📚 Alchemy

Transmutation before chemistry: the great work, the laboratories, and the psychologists who later claimed alchemy back.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject alchemy in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The sceptical chymist; or, Chymico-physical doubts & paradoxes	Robert Boyle	1661	72
	Vida, ascendencia, nacimiento, crianza y aventuras del Doctor Don Diego de Torres Villarroel	Diego de Torres Villarroel	1789	25
	"Picatrix"	Maslamah ibn Ahmad Majrīṭī	1933	22
	Hidden symbolism of alchemy and the occult arts	Herbert Silberer	1917	18
	A history of magic and experimental science	Lynn Thorndike	1923	18
	Alchemy Rediscovered and Restored	Archibald Cockren	1940	16
	The magus	Francis Barrett	1967	12
	Poemander	Hermes Trismegistus.	1584	11
	Psychologie und Alchemie	Carl Gustav Jung	1944	11
	鋼の錬金術師 1	荒川弘	2002	11
	Bygone Beliefs	H. Stanley Redgrove	1920	10
	Mysterium coniunctionis	Carl Gustav Jung	1955	10
	Alchemie, Sinn und Weltbild	Titus Burckhardt	1960	10
	Geschichte der Alchemie	Karl Christoph Schmieder	1832	8
	Alchemy: ancient and modern	H. Stanley Redgrove	1911	8
	Splendor solis	Salomon Trismosin	1920	7
	Alchemy	Stanislas Klossowski de Rola	1973	7
	The secret tradition in alchemy	Arthur Edward Waite	1926	6
	The alchemist's handbook	Frater Albertus	1974	6
	Dictionary of Alchemy	Mark Haeffner	1992	6
	The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry	M. M. Pattison Muir	1902	5
	A suggestive inquiry into the Hermetic mystery	Mary Anne South Atwood	1918	5
	Witchcraft, magic & alchemy	Grillot de Givry	1931	5
	The lure and romance of alchemy	C. J. S. Thompson	1932	5
	The arts of the alchemists	Cottie Arthur Burland	1967	5
	The Philosopher's Stone	Israel Regardie	1970	5
	The golden game	Stanislas Klossowski de Rola	1988	5
	The chemical choir	P. G. Maxwell-Stuart	2008	5
	The Occult Book	John Michael Greer	2017	5
	Theatrum chemicum Britannicum	Elias Ashmole	1652	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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