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• Magic -- Early works to 1800
• Early works to 1800

• Kitāb shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār al-kubrá (880-04 Miṣr : al-Maṭbaʻah al-Malījīyah, 1339 [1920 or 1921], 1920), by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Ḥājj (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [Risālat al-basmalah ... etc., 18th and 19th century]. (1704), by Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá Khādimī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Jurjānī, and fl. 1806 Mehmet Memiş Osmanzade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ḥirz al-amān min fitan al-zamān. (Lucknow, 1873), by ʻAlī ibn Ḥusayn Kāshifī Ṣafī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jawāhir al-khams (s.n.], 1904), by Muḥammad Ibn Khaṭīr al-Dīn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [On charms and talismans] (Columbia University Libraries, 1813), by Muḥammad Amīn ʻAṭṭār, David Eugene Smith, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Baḥr al-ʻUyūn. (Columbia University Libraries, 1800), by David Eugene Smith, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ Kāshifī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hādhā kitāb shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Tilyaniyah, 1874), by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Ḥājj (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Kitāb shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār al-kubrá (880-04 Miṣr : al-Maṭbaʻah al-Malījīyah, 1339 [1920 or 1921], 1920), by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Ḥājj (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kitab ʻUyūn al-ḥaqāʹiq wa-īḍāḥ al-ṭarāʹiq (s.n., ca. 1900?], 1900), by Luqmān (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aṣlī naqsh-i Sulaimānī kalān. (Ashrafīyah, 19--?, 1900), by Abū Sulaimān Ẓahīruddīn Aḥmad (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [On charms and talismans] (Columbia University Libraries, 1813), by Muḥammad Amīn ʻAṭṭār, David Eugene Smith, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Baḥr al-ʻUyūn. (Columbia University Libraries, 1800), by David Eugene Smith, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ Kāshifī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Incomplete text on letter magic] (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hādhā kitāb shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Tilyaniyah, 1874), by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Ḥājj (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kanz al-ḥusain (Malik Dīn Muḥammad Ainḍ Sanz, 1900), by G̲h̲ulām Ḥusain Rammāl and Ibn Zakī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Sorcery or Science?: Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West Africxan Sufi Texts (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2022), by Ariela Marcus-Sells (JSTOR ebook)

• [Talismanic scroll with metal case, 727?, i.e. 1327? and 18th century?]. (1327), by active 1327 Ḥusayn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Khurāsānī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kanz al-ḥusain (Malik Dīn Muḥammad Ainḍ Sanz, 1900), by G̲h̲ulām Ḥusain Rammāl and Ibn Zakī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A Compleat History of Magick, Sorcery, and Witchcraft (2 volumes; London: Printed for E. Curll et al., 1715-1716), by Richard Boulton
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: page images at Cornell
• De la Démonomanie des Sorciers (in French; Paris: J. du Puys, 1587), by Jean Bodin
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• De Sensu Rerum et Magia: Libri Quatuor, Pars Mirabilis Occultae Philosophiae, Ubi Demonstratur, Mundum Esse Dei Vivam Statuam, Beneque Cognoscentem (in Latin; Frankfurt: E. Emmelium, 1620), by Tommaso Campanella, ed. by Tobias Adami (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Possibility and Reality of Magick, Sorcery, and Witchcraft, Demostrated: or, A Vindication of A Compleat History of Magick, Sorcery, and Withcraft, in Answer to Dr. Hutchinson's Historical Essay (London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1722), by Richard Boulton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Three Books of Occult Philosophy (London: Printed by R. W. for G. Moule, 1651), by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, trans. by John French
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  • PDF at MSU; 400+ MB
• Daemonologie (Edinburgh: Printed by R. Walde-Graue, 1597), by King James I of England
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• De Praestigiis Daemonum, et Incantationibus ac Veneficijs, Libri V (in Latin; Basel: Per I. Oporinum, 1563), by Johann Weyer and Joannes Oporinus
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• The Discovery of Witchcraft: Proving, That the Compacts and Contracts of Witches With Devils and All Infernal Spirits or Familiars, Are But Erroneous Novelties and Imaginary Conceptions (London: Printed for A. Clark, 1665), by Reginald Scot
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• Opera Omnia (in Latin; Amsterdam: P. van den Berge, 1660), by Johann Weyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pys-Mantia the Mag-Astro-Mancer: or, The Magicall-Astrologicall-Diviner Posed, and Puzzled (London: Printed for J. Kirton, 1652), by John Gaule
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft (London: Printed by R. C. and are to be sold by Giles Cavert, 1651), by Reginald Scot (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage (London: John M. Watkins, 1900), by Abraham ben Simeon of Worms, ed. by S. L. MacGregor Mathers (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Key of Solomon The King (Clavicula Salomonis) (1888 edition), trans. by S. L. MacGregor Mathers (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis, or, The Lesser Key of Solomon, ed. by Joseph H. Peterson (illustrated HTML at esotericarchives.com)
• The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, by Abraham ben Simeon of Worms, ed. by S. L. MacGregor Mathers and Joseph H. Peterson (HTML at esotericarchives.com)
• Three Books of Occult Philosophy, by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
  • Book I: PDF at Wayback Machine
  • Book II: PDF at Wayback Machine
  • Book III: PDF at Wayback Machine
• Three Books of Occult Philosophy or Magic, by the Famous Mystic Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Counselor to Charles the Fifth, Emperor of Germany and Judge of the Prerogative Court, Book One: Natural Magic (no further books published in this edition; Chicago: Hahn and Whitehead, 1898), by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, ed. by Willis F. Whitehead, contrib. by Henry Morley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Works of Thomas Vaughan: Eugenius Philalethes (1919), by Thomas Vaughan, ed. by Arthur Edward Waite (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Bezauberte Welt (3 volumes in German; Leipzig: Weygand, 1781-1782), by Balthasar Bekker, ed. by Joh. Salomo Semler, trans. by Johann Moritz Schwager
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at archive.org
• The World Bewitch'd: or, An Examination of the Common Opinions Concerning Spirits, Their Nature, Power, Administration and Operations; As Also the Effects Men Are Able to Produce by Their Communication (only 1 volume published of this translation; London: Printed for R. Baldwin, 1695), by Balthasar Bekker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Anima Magica Abscondita: or, A Discourse of the Universall Spirit of Nature, With His Strange, Abstruse, Miraculous Ascent And Descent (published under "Eugenius Philalethes" pseudonym; London: Printed by T.W. for H.B., 1650), by Thomas Vaughan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• The Apology (Latin and English, with commentary), by Apuleius, trans. by Harold Edgeworth Butler (frame-dependent HTML at Georgetown)
• Daemonologie; and Newes From Scotland, ed. by G. B. Harrison, contrib. by King James I of England (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Hieroglyphic Monad, by John Dee (illustrated HTML at esotericarchives.com)
• The Philosophy of Natural Magic (Chicago: De Laurence, Scott and Co., 1913), by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, ed. by L. W. De Laurence, contrib. by Henry Morley (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Roger Bacon on the nullity of magic. (AMS Press, 1982), by Roger Bacon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Nichtigkeit der Hexerey und Zauberkunst : in zwei Büchern (Verlegt von Johann Jacob Stahel, 1766), by Jordan Simon and Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Magie, oder, Die Zauberkräfte der Natur : so auf den Nutzen und die Belustigung angewandt worden (Gedruckt bey Johann Thomas Edlen von Trattnern ..., 1787), by Johann Samuel Halle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arte magica dileguata : lettera del signor marchese Maffei al padre Innocente Ansaldi dell'Ordine de' predicatori. (Per Agostino Carratoni ..., 1750), by Scipione Maffei and Casto Innocente Ansaldi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertazione in cui si investiga quali sieno le operazioni che dependono dalla magia diabolica, e qvali qvelle che derivano dalle magie artificiale e naturale, e qual cautela si ha da usare nella malagevolezza di discernerle (Nella stamperia di Pallade, appresso Niccolò, e Marco Pagliarini ... , 1751), by Costantino Grimaldi, Ginesio Grimaldi, Gaetano Garcia, and Antonio Baldi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antonii de Haen... De magia liber. (apud P. Fr. Didot, Juniorem ..., 1777), by Anton Von Haën and Pierre François Didot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antonii de Haen ... De magia dissertatio theologico-physica (sumptibus Felicis Ippoliti bibliopolae, 1777), by Anton Von Haën, José Pinilla y Vizcaíno, Felice Ippolito, and Colegio Mayor de San Ildefonso (Alcalá de Henares) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historia y magia natural o ciencia de filosofia oculta : con nuevas noticias de los mas profundos mysterios, y secretos del universo visible ... (por Juan Sanz ... :, 1723), by Hernando Castrillo, Juan Sanz, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Secrets merveilleux de la magie naturelle et cabalistique du Petit Albert (chez les heritiers de Beringos frates ..., 1752), by Lucius Parvus Albertus, Beringos (Herederos de), and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Del congresso notturno delle lammie : libri tre (A spese di Giambatista Pasquali, libraro e stampatore in Venezia, 1749), by Girolamo Tartarotti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commentatio de crimine conivrationis spiritvvm (Apvd Io. Felic. Bielckivm, 1721), by Johann Ernst von Floercke and Andrew Dickson White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex. (A pud Ioan. Antonium & Iacobum de Franciscis., 1606), by Martin Antoine Del Rio, Iacobo Franciscis, and Antonio Franciscis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kitāb al-Mukhtār fī kashf al-asrār (Maktabat al-Fallāḥ al-Adabīyah, 1918), by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar Jawbarī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De sensu rerum et magia, libri quatuor (Apud Egenolphum Emmelium :, 1620), by Tommaso Campanella, Gottfried Tambach, Egenolff Emmel, and Tobias Adami (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire critique des pratiques superstitieuses, qui ont séduit les peuples, & embarrassé les savans : avec la methode et les principes pour discerner les effets naturels d'avec ceux qui ne le sont pas (Chez Guillaume Desprez ... et P.G. Cavelier ..., 1750), by Pierre Lebrun and J. Bellon de Saint-Quentin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Henrici Cor. Agrippae ab Nettesheym ... De occulta philosophia libri III. (apud Godefridum & Marcellum Beringos, fratres, 1550), by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim and Bering Bros (page images at HathiTrust)
• Coelum terrae, or, The magician's heavenly chaos (Printed by T.W. for H. Blunden ..., 1650), by Thomas Vaughan and Thomas Vaughan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monas hieroglyphica Ioannis Dee, Londinensis, ad Maximilianvm, Dei gratia Romanorvm, Bohemiae et Hvngariae regem sapientissimvm. (Apud Iohannem Wechelum & Petrum Fischerum consortes, 1591), by John Dee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opus magocabalisticum et theologicum (Gedruckt bey Anton Heinscheidt, 1719), by Georg von Welling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opus mago-cabbalisticum et theosophicum (In der Fleischerischen Buchhandlung, 1760), by Georg von Welling (page images at HathiTrust)
• New magicall light (Printed for H. Blunden ..., 1651), by Thomas Vaughan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neues magisches Liecht (Bey Gottfried Liebezeit ..., 1693), by Thomas Vaughan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zauberkräfte der Natur (Gedruckt bey Joh. Thomas Edlen von Trattnern ..., 1785), by Johann Samuel Halle and Harold Jantz Collection (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoires disputes et discours des illusions et impostures des diables, des magiciens infames, sorcieres et empoisonneurs, des ensorcelez et demoniaques et de la guerison d'iceux : item de la punition que meritent les magiciens les empoisonneurs et les sorcieres : le tout compris en six livres (Aux bureaux du Progrès médical ;, 1885), by Johann Weyer, Thomas Erastus, and McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• De divinatione et magicis praestigiis (Typis Hieronymi Galleri, 1615), by Jean Jacques Boissard and Johann Theodor de Bry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opera, Bücher vnd Schrifften (In Velegung [sic] Lazari Zetzners seligen Erben, 1616), by Paracelsus and Johannes Huser (page images at HathiTrust)
• La monade hiéroglyphique (Bibliothèque Chacornac, 1925), by John Dee and Grillot de Givry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The hierarchie of the blessed angells. : Their names, orders and offices. The fall of Lucifer with his angells (Printed by Adam Islip, 1635), by Thomas Heywood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Detestable wickednesse of magicall sciences, as necromancie ... (J. Ald., 1900), by Francis Coxe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dyalogus in magicarum artium destructionem (Per Magistru[m] Guillermum Balsarin, 1498), by Symphorien Champier, Guillaume Balsarin, and de Ulmo Simon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opera ([Venetiis] : Impraesa Venetiis per Philippum Pinzium Ma[n]tuanum, anno Domini Mcccclxxxxiii [1493] pridie Kalendas maias., 1493), by Apuleius, Albinus, Pietro Balbi, Filippo Pinzi, and Giovanni Andrea Bussi (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la demonomanie des sorciers (Chez Arnould Coninx, 1593), by Jean Bodin and Arnout Coninx (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Discoverie of Witchcraft, by Reginald Scot, ed. by Brinsley Nicholson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Natvrall and artificiall conclvsions. Compiled first in Latine, by the worthiest and best authors, both of the famous University of Padua in Italy, and divers other places. Englished since, and set forth by Thomas Hill, Londoner, whose own experiments in this kinde, were held most excellent. And now againe published, with a new addition of rarities, for the practise of sundry artificers; as also to recreate wits withall at vacant times. (London : printed by Iane Bell, dwelling at the East end of Christs-Church, 1650 [i.e. 1649]), by Thomas Hill (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Magia adamica or the antiquitie of magic, and the descent thereof from Adam downwards, proved. Whereunto is added a perfect, and full discoverie of the true cœlum terræ, or the magician's heavenly chaos, and first matter of all things. By Eugenius Philalethes. (London : Printed by T.W. for H. Blunden, at the Castle in Corn-hill, 1650), by Thomas Vaughan (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Apologie pour tous les grands personnages qui ont esté faussement soupçonnez de magie. English ([London] : Printed for John Streater, and are to be sold by the book-sellers of London, 1657), by Gabriel Naudé and John Davies (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The life and conversation of Temperance Floyd, Mary Lloyd; and Susanna Edwards three eminent witches lately condemed at Exeter assizes; together with a full account of their first agreement with the Devil: with the manner how they prosecuted their devillish sorceries. Also a full account of their tryal, examination, condemnation, and confession, at the place of execution: with many other things remarkable; and worthy observation. (London : printed by J.W., 1687) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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