; II. de fascino et incantatione (Wittenberg: Z. Schurer 1613) 296 pp. in 8°.

75. Jean-Baptiste Thiers: Traité des superstitions (Paris: A. Dezallier 1679) 454 pp. in 12°.

76. Christian Thomasius: Theses inaugurales de crimine magiae (Halle: C. Salfeld 1701) 40 pp. in 4°.

77. Francisco Torreblanca Villalpando: Daemonologia, sive de magia naturali daemoniaca licita et illicita deque aperta et occulta interventione et invocatione daemonis libri IV (Mainz: J. T. Schonwetter 1623) 708 pp. in 4°.

78. John Wagstaffe: The question of witchcraft debated; or a discourse against their opinion that affirm witches (London 1669) 128 pp. in 8°.

79. John Webster: The displaying of supposed witchcraft (London: J. M. 1677) 346 pp. in 2°.

80. Johann Wier: De praestigiis daemonum et incantationibus ac veneficiis (Basel: J. Oporin 1563) 479 pp. in 8°.

81. John Worthington: The diary and correspondence, 3 vols., ed. J. Crossley (Manchester 1847–1886) 398; 248; 151 pp.

91. Acta Eruditorum, vol. 10 (Leipzig: J. Grossius et al. 1691) 590 pp. in 8°.

92. Elias Ashmole (1617–1692). His autobiographical notes, his correspondence, and other contemporary sources relating to his life and work, 5 vols., ed. C. H. Josten (Oxford 1966) 2065 pp. – Cf. vol. 2, pp. 492f., 539.

93. Pierre Bayle: Lettre à M. L. A. D. C. (Cologne: Pierre Marteau [in fact: Rotterdam: Leers] 1682) 574 pp. in 12°.

94. Jacques de Billy: Le tombeau de l’astrologie iudiciaire (Paris: M. Soly 1657) 196 pp. in 4°.

95. Antonio Francisco de Bonattis: Universa astrosophia naturalis. Variis ... experimentis comprobata (Padua: P. M. Frambotti 1687) 403 pp. in 4°.

96. Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia epidemica (London: E. Dod 1646) 386 pp. in 2°.

97. Tommaso Campanella: Astrologicorum libri VI (Lyons: Prost [in fact: Rome: Brugiottus] 1629) 252 pp. in 4°.

98. George Carleton: Astrologomania (London: W. Turner 1624) 123 pp. in 4°.

99. John Chambers: A treatise against judicial astrologie (London: J. Harison 1601) 204 pp. in 4°.

100. Nicholas Culpeper: Pharmacopoeia Londinensis (London: P. Cob 1653) 325 pp. in 2°.

101. Ambrosio Florido: Tractatus de annis climactericis (Padua: M. de Meniis 1612) 46 pp. in 4°.

102. John Gadbury: Collectio geniturarum (London: J. Cottrel 1662) 219 pp. in 2°.

103. Claude Gadrois: Discours sur les influences des astres, selon les Principes de M. Descartes (Paris: J.-B. Coignard 1671) 218 pp. in 12°.

104. John Gaule: Pus-Mantia, the mag-astro-mancer (London: J. Kirton 1652) 346 pp. in 4°.

105. John Goad: Astro-meteorologica (London: O. Blagrave 1686) 509 pp. in 2°.

106. Rudolph Goclenius: Apologeticus pro astromantia discursus (Marburg: P. Egenolphus 1611) 132 pp. in 4°.

107. Johann Ludwig Hannemann: Verthädigung der Astrologie (Hamburg: G. Liebezeit 1699) 32 pp. in 4°.

108. Barthellemy Heurtevyn: L’incertitude et tromperie des astrologues judiciaires (Paris: P. Chevalier 1619) 182 pp. in 12°.

109. Christopher Heydon: A defence of iudiciall astrologie (Cambridge: J. Legat 1603) 539 pp. in 4°.

110. Journal des Sçavans 9, 1681 (Amsterdam: P. Le Grand 1682) 391 pp. in 16°. - Cf. pp. 12–14.

111. Jean-Baptiste Morin: Astrologia gallica (The Hague: A. Vlacq 1661) 784 pp. in 2°.

112. Claude Pithoys: Traitté curieux de l’astrologie iudiciaire (Sedan: P. Jannon 1641) 272 pp. in 8°. - Also in: P. J. S. Whitmore (ed.): A seventeenth-century exposure of superstition. Select texts of Claude Pithoys (1587–1676) (The Hague 1972) pp. 65–229.

113. Hugh Semple: De mathematicis disciplinis libri XII (Antwerp: B. Moretus 1635) 149 pp. in 2°.

114. Placido Titi: Physiomathematica, sive coelestis philosophia naturalibus hucusque desideratis ostensa principiis (Milan: I. B. Malatesta [1646]) 323 pp. in 4°.

115. Abdias Trew: Nucleus astrologiae correctae (Nuremberg: J. Dümler 1651) 95 pp. in 4°.

116. Girolamo Vitali: Lexicon mathematicum astronomicum geometricum (Paris: L. Billaine 1668) 640 pp. in 4°. – 2nd edn.: Rome 1690, 1070 pp. Reviewed in: Acta Eruditorum 1691 [91: pp. 301f.].

117. Tobias Wagner, Johannes Brand: Astrologia genethliaca ... destructa (Stuttgart: J. W. Rössli 1656) 134 pp. in 8°.

131. Elias Ashmole: Theatrum chemicum Britannicum (London: N. Brooke 1652) 486 pp. in 4°.

132. Basilius Valentinus (Pseudonym): Triumph-Wagen antimonii (Leipzig: J. Apel 1604) 622 pp in 8°.

133. Johann Joachim Becher: Oedipus chimicus (Amsterdam: E. Weyerstraten 1664) 202 pp. in 12°.

134. Martin Birrius: Tres tractatus de metallorum transmutatione (Amsterdam: J. Jansius 1668) 110 pp. in 8°.

135. Giuseppe Francesco Borri: La chiave del gabinetto (Cologne: P. del Martello [probably Geneva] 1681) 382 pp. in 12°.

136. Robert Boyle: The sceptical chymist (London: J. Crooke 1661) 442 pp. in 8°.

137. Oswald Croll: Basilica chymica (Frankfurt: C. Marnius 1609) 283 pp. in 4°.

138. Nicholas Culpeper: Treatise of aurum potabile (London: G. Eversden 1656) 193 pp. in 8°.

139. Joseph Duchesne (Quercetanus): Liber de priscorum philosophorum verae medicinae materia ([Geneva:] S. Gervasius 1603) 432 pp. in 4°.

140. Joseph Duchesne (Quercetanus): Ad veritatem hermeticae medicinae (Paris: Saugrain 1604) 316 pp. in 4°.

141. Eirenaeus Philalethes (Pseudonym): The marrow of alchemy (London: E. Brewster 1654) 131 pp. in 8°.

142. Marsilio Ficino (trans.): Pimander ([Treviso: G. de Lisa] 1471) 102 pp. in 4°. Modern edition in A.D. Knock & A.J. Festugière (eds.) Corpus Hermeticum, 4 vols (Paris: 1945–1954).

143. Robert Fludd: Philosophia moysaica (Gouda: P. Rammazenius 1638) 304 pp. in 2°.

144. Jan Baptist van Helmont: Ortus medicinae (Amsterdam: Elzevier 1648) 798 pp. in 4°.

145. Johann Kunckel: Nützliche Observationes (Hamburg: G. Schultzen 1676) 102 pp. in 8°.

146. Nicolas Le Fèvre: Traicté de la chymie, 2 vols. (Paris: T. Jolly 1660) 510; 582 pp. in 8°.

147. Nicolas Lémery: Cours de chymie (Paris: Lémery 1675) 534 pp. in 8°.

148. Musaeum Hermeticum reformatum et amplificatum (Frankfurt: H. à Sande 1678) 864 pp. in 4°.

149. Martin Ruland [Junior]: Lexicon alchymiae (Frankfurt: Z. Palthenius 1612) 487 pp. in 4°.

150. Michael Sendivogius: Novum lumen chymicum (Cologne: A. Boetzer 1610) 104 pp. in 12°. – the 1st edn. (Pray 1604) is very rare.

151. Daniel Sennert: De chymicorum cum Aristotelicis et Galenicis consensu ac dissensu (Wittenberg: Z. Schurer 1619) 709 pp. in 8°.

152. George Starkey: Nature’s explication and Helmont’s vindication (London: T. Alsop 1657) 336 pp. in 8°.

153. Theatrum chemicum, 4 vols. (Ursel: L. Zetzner 1602) in 8°. – a widely used anthology of earlier writings.

154. [Thomas Vaughan under the pseudonym] Eugenius Philalethes: Anthroposophia theomagica (London: H. Blunden 1650) 70 pp. in 8°.

155. [Thomas Vaughan under the pseudonym] Eugenius Philalethes: Lumen de lumine (London: H. Blunden 1651) 101 pp. in 8°.

156. John Webster: Academiarum examen (London: G. Calvert 1654) 110 pp. in 4°.

161. Isaac Casaubon: De rebus sacris et ecclesiasticis exercitationes XVI. Ad Cardinalis Baronii Prolegomena (London: Norton 1614) 773 pp. in 2°.

162. Anne Conway: The principles of the most ancient and modern philosophy (London 1692) 168 pp. in 12°. — originally printed in Latin: Amsterdam: M. Brown 1690.

163. Jacques Gaffarel: Curiositez inouyes sur la sculpture talismanique des Persans, horoscope des patriarches et lecture des estoilles (Paris: H. du Mesnil 1629) 644 pp. in 8°.

164. Joseph Glanvill: Lux orientalis (London 1662) 192 pp. in 8°. — reprint: New York 1979.

165. Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont: Paradoxical discourses (London: R. Kettlewel 1685) 342 pp. in 4°.

166. Heinrich Khunrath: Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae solius verae, Christiano-Kabalisticum (Hanover: G. Antonius 1609) 222 pp. in 2°.

167. Athanasius Kircher: Oedipus aegyptiacus, 3 vols. in 4 (Rome: V. Mascardi 1652–1654) 520; 440; 546; 590 pp. in 2°.

168. Christian Knorr von Rosenroth: Kabbala denudata, 2 vols. (Frankfurt: J. D. Zunner 1677–1684) 1307; 1116 pp. in 4°.

169. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Novissima sinica, ed. H. Reinbothe and H. G. Nesselrath (Bonn-Oedekoven 1979) 159 pp.

170. Henry More: Conjectura cabbalistica (London: J. Flesher 1653) 251 pp. in 8°.

171. Francis Potter: An interpretation of the number 666 (Oxford: L. Lichfield 1642) 214 pp. in 4°.

172. Henry Reynolds: Mythomystes (London: H. Seyle [1632?]) 111 pp. in 4°. - reprinted in: E. W. Tayler: Literary criticism of seventeenth century England (New York 1967) pp. 224–258.

173. Johann Heinrich Ursin: De Zoroastre bactriano, Hermete Trismegisto, Sanchoniothone phoenico, eorumque scriptis, et aliis, contra Mosaicae scripturae antiquitatem (Nuremberg: M. Endter 1661) 240 pp. in 8°.

181. Allgemeine und General Reformation, der gantzen weiten Welt. Beneben der Fama Fraternitatis, dess Loblichen Ordens des Rosenkreutzes (Kassel: W. Wessel 1614).

182. Johann Valentin Andreae: Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz anno 1459 (Strasbourg: Zetzner 1616) 146 pp. in 12°.

183. Johann Valentin Andreae: Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio (Strassburg: Zetzner 1619) 220 pp. in 12°.

184. Francis Bacon: New Atlantis (London: W. Lee 1627) 47 pp. in 4°.

185. Tommaso Campanella: Civitas solis, in: Realis philosophiae epilogisticae partes quatuor, ed. Tobias Adami (Frankfurt: G. Tampachius 1623) pp. 415–464 in 4°. — first edition of the manuscript of 1602.

186. Robert Fludd: Tractatus apologeticus integritatem Societatis de Rosea Cruce defenders (Leiden: G. Basson 1617) 196 pp. in 8°.

187. François Garasse: La doctrine curieuse des beaux esprits de ce temps ou pretendus tels ... (Paris: S. Chappelet 1623) 1025 pp. in 4°.

188. Samuel Hartlib: A description of the famous kingdome of Macaria (London: F. Constable 1641) 19 pp. in 4°.

189. Andreas Libavius: Wohlmeinendes Bedencken, von der Fama unnd Confession der Bruderschafft des Rosen Creutzes (Erfurt: J. Rohbock 1616) 294 pp. in 8°.

190. Michael Maier: Themis aurea, hoc est, De legibus Fraternitatis R. C. tractatus (Frankfurt: L. Iennis 1618) 192 pp. in 12°.

191. Gabriel Naudé: Instruction à la France sur la vérité de l'histoire des frères de la Roze-Croix (Paris: F. Julliot 1623) 117 pp. in 8°.

192. Secretioris philosophiae consideratio brevis a Philipp a Gabella ... conscripta, et nunc primum una cum Confessione Fraternitatis R. C. in lucem edita (Kassel: W. Wessel 1615).

193. [Thomas Vaughan under the pseudonym] Eugenius Philalethes: The fame and confession of the Fraternity of R. C. (London: G. Calvert 1652) 289 pp. in 8°.

General [201-204]. - Magic [211-240]. - Astrology[251-257]. - Hermeticism [271-298]. – Ancient Wisdom [311-317]. – Secret Societies [331-345].

201. L. Thorndike: A history of magic and experimental science, vols. 7-8 (New York 1958) 695; 808 pp. – the most comprehensive treatment of seventeenth-century occultism; organised bio-bibliographically.

202. K. Thomas: Religion and the decline of magic. Studies in popular beliefs in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England (London 1971) 716 pp. - Reprint: Harmondsworth 1973, 853 pp. A monumental study covering prophecy, magic, astrology, witchcraft, ghosts, fairies, and omens; incorporates anthropological as well as literary material; not wholly confined to England.

203. W. Shumaker: The occult sciences in the Renaissance (Berkeley 1972) 284 pp. – Includes seventeenth century; covers astrology, Hermeticism, cabalism, alchemy, witchcraft; a useful introduction, with a good analytic bibliography.

204. A. G. Debus: Man and nature in the Renaissance (Cambridge 1978) 159 pp. – A good introduction; excellent bibliography of secondary literature.

211. J. G. T. Grasse: Bibliotheca magica et pneumatica (Leipzig 1843) 175 pp. - Reprint: Hildesheim 1960.

212. W. G. Soldan: Geschichte der Hexenprozesse, 3rd edn., revised by M. Bauer, 2 vols. (Munich 1912) 564; 456 pp. – 1st. edn.: 1 vol., Stuttgart 1843. 2nd edn.: revised by H. Heppe, 2 vols., Stuttgart 1880.

213. M. Bloch: Les rois thaumaturges (Strasbourg 1924) 542 pp.

214. A. G. L. Lehmann: Aberglaube und Zauberei von den ältesten Zeiten an bis in die Gegenwart, translated from the 2nd edn. by D. Petersen (Stuttgart 1925) 752 pp. – original Dutch edition: 4 vols. in 1, Copenhagen 1893–[1896].

215. C. L’Estrange Ewen: Witch hunting and witch trials (London, New York 1929) 345 pp. - Reprint: London 1971. A valuable source of English records.

216. W.-E. Peuckert: Pansophie. Ein Versuch zur Geschichte der weissen und schwarzen Magie (Stuttgart 1936) 588 pp. – over-sympathetic to occultism, but useful.

217. H. C. Lea: Materials toward a history of witchcraft, 3 vols. (Philadelphia 1939). – New edition by A. C. Howland (New York, London 1957) 1548 pp. A wide-ranging annotated anthology of primary material.

218. R. L. Wagner: Sorcier et magicien. Contribution à l’histoire du vocabulaire de la magie (Paris 1939) 292 pp.

219. H. Zwetsloot: Friedrich Spee und die Hexenprozesse (Trier 1954) 345 pp.

220. E. von Petersdorff: Daemonologie, 2 vols. (Munich 1956–1957) 416; 508 pp.

221. P. Rossi: Francesco Bacone. Dalla magia alla scienza (Bari 1957) 525 pp.

222. M. Bouteiller: Sorciers et jeteurs de sort (Paris 1958) 256 pp.

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