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

: Bergentrückte Kaiser, Der; Offprint from: Festschrift zur Jahrhundertfeier der K. Universität zu Breslau. 1911.

: Beruf des Wahrsagers, Astrologen, Kartenschlägers etc, Der; von Edmund Lippold., Cover title., At head of title: Wie werde ich Astrologe?

: Betoverde weereld ...; van Balthasar Bekker., Warburg Institute copy has bookplate of Aby Warburg., ...zynde een grondig ondersoek van't gemeen gevoelen aangaande de geesten, deselver aart en vermogen, bewind en bedrijf, als ook't gene de menschen door derselver kraght en emeenschap doen, in vier boeken ondernomen, De

: Betrüglichen Goldmacher am Hofe des Herzogs Julius von Braunschweig, Die; von A. Rhamm., "Festschrift, den in Wolfenbüttel zur 16. Hauptversammlung vereinigten Mitgliedern des Harz-Vereins für Geschichte und Alterthumskunde gewidmet von dessen Zweigvereine Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel", t.p. Aby Warburg's copy.

: Bibliography of conjuring and kindred deceptions, The; By Sidney W. Clarke and Adolphe Blind.

: Bibliotheca Magica et Pneumatica; "Kataloge 31-35."., Issued in parts. Aby Warburg's copy

: Bibliotheca magica

: Bibliotheca magica et pneumatica; Mit Angabe der aus diesen Wissenschaften auf Königl. sächs. oeff. Bibliothek zu dresden befindlichen Schriften. Ein Beitrag zur sittengeschichtlichen Literatur. Zusammengestellt und mit einem doppelten Register versehen von Dr. Johann Georg Theodor Grässe., Aby Warburg's copy.

: Book of protection, The; with translation, introduction, and notes by Hermann Gollancz ... with 27 illustrations., Aby Warburg's personal copy.