Hi there,
I thought this would be of interest to folks here:http://www.topazbooks.pub/stationman.php, it's "The Station of Man in the Universe: Ebenezer Sibly on the Spirit World and Magic".
Basically, Ebenezer Sibly was a well known astrologer and herbalist at the end of the 18th century in England. He was also a ceremonial magician, copied grimoires for people, and worked the system of the Greater Key of Solomon and the Lemegeton. Most of his writings dealt with his main concerns of astrology, herbalism, and semi-alternative medicine as it existed in the 18th century, but there's one main exception.
At the end of his 1,200 page book "An New and Complete Illustration of the Celestial Science of Astrology" Sibly included a little over a hundred pages dedicated to giving a survey of occultism beyond astrology, including various types of magic. Also included are extensive descriptions of how Sibly thought the magical universe was structured.
My feeling is that much of what is recorded in this text is the unspoken background of practitioners that many grimoire authors and copyists just assumed their readers had.
What this book does is collect all of that, along with two essays from the beginning of "A New and Complete Illustration" that deal with Sibly's view on how astrology works and how the elements and the macrocosm as a whole are structured, in one package. This is prefaced by a large introduction that situates Sibly within the occult world of the late 18th and early 19th century in England, and that looks at the connections between Sibly, Francis Barrett, and Frederick Hockley, although the last is indirect. It also examines the opinions contained in the sections from "A New and Complete Illustration" in comparison with his comments in the Greater Key of Solomon reproduced by Joseph Peterson, that was copied from a manuscript owned by Sibly by Frederick Hockley.
$14.95, 180 pages.