Esotericism and the Magical Tradition

Meanings of Belief, from late Medieval to Early Modern

Heinrich Kramer & Jacob Sprenger, Malleus Maleficarum [with Johannes Nider’s Formicaria.] Frankfurt: 1588. [Baring-Gould Library 0495]

Peter Thyraeus, Daemoniaci, hoc est: de obsessis a spiritibus daemoniorum hominibus. Bound with the same author’s De infestis ob molestantes daemoniorum et defuncto and De apparitionibus omnis generis spirituum, dei, angelorum, daemonum, et animaCologne: Cholini, 1598. [Baring-Gould Library 0497]

Martin Antoine Del Rio SJ, Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex, quibus continetur accurata curiosarum artium, et vanarum superstitionum confutatio, utilis theologis, jurisconsultis, medicis, philologis. Cologne: Hermann Demen, 1679. [Baring-Gould Library 0488]

King James VI and I, Daemonologie, In Forme of a Dialogue [in, The workes of the most high & mightie prince, James, King of Great Britaine, France & Ireland]. London: Robert Barker & Iohn Bill, 1616. [Rare Books 1616 JAM/X]

Robert Fludd, Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica, physica atque technica historia... Oppenhemii: aere Johan-Theodori de Bry, typis Hieronymi Galleri, 1617-18. [Rare Books B 1617/FLU/X]

Anon, The Doctrine of Devils. London: for the author, 1676 [Crediton Library 1676/DOC]

Joseph Glanvill, Saducismus triumphatus: or, Full and plain evidence concerning witches and apparitions... Part 2. London: for S. Lownds, 1680. [Rare Books B 1680/GLA]

Giambattista Della Porta, Natural magick… wherein are set forth all the riches and delights of the natural sciences [English translation of Magia naturalis, with signature of Courtenay Pole]. London: for Thomas Young & Samuel Speed, 1658. [Dodderidge 1658/DEL/X]

Edward Fairfax, Daemonologia: a discourse on witchcraft as it was acted in the family of Mr. Edward Fairfox of Fuyston, in the County of York, in the year 1621; along with two eclogues of the same author known to be in existence [With a biographical introduction and notes topographical and illustrative, by William Grainge]. Harrogate: Ackrill, 1882. [Reserve 398.382 FAI]

John Beaumont, An historical, physiological and theological treatise of spirits, apparitions, witchcrafts, and other magical practices... London: for D.Browne, &c, 1705. [Crediton Library 1705/BEA]

Abbé Laurent Bordelon, A history of the ridiculous extravagancies of Monsieur Oufle: occasioned by his reading books treating of magick, the black-art, daemoniacks, conjurers, witches... / written originally in French by the Abbot B- and now translated into English. London: J.Morphew, 1711. [Baring-Gould Library 0486] 

Eberhard David Hauber, Bibliotheca, acta et scripta magica, Vol.2. Gründliche Nachrichten und Urtheile von solchen Büchern und Handlungen… Lemgo: Gedruckt bey J.H.Meyer, 1738-45. [Baring-Gould Library 0489]

Joseph Taylor, Apparitions: or, The mystery of ghosts, hobgoblins and haunted houses developed, being a collection of entertaining stories founded on fact, and selected for the purpose of eradicating those ridiculous fears... London: Lackington, Allen & Co., 1814. [Reserve 398.47 TAY]

John Netten Radcliffe, Fiends, ghosts and sprites: including an account of the origin and nature of belief in the supernatural. London: Richard Bentley, 1854 [Reserve 398.47 RAD]