Cornelius Agrippa - Three Books of Occult Philosophy or Magic. Book One: Natural Magic which includes The Early Life of Agrippa [...]. Edited by Willis F. Whitehead

Cornelius Agrippa - Three Books of Occult Philosophy or Magic. Book One: Natural Magic which includes The Early Life of Agrippa [...]. Edited by Willis F. Whitehead - New York - Samuel Weiser Inc. - 1971 - 1st edition - [2], 288 pp - Cloth binding with dust jacket - 16 x 23,5 cm.

Condition: Good - with some wear. Neat copy. On the cover page an Ex Libris label from Librairie des Sciences Occultes W.N. Schors.

Reprint after the 1897 edition of the first (stand-alone) part of the magnum opus of the German alchemist Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486-1535). Illustrated with black and white reproductions. With table of contents. Hardcover edition.

¶ The occulta philosophia libri tres (1533) deals with elemental, celestial and intellectual magic. This part 'Natural Magic' with chapters on astrological influences (Saturn, Venus, Mars, Mercury), palmistry, animals and omens, interpreting dreams, speech and occult properties of words and Kabbalah.