01/15/2026
The Magus; or, Celestial Intelligencer by Francis Barrett, published in 1875 in London.
The book that launched modern Western magic. Barrett’s The Magus is the single most important grimoire ever printed in English, serving as the bridge between Renaissance Hermeticism and the modern occult revival. Drawing upon Agrippa, Trithemius, Paracelsus, and other early masters, it preserved a vast body of magical, astrological, cabalistic, and ceremonial knowledge at a moment when the original sources had become nearly unobtainable. From the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn to Aleister Crowley, nearly every twentieth-century magical tradition traces its lineage directly to this work.
Lavishly illustrated with engraved and hand-colored plates, including the celebrated folding chart of “The Cabala: The Tables for the Calculation of the Names of Spirits Good and Bad, under the Presidency of the Planets and Twelve Militant Signs.” Its seals, sigils, spirit hierarchies, magical alphabets, and celestial diagrams became the visual language of ritual magic for generations.
This copy is fully collated and beautifully bound in full hand-tooled calf, featuring an embossed Solomonic star drawn from the text itself, with marbled endpapers and raised spine hubs—an exceptional presentation of a legendary work.
A true cornerstone of occult history and one of the most desirable grimoires ever printed.
