 | Philosopher's Stone: A Quest for the Secrets of Alchemy by Peter Marshall
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £3.26 Perhaps the most accessible history of alchemy yet written.
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 | The Golden Game: Alchemical Engravings of the Seventeenth Century by Stanislas Klossowski de Rola
Buy new: £12.44 / Used from: £10.00 Beautiful collection of alchemical engravings. One of the best things Thames and Hudson have ever done!
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 | Alchemy and Alchemists (Pocket essentials: Ideas) by Sean Martin
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.99 A good short introduction to the subject.
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 | Alchemy: The Path of the Soul by Jay Ramsay
Buy used from: £7.44 An easy introduction to the pyschological side of alchemy.
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 | Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology (Studies in Jungian psychology) by Marie-Louise Von Franz
Buy new: £12.74 / Used from: £6.95 Or if you'd like some Jungian stuff, Marie Louise is your woman.
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 | The Chymical Wedding (Picador Books) by Lindsay Clarke
Buy used from: £0.01 Lindsay Clarke's great alchemical novel. Has haunted me for years.
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 | Essential Readings by Paracelsus
Buy used from: £26.00 A selection of writings by one of the greatest genuises of all time. And he happened to be an alchemist.
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 | The Elixir and the Stone: Tradition of Magic and Alchemy by Michael Baigent
Buy used from: £0.01 First two thirds are pretty good.
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 | The First Scientist: A Life of Roger Bacon by Brian Clegg
Buy used from: £11.36 A biography of one of the greatest minds of all time. And he was an alchemist (or so they say...)
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 | The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India by DG White
Buy new: £19.48 / Used from: £33.58 And if you still think it's all to do with laboratories, think again...
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 | Mercurius: The Marriage of Heaven and Earth by Patrick Harpur
Buy new: £7.49 / Used from: £8.06 One of the best books about the Art. Profound.
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