Catalogue of Esoterica and Occult Sciences. [ Bloomsbury Book, Auctions, auction catalogue, sale date: 3 April 2003 ]

Bloomsbury Auctions, London, sale date: 3rd April 2003. Laminated illustrated wrappers, small 4to,. 151 pp, plates, ills. 657 lots. Among the highlights noted were: A group of 22 works on the Diamond Necklace Affair, 1786 (lot 2); Albohali's De iudiciis nativitatum liber unus 1546 (lot 11); Albohazen's Ubri de iudiciis astrorum, 1551 (lot 12); lots relating to Alchemy (lots 13-95) including Barchusen's Pyrosophia, 1698 (lot 14); Biringuccio La Pyrothechnie, ou Art du Feu, 1627 (lot 21) Geber's Summa perfectionis Magisterii in sua naturel..., 1682 (lot 39); Lenglet du Fresnoy's Histoire de la Philosophie Hermetique, 1742 (lot 62); Paracelsus's Opera omnia medico-chemico-chirurgica, 1658 (lot 69), and Theatrum chemicum, 1659 (lot 86); Barlet's Le Vray et Méthodique Cours de la Physique résolutive, 1653 (lot 102);...lots relating to Mesmer & Animal Magnetism (lots 486-513), including Report des Commissaires de la Société Royale de Médecine, 1784 (lot 494) and Mesmer's Recueil des Pièces les plus Intéressantes sur le Magnétisme Animal, 1784 (lot 500); Morin's Astrologia Gallica, 1661 (lot 518); Taylor's édition of Plato's Works, 1804 (lot 552); 7 lots by Porta (lots 558-564), including Magiae naturalis libri viginti 1560 (lot 558); Schott's Magia universalis..., 1657 (lot 589); Trithemius's Polygraphie, 1561 (lot 616); Zoroaster's Zend-Avesta, 1771 (lot 642), and Thorndike's A History of Magic and Expérimental Science, c.1964 (lot 656). List of prices and buyers loosely laid in. Fine.