Ex Libris Aby Warburg: Magic and Science

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.

Pages

: Traité des talismans ou figures astrales; Dedication signed: D.B., Warburg Institute copy has bookplate of Aby Warburg. LO/U17. Aby Warburg's copy., With Warburg Institute copy are bound his: La poudre de sympathie victorieuse. Paris : Pierre de Bresche et Iacques de Laize-de Bresche, 1668. -- Apologie du grand oeuure, ou, Elixir des philiosophes, dit vulgairement pierre philosophale : où la possibilité de cette oeuure est demonstrée tres clairement, et la porte de la vraye philosophie naturelle est tout à fait ouuerte. Paris : Pierre de Bresche & Iacques de Laize-de Bresc, 1668.

: Triomphe hermetique; ou, La pierre philosophale victorieuse, Le; Added half title (p. [13]) reads: L'ancienne guerre des chevaliers; ou, Entretien de la pierre des philosophes avec l'or & le mercure ... Composé originairement en alleman ... & traduit nouvellement du latin en françois. At end: Le nom de l'autheur est en latin dans cette anagramme: Dives Sicut Ardens S---., Compiled by Alexandre-Toussaint de Limojon de Saint-Didier., Published also under title: Le très-ancien duel des chevaliers; ou, Dialogue chymique de la pierre physique., Translation of the Uralter Ritter-Krieg first published at Leipzig, in 1604, appended to Basilius Valentinus' Triumphwagen Antimonii. Cf. J. Ferguson. Bibliotheca chemica. Glasgow, 1906. vol. 2, p. 466, and p. 486-487.

: Ueber das erste, zweite und elfte Buch der Sibyllinischen Weissagungen; von H. Dechent., "Inaugural-dissertation zur Erlangung der Doctorwürde in der philosophischen Facultät der Universität Jena."., Includes bibliographical references.

: Ueber die Asymmetrie bei natürlich vorkommenden organischen Verbindungen; von L. Pasteur. 2 Vorträge gehalten am 20. Januar und 3. Februar 1860 in der Société chimique zu Paris, übers. und hrsg. von M. und A. Ladenburg., Aby Warburg's copy.

: Ueber die Entwickelung der theoretischen Chemie; von Dr. Friedrich Krafft.

: Ueber die jüdische Angelologie und Daemonologie in ihrer Abhängigkeit ...; von Dr. Alexander Kohut., Includes bibliographical footnotes., Aby Warburg's copy

: Untersberg - Studien; Offprint from: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde. 54. 1914. Aby Warburg's copy.

: Uralte Ideale in der modernen Freimauerei; von C.W. Leadbeater ; Die rituelle Arbeit in Aegypten : aus C.W. Leadbeater "The hidden life in Freemasonry" (Kap. IX).