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CAGLIOSTRO THE SPLENDOUR AND MISERY OF A MASTER OF MAGIC (1910) "The object of this book is not so much an attempt to vindicate Cagliostro as to correct and revise, if possible, what I believe to be a false judgement of history".  xv + 312pp.  
 W.R.H.Trowbridge. 
ISBN: 1 85652 009 9 
31.75

 

COUNT MICHAEL MAIER(1910) Maier, Doctor of Philosophy and of Medicine, Alchemist, Rosicrucian and Mystic. 1582 - 1622.  His Life and Writings. vi + 165pp.  
J.B.Craven. 
ISBN: 1 85652 010 2  
17.50  

 

DR. JOHN DEE(1922) The Elizabethan Mystic and Astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I. 66pp.  
 G.M.Hort. 
ISBN: 1 85652 107 9
8.50

 

AN ENQUIRY INTO THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF MICHAEL SCOT(1897) The life of the twelfth century Alchemist, Astrologer etc.  xviii + 281pp. 
Rev.J.Wood Brown, M.A.
ISBN: 1 85652 011 0 
30.25

   

GIORDANO BRUNO(1913) Theosophy's Apostle in the sixteenth century. A lecture delivered in the Sorbonne at Paris, on June 15th, 1911, and The Story of Giordano Bruno. 58pp.
A. Besant.
ISBN: 1 85652 036 6 
 9.50  

 

HISTORY OF FRIAR BACON(1828) containing: The wonderful things that he did in his life: also the manner of his death: with the lives and deaths of the two conjurors Bungye and Vandermast. 62pp     
ISBN: 1 85652 108 7
9.50

 

JOHN DEE(1909) 

A comprehensive biography. 'There is perhaps no learned author in history who has been so persistently misjudged, even slandered by his posterity,...' xiv + 342pp.  

C.F. Smith.
ISBN: 1 85652 134 6
39.00  

 

PARACELSUS A Biographical Essay.`For the first time the true Paracelsus is being introduced to the English reading public and   it is to be hoped that this little volume will stimulate an interest in the thoughts and teachings of this great man.`  93pp.  
Basilio de Telepnef.
ISBN: 1 85652 109 5 
10.75

  

PRIVATE DIARY OF DR. JOHN DEE(1842) His Private Diary and the Catalogue of his Library of Manuscripts, from the Original Manuscripts in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford and Trinity College Library, Cambridge.  iv + 102pp.  
Edited by James Orchard Halliwell
ISBN: 1 85652 012 9 
14.75

 

RAYMUND LULLY(1922)  A short biography of this illuminated Doctor, Alchemist and Christian Mystic.  75pp
A.E.Waite
ISBN: 1 85652 013 7
 9.75  

 

ROGER BACON in Life and Legend  'Since Emille Charles' Vie de Roger Bacon has never been translated into English, this work is an attempt to place before English readers as much information as possible concerning this 'old English  philosopher', the book being largely based on Charles' great biography...' 140pp.  
E. Westacott.
ISBN: 1 85652 135 4
15.25

 


 
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