Daemoniaci, hoc est: de obsessis a spiritibus daemoniorum hominibus liber unus
Petrus (Peter) Thyraeus. Cologne, M. Cholinus, 1598

Second edition, spotting and dampstaining throughout, 2 small tears to title, wormtrail not affecting text to inner margin continuing to p.140, defective endpapers, modern library stamp to second leaf, contemporary pigskin, stained and worn, small 4to,

Hellerism: Second-Sight Mystery, Supernatural Vision or Second-Sight
Hermon (Harry)

First edition, frontispiece, illustrations, tissue-guard, spotting to margins, frontispiece detached, bookplate of Fulton Oursler to pastedown, original pictorial cloth, spine browned, corners and spine ends bumped, 12mo, Boston and New York, 1884. *** Fulton Oursler (1893-1952) was an American journalist, playwright and novelist. Passionately involved in conjuring from an early age, he often incorporated magic and magicians into his plots and campaigned alongside Harry Houdini against fraudulent mediums.

Chronicles of the Photographs of Spiritual Beings and Phenomena
Houghton (Georgina), 1852.

6 photographic plates, occasional very light spotting, plate I loose, original decorative cloth, gilt, spine very slightly browned, 8vo,

MENGUS, Hieronymus.
Flagellum daemonum, se exorcismi terribiles, potentissimi, & efficaces;
Bologna, for Ioannes Rossius, 1578.

First Latin edition of this work about exorcism and demonology, originally written by Hieronymus Mengus, or Gerolamo Menghi in Italian. Mengus was the most famous Italian exorcist, and even the official exorcist of the bishop of Bologna. The book is a practical guide of how demons should be interrogated to receive information from them. Mengus writes that demons can live in a human body, that they fight with each other, and that the infidelity of the exorcists can obstruct the deliverance of the possessed. The catholic ritual of exorcism was long and complicated, made of formules, prayers, blessings with sacred water and unctions with sacred oil.

Reglas Para Tirar la Baraja Mexicana
Mexico, A. Vanegas Arroyo, 1900

Rare Mexican chapbook on fortune telling with cards. Cover illustration likely by Manuel Manilla who illustrated many chapbooks and pennysheets for publisher Vanegas Arroyo.
32 pp. 5½x3¾”, original pictorial wrappers.

The Magus or Celestial Intelligencer; Being a Complete System of Occult Philosophy
Francis Barrett. Knight and Compton, 1875.

Engraved portrait frontispiece and 22 plates (5 hand-coloured), spotting, ink ownership inscription, contemporary quarter morocco.

From Sacred Texts.com: The Magus is one of the primary sources for the study of ceremonial magic, and for a long time was one of the rarest and most sought after of the 19th century grimoires. Barretts’ magnum opus embodies deep knowledge of Alchemy, Astrology, and the Kabbalah, and has been cited by the Golden Dawn and other occult and esoteric movements as source material. Written in 1801 in the middle of the ‘Age of Reason’, sandwiched between Newton and Darwin, this was possibly the last epoch that a work like this could be composed.

FYI: Booktryst posted a brief but informative article on Agrippa’s celebrated Books of Occult Philosophy today.

The Secrets of the Invisible World Disclos’d: or, An Universal History of Apparitions Sacred and Prophane, Under all Denominations; whether, Angelical, Diabolical, or Human-Souls departed
Daniel Defoe (as Andrew Moreton, Esqu. - pseud). London: J. Clarke et al., 1729.

First published in 1727 as An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions.

CHALDEAN MAGIC (First UK Edition) London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, 1877.

Translated from the French with considerable additions by the Author and notes by the Editor. vg copy. Hb. Green cloth cover with black lettering, design and illustration to front; and black bands, bright gilt lettering and bright gilt symbols to spine.

The work draws largely from a tablet from the library of the Royal Palace at Nineveh which contains numerous formulas of ‘deprecatory incantations against evil spirits, the effects of sorcery, disease etc. ” A fascinating insight into the magical practices the Chaldeans, with 31 chapters which include Mythology of the Underworld; Magic and Sorcery of the Chaldeans; and Chaldean Demonology.

Via Motus Books

Complete Works of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, 1550 via Weirus.com

Published during the XVI century, the works of Agrippa are foundational to both western secular and occult thought. In his own time, although admired and feared by many as a powerful magician, he was hunted as a heretic and necromancer, his books were burned and he was condemned by the Inquisition.

Look at the SIZE of this thing!