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• Histoire de la Magie: Du Monde Surnaturel et de la Fatalité à Travers les Temps et les Peuples (published under "P. Christian" pseudonym, in French; Paris: Furne, Jouvet et cie, ca. 1870), by Christian Pitois
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• An History of Magic, Witchcraft, and Animal Magnetism (2 volumes; London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans; Edinburgh: A. and C. Black, 1851), by J. C. Colquhoun
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: A Complete Exposé, by Harry Houdini (Gutenberg text)
• The History of the Devil, the Horned God of the West (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1929), by R. Lowe Thompson
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• The History of Magic: Including a Clear and Precise Exposition of its Procedure, its Rites and its Mysteries (London: W. Rider and Son, 1913), by Eliphas Lévi, trans. by Arthur Edward Waite (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The History of Magic: Including a Clear and Precise Exposition of its Procedure, its Rites and its Mysteries (second edition; London: W. Rider and Son, 1922), by Eliphas Lévi, trans. by Arthur Edward Waite (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lives of the Necromancers: or, An account of the Most Eminent Persons in Successive Ages, Who Have Claimed for Themselves, or to Whom Has Been Imputed by Others, the Exercise of Magical Power (London: Frederick J. Mason, 1834), by William Godwin (Gutenberg text)
• The place of magic in the intellectual history of Europe ... (New York, 1905), by Lynn Thorndike (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ennemoser's history of magic (H.G. Bohn, 1854), by Joseph Ennemoser, Mary Howitt, and William Howitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• White magic, an introduction to the folklore of Christian legend. (Mediaeval Academy of America, 1948), by C. Grant Loomis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The place of magic in the intellectual history of Europe (The Columbia University Press, 1905), by Lynn Thorndike (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A history of magic and experimental science ... (The Macmillan company, 1923), by Lynn Thorndike (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of magic and experimental science. (New York : Columbia University Press, [1923]-, 1923), by Lynn Thorndike (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of magic and experimental science. (Macmillan, 1923), by Lynn Thorndike (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Magical jewels of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, particularly in England (Clarendon Press, 1922), by Joan Evans (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Histoire de la magie du monde surnaturel et de la fatalité à travers les temps et les peuples. (Furne, Jouvet et cie, 1870), by Christian Pitois (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of magic (Amherst Press, 1980), by Joseph Ennemoser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Histoire de la magie : avec une exposition claire et précise de ses procédés, de ses rites et de ses mystères (F. Alcan, 1922), by Eliphas Lévi (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of magick : (Printed for John Streater, and are to be sold by the book-sellers of London, 1657), by Gabriel Naudé and John Davies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Faust in der geschichte und tradition, mit besonderer berücksichtigung des okkulten phänomenalismus und des mittelalterlichen zauberwesens; als anhang: Die Wagnersage und das Wagnerbuch. (H. Barsdorf, 1921), by Karl Kiesewetter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Overtro og trolddom fra de aeldste tider til vore dage. (J. Frimodts forlag, 1920), by Alfred Lehmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The place of magic in the intellectual history of Europe. (AMS Press, 1967), by Lynn Thorndike (page images at HathiTrust)
• Godwin's Lives of the necromancers (Chatto and Windus, 1876), by William Godwin and McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le véritable Dragon rouge : où il est traité de l'art de commander les esprits infernaux, aeriens et terrestres, faire apparaître les morts, lire dans les astres, découvrir les trésors, sources, minières, &., &., &. Plus, La poule noire. (s.n., 1875) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antiquité--moyen-age--renaissance (Moulins., 1899), by Emile Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of magic and experimental science (Columbia University Press, 1941), by Lynn Thorndike (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte der Magie (O. W. Barth, 1926), by Eliphas Lévi (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of magic : including a clear and precise exposition of its procedure, its rites and its mysteries, by Eliphas Lévi, trans. by Arthur Edward Waite (Gutenberg ebook)
• A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 1 (of 2): During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our Era, by Lynn Thorndike (Gutenberg ebook)
• A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 2 (of 2): During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our Era, by Lynn Thorndike (Gutenberg ebook)
• Magic and Witchcraft, by George Moir (Gutenberg ebook)
• Histoire de la magie (in French), by Eliphas Lévi (Gutenberg ebook)
• La sorcellerie (in French), by Charles Louandre (Gutenberg ebook)

• Magical jewels of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, particularly in England (Clarendon Press, 1922), by Joan Evans (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A history of amulets (Printed by E. & G. Goldsmid, 1887), by Martinus Fridericus Blumler and S. H. (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Cabala: Its Influence on Judaism and Christianity (1913), by Bernhard Pick (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Kabbalah: or, The Religious Philosophy of the Hebrews, by Adolphe Franck, trans. by Isaac Sossnitz (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• La kabbale : ou, La philosophie religieuse des Hébreux (Hachette, 1892), by Adolphe Franck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beiträge zur Geschichte der Kabbala, Erstes Heft (C.L. Fritzsche, 1852), by Adolph Jellinek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Religionsphilosophie des Sohar und ihr Verhältniss zur allgemeinen jüdischen Theologie : zugleich eine kritische Beleuchtung der Franck'schen "Kabbala" (C.L. Fritzsche, 1849), by David Joël (page images at HathiTrust)
• Filosofiyah ha-datit shel ha-Yehudim (Ba-defus shel Zaṿadsḳi, 1908), by Adolphe Franck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Elemente der Kabbalah. (H. Barsdorf, 1913), by Erich Bischoff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Philosophie religieuse des Hébreux (L. Hachette, 1843), by Adolphe Franck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Toldot ha-Ḳabalah ṿeha-Ḥasidut (Bi-defus A. Sh. Shadoṿ, 1869), by Abraham Baer Gottlober (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wunder der Kabbalah : die okkulte Praxis der Kabbalisten : geheimwissenschaftliche Studien (J. Baum, 1921), by Erich Bischoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Istorii︠a︡ kabaly i khasidizma (Bi-defus A. Sh. Shadoṿ, 1869), by Abraham Baer Gottlober (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Entwickelung der Emanationslehre in der Kabbala des XIII. Jahrhunderts. (Kauffmann, 1896), by Marcus Ehrenpreis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beiträge zur Geschichte der Kabbala (C.L. Fritzsche, 1852), by Adolph Jellinek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sefer ha-bahir : shel ha-Tana ha-Eloḳi R. Neḥunya ben ha-Kanah. (Gedruckt bei B. Lorje, 1865), by active 1st century Neḥunya ben ha-Kanah (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Kabbalah : Einführung in die jüdische Mystik und Geheimwissenschaft (Faksimile-Verlag, 1983), by Erich Bischoff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Magical jewels of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, particularly in England (Clarendon Press, 1922), by Joan Evans (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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