42 George Redway's Publications. 



The Literature of Occultism 

 and Archaeology: 



BEING A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS ON SALE RELATING TO 



Ancient Worships, Astrology, Alchemy, Animal Magnetism, Anthropology, Arabic, 

 Assassins, Antiquities, Ancient History, Behmen and the Mystics, Buddhism, Clair- 

 voyance, Cabein, China, Coins, Druids, Dreams and Visions, Divination, Divining Rod, 

 Demonology, Ethnology, Egypt, Fascination, Flagellants, Freemasonry, Folk Lore, 

 Gnostics, Gems, Ghosts, Hindus, Hieroglyphics and Secret Writing, Herbals, 

 Hermetic, India and the Hindus, Kabbala, Koran, Miracles, Mirabilaries, Magic and 

 Magicians, Mysteries, Mithraic Worship, Mesmerism, Mythology, Metaphysics, 

 Mysticism, Neo-platonism, Orientalia, Obelisks, Oracles, Occult Sciences, Phallic 

 Worship, Philology, Persian, Parsees, Philosophy, Physiognomy, Palmistry and Hand- 

 writing, Phrenology, Psychoneurology, Psychometry, Prophets, Rosicrucians, Round 

 Towers, Rabbinical, Spiritualism, Skeptics, Jesuits, Christians and Quakers, Sibylls, 

 Symbolism, Serpent Worship, Secret Societies, Somnambulism, Travels, Tombs, 

 Theosophical, Theology and Criticism, Witchcraft. 



" Books on witchcraft, magic, and kindred subjects realize high prices, and a few years 

 hence will be difficult to procure at all, unless, indeed, Mr Redway or some other astute 



Sirchaser cares to duplicate his stock while there is time, and keep it under lock and key, 

 r the benefit of the next generation." 7 'A* Atlumettm, Feb. 2, 1889. 



List of Books 



Chiefly from the Library of the late Frederick Hockley, Esq., 



CONSISTING OF IMPORTANT WORKS RELATING TO THE OCCULT 

 SCIENCES, BOTH IN PRINT AND MANUSCRIPT; 



NOW ON SALE AT THE PRICES AFFIXED, BY 



GEORGE REDWAY, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON. 



" The study of occultism is not without its charms; and, when an author has anything 

 to say about magic and magicians, about alchemy or astrology, or any other black art, 

 properly so called, he is justified in describing his book as a contribution to the literature 

 of occultism. But the ravings of ' illuminated ' persons who have gone mad upon a diet 

 of tetragrams, pentagrams, and pantacles soon pall, and the student turns joyously to the 

 folios of the olden propers after the Philosopher's Stone. There he finds a treasure of 

 delightful literature, in which amusement is artfully blended with instruction, and where 

 moral maxims are scattered about the pages which teach you how to subject your enemies 

 to a horrible death. The old magicians in their books are equal to any emergency. They 

 will tell you how to raise the devil, and compel him to enrich you with hidden treasures ; 

 how to bring the reluctant fair to your arms; how to cast your own nativity; or, if you 

 trouble about none of these things, and incline to lighter sports, they will give you a recipe 

 for charming fish out of the water, or enable you to dream that you are in whatever you 

 may deem to be the right paradise. With speculations about the why and the wherefore 

 of things they will not trouble you. They prefer to dilate upon the wonders of black magic, 

 and to gloat over the one hundred thousand pounds' weight of fine gold which a friend of 

 Raymond Lully's made by alchemical means. These musty tomes, full of significant circles 

 and magic triangles, of red dragons and black hens, embellished with portraits of the 

 demoniacal hierarchy and drawings of the essential implements for evoking spirits, have a 

 pleasant flavour of romance. The quaint Latinity and the odd jumble of tongues in which 

 the conjurations are written are as fine in their way as anything that ever was printed in a 

 folio. But it is needful to beware of the endless volumes of modern ravings about the so- 

 called occult ; for that way madness lies." Saturday Review, April 23, 1887. 



