This collection features books covering the subjects of Magic and Science from the personal library of the Hamburg art historian and scholar Aby Warburg (1866-1929). These books formed the basis of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg, which was officially opened in 1926 and emigrated to London in 1933-1934.
As suggested by the name of the Library named after him, Warburg had wide-ranging interests in Kulturwissenschaft, a term difficult to translate, but usually rendered as ‘cultural studies’, understood in its widest, anthropological sense. It is well-illustrated here by his collection on Magic and Science (classmark F). Together with Philosophy (A) and Religion (B, G), it makes up the broader category of ‘Orientation’, which deals with man’s attempts to make sense of his place in the world.
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Oracula sibyllina
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hrsg. von P. Heitz, mit einer Einleitung von W.L. Schreiber, 24 tafeln und 1 text illustration.
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Physique occulte
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et de son utilité pour la découverte des sources d'eau, des miniéres, des tresors cachez, des voleurs & des meurtriers fugitifs.
Augmente en cette edition, d'un Traité de la connoissance des causes magnetiques des cures sympathiques, des transplantations & comment agissent les philtres. Par un curieux de la nature.
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Poudre de sympathie victorieuse, La
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Dedication signed: D.B. Aby Waburg's copy., Warburg Institute copy bound with his: Traité des talismans ou figures astrales : dans lequel est montré que leurs effets, & vertus admirables sont naturelles, & enseigné la manière de les faire, & de s'en seruir auec un profit & auantage merueilleux. Paris : Pierre de Bresche et Iacques de Laize-de Bresche, 1668.
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