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Facsimile. 12 leaves printed only on rectos. Translated from Latin by Francis Barrett. 25.2x19.5 cm (10x7¾"), publisher's half-morocco and cloth-covered boards, marbled endpapers. One of an edition limited to 168 copies, each copy individually named after one of the spirits ruling the hours of the night or the day throughout the seven days of the week.

Johannes Trithemius born Johann Heidenberg, was a German Benedictine abbot and a polymath who was active in the German Renaissance as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist. He had considerable influence on the development of early modern and modern occultism. His students included Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa and Paracelsus. Contained in this unique and curious volume is a translation of Trithemius’ Latin work on the Doctrine of Spirits with his instructions on the manufacture of the appurtanances of the ceremonial art, the wand, crystal, triangle, tripod and Circles of Magick art.