Title page of Trithemius’s Steganographia, Mainz 1676, printed in red and black with early handwritten marks.

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Reading Trithemius’s hidden writing

Meet Johannes Trithemius, adviser to Agrippa, and explore the spirits, ciphers and printed keys of his Steganographia.
A closer look at our 1676 edition.

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1762 – Morellet's Inquisitors' Manual, Abridged to Expose Its Methods
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1792 – Culpeper’s Astrological Herbal: An Original Engraved Plant Plate
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1892–1911 – Péladan's Amphitheater of the Dead Sciences, Complete in Seven Volumes: How One Becomes a Mage, and How One Becomes an Artist
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c. 1830 – A Figure Card from a Hand-Colored French Fortune-Telling Pack
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1792 – Culpeper's Astrological Herbal, a Framed Engraved Plate: Sea Chamomile
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1792 – Culpeper’s Astrological Herbal: An Original Text Leaf Naming Each Plant’s Ruling Planet
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c. 1830 – A Scene Card from a Hand-Colored French Fortune-Telling Pack
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c. 1950 – William Fuld's Ouija Board and Planchette in the Blue Ghost Box
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1730 – Mysterium Magnum: The Shoemaker Reads Genesis, with the Double-Page Frontispiece of Moses and the Messiah
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1830 – Horst on Second Sight, with Two Plates of Spirit Conjuration
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1616 – An Original Leaf from Paracelsus’s Collected Works on Medicine and Alchemy
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c. 1900 – The Maker's Own Card: Camoin's Ace of Clubs from the Spanish Fortune-Teller's Pack
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c. 1830 – One of the Six Great Scenes from a Hand-Colored French Fortune-Telling Pack
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1658 – Paracelsus’s Collected Works, from the Steiner Memorial Collection
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1934 – Wood of the True Cross and Relics of Thirty Saints
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1730 – The Unfinished Aurora: Böhme’s First Book, with His Own Explanation of Why It Breaks Off, in Original Boards with the Portrait
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1968 – Phanerothyme: A Quaker Take on the Religious Use of LSD
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An Italian Reliquary Arm with Relics Attributed to Christ’s Cross and Passion
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c.1890 – A Crucifixion Page in the Style of a Medieval Book of Hours
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1744 – The Best of All Possible Worlds: Leibniz's Theodicy, with the Calculating Machine and the Binary Key to the I Ching
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1838 – Fragments of Martin de Porres’s Bones and Juan Macías’s Undershirt
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1658 – Paracelsus’s Collected Works, Complete with the Portrait after Tintoretto
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1574 – Aristotle’s On the Heavens, with Averroes’s Commentary
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1820 – Scotland's Witch Trials: Rare Tracts, the Cost of a Burning, and the Highland Second Sight
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1554 – The Renaissance Defense of Astrology Against Pico della Mirandola: Written On The Run From Assassins
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1684 – Digby’s Alchemical Experiments, with Manuscript Recipes and Readers’ Notes
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1595 - Malleus Maleficarum, The Hammer of Witches (bound with other witch-hunting and demonology treatises)
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1793 – Eckartshausen’s Conjuring Book, with Secret Writing and Animal Magnetism
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1550 – The Founding Books of Christian Kabbalah: Reuchlin's De Arte Cabalistica and Galatino's Hidden Truths in One Folio
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1747 – The Enlightenment's Physics Textbook, First German Edition: By the Man Who Bottled Lightning
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1730 – De Signatura Rerum: How to Read the Marks God Left on Things
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c. 1678 – The Renaissance Master of Fire: Metals, Cannon, Fireworks, and Why Alchemy Doesn't Pay
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1676 – Spirits and Ciphers: Trithemius's Steganographia, with Heidel's Defense and Keys
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1630 – A Lamp Fed with Human Blood That Burns Only While Its Donor Lives
$1,950.00
1548 – The Ancient Sourcebook of the Occult Tradition: Pliny's Natural History, a Renaissance Folio in Contemporary Vellum
$3,300.00
1657 – Agricola’s De Re Metallica, the Great Illustrated Book of Mines: 270 Woodcuts, and His Report on the Demons Who Live Underground
$7,500.00
1695 – A Three-in-One German Handbook of Palmistry and Face-Reading
$1,800.00
1550 – Reuchlin's De Arte Cabalistica, "the Bible of Christian Kabbalah"
$7,000.00
1893 – Witchcraft in Kenmore: Parish Quarrels and a Milk Charm on Loch Tay
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c. 1806 - An Ottoman Astrologer's Handbook, with Hand-Colored Star Wheels and a Spinning Paper Dial
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c. 1648–1681 – Nostradamus's Fake Grandson and Other Satires from a French Civil War, in Manuscript
$3,900.00
1749 – Tartarotti Questions the Witches’ Sabbat, in Original Paper Boards
$2,500.00
1838 – Faces of Madness: Esquirol's Mental Maladies and Tardieu's 27 Portraits, Uncut in the Original Boards
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1710 – Romanus Defends the Existence of Ghosts
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1676 – Alchemical Medicine and an Early Reader’s Verdict: “Cardilucius Is Not Much Use”
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1659 – Lavater on Ghosts and Apparitions, with an Engraved Title Page
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1691 - Grimoire From the Library of the Last Viking: A Baroque Manual of Body Divination
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1658 – Lemnius, The Secret Miracles of Nature, First Edition in English
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1519 – Joachim of Fiore's Concordia, First Edition: The Three Ages of History, with the Prophetic Diagrams
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1665 – Count Fieschi Casts Savonarola's Horoscope, Then Rewrites Hermes Trismegistus to Predict the Fall of Rome
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1683 - The Mystery of Ambras Merlins and Other Prophecies
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c. 1700 – Printed Gregorian Chant for Saint Benedict: A Choirbook Leaf from a Flood-Broken Antiphonary [BLACK AND RED PRINT]
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1661 - The Soul's Inscription on the Flesh: Goclenius's Chiromantic Masterwork
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c. 1850-1900 – INRI: A Sealed Italian Reliquary of the Inscription Board of the Cross
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1621 - Trithemius' Steganographia: A Legendary Book of Magic and Cryptography
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1787 [c.1840] - The Grimoire of Pope Honorius: The Most Diabolical of the French Grimoires
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1557 - The Word That Reshapes Reality: Cipolla on Legal Interpretation and the Power of Fictive Language
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1750 - Swedenborg, Burning Fountains, Alchemy, and the Occult
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1808 - Jung-Stiller On Ghosts, Clairvoyance, The 'White Lady', and Mesmerism
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1911 - Complete Tarot Set
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1790 – The Occult Herbal: Sibly's Culpeper with 450 Hand-Colored Plant Figures, Annotated Throughout by a Working Herbalist
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1587 – Antonius Picciolus: Renaissance Palmistry
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1717 - On Talismans and Amulets
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1686 – Justin Martyr and the Apologists in Parallel Greek & Latin
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1557 - Censored Copy of Stobaeus and The Hermetic Wisdom
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1830 - Book of Secrets and Natural Magic
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1665 – ps-Albertus Magnus, The Secrets of Women - Medieval Lore and Popular Magic in Early Modern Print
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1746 - Palms, Faces, Dreams: A Hausbuch of the Occult Sciences
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1574 - On the Occult Miracles of Nature
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c. 1846 - A Reverend's Sermon on Witchcraft
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1607 - Amazing Condition Textbook on Pagan Occultism & Hermeticism
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1778 - A Theological Thunderbolt: Anne Dutton's Challenge to 18th-Century Dogma
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1577 - Theurgy, Daemons, and Divine Pimander, A 16th-Century Esoteric Library
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1652 - Argoli's Landmark Work on Astrological Medicine
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1666 – Bernard of Clairvaux: Mystical Sermons in a Magnificent Binding
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1722 - George Starkey: An American Alchemist in the Heart of 17th-Century Science
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1516 - Iamblichus + Hermetica - Foundational Texts of Western Occultism
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1552 - Stobaeus’ Important Preservation of Hermetic Texts
$800.00
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1722 - Astrological Poetry Banned by the Inquisition
$825.00
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1713 - First Publication of the Book of Enoch and Other Lost Biblical Lore
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1563 - Paracelsus on the Three-Fold Fundamentals of Alchemy
$500.00
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1576 - When the Heavens Fell Ill: Marsilio Ficino and the Plague
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1691 - The Bewitched World - Signed
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Esoteric New England with Andy & Justin October 2026
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c. 1890 – A History of the Rod in All Countries from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
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1552 - Pythagoras and Phocylides: Mystical Poetry of Antiquity in the Humanist Translation of Vitus Amerbach
$1,500.00
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1830 - The Spiritual Memoir of Joanna Turner
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1702 - Paracelsian Work with Unique Antiphonary Binding
$1,825.00
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1688. Foundational Document of Alchemy/Chymie
$750.00
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1742 - Justin Martyr and the Hellenistic Crucible of Early Christianity
$850.00
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1929-58 The Definitive Study of Magic, Alchemy and Astrology from the Esoterica Set
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1690 – Auteurs Deguisez: A Lexicon of Pseudonymous, Cryptic, and Disguised Authors
$350.00
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C. 1780 - Agrippa Grimoire Collection, Geomancy, the Heptameron & the Arbatel
$5,500.00
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1669 - Robert Boyle On Alchemy and Other Mysteries
$650.00
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1712 - Defense of Zoroaster, Orpheus, Pythagoras, Apollonius, Agrippa, Paracelsus
$900.00
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1589 - Beautifully Illustrated Collection of Pagan Astrology [RARE]
$3,000.00
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c. 1843 - 19th-Century American Sermons on Temperance, Slavery, and More
$300.00
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1584 - Agrippa's Landmark Work on Kabbalah, Magic and Alchemy
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1917-22 - Complete Tarot Card Set
$1,900.00
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1724 - Between Alchemy and Chemistry
$600.00
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1644 - Mysticism of Catherine of Sienna
$1,199.00
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1577 - Theurgy, Daemons, and Divine Pimander, A 16th-Century Esoteric Library
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1847 - Fascination, or The Philosophy of Charming
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1647 - A 17th-Century Alchemist's Pharmacy, Hartmann's Praxis Chymiatrica
$850.00
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1678 - Hippocratic Medicine Meets Alchemy
$500.00
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1662 - Albertus Magnus' Treatises on Women and Natural Magic
$950.00
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1848 - A Treatise on Chastity Belts [VERY RARE]
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1860 - First American Gothic Novel
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1644 - Agrippa's Landmark Work on Kabbalah, Magic and Alchemy
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1707 - Treatise on Alchemical Use of Medical Antinomy
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1601 - Censored Mysticism: Henricus Harphius' Prohibited Theology
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1862 - The Alchemy of the Soul: Jane Leade's Mystical Spiritual Wisdom
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1634 - The Silence of Unknowing: Entering the Mystery with Johannes Tauler
$1,050.00
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1735 - From Gnosis to Mysticism: A 3 Volume History of Heresy
$1,600.00
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1830 - Letters On Demonology and Witchcraft, Sir Walter Scott
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1659 - How Alchemy Became Chemistry - Tyrocinium Chymicum
$1,500.00
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1587 - Magic Becomes Heresy, Directorium Inquisitorum, foundation of the Witch Trials
$3,875.00
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c. 1823 - The Denderah Zodiac Lithograph: A Key to Ancient Egyptian Cosmology and Esoteric Traditions
$1,550.00
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1710 - Irenaeus Confronts Gnosticism: The Landmark Massuet Edition of Against Heresies
$750.00
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19th Century - Nail of the 'True' Cross w/ Relic Seal
$1,200.00
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1897? - The Rosicrucian Embrace of Theosophy: Gichtel in French
$1,600.00
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1784 - Swedenborg's Masterpiece on Heaven and Hell
$900.00
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1665 - Unraveling Omens: Spencer's Discourse on Prodigies and Vulgar Prophecies
$750.00
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1517 - Mysticism of Saint Bridget of Sweden
$1,270.00
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1669 - Potions, Powders, and the Dawn of Chemical Healing: Charas's Compleat Guide
$650.00
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1616 - The Alchemical and Medical Works of Paracelsus
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1862 - Spiritualist Poem by Famous Medium
$350.00
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1574 - The Demogorgon
$950.00
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1766 - Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds & w/ the Dead
$600.00
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1588 - The Divine Plato in the Famed Translation of Ficino
$2,400.00
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1608 - Early Egyptology & First Printing of Gnostic Gems
$1,400.00
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1765 - Complete Mystical Works of Bernard of Clairvaux w/Templar Texts
$1,100.00
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1740 - Pocket Exorcist & Demonology Manual
$900.00
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1556 - Hermeticism and Christianity
$450.00
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c. 1650 - Book of Secrets, Alchemy and Magic
$350.00
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1665 - Alchemical Medicine w/ Woodcuts
$700.00
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1839 - First Edition of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" & more
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