HALLIWELL (James Orchard) Editor.. The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee, and the Catalogue of his Library of Manuscripts, from the Original Manuscripts in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, and Trinity College Library, Cambridge.1842

London: Printed for the Camden Society, by John Bowyer Nicholas and Son, First edition, small 4to (218 x 165 mm), with half-title, viii, 102, [2], 35, [1]pp., private bookplate to front paste-down, orig. publishers embossed cloth, spine gilt, a fine copy. The first publication of the Diary and Catalogue of Manuscripts of the famous 16th century occultist Dr John Dee. Halliwell notes in his introduction that the Catalogue is valuable for the notices which it preserves of several middle-age treatises not now extant and that Dee was said to have expended the vast sum of £ 3000 on this collection. The diary, 1577-1601, is preceded by notes of nativities during 1554-75; the catalogue was made in 1573. The final section of the volume comprises Camden Society material including a Report of the council, Laws, and a full list of members.