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Two children wait nervously while an alchemist secretively concocts a mixture at his stove. Pen and wash drawing by G. Robinson.

From magic to science : essays on the scientific twilight / Charles Singer.

A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting and nose stick, Australia. Colour process print.

Professors C.B. Spruyt and Van Pesch are told by Death that all knowledge comes from him; referring to the change in electoral law concerning the minimum voting age. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1893.

Medicina diastatica or sympatheticall mumie: containing, many mysterious and hidden secrets in philosophy and physick. By the construction, extraction, transplantation and application of microcosmical & spiritual mumie. Teaching the magneticall cure of diseases at distance, etc / Abstracted from the works of Dr. Theophr. Paracelsus: by the labour and industry of Andrea Tentzelius ... Translated out of the Latine by Ferdinando Parkhurst.

Two Australian aborigines performing a ceremony with a magical stick to make another person ill. Halftone.

The book of secrets of Albertus Magnus of the virtues of herbs, stones, and certain beasts ; also A book of the marvels of the world / edited by Michael R. Best and Frank H. Brightman.

Medicina diastatica, or, Sympatheticall mumie : containing many mysterious and hidden secrets in philosophy and physick, by the [brace] construction, extraction, transplantation and application [brace] of microcosmical & spiritual mumie : teaching the magneticall cure of diseases at distance, &c. / abstracted from the works of Dr. Theophr. Paracelsus by the labour and industry of Andrea Tentzelius ... ; translated out of the Latine by Ferdinando Parkhurst.

Flore magique et astrologique de l'antiquité / Guy Ducourthial ; préface de Danielle Gourevitch.

Women's secrets : a translation of Pseudo-Albertus Magnus's De secretis mulierum with commentaries / Helen Rodnite Lemay.

Percorsi magici della medicina / Amalia Sica.

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The book of secrets of Albertus Magnus of the virtues of herbs, stones, and certain beasts ; also A book of the marvels of the world / edited by Michael R. Best and Frank H. Brightman.

Flore magique et astrologique de l'antiquité / Guy Ducourthial ; préface de Danielle Gourevitch.

Women's secrets : a translation of Pseudo-Albertus Magnus's De secretis mulierum with commentaries / Helen Rodnite Lemay.

Percorsi magici della medicina / Amalia Sica.