WILLIAM WYNN WESTCOTT’s HERMETIC LIBRARY: modern catalogue entries for the books etc that were in it in 1897.

INTRODUCTION

Huge thanks are due to the archivists and librarians at the Freemasons’ Library for giving me their enthusiastic permission when I asked if I could put on my web pages the catalogue of William Wynn Westcott’s library of books on esotericism. They allowed me to work from a printed copy of the 1897 catalogue to the Westcott Hermetic Library; in the FML’s collection as call number 1390 WES. The only stipulation they made was that I mustn’t just reproduce 1390 WES; so I have updated the original 1897 catalogue entries to how they would be laid out if the library was being catalogued now. I relied heavily on the British Library catalogues, and on worldcat.org, for this; and for identifications of the more obscure volumes. I hope I have got the modern entries mostly right. Where neither BL nor worldcat.org could help me I did some work using google; but there is a section at the end with a few volumes in it that even google couldn’t find.

Not much is known about the library’s history. I couldn’t find any references anywhere to indicate when Westcott had started collecting esoteric books; but my guess would be, the 1870s. By the mid-1890s he had amassed 286 items, mostly printed books and magazines, but including a few manuscripts. The volumes were in a variety of languages: German, Latin, Italian and French, as well as English; and with translations from Hebrew, Greek, classical Latin, Arabic and a language identified by its translator as Chaldean. The dates of publication ranged from the 17^th century to 1897. I have not done a statistical analysis but while working on the catalogue I noticed the large number of books that were about Egypt, ancient and modern; Rosicrucianism; and the Kabbalah – three of the bases of the magic of the GD. Another subject that seems to have fascinated Westcott was mesmerism – hypnotism.

The library at 1897 included some (though not all) of Westcott’s own occult works; and copies of the series called Collectanea Hermetica, published as a joint effort by SRIA (Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia) and the GD; Westcott was the series editor and a contributor to most of its volumes.

In 1897, Westcott stepped back from active involvement as a member of the GD’s Isis-Urania temple in London. He had been teaching new GD members, using his own esoteric collection as a teaching aid and letting members borrow items from his library. As he would not be doing any more teaching, he asked his friend Frederick Leigh Gardner to catalogue the library; and arranged for it to be housed somewhere where GD members and members of SRIA could continue to use it.

From 1897 to 1900, the library was in rooms in West Kensington; probably at 36 Blythe Road off Hammersmith Road, where the GD’s 2^nd Order rented some rooms for its rituals. I don’t know what happened to the books after that; though some – alas, not very many - volumes are now the Freemasons’ Library: Westcott Hermetic Library catalogue numbers 11; 17; 40 and 41; 60; 126; 140; 194; 203 to 212; 224; 237; 260 and 261; 274; 277.

Does the list in the 1897 Catalogue of Westcott’s library include all the occult books, magazines and manuscripts he owned at that time? I think not.

1. The library doesn’t include any issues of W T Stead’s occult magazine Borderland, published from 1893 to 1897. Westcott was listed as one of the subscribers to its volume 2, 1895 (pp88-92).

2. The 1897 Catalogue doesn’t have in it either of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky’s books. Westcott had definitely read The Secret Doctrine when his book Numbers was published. In the Preface to the first edition of Numbers in book form (1890), Westcott mentioned having made alterations to its text in the light of Blavatsky’s “work of immense erudition and containing a vast fund of archaic doctrine”. I couldn’t find definite evidence of his having a copy of Isis Unveiled; though as his library contained so many volumes on Egypt ancient and modern, I would think he had. Perhaps he didn’t want to part with it.

There are no works by

- Anna Bonus Kingsford (1846-88).

and

- A E Waite (1857-1942) including his short-lived occult magazine The Unknown World (1894) which I would suppose Westcott had subscribed to.

And only one work by John Yarker (1833-1913) the Manchester-based radical freemason.

Westcott definitely knew both Waite and Yarker. Whether he was acquainted with Kingsford is less clear.

THE CATALOGUE. A COUPLE OF USEFUL HINTS:

Some of the entries in the 1897 Catalogue had notes added to the basic information, which I have included in the modern entries below. It’s not clear whether the notes were by Westcott or by Gardner.

BEWARE the book I usually transliterate as Kabbalah. Westcott had five different books using various transliterations of the original Hebrew title, covering Qabbala, Kabbale and Kabbala.

LAYOUT

Author(s); translator’s name where necessary and known

Date of publication of the book Westcott owned (not necessarily when originally published)

Title. With details of any translators, editors, annotators etc.

Where published; by which publisher or printer

Westcott Library catalogue number. Any notes printed in the 1897 catalogue.

Any notes I’ve added.

BOOKS and MANUSCRIPTS

Adams, W.H.D.

1882
Curiosities of Superstition, and sketches of some unrevealed religions.
London: J Masters and Co.

Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 2.
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Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius [Cornelius Agrippa]
1609
De incertitudine et vanitate omnium scientiarum et artium liber.
Place of publication unknown; publisher unknown.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 4.
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Ainslie, Herbert see Maitland, Edward

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Albertus Magnus
1625
De secretis mulierum ….
Argentorati [Strasbourg].
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 6.
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Allen, E.H.
1885
A manual of cheirosophy ... Preceded by an introductory argument upon the science of cheirosophy ...
London.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 11.
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Andrea, C.
1616
Chymische Hochzeit. Christiani Rosencreutz. Anno. 1459.: Arcana publicata vilescunt, & gratiam prophanata amittunt. ; Ergo: ne Margaritas obijce porcis, seu Asino substernere rosas.,
Strasburg.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 237.
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Andreae, J V [Andrea, Johann Valentin], Nicolai, F., & Rosenkreuzer
1681 [1781]

Allgemeine und General Reformation der gantzen weiten Welt: Beneben der Fama Fraternitatis, Dess Löblichen Ordens des Rosencreutzes, an alle Gelehrte und Häupter Europä geschrieben.
Regensburg: publisher unknown

Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 10.

Note from Sally Davis: Fama Fraternitatis, originally published in German in 1614 and then Latin in 1616, began the whole Rosicrucian adventure. The date of this particular edition is now usually given as 1781.
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Anonymous
1607
[Σιβυλλιακοι Χρησμοι, hoc est Sibyllina oracula ex vett. codd. aucta, renovata et notis illustrata a D. J. Opsopoeo ... (Intersertis X. Betulei et J. Castalionis annotationibus.) Cum interpretatione Latina S. Castalionis, et indice. (O. Panvinii ... de Sibyllis ... liber. Oracula magica Zoroastris cum Scholiis Plethonis et Pselli nunc primum editi [sic] ... Studio J. Opsopoei. Oracula metrica Jovis, Apollinis, Hecates, Serapidis et aliorum deorum ac vatum tam virorum quam feminarum, a J. Opsopœo collecta. Item, Astrampsychi Oneirocriticon a J. Scaligero digestum et castigatum.)]
Parisiis [Paris]: publisher unidentified.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 220.
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Anonymous
1656
[Magica seu mirabilium historiarum de spectris ... libri II. ex probatis ... scriptoribus ... collecti. [Edited by H. Gross, the elder.].
Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Henning Gross the Elder.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 258.
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Anonymous
1749
[Musæum Hermeticum reformatum et amplificatum, omnes Sopho-Spagyricæ artis discipulos ... erudiens, quo pacto ... lapidis philosophici medicina ... inveniri et haberi queat. Continens trac tatus chimicos XXI. In gratiam filiorum doctrinæ, quibus Germanicum idioma ignotum est, Latina lingua ornatum.] [Another edition.].
Francofurti [Frankfurt]: Lipsiae.

Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 201.

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Anonymous
1784
Kakerlak, oder Geschichte eines Rosenkreuzers aus dem vorigen Jahrhunderte.
Leipzig.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 159.
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Anonymous
1785
Crata repoa, oder, Einweihungen in der alten geheimen Gesellschaft der Egyptischen Priester.
Place of publication not identified: publisher not identified.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 76.
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Anonymous [JGB = Bremer, Johann Gottfried]
1793
Die symbolische Weisheit der Aegypter aus den verborgensten Denkmälern des Alterthums. Ein Theil der Aegyptischen Maurerey, der zu Rom nicht verbrannt worden. Herausgegeben von Karl Philipp Moritz. [The author’s preface signed: J. G. B., i.e. Johann Gottfried Bremer.]
Berlin.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 199.
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Anonymous [?O’Connor]
1822
Chronicles of Eri; being the History of the Gaal Sciot Iber, or Irish people; translated from the MSS. in the Phœnician dialect of the Scythian language. By O’Connor.
London: Sir R Phillips & Co.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 2 volumes, 214, 215.
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Anonymous
Unknown [?c 1873]
Fratres Lucis.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 123.

Note from Sally Davis: I think this is a ritual, in manuscript. I couldn’t find any indication that it had ever been published. The Freemasons’ Library has a manuscript of that name but the catalogue entry for it does not suggest any connection with Westcott; so it may be another copy, or another document altogether.
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1874
Constitution der Gesellschaft zum ‘Rosigen Kreuz’.
Place of publication unknown; privately printed.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 238.

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Anonymous [translator John Yarker]
1880
Masonic Charges and Lectures. A series translated from the French, by J. Y.
Manchester: J   W Petty & Son.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 284. 1897 Catalogue note: “(Also excellent articles on the Mysteries, Mystic Symbolism, etc.)”.
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Anonymous
1892
Composition of the Book of Genesis.
London: D Nutt.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 126.

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Anonymous; translator Heucher, M. J.H.
1886
Magic plants: being a translation of a curious tract entitled De vegetalibus magicis / written by M.J.H. Heucher, 1700,
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 150.
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Anonymous
1895
Chaldæan Oracles ... Edited and revised by Sapere Aude. With an introduction by L. O. Sapere Aude [William Wynn Westcott], ed.. Collectanea Hermetica Volume 6.
London: Theosophical Publishing Society.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 221.
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Anonymous [?translator T Taylor]
1896
Mystical Hymns of Orpheus; translated from the Greek, and demonstrated to be the invocations which were used in the Eleusinian Mysteries. By T. Taylor. ... New edition. ?2nd.
London: B Dobell.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 265.
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Anonymous
1897
Λογια Ἰησου. Sayings of Our Lord, from an early Greek Papyrus.
New York, Oxford: Henry Frowde.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 175.
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Aratos; translator Robert Brown
1885
Phainomena, or ‘Heavenly Displays’ of Aratos: done into English verse by Robert Brown.
London: Longmans & Co.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 12.

Note from Sally Davis: the 1897 Catalogue has a publication date of 1895 but I think that must be a typesetting error. Wikipedia on Aratos: c315BC to 240BC. However, the first part of Phainomena is actually a verse setting of a work written about a century before by Eudoxus of Cnidus.

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Athanasi, G.
1836
A brief account of the researches and discoveries in Upper Egypt made under the Dir. of H. Salt.
London.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 111.
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Atwood née South, Mary Ann
1850
A suggestive inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery with a dissertation on the more celebrated of the alchemical philosophers being an attempt towards the recovery of the ancient experiment of Nature.
London: Trelawney Saunders.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 257.
Note from Sally Davis: Westcott seems to have thought that the author of the book was Mary Ann South’s father Thomas South. I wonder if he would have bought the book if he had known it was by a woman?

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Bacon, F. & Denne, J.
1660
Novum organum scientiarum.
Amsterdam: Sumptibus J. Ravesteinij.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 18.
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Bailly, Jean Sylvain
1775
Histoire de l’astronomie ancienne depuis son origine jusqu’à l’établishment de l’école d’Alexandrie, par M. Bailly...
Paris; G and F-J-N Debure.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 19.
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Bailly, Jean Sylvain
1787
Traite de l’astronomie indienne et orientale.
Paris: L’Academie des Inscriptions & Belle-Lettres.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 20.

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Bang, T.
1657
`Et haq-qedem: Caelum orientis et prisci mundi triade exercitationum literariarum repraesentatum,
Hauniae [correctly Hafniae = Copenhagen].
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 21.
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Banier, L’Abbé, Antoine
1764
La mythologie et les fables expliquées par l’histoire.
Paris.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 8 volumes, 22-29.
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Barruel, L’Abbé; translator Hon Robert Clifford
1798
Memoirs, illustrating the History of Jacobinism. A translation from the French.
London: The Translator.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 4 volumes, 30-33.
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Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire, J.
1857
Egypt and the great Suez canal: a narrative of travels.
London: R Bentley.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 107.
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Becher, J.J.
1689
Tripus hermeticus fatidicus, pandens oracula chymica ... His accessit Concordantia Mercurii lunae.
Francofurti ad Moenum [Frankfurt]: publisher not identified.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 36.
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Beckius [Beck, M.F.]
1696
Taqwim sana 609, sive ephemerides Persarum per totum annum: iuxta epochas celebriores orientis, Alexandream, Christi, Diocletiani ... : una eum motibus VII planetarum ...
Augustae Vindelicorum  [Augsburg]: Kroniger.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 37.
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Bell, J.
1790
Bell’s New pantheon, or, Historical dictionary of the gods, demi-gods, heroes, and fabulous personages of antiquity: also, of the images and idols adored in the pagan world ...
London: Printed by and for J. Bell ... at the British Library, Strand.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 39 but it’s two volumes in one.
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Berkeley, Bishop George
1710
A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. Part I, etc.
Dublin: Jeremy Pepyat.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 40.

Note from Sally Davis: the copy in the 1897 Catalogue doesn’t have a date listed for it; so it might be a later edition. 1710 was the first edition.
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Berkeley, Bishop George
1878
Principles of human knowledge: being Berkeley’s Treatise on the nature of the material substance (and its relation to the absolute),
Place of publication not clear; S.l.]: Routledge.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 40.
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Bertrand, A.-J.-F.
1826
Du Magnetisme Animal en France, etc...
Paris: Baillière.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 42.
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Betham, Sir William
1842
Etruria-Celtica: Etruscan literature and antiquities investigated ...
Dublin: Hardy.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 2 volumes, 43, 44.

Note from Sally Davis: the date of this one in the 1897 Catalogue is 1862 but must be an error.
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Blackwell, T.

1748
Letters concerning mythology.
London: publisher not identified.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 45.
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Bonwick, J.
1894
Irish Druids and old Irish religions, by James Bonwick ...
London: S. Low, Marston and Co.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 46.
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Bonwick, J.
1877
Pyramid Facts and Fancies.
London: Kegan Paul & Co.

Westcott Hermetic Library catalogue: 47.
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Borrichium, Olaum [Borch, Ole]
1675
Hermetis Aegyptiorum, et chemicorum sapientia: Ab Hermanni Conringii animadversionibus Vindicata.
Hafniae [Copenhagen]: Peter Haubauld.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 49.
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Borri, G.F.
1681
La chiave del gabinetto del Cavagliere Gioseppe Francesco Borri Milanese.
Colonia [Köln]: Martello.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 48.
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Boulenger, J.
1627
[La Géometrie ou mesure des lignes droittes esloignées, par le quarré géometrique, etc.] 2nd ed.
Paris: I Moreau.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 50.
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Bourguet, Louis
1729
[Lettres philosophiques sur la formation des sels et des crystaux, et sur la génération & le mechanisme organique des plantes et des animaux ... Avec un mémoire sur la théorie de la terre.] 2nd, with illustrations ed.
Amsterdam: F L’Honoré.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 51.
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Boyle, Hon R. & Birch, T.
1744
Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. In five volumes. To which is prefixed the life of the author.
London: A Millar.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 5 volumes, 52-56.
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Brouwer, Petrus Abraham Samuel van Limburg
1879
Akbar. An Eastern romance. Translated ... by M. M. With notes and an introductory life of the Emperor Akbar by Clements R. Markham.
London: W H Allen & Co.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 174.
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Brown, Robert; see Aratos
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Burgoyne [correctly, Dalton], T.H.
Celestial Dynamics.    A Course of Astro-Metaphysical Study.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 60.

Note from Sally Davis: neither the British Library catalogue nor worldcat.org could come up with this volume so I think it is a manuscript; or possibly a bound copy of loose-leaf papers.
Burgoyne/Dalton was a member of the Brotherhood of Luxor occult society. The 1897 Catalogue entry has no date of publication.
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Burton, afterwards Haliburton, James
1828
Excerpta hieroglyphica.
London.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 109. Note in the 1897 Catalogue: “(a valuable collection of plates on Egypt)”.

Note from Sally Davis: in the British Library catalogue there are 4 volumes of this, published Cairo 1825-1829. The 1897 Catalogue definitely lists only one volume so I presume Westcott only had the plates, not the text.
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Calmet, A; translator, Henry Christmas
1850
Phantom World.
London: Unknown [choice of two].
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 2 volumes, 62, 63.
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Carpenter, Edward
1896
Love’s coming-of-age; a series of papers on the relations of the sexes.
Manchester: Labour Press.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 64.
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Castell, Edmund
1790
Edmundi Castelli Lexicon hebraicum, ex ejus Lexico heptaglotto seorsim typis descriptum adnotatis in margine vocum numeris ex Joannis Davidis Michaelis Supplementis ad lexica hebraica. Trier, Johann Friedrich Ludolf, editor.
Goettingae [Göttingen]: Lipsiæ.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 145.
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Caussin [Nicolao Caussino], N.
1631
De symbolica Aegyptiorum sapientia, in qua symbola, parabolae, historiae selectae, quae ad omnem eblematu, aenigmatu, hieroglyphicorum cognitione via praestat.
Coloniae Agrippinae [Köln]: Ioannem Kinckium.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 112.
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Cebes et al.
1640
Tabula Cebetis graece, arabice, latine: item Aurea carmina Pythagorae, cum paraphrasi arabica.
Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: typis Iohannis Maire.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 66.
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Chambon, J.
1714
Traité des métaux, et des minéraux, et des remèdes qu’on en peut tirer, avec des dissertations sur la goutte, la gravelle, la petite vérole, etc.
Paris.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 67.
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Christmas, Henry
1849
Cradle of the Twin Giants, Science and History.
London: Richard Bentley.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 2 volumes, 68, 69. Note in 1897 Catalogue: “(Contains one of the best Mystic Bibliographies we have.)”

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Pythagoras
1894
Somnium Scipionis, translated into English, with an essay “The Vision of Scipio considered as a fragment of the Mysteries,” by LO [= Percy William Bullock]. The Golden Verses of Pythagoras, [translated with notes] by AEA [= Frank William Coleman]. The Symbols of Pythagoras, [translated with notes] by SA [Sapere Aude = William Wynn Westcott]. Collectanea Hermetica Volume 5.
London , New York: Theosophical Publishing Society.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 252.
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Comenius, Johann Amos

1651

Naturall Philosophie reformed by Divine Light or a Synopsis of Physics ... With a briefe appendix touching the diseases of the body, mind, and soul; with their generall remedies. [Translated from the Latin.]

London

Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 72.

Note from Sally Davis: in the 1897 Catalogue the title is given completely differently, as “The Rosicrucians Divine Light”.

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Congrès Provincial des Orientalistes Français
1878
[Saint-Étienne, 1875.] Congrès provincial des orientalistes français. Compte-rendu de la première session. Saint-Étienne. 1875 ... Avec planches et figures.
Saint-Étienne ; Paris.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 110. Note in the 1897 Catalogue: “(A most valuable record of Egyptological Work.)”
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Constant, Alphonse Louis – see Lévi, Eliphas

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Cory, Alexander Turner (translator); see Horapollo

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Crosset de la Haumerie [Francesco Maria Pompeo Colonna]
1762
Les Secrets les plus cachés de la philosophie des anciens, découverts et expliqués, à la suite d’une histoire des plus curieuses.
Paris.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 77.
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de Beausobre, Isaac
1734
Histoire critique de Manichée et du Manicheïsme. (Mémoire abregé sur la vie et les écrits de M. de Beausobre. Dressé par M. F. M. D. S. E. [i.e. J. H. S. Formey.] M F M D S.    E [Jean-Henri Samuel Formey], editor.

Amsterdam.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 2 volumes, 34, 35.

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de Chevalier, Sabine Stuart; Quillau, F.-A. & Le Roy, J.
1781
Discours philosophique sur les trois principes animal, végétal et minéral, ou, La clef du sanctuaire philosophique.
Paris.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 2 volumes, 242, 243.
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de Haen, A[ntony]
1775
Antonii de Haen de magia liber.
Venetiis: Remondini.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 135.
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de Havilland, S.
1891
Mystic Serpent,
London: Iliffe & Son.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 142.
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de Loyola, Ignatius; Societas Jesu, & Congregatio Generalis
1635
Regulae Societatis Jesu.
Antverpiae [Antwerp]: Ioannes Meursium.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 158.
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de Nuisement, J, Combach, L. & Turner, R.
1657
Sal, lumen, et spiritus mundi philosophici: or, The dawning of the day, discovered by the beams of light: shewing, the true salt and secret of the philosophers, the first and universal spirit of the world.
London: Printed by J.C. for Martha Harrison, at the Lamb at the East-end of S. Pauls.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 71.

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de Quincy, Thomas
1886
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. With “Levana,” “The Rosicrucians and Freemasons,” “Notes from the Pocket Book of a late Opium-Eater,” etc. ... With introductory note by William Sharp.
London: Walter Scott.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 88.

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de Vertot, L’Abbé
1819
Œuvres choisies.
Paris.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 12 volumes, 92 to 103.

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de Villars, Abbé; Yarker, John; and Fryar, Robert H.
1897
Continuation of the Comte de Gabalis, or, New discourses upon the secret sciences;: touching upon the new philosophy : posthumous work.
Bath: Robert H. Fryar.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 282.

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d’Espagnet, Jean
1671
Shibbóleth; ou, reformation de quelques passages és versions Françoise et Angloise de la Bible; correction de diverses opinions communes, peintures historiques, et autres matières.
Geneva; publisher not known.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 89.
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d’Espagnet, Jean; translator William Wynn Westcott as Sapere Aude
1893
An English Translation of the Hermetic Arcanum of Penes Nos Unda Tagi, 1623. With a preface and notes by “Sapere Aude,” Fra. R. R. et A. C. [William Wynn Westcott], Collectanea Hermetica Volume 1.

London: Theosophical Publishing Society.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 91.

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d’Espagnet, Jean
1651
Enchyridion physicæ restitutæ, or, The summary of physicks recovered wherein the true harmony of nature is explained ...
England: Printed by W Bentley.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 90.

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Dee, John; Casaubon, M. & Kelly, Edward
1659
A true & faithful relation of what passed for many yeers between Dr. John Dee...and some spirits:...
London: D. Maxwell for T. Garthwait.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 79.
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Dee, John; and Halliwell-Phillipps, J.O.
1842
Private diary of Dr. John Dee, and the catalogue of his library of manuscripts, from the original manuscripts in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, and Trinity College Library, Cambridge.
London: Camden Society.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 80.
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Deleuze, Joseph Philippe François; translator Thomas C Hartshorn
1843
Practical instruction in animal magnetism, or mesmerism ...
London: Hippolyte Baillière.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 83.
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Della Porta, Giambattista
1651
Magiae Naturalis Libri Viginti: Ab ipso quidem authore adaucti, nunc vero ab infinitis, quibus editio illa scatebat mendis, optime repurgati: in quibus scientiarum Naturalium divitiae & delicae demonstrantur ; Accessit Index, rem omnem dilucidae repraesentans, copiosissimus.
Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Leffen.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 232.
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Denon, V.
1807
Voyages dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte, pendant les campagnes de Bonaparte.
London: Samuel Bagster.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 3 volumes, 85, 86, 87.
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Dickinson, E.
1655
Delphi phoenicizantes, sive, Tractatus, in quo Græcos, quicquid apud Delphos celebre erat seu Poythonis & Apollinis historiam seu pœanica certamina & præmia, seu priscam templi fromam at que inscriptionem seu tripoden, oraculum, &c. spectes e josuæ histor.
England: Ric Davis, Oxford.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 104.
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Elichman, Ioannes et al.
1640
Tabula Cebetis Graece, Arabice, Latine.: Item Aurea carmina Pythagoræ, cum paraphrasi Arabica / auctore Iohanne Elichmanno M. D. Cum praefatione Cl. Salmasii.
Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Iohannis Maire.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 66.
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Erasmus, Desiderius

1628

Familiarum Colloquiorum Formulae…

Argent [?Argentoratum – Strasbourg]; publisher not known.

Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 116.

Note from Sally Davis: the 1897 Catalogue gives 1628 as the date of the publication of the book Westcott owned, but I couldn’t find such an edition on worldcat.org. The 1897 Catalogue gives the place of publication as ‘Argent’ but that’s not a known place; Argentoratum is my suggestion.

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Eyriès, J.B.B.
1812
Fantasmagoriana, ou recueil d’histoires d’apparitions de spectres, revenans, fantômes, etc. Traduit de l’allemand, par un amateur.
Paris.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 2 volumes, 117, 118.
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Faust, Dr Johann
1851
Doctor Faust’s Bücherschatz: Volkständige Sammlung der vierzehn ihm zugeschriebenen magischen Werke.
Stuttgart.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 119. Note in 1897 Catalogue: “with many magical diagrams”.
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Fisher, R.C. [probably Richard Chester Fisher 1840-1928]
Date of publication unknown
A New Guide to Coptic.
Where published unknown but probably London: ?privately printed.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 121.

Note from Sally Davis: I couldn’t find this book in any of the usual catalogues. The identification of R C Fisher as Richard Chester Fisher is mine, based on items about him and his father Richard Fisher that google found; though it didn’t find any indicating an interest in Coptic. The Fishers, father and son, lived at a house called Hill Top, near Midhurst in Sussex; and both were collectors of objets d’art. Richard Chester Fisher was related by marriage to Richard Cobden MP and to Thomas Unwin the publisher.
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Flamel, N. & Orandus, E.
1890
Nicholas Flammel: his exposition of the hieroglyphical figures which he caused to be painted upon an arch in St. Innocents church yard in Paris : concerning both the theory and practice of the philosophers stone. William Wynn Westcott as editor.
Bath: R.H. Fryar.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 275.
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Forsyth, J.S.
1831
Demonologia: or, Natural knowledge revealed ; being an expos?? of ancient and modern superstitions, credulity, fanaticism, enthusiasm, & imposture, as connected with the doctrine, caballa, and jargon, of amulets, apparitions, astrology, charms, demonology ... witchcraft, & c.
London: Printed for A.K. Newman and Co.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 84.
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Franck, Adolphe; & Dubeux, L.
1843
La Kabbale, ou la philosophie religieuse des Hébreux.
Paris.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 122.

Note from Sally Davis: the 1897 Catalogue doesn’t give date or place of publication. Westcott seems to have two issues of this work (see next entry), by an author whom he might have met. Perhaps Franck was an acquaintance.
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Franck, Adolphe
1889
La Kabbale ou la Philosophie Religieuse des Hebreux.
Paris.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 122.
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Frey, J.S.C.F.
1815
שער השני אל לשון הקדש ספר השרשים עם תולדותיהם ... A Hebrew Latin and English Dictionary containing all the Hebrew and Chaldee words used in the Old Testament, etc.
London.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 2 volumes, 143, 144
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Gaffarel, J.
1631
[Curiositez inouyes, sur la sculpture talismanique des Persans. Horoscope des Patriarches. Et Lecture des Estoilles.]
Paris? Rouen?
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 127.

Note from Sally Davis: 1897 Catalogue gives Rouen as the place of publication. At worldcat.org the 1631 edition is given as published in Paris.
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Gaffarel, J.
1636
Des Talismans, ou Figures faites sous certaines constellations; ... avec des observations contre le livre de curiositez inouyes de ... J. Gaffarel. Et un traicté de l’unguent des armes ... Par le Sieur de l’Isle.
Paris.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 128.
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Gervasius, Julius, work beginning R Abrahami Eleazaris…. See Problem Entries section at the end of this file.

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Ginsburg, Christian David
1865
Kabbalah: its doctrines, development, and literature. An essay, etc.
London: Reader and Dyer.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 130.

Note from Sally Davis: Ginsburg was a convert from Judaism to Christianity; he was an acquaintance of GD member Isabel de Steiger.
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Gould, Robert Freke
1884
History of Freemasonry, its antiquities, symbols, constitutions, customs, etc.
London: Jack.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 4 volumes, 131-134.

Note from Sally Davis: R F Gould and Westcott were both members of Quatuor Coronati craft lodge 2076.
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Haliburton; see Burton

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Harris, A C
1852
Hieroglyphical Standards representing places in Egypt supposed to be Nomes and Toparchies. Collected by A. C. H.
London.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 139.
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Hartmann, Franz
1890
In the Pronaos of the Temple of Wisdom: containing the history of the true and the false Rosicrucians. With an introduction into the mysteries of the Hermetic Philosophy.
London: Theosophical Publishing Society.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 140.
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Harvey, William
1651
Exercitationes de generatione animalium, etc.
Amstelædami [Amsterdam]: Ioannem Ravesteynium.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 141.
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Haselmayr, Adam
1681
Antwort: an die lobwürdige Brüderschafft der Theosophen von RosenCreutz N.N.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 10. Note in 1897 Catalogue: “Rosicruciana”.

Note from Sally Davis: there’s no place of publication for this book in the 1897 Catalogue. Neither the British Library nor worldcat.org had any editions published in 1681. So this one’s a bit of a mystery.
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Heidel, Wolfgangus Ernestus
1721
Johannis Trithemii ... Steganographia ... vindicata, etc. (Vita J. Trithemii.).
Norimbergæ [Nuremburg].
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 270.
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Herbert, A.
1828
Nimrod: a discourse on certain passages of history and fable.
London: R. Priestley.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 147.

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Hermes [pseudonym]
1851
Astrologer’s vade-mecum: or, A complete system of prognostication from the influence of the stars.
Leeds: I. Holdworth.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 16.

Note from Sally Davis: there’s a copy of this in the British Library; but the catalogue entry for it doesn’t hazard a guess as to the author’s real name.
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?Hermes Trismegistus [pseudonym]; translator Dr Everard

1894
Pymander of Hermes. (Translated ... into English by ... Dr. Everard.). Collectanea Hermetica Volume 2.

London: Theosophical Publishing Society.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 148.
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Herodotus; translator Rev William Beloe
1830
Herodotus / Translated by the Rev. William Beloe.
London.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 149.
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Hitchcock, Ethan Allen
1867 [1866]
Remarks upon alchemy and the alchemists, showing that the philosopher’s stone was a symbol: Being also an attempt to rescue from undeserved opprobrium the reputation of a class of extraordinary thinkers in past ages.
New York: James Miller.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 151.

Note from Sally Davis: it may be a printing error but worldcat.org has the date of publication of this book as 1866.
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Hoffman, J.J.
1698
Lexicon universale ...
Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: J. Hackium, C. Boutesteyn, P. Wander Aa, & J. Luchtmans.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 4 volumes, 152-155.
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Holland, Frederick – see Vincit Qui Se Vincit

*
Horapollo; translator Alexander Turner Cory
1811
Hieroglyphics of Horapollo Nilous.
London: Pickering.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 156.
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Hoskins, G.A.
1837
Visit to the great Oasis of the Libyan Desert, with an account, ancient and modern, of the Oasis of Amun and the other Oases now under the dominion of the Pashas of Egypt, etc.
London.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 157.
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Ibn Wahshiya, A; translator Hammer-Purgstall, J.
1806
Ancient alphabets and hieroglyphic characters explained: with an account of the Egyptian priests, their classes, initiation, and sacrifices.
London: W Bulmer and Co.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 136.
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Lee, John LL D editor
1858
Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities in the Museum of Hartwell House.
London.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 106.
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Kelly, William
1888
Fifty years’ masonic reminiscences briefly told. An address to the brethren of St. John’s Lodge, No. 279, Leicester, at the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of his initiation in, and membership of, that Lodge, November 7, 1888. By William Kelly ...
?Leicester; publisher not given, probably privately printed.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 160.
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Kendall, G.
1664
An Appendix to the Unlearned Alchimist, [of R. Mathews] wherein is contained the true receipt of ... Matthew’s Pill. With the ... nature and virtue of ... the Pill. [Preceded by an “Epistle to the Reader” by J. Loddington.].
London.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 161.
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Kerckring, Theodor
1678
Basil Valentine his Triumphant Chariot of Antimony, with annotations of Theodore Kirkringius, M.D. With the true book of the learned Synesius ... concerning the Philosopher’s Stone.
London: Dorman Newman.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 272.
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Kiel, C. & Potter, L.
1642
Kilianus auctus: Seu Dictionarium teutonico-latino-gallicum, cui hac editione primum̀ accesserunt interpretatio vocum gallica, accentuum notae, & ingens auctarium vocum belgicarum, quae vulgo obtineant. Adiuximus etiam Lvd. Potteri libellos duos: I. De propriorum utriusq[ue] sexus nominum germanicae originis etymis ac significatione. II. De animalium nomenclatura.
Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Ioannes and Lodocum Iansonios.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 162.
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Kircher, Athanasius
1636
Prodromus Coptus sive Ægyptiacus, etc.
Romæ.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 163.

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Kirwan, R.
1784
Elements of Mineralogy.
London.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 164.
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Landseer, J.
1823
Sabæan researches: in a series of essays, addressed to distinguished antiquaries, and including the substance of a course of lectures, delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, on the engraved hieroglyphics of Chaldea, Egypt, and Canaan / by John Landseer ; illustrated with engravings of Babylonian cylinders, and other inedited monuments of antiquity.
London: Hurst, Robinson and Co.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 166.
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Lane, Edward William
1890 [reprint of 1842 edition]
An account of the manners and customs of the Modern Egyptians ... Reprinted from the third edition, 1842. With a biographical notice of the author.
Place of publication and publisher unidentified.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 167.
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Lane, Edward William
1836
An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians, written in Egypt during the years 1833-35, etc.
London.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 167.
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Lee, Edwin

1843
[Animal Magnetism and Homœopathy; being the appendix to observations on the principal medical institutions and practice of France, Italy, and Germany.] Third edition, considerably altered and enlarged.
London.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 168.
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Lee, Edwin
1866
Animal Magnetism and magnetic lucid somnambulism: with observations and illustrative instances of analogous phenomena occurring spontaneously; and an appendix of corroborative and correlative observations and facts.
London.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 169.
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Leland, C.G.
1892
Hundred Riddles of the Fairy Bellaria. F.P.
London: T F Unwin.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 170.
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Lévi, Eliphas [Alphonse Louis Constant]; translator William Wynn Westcott
1861
Shemhamphorash and Tarot Keys.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 172. 1897 Catalogue note: “in MSS, translated...from the original MSS of the Author of 1861”.
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Lévi, Eliphas [Alphonse Louis Constant]; translator William Wynn Westcott
1896
Magical Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum, interpreted by the Tarot Trumps. Translated from the MSS. of Éliphaz Lévi (A. L. Constant), and edited by W. Wynn Westcott. With eight plates.
London: George Redway.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 171.

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Lilly, William; notes and continuation Ashmole, Elias
1715
Mr. W. Lilly’s history of his life and times, from the year 1602 to 1684 Written by himself.[With notes and a continuation by E. Ashmole.
London: J. Roberts.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 13
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Lilly, William
1659
[Christian Astrology modestly treated of in three books, etc. With a portrait.] Second edition,.. amended. MS. notes.
London.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 173.

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Lover of Philalethes, A – see also von Rosenroth, Christian Knorr

*

Lover of Philalethes, A; preface William Wynn Westcott; introduction etc SSDD = Florence Farr
1894
A Short Enquiry concerning the Hermetic Art. By a Lover of Philalethes, London, 1714. Preface by Non Omnis Moriar [= William Wynn Westcott]. An introduction to Alchemy and notes by S. S. D. D. [i.e. Florence Farr.], Collectanea Hermetica Volume 3.
London: Theosophical Publishing Society.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 250.

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Lytton, Edward Bulwer [Baron Lytton]
1872
[Coming Race. [By Lord Lytton.]] 6th ed.,
Edinburgh.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 176.
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Macarius, Joannes
1657
Abraxas, seu Apistopistus; quae est de Gemmis Basilidianis disquisitio. Accedit Abraxas Proteus, seu multiformis Gemmæ Basilidianæ portentosa varietas commentario illustrata a J. Chiffletio, etc.
Antverpiae [Antwerp]: Plantin.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 177. 1897 Catalogue note: “(with charming illustrations of Gnostic gems)”.
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Macdonald, William Bell
1856
Sketch of a Coptic Grammar, adapted for self-tuition. In Coptic Language. Edinburgh.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 75. Bound together with books by Tattam and Young (see below) in one volume on learning Coptic. See also Fisher, R C.
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Mackay, Charles
1853
[Salamandrine ...] 2nd ed.
London.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 178.
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Mahan, Asa
1855
Modern Mysteries explained and exposed, etc.
Boston Mass.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 179.
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Maier, Joseph Aloysius [Baron Adolph Franz Friedrich Ludwig von Knigge]
1781
[Ueber Jesuiten, Freymaurer und deutsche Rosenkreutzer, herausgegeben von J. A. Maier der Gesellschaft Jesu ehemaligen Mitgliede.]
Leipzig.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 180.
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[Maeirus] Maier, Michael
1613
Arcana arcanissima hoc est Hieroglyphica AEgyptio-Graeca vulgo necdum cognita, ad demonstrandam falsorum apud antiquos deorum, dearum, heroum, animantium & institutorum pro sacris receptorum, originem, ex vno AEgyptiorum artificio, quod aureu[m] animi.
England: Printed by Thomas Creede.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 181.
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[Maeirus] Maier, Michael
1617
Symbola Aureæ Mensæ duodecim Nationum. Hoc est Hermea seu Mercureï Festa ab Heroibus duodenis selectis, artis chymicæ usu, sapientia et authoritate paribus celebrata; ... ubi et artis continuatio et veritas ... 36 rationibus, et experientia librisque authorum plusquam trecentis demonstratur. Opus ... 12 libris explicatum et traditum, figuris cupro incisio ... adjectis.
Francofurti [Frankfurt].
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 184.

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[Maeirus] Maier, Michael
1687
Scrutinium chymicum: per oculis et intellectui accurate accommodata ... emblemata.
Francofurtum [Frankfurt].
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 183.
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[Maeirus] Maier, Michael; & Le Mascrier, J.B.
1758
Cantilenae intellectuales de Phoenice redivivo; ou, Chansons intellectuelles sur la resurrection du phenix.
Paris: Debure l’aîné.
Available at: https://resources.warburg.sas.ac.uk/pdf/fgh5680b3223959.pdf.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 182.
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Maimonides, Moses
1655
Bab Musi = Porta Mosis; sive Dissertationes aliquot a R. Mose Maimonide, suis in varias Mishnaioth, sive textus Talmudici partes, commentariis præmissæ, quæ ad universam serè Judæorum disciplinam aditum aperiunt: nunc primùm Arabicè prout ab ipso autore conscriptæ sunt, & Latine edita : unà cum Appendice notarum miscellanea / operâ & studio Edvardi Pocockii.
Oxoniæ [Oxford].
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 185.

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Maitland, Edward [earliest issues have author as ‘A Lover of Justice’]

1869

The Pilgrim and the Shrine; or, Passages from the Life and Correspondence of Herbert Ainslie BA Cantab.

London: Tinsley Brothers.

Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 5.

Note from Sally Davis: I couldn’t find an edition printed in 1869 so my publication details are from the 1868 first edition. The British Library and worldcat both had issues from 1868 and 1870 but not 1869. Despite appearances, it was a novel.

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Manilius, M; Bentley, Richard
1739
M. Manilii Astronomicon / ex recensione et cum notis Richardi Bentleii.
Londini [London]: Paul and Isaac Vaillant.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 187.
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Marconis, J.E. & Yarker, John
1882
Lectures of a chapter, senate & council: according to the forms of the ancient and primitive rite, but embracing all systems of high grade masonry. Embracing all systems of high grade masonry. Embodying the preliminary examinations required for advancement; the symbolical explanations of the various degrees, from the 1?? to the 30??; together with the grand book of maxims.
London: J. Hogg.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 283.
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Maspero, G.C.C.
1883
Guide du visiteur au Musée de Boulaq.

Museum at Boulaq.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 191.
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Massey, G.
1854
Ballad of Babe Christabel: with other lyrical poems.
London.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 192.
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Mathers, Samuel; translator – see von Rosenroth
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Melchinger, J.W.
1789
Authentische Geschichte des Bruder Gordians, eines vorgeblichen Abgeordneten des hohen Ordens der Rosenkreuzer zu Grundlegung einer Colonie in Schwaben.
Cosmopolis [Stuttgart]: Metzler.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 240.
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Melville, H.
1874
Veritas; revelation of mysteries, biblical, historical and social.
London: Chapman Hall.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 194.
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Mesmer, F.A.
1779
Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal.
Genève [Geneva].
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 196.
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Michaelis, Sebastien
1613
Admirable Historie of the Possession and Conversion of a Penitent Woman. Seduced by a Magician that made her to become a Witch and the princes of Sorcerers in the Country of Province, who was brought to S. Baume to be exorcised, in the yeere 1610 ... Whereunto is annexed a Pneumology or discourse of Spirits, ... together with an explanatory apology of the many difficulties touching the history and the annotations.
London: W Aspley.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 197. 1897 Catalogue note: “(Contain an account of the origins of “Luciferians,” and deals with witchcraft.)”
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More, H.
1708
Theological Works of H. More, according to the author’s improvements in his Latin edition.
London.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 198.
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Myer, Isaac
1888
Qabbalah. The Philosophical Writings of Solomon Ben Yehudah Ibn Gebirol or Avicebron and their connection with the Hebrew Qabbalah and Sepher ha-Zohar, with ... translations of selected passages from the same, etc.
Philadelphia: Published by the Author.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 202.
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Olcott, Henry S.
1895
Old Diary Leaves: the True Story of the Theosophical Society.
New York, London, Madras: G P Putnam for owners of The Theosophist.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 217.

Note from Sally Davis: I think this was published with no volume number on it, but turned out to be the first of several volumes.

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Old, Walter Gorn – see Sephariel
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Oliver, George
1859
Institutes of Masonic Jurisprudence; being an exemplification of the English Book of Constitutions, methodically digested under appropriate heads; together with a summary view of the laws and principles of the Royal Arch.
London.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 219.
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Owen, M.A.
1893
Old Rabbit, the Voodoo and other sorcerers ... Introduction by C. G. Leland. Illustrated by J. A. Owen and L. Wain.
London: T Fisher Unwin.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 222.
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Palingenius, Marcellus [Carl Hermann Weise]
1628
Zodiacus vitae, hoc est de hominis vita, studio, ac moribus optime instituendis, libri XII.
Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Johannes Janssonius.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 223.
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Palmer, Abram Smythe
1897
Babylonian Influence on the Bible and Popular Beliefs. “Těhôm and Tiâmat,” “Hades and Satan,” etc.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 224.
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Paracelsus [Theophrastus von Hohenheim]
1567
Theophrasti Paracelsi philosophiæ et medicinæ, vtriusque vniuersæ, compendium, ex optimis quibusque eius libris: cum scholiis in libros IIII. eiusdē De vita longas ... Auctore Leone Suauio ... Vita Paracelsi. Catalogus operum & librorum, etc. [Containing also the text of “De vita longa.”].
Parisiis [Paris]: Rouillii.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 225.
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Philalethes, E. et al.
1685
Kern der Alchymie, Das ist ein durch Erfahrung bewährter Tractat welcher eröffnet das geheime und hochverborgene Geheimnüss des Elixirs der Weisen, abgetheilet in zwey Theil...
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 226.

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Pico della Mirandola, Giovann
1569
Cabalistarum selectiora obscurioraque Dogmata ... ex eorum commentationibus excerpta, et ab Archangelo Burgonovensi ... interpretationibus illustrata.
Venetiis [Venice].
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 229.
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Pluche, Noël Antoine
1740
English,The history of the heavens.
London: J Osborn.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 2 volumes, 81, 82

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Porphyry (c 234-c305)
1767
Πορφυριου ... περι ἀποχης ἐμψυχων βιβλια τεσσαρα. Porphyrii de abstinentia ab esu animalium libri quatuor. Cum notis integris P. Victorii et J. Valentini, et interpretatione Latina J. B. Feliciani. Editionem curavit et suas itemque J. J. Reiskii notas adjecit J. de Rhœr. Accedunt IV. epistolæ de apostasia Porphyrii. Gr. & Lat.
Trajecti ad Rhenum [Utrecht].
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 230.
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Porphyry (c234-c305)
1765
[Περι του ἐν Ὀδυσσειᾳ των Νυμφων Ἀντρου. De Antro Nympharum L. Holstenio interprete. Gr. & Lat.].
Trajecti ad Rhenum [Utrecht].
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 231.
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Prasad, Jwala
1897
Chromopathy, or the science of healing diseases by colours… Third edition.
Madras: M S Ramaswami Aiyar.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 70.
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Price, James, M.D.
1782
An Account of some Experiments on Mercury, Silver and Gold, made at Guildford in May 1782 in the laboratory of J. Price ... To which is prefixed an abridgment of Boyle’s account of a degradation of gold. [With MS. list of witnesses.]
Oxford.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 8.

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Pseudo Geber & Avicenna

1682
Gebri, regis Arabum, summa perfectionis magisterii, cum libri invastigationis magisterii et testamenti ejusdem Gebri - et Avicennae minearlium additione.
Gedani [Gdansk].
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 129.

Note from Sally Davis: this book needs an introduction covering several pages! See for example wikipedia on Geber; and the Pseudo Geber now thought to be a number of different late-Medieval authors pretending they were Geber. Westcott’s book published in 1682 contained a tract by Avicenna.
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Ptolemy, C. [active 2nd century]; translator J M Ashmand
1822
Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos, or Quadripartite. ... Newly translated from the ... paraphrase of Proclus. With a preface, explanatory notes, and an appendix, containing extracts from the Almagest of Ptolemy, and the whole of his Centiloquy; together with a short notice of Mr. Ranger’s Zodiacal Planisphere. ... By J. M. Ashmand.
London: Davis and Dickson.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 234.
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Regnaud, Paul
1892
Le Rig-Véda et les origines de la mythologie indo-européenne.
Place of publication not identified.

Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 235.

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Rittershusius, Conradus & Smetius, Henricus
1610
Malchus de Vita Pythagoræ. [More probably the work of Porphyry.] Nunc primum ... editus a C. Rittershusio, ... cum ejusdem notis. Gr. (Pythagoricarum Sententiarum libellus.-Πυθαγορου χρυσα ἐπη. Gr.).
Altorfii [correctly Altdorfii = Altdorf].
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 186.
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SA [Sapere Aude = William Wynn Westcott]
1893
Science of alchymy, spiritual and material: an essay.
London; New York, U.S.A.; Madras, India: Theosophical Publishing Society ; The Path ; The Theosophist.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 9.
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Sadler, H.
1889
Notes on the ceremony of installation.
London: George Kenning.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 244.
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St. Hill, Katharine
1893
Grammar of palmistry.
London.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 259.
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St John, James Augustus
1845
Egypt and Nubia.
London: Chapman and Hall.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 108.
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Sallustius; translator Thomas Taylor
1793
Sallust on the Gods and the World; and the Pythagoric sentences of Demophilus, translated from the Greek; and five hymns by Proclus, in the original Greek, with a poetical version. To which are added five hymns by the translator.
London: Edward Jeffrey of Pall Mall.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 264.
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Salmon, W
1701
Polygraphice: or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, vernishing, japaning, gilding, &c. Containing the latter five books. Viz. VII. Of alchymie, and the grand elixir of philosophers. VIII. Of the 112 chymical arcana of Peter Fabe.
England: A. and J. Churchill, at the Black Swan in Paternoster Row.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 245. 1897 Catalogue note: “(Contains valuable Articles on Alchemy)”.
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Salomon, N; Claveus, Gasto
1695
Dictionaire hermetique, contenant l’explication des termes, fables, enigmes, emblemes & manieres de parler des vrais philosophes. [By N. Salomon.] Accompagné de deux traitez singuliers & utiles aux curieux de l’art. Par un amateur de la science [i.e. Gasto Claveus].
Paris: Laurent d’Houry.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 105.
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Salt, H.
1825
Essay on Dr. Young’s and Y. Champollion’s phonetic system Or hieroglyphics: with some additional discoveries by which it may be applied to decipher the nameg of the ancient kings of Egypt and Ethiopia.
London.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 113.
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Sapientia Sapienti Dono Data (SSDD) = Florence Farr

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Scott, W.
1853
Existence of evil spirits proved: and their agency, particularly in relation to the human race, explain and illustrated.
London: Jackson and Walford.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 246.
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Selden, J., Beyer, A. & Bysterus, L.
1680
De Diis Syris syntagmata II...
Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Luca Bysterus.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 247.
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Sephariel [Walter Gorn Old]
1895
Kabalistic astrology: or Your fortune in your name / by Sepharial [Walter Gorn Old]. Manual No. 1.
?London: Astrological Publishing Association.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 218.
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Sharp, G.
1807
Case of Saul, shewing that his disorder was a real spiritual possession ... First printed in the year 1777, as an appendix to A tract on the law of nature and principles of action in man. To which is added, a short tract wherein the influence of demons are further illustrated by remarks on I Timothy iv. 1-3.
London: Vernor and Hood.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 248.
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Sharpe, Samuel
1864
Alabaster Sarcophagus of Oimenepthah I., King of Egypt, now in Sir J. Soane’s Museum, Lincolns Inn Fields. Drawn by J. Bonomi, and described by S. Sharpe.
London.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 216.
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Smyth, J.P.
1896
How we got our Bible.
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 251.
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Sonnini de Manoncourt, Charles N S; translator Henry Hunter DD
1799
Travels in upper and lower Egypt undertaken by order of the old government of France; by C. S. Sonnini, ... Illustrated with forty engravings; ... Translated from the French, by Henry Hunter, D.D. In three volumes.
London: John Stockdale.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 3 volumes, 253-255
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South, Mary Ann. See under her married name of Atwood though her book was published before she was married. Daughter of Thomas South below.

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Θυος Μαθος [South, Thomas]
1846
Early Magnetism in its higher relations to humanity, as veiled in the Poets and the Prophets. By Θυος Μαθος [anagram of Thomas South].
London: H Baillière.

Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 256.
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SSDD [= Florence Farr]
1896
Egyptian Magic. By S. S. D. D. Collectanea Hermetica Volume 8.
London: Theosophical Publishing Society.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 115
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Stobaeus, J.
1792
Joannis Stobaei Eclogarum physicarum et ethicarum libri 2 Ad codd: mss. fidem suppleti et castigati, annotatione et versio ne Latina instructi ab Arn : Herm. Ludov : Heeren : 2 partes.
Gottingae [Gottingen].
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 2 volumes, 260, 261
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Stoeber, Elias and Steinii, Henrici Leonardi [Stein, H L]
1743
Everhardi Feithii Antiquitatum Homericarum libri 4.
Argentorati [Strasbourg]: Impensis Henrici Leonardi Steinii.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 120
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Swedenborg, Emanuel
1876
Conjugal love and its chaste delights: also, adulterous love and its sinful pleasures.
London: Swedenborg Society, British and Foreign.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 262
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Tattam, H. & Young, T.
1830
A compendious grammar of the Egyptian language: as contained in the Coptic and Sahidic dialects; with observations on the Bashmuric...

London: John and Arthur Arch.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 75. Bound together with book by Macdonald (see above) in one volume on learning Coptic. See also Fisher, R C
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Taylor, Thomas
1895
Iamblichus on the Mysteries of the Egyptians 2nd ed.
London: B Dobell.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 263
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Upham, Edward
1822
Memoranda illustrative of the tombs and sepulchral decorations of the Egyptians; with a key to the Egyptian tomb now exhibiting in Piccadilly. Also, remarks on mummies, and observations on the process of embalming.
London: Thomas Boys, etc.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 114.

Note from Sally Davis: the title in the 1897 Catalogue is On the Tombs of the Egyptians; but I think this is the right book; it’s in the British Library catalogue.
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van Dale, A.
1700
De oraculis veterum ethnicorum dissertationes duae: quarum nunc prior agit de eorum origine atque auctoribus : secunda de ipsorum duratione & interitu.
Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Apud Henricum & Viduam Theodori Boom.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 78.
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van Helmont, F.M.
1657
Alphabeti vere naturalis Hebraici brevissima delineatio.
Sulzbacum [Sulzbach].
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 146.

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van Rymsdyk, Jan; van Rymsdyk, Andrew; editor/reviser P Boyle
1791
Museum Britannicum: or, A display in thirty two plates, of antiquities and natural curiosities, in that noble and magnificent cabinet, the British Museum, after the original designs from nature / by John and Andrew van Rymsdyk, pictors. Second edition, revised and corrected by P. Boyle.
London.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 57.

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Vaughan, Thomas [= Eugenius Philalethes]
1651
Lumen de lumine, or, A new magicall light discovered and communicated to the world by Eugenius Philalethes.
England: H Blunden.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 228
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Vaughan, Thomas
1896
Euphrates, or, the Waters of the East. With a commentary by S. S. D. D. [=Florence Farr]
Collectanea Hermetica Volume 7. London: Theosophical Publishing Society.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 227
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Vincit Qui Se Vincit (VQSV) [Holland, Frederick]
1886
Temple rebuilt. By “Vincit, qui se vincit”, a Rosicrucian at the Metropolitan College.
London: George Kenning.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 266

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Vincit Qui Se Vincit [Holland, Francis]
1887
Revelation of the Shechinah, or the Tree of Life in the Holy Royal Arch, by “Vincit qui se vincit” Hon. Magus, a Rosicrucian at the Metropolitan College.
London: H Hansard and Son.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 249.

Note from Sally Davis: Holland was an acquaintance of William Wynn Westcott; the two met in 1881.

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von der Recke, E.
1787
Nachricht von des berüchtigten Cagliostro Aufenthalt in Mitau im Jahr 1779.

Berlin
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 61.

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[von Bretschneider, Heinrich Gottfried]

1786

Beiträge zur Philosophischen Geschichte der Heutigen Geheimen Gesellschaften.

Wien [Vienna]; Lemberg

Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 38.

Note from Sally Davis: the 1897 Catalogue doesn’t give an author for this. I got the name from worldcat.org.

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von Bunsen, Christian Carl Josias; translator C. H Cottrell. & Birch, S.
1867
Egypt’s Place in Universal History: an historical investigation in five books. Volume 1, 3-5. Longmans & Co.: London.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 59; definitely only 1 volume.

Note from Sally Davis: in the British Library catalogue, Samuel Birch is listed as a contributor to the English volume.
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von Gochhausen, E.A.A. & Ettinger, C.W.
1795
Der heilige Balthasar, ein Brüder Rosenkreutzer, oder geheime Geschichte der Bemühungen der Bruder Rosenkreutzer der protestantischen Religion den tollesten Mysticismus aufzupfropfen.
Gotha: Ettinger.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 239.

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von Hohenheim, Theophrastus Bombastus; see Paracelsus

von Knigge, Baron Adolph Franz Friedrich Ludwig; see Maier, Joseph Aloysius

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von Murr, Christoph Gottlieb
1803
Uber den wahren Ursprung der Rosenkreuzer und des Freymaurerordens. Nebst einem Anhange zur Geschichte der Tempelherren.

Sulzbach.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 200
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von Reichenbach, C; translation, preface etc J Ashburner
1850
Physico-physiological researches on the dynamics of magnetism, electricity, heat, light, chrystallization, and chemism, in their relations to vital force. ... From the German second edition [“Physikalisch-physiologische Untersuchungen über die Dynamide des Magnetismus, der Elektrizität, der Wärme und des Lichtes,” etc.], with the addition of a preface and critical notes, by J. Ashburner.
London.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: listed as 226 but there’s another volume with that number; this one’s place in the list suggests it should be 236.

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von Rosenroth, Christian Knorr; translator of part of the original A Lover of Philalethes; notes etc Sapere Aude [= William Wynn Westcott]
1894
Aesch Mezareph, or, Purifying Fire. A chymico-kabalistic treatise collected from the Kabala Denudata of Knorr von Rosenroth. Translated by a Lover of Philalethes 1714. Preface, notes and explanations by “Sapere Aude.” [Reconstructed from the fragments quoted in tom. 1. pt. 1 of “Kabbala Denudata.”]. Collectanea Hermetica Volume 4.
London: Theosophical Publishing Society.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 3.
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von Rosenroth, Knorr, Christian; translator of part of the original Mathers, Samuel
1887
Kabbalah Unveiled: containing the following books of the Zohar: The book of concealed mystery, the greater holy assembly, the lesser holy assembly.
London: Redway.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 193.
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von Welling, Georg
1784
Georgii von Welling Opus Mago-Cabbalisticum et Theosophicum: darinnen der Ursprung, Natur, Eigenschaften u. Gebrauch des Salzes, Schwefels und Mercurii in dreyen Theilen ...
Frankfurt and Leipzig: Fleischer.

Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 273.

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Weise, Carl Hermann; see Palingenius, Marcellus

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Westcott, William Wynn
1890
Numbers: their occult power and mystic virtue: a résumé of the views of the Kabbalists, Pythagoreans, adepts of India, Chaldean magi, and medieval magincians.
London: Theosophical Publishing Society.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 274.
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Westcott, William Wynn
1894
Rosicrucians, their history and aims: with reference to the alleged connection between Rosicrucianism & Freemasonry.
London: publisher not identified.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 276.
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Westcott, William Wynn
1885
Suicide: its history, literature, jurisprudence, causation, and prevention.
London: H K Lewis.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 278.
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Westcott, William Wynn
1893
[ספר יצירה Sepher Yetzirah, the Book of Formation. 2nd ed.,
London: Theosophical Publishing Society.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 277.
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Wilkinson, John Gardner; Birch, S
1857
Egyptians in the Time of the Pharoahs ... To which is added an Introduction to the Study of Egyptian Hieroglyphs by S. Birch.
London: S Bradbury & Evans.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 279.
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Witsius, H.
1696
Hermanni Witsii Aegyptiaca, et Dekathylon.: Sive, de Aegyptiacorum sacrorum cum Hebraicis collatione libri tres. Et De decem tribubus Israelis liber singularis. Accessit diatribe de legione fulminatrice Christianorum, sub Imperatore Marco Aurelio Antonino. 2^nd edition
Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Excudit Gerar.dus Borstius.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 280.
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Wright, T.
1851
Narratives of sorcery and magic...
London.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 281.
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Young, Thomas
1830
Rudiments of a dictionary of the Ancient Egyptian language, in the Enchorial characters.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 75. Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 75. Bound together with books by Macdonald and by Tattam and Young (see above) in one volume on learning Coptic. See also Fisher, R C.
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Zoellner, Johann Carl Friedrich; preface etc Charles C Massey
1882
Transcendental Physics. An account of experimental investigations. From the scientific treatises of J. C. F. Z. ... Translated from the German, with a preface and appendices, by C. C. Massey. 2nd edition.
London: W H Harrison.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 285.
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Zschökke, H; translator P.G.
1846
Tales from the German of H. Zschökke, 2^nd series translated by P. G. Series 1, 2.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 286.
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Zuriel [?J Wheeler]
1835
A series of lectures on the science of celestial philosophy, or the language of the stars.
London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 14.

Note from Sally Davis: I googled to see if I could identify an author. Google tracked down a copy of the book, which was a Part 1: Fundamental Principles; so maybe other volumes were published later. If so, Westcott didn’t have any of them in his hermetic library. No author was named on the volume but any correspondence was to go to Zuriel c/o Mr J Wheeler of 1 Fitzroy Place, Southwark Bridge Road, who was a teacher of astronomy and use of the globes. I am presuming that Wheeler was the author.

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MAGAZINES
1791
Conjuror’s Magazine, or, Magical and Physiognomical Mirror.    Including a superb edition of Lavater’s Essays on Physiognomy.
London.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 2 volumes, 73 and 74.

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1856
Freemasons’ Magazine and Masonic Mirror.
London: Brothers Ford & Tilt, Long Acre.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 2 volumes, 124 and 125.

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1868 to 1875; 1885 to 1897.
The Rosicrucian. Transactions of the Metropolitan College.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: two items bound together as 241. 1897 Catalogue note: “1868 to 1875, with Transactions of the Met. Coll. In Anglia, 1885-97”.

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1877-1882
The Masonic Magazine.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 3 volumes only, bound together: V =188, VIII = 189, IX = 190. 1897 Catalogue note: “(Contains inter alia valuable articles on alchemy.)”
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1880

Urania: A Monthly Journal of Astrology. Editor: Zadkiel [GD member Alfred J Pearce].
London, Glasgow.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 15. In the 1897 Catalogue this was bound together with the magazine Fate and Fortune (see 1890 below) in a volume entitled ‘Astrology’.

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1884 to 1890
Notes and Queries.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 10 volumes, 203-212. 1897 Catalogue note specifies which N and Q volumes:

- 1884 6^th Series volume X, XI

- 1885 6^th Series volumes XII

- 1886 7^th Series volumes I, II

- 1887 7^th Series volumes III, IV

- 1889 7^th Series volume VII, VIII

- 1889 7^th Series volume IX.

- 1890 7^th Series volume IX

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1885
Occult Magazine.

Glasgow.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: volumes 1 and 2 of the magazine only, no more were published. The 2 volumes bound together as 213.

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1888
The Kneph. John Yarker, editor.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: numbers 1-8; 165. 1897 Catalogue note: “(Official Journal of the A and P Rite of Masonry; and also contains occult information not to be found elsewhere.)”

Note from Sally Davis on A and P: it’s the Ancient and Primitive Rite, of which Yarker was the head.

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1890

Fate and Fortune. Editor: Sephariel [William Gorm Old]
London.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 15. In the 1897 Catalogue this was bound together with the magazine Urania (see 1880 above) in a volume entitled ‘Astrology’.

Note from Sally Davis: W R Old was a member of the Theosophical Society; but not of the GD.
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1891a
Prasnottara, the Indian organ of the Theosophical Society.

Adyar: Theosophical Society.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: volumes I and II bound together as 233.

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1891b
Reports of the Theosophical Society,
London: Theosophical Society.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 268.
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1897
Mercury, A Theosophical Magazine.

San Francisco.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: volume 3 only; 195.

MAGAZINES FOR MEMBERS

1885 to 1897; 1868 to 1875
Transactions of the Metropolitan College. The Rosicrucian.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: two items bound together as 241. 1897 Catalogue note: [The Rosicrucian] “1868 to 1875, with Transactions of the Met. Coll. In Anglia, 1885-97”.

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1893
The Vahan.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: The Vahan’s volumes 3, 4, 5 and 6 bound together as 271.

Note from Sally Davis: The Vahan was the membership magazine of the British Section of the Theosophical Society.

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FINALLY SOME PROBLEM ENTRIES

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Supposedly 1866 published London.

1897 Catalogue entry with title given as: Bruce’s Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile.

Westcott Hermetic Catalogue number: 58.

Note from Sally Davis: volumes called Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile began to be published in the late 18^th century. They were based on the travels in Abyssinia (what is now Ethiopia) of the Scottish explorer James Bruce. An edition edited by Samuel Shaw was published in six volumes in 1790; it was very popular and went into several reprints. The problem is the date of Westcott’s copy: I couldn’t find any reference at the British Library or on worldcat.org, to an edition published in 1866. The 1897 Catalogue mentions only one volume, so it must have been an abridged account.

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Janin, J [probably Jules Janin]

First series 1864; second series 1871-72

L’Autographe [incorrectly entered in 1897 as L’Autographie] though listed in the catalogue under ‘handwriting’ [?!}

Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue number: 2 volumes, 137 and 138. 137 is “1^st series 1864”; 138 is “2^nd Series, oblong folio, Paris, 1871-2”.

Note from Sally Davis: even the supposed title of this entry led me; an old friend with a degree in French and an “enormous” French dictionary; my friend’s husband; and my partner Roger Wright a fine dance! Eventually my French-speaking friend deduced that it must be a magazine not a couple of books; Roger found worldcat.org entries for two items entitled l’autographe (NOT l’autographie), both from 1871/72 and both with Jules Janin as one of the authors; and my friend’s husband found one volume of issues of L’Autographe at the Wellcome Library.

I found information online in French and in English, about Jules Gabriel Janin (1804-74) – journalist with Le Figaro, novelist, drama critic and editor of the last volume of the complete works of Voltaire (published 1862). I presume he is the author meant by the catalogue entry, but lists of his works gave the four of us no help at all – they did not have L’Autographie or L’Autographe in them and when I looked at the Wellcome Library’s one volume, Janin was not listed as either editor/compiler or publisher of it.

The volume at the Wellcome Library covers issues from December 1863 (issue one) to 1868. It is made up of handwritten items signed by people famous in France either at the time of publication or in past centuries. There is one entry by Janin, which my French-speaking friend deduces was originally scrawled (in dreadful handwriting) on the frontispiece of an edition of Georges Sand’s Lelia, published in 1833. Apart from an item signed by the spiritualist medium Daniel Dunglas Hume and an elegant piece of calligraphy by Nicolas Flamel, the volume has no occult associations that I can see. The items on worldcat from 1871/72 refer to Janin’s induction as a member of the Académie Française.

Make of that what you will! Perhaps Westcott was thinking the GD members could use L’Autographe to test their skills at graphology.

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Gervasius, Julius
1774
R. Abrahami Eleazaris uraites chymisches Werck, welches ehedessen von dem Autore theils in lateinischer und arabischer, theils auch in chaldæischer und syrischer Sprache geschrieben, nachmahls von einem Anonymo in unsere deutsche Mutter-Sprache übersetzet, nun aber nebst zugehörigen Kupffern ... wie auch beygefügten Schlüssel derer in selbigen vorkommenden fremden Wörter ... zum öffentlichen Druck befördert worden durch Julium Gervasium Schwartzburgicum. (Donum Dei Samuelis Baruch, des Juden Rabbi ... welcher erlernet das grosse Geheimniss des grossen Meisters Tubalkains aus dessen Tabell, gefunden von Abrahamo Eliazare, dem Juden.).
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 1. Note says: “Now in the possession of Fk. Leigh Gardner”.

Note from Sally Davis: practically everything about this item is a problem. In the 1897 Catalogue it’s listed as a manuscript translation of an “An ancient Alchymic Work”. There’s an edition of it in the British Library published in Erfurt in 1735 but the 1897 Catalogue says that Westcott’s copy was translated by GD member William Sutherland Hunter from an edition published in Frankfurt in 1774. The 1897 Catalogue says that the author was anonymous. However, at www.jewishencyclopedia.com there’s information based on research since Westcott’s time. The research established Julius Gervasius of Schwarzburg as the most likely author; and that he was working from documents in Arabic, Syriac and Chaldaic. The website says that the supposed author Rabbi Abraham Eleazar is a fiction; no such person is known to have existed.
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Various dates, presumably

“Twenty-five Alchemic Tracts in Latin”.

Westcott Hermetic Catalogue number: 7
Note from Sally Davis: 1897 Catalogue entry says “no title page, place or date”.

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DIFFICULT TO CLASSIFY

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Collection of Occult Book Sale catalogues.

Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 65.
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Theosophical Pamphlets: The Vahan, American Section Reports etc.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 267.

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Theosophy.    Pamphlets including the Oriental Series.
?London: ?Theosophical Society.
Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue: 269.

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Pattinson, Thomas Henry

Avatars of Vishnu.

Not published.

Westcott Hermetic Library Catalogue number: 17.

Note from Sally Davis: the 1897 Catalogue describes this as “A Volume of Photographic Designs”. Pattinson was in the GD, a leading member of the Horus Temple in Bradford.

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Copyright of this layout, not the original 1897 Catalogue: SALLY DAVIS

30 April 2022

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