Contents of Anemone's Mini-Library

Books Sourced from 1936 Sears catalogue (some may be mildly anachronous but I expect that similar books existed in all cases):

  1. Pocket bible 
  2. Dyke’s Automobile Encyclopedia & Dyke’s Self-Starter (mechanical repair)
  3. Carpentry (…carpentry)
  4. Henly’s Formulas (mathematics, carpentry)
  5. Radio Building and Repair (electrical repair)
  6. Fix it Yourself (mechanical repair, electrical repair)
  7. The Modern Home Physician (medicine, first aid)
  8. Amateur Nurse (first aid)
  9. Webster Graphic Dictionary (English)
  10. New International Atlas of the World
  11. 2 volume encyclopedia, 4892 pages
  12. Bookkeeping Made Easy (accounting)
  13. Practical Mathematics (mathematics)
  14. Dan Beard’s Camp Lore and Woodcraft (survival)
  15. Ships of the Seven Seas (history)
  16. Complete works of Shakespeare (felt like it and it was 85¢)
  17. Astronomy for Everybody (astronomy)
  18. Astronomy for Amateurs (astronomy)
  19. Outline of Man’s Knowledge (various)
  20. Popular History of the World (history)
  21. Story of Mankind (history)

Books Sourced from Wikipedia (found via Various Anemone Methods):

  1. The Science of Life (1929, biology)
  2. Extrasensory Perception (1934, occult)
  3. Principles of Criminology (1934, forensics)
  4. Psychic Phenomena of Jamaica (1934, occult)
  5. Myths and Legends of the Bantu (1933, history)
  6. Voodoos and Obeahs (1932, occult)
  7. Wild Talents (1932, occult)
  8. Black Elk Speaks (1932, occult)
  9. The Quest for Power (1932, engineering/history)
  10. The Phantom of the Card Table (1931, sleight of hand)
  11. The Stone Age Culture of Kenya Colony (1931, archeology/history)
  12. Remote People: A Report from Ethiopia & British Africa 1930-31  (1931, contemporary Africa)*
  13. An Outline Dictionary of Maya Glyphs (1931, mayan)
  14. An Outline of Modern Knowledge (1931, various)
  15. The Conquest of Space (1931, astronomy)
  16. The American Black Chamber (1931, cryptography)
  17. Mental Radio (1930, occult)
  18. Growing Up in New Guinea (1930, anthropology)
  19. The Megaliths of Upper Laos (1930, grabbed because it reminded her of the ziggurats book)
  20. Merck Index, 4th edition (1930, pharmacy)
  21. Psychic Self-Defense (1930, occult)            
  22. A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (1930, history)
  23. Sane Occultism (1929, occult)
  24. Black Magic (1928, occult)
  25. Textbook of Biochemistry (1928, biology)
  26. Coming of Age in Samoa (1928, anthropology)
  27. Cecil Textbook of Medicine (1927, medicine)
  28. Mornings in Mexico (1927, contemporary mexico)
  29. Travels in the Congo (1927, congo)
  30. The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden (1926, occult??)
  31. Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire (1926, history)
  32. The Calculating Machines (1926, engineering)
  33. Statistical Methods for Research Workers (1926, mathematics)
  34. New Lands (1925, occult??)
  35. The Autumn of the Middle Ages (1924, history)
  36. Medicine, Magic and Religion (1924, anthropology)
  37. The Egyptian Revival (1923, history)
  38. Glass Palace Chronicle of the Kings of Burma (1923, history)
  39. The index of coincidence and its applications in cryptology (1922, cryptography)
  40. How to Analyze People On Sight (1921, psychology)
  41. The Witch-Cult in Western Europe (1921, history/occult)
  42. Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary (1920, egyptian)
  43. From Ritual to Romance (1920, history)
  44. The Outline of History (1920, history)
  45. The Dream: Introduction to the Psychology of Dreams (1920, ???)
  46. The Book of the Damned (1919, anomalistics)
  47. Folklore in the Old Testament (1918)
  48. Course in General Linguistics (1916, linguistics)
  49. Psychology of the Unconscious (1916, psychology)
  50. Practical Mysticism (1915, occult)
  51. The Religion of China (1915)
  52. Eclipses: Astronomically and Astrologically Considered and Explained (1915 translation of 1200s original, occult)
  53. Totem and Taboo (1913, anthropology/occult)
  54. The Cane as a Weapon (1912, brawl)
  55. The Mind of Primitive Man, (1911, anthropology)
  56. Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection (1911, occult/history)
  57. Kaye and Laby (1911, mathematics)
  58. The Book of Ceremonial Magic (1910, occult)
  59. The Crime of the Congo (1909, congo)
  60. Twentieth Century Impressions of Siam (1908, somewhat outdated siam/thailand)
  61. Occult Chemistry (1908, occult/…maybe chemistry too i guess??)
  62. Experimental Bacteriology (1906, biology)
  63. Fetichism in West Africa (1904, occult/anthropology)
  64. The Art of Cross-Examination (1903, honestly i picked this up bc it sounded cool)
  65. Esquisse d'une théorie générale de la magie (1902, “Sketch of a general theory of magic”, French essay by anthropologist Marcel Mauss)
  66. The Dangers of Spiritualism (1901, occult)
  67. Egyptian Magic (1899, occult/history)
  68. The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage (1897 english translation, heavily altered from a 1608 German original, occult)
  69. Transcendental Magic, its Doctrine and Ritual (1896, occult)
  70. Egyptian Book of the Dead (English translation 1895, occult/history)
  71. Occult Science in Medicine (1893, occult)
  72. Finger Prints (1892, forensics)
  73. Notes on the Modern Survival of Ancient Amulets Against the Evil Eye (1890, anthropology/occult)
  74. Investigations into German Mythology (1889, history)
  75. Masks or Faces (1888, book on the psychology of acting)
  76. Canon of Eclipses (1887, astronomy but like in fact just a list of eclipses)
  77. Report of an Archaeological Tour in Mexico in 1881 (1884, archeology)
  78. On the Social Organization and Mode of Government of the Ancient Mexicans (1879, history)
  79. Anahuac: or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern (1861, history)
  80. Antiquities of Mexico (1848, mayan/history)
  81. The Magus (1801, occult)
  82. Grand Grimoire (bullshit french occult book probably created around 1702, claims older)
  83. Galdrabók (compiled 1600, 1921 version of original text with translation into modern Swedish)
  84. History of the Galla (1593, history/ethiopia)
  85. A True & Faithful Relation of What passed for many Yeers between Dr. John Dee and some spirits (1500s, published 1659, occult)
  86. Diary for the years 1595–1601 (John Dee, privately printed in 1880, history/occult)
  87. Three Books of Occult Philosophy (1533, 1651 English translation, occult)
  88. Speculum Astronomiae (1260, Latin, astronomy/occult)
  89. Records of the Grand Historian (94 BC Chinese history, French 1905 translation)
  90. Histoire générale de la Chine, ou Annales de cet Empire; traduit du Tong-kien-kang-mou par de Mailla (1783 12-volume French translation of Zizhi Tongjian, chinese history written in 1084 during the Song Dynasty)
  91. Kebra Nagast (14th century ethiopian history of Axum, translated into english in 1932)
  92. The Customs of Cambodia (1297 account of the Khmer empire written in chinese, translated into french in 1902)

*No wikipedia article, found via Goodreads

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