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[GUENEBAULD, Jean].
Le Réveil de Chyndonax, prince des Vacies, druides celtiques diionois.
Dijon, Claude Guyot, 1621.
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500 €
First edition.
Rare first impression in Dijon at Claude Guyot.
Jean Guenebauld, a doctor from Dijon, discovered in his vineyards in 1598, a funerary urn which he believed to be of Druidic origin.
This urn is adorned with an epitaph in ancient Greek:
"Here, in the sacred land of Mithras, a mound covers the body of Chyndonax, high priest. Abstain from impiety at the sight of his redemptive tomb" (translation after W. Vollgraff)
The identity of the cult to the deity Mithras mentioned in the epitaph is still debated today, W. Vollgraff brings it closer to a cult dedicated to Aphrodite Ourania ( Vollgraff W. The awakening of Chyndonax . In: Classical Antiquity, Tome 18, Fasc. 1, 1949. pp. 55-78.).
EYNATTEN, Maximilien d'.
Manuale exorcismorum : continens instructiones, & exorcismos ad ejiciendos e corporibus obsessis spiritus malignos, & ad quaevis maleficia depellenda, & ad quascumque infestationes daemonum reprimendas.
Anvers, Ex officina Plantiniana Balthazaris Moreti, 1635.
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Manual of exorcisms against fevers, plague and other natural infirmities, against love potions, spells cast on food, evil spells of the devil in marriage, incubi and succubi, evil spirits which infest houses and other places, etc. Copy of the famous collector of the occult Guy Bechtel.
DU PRÉAU, Gabriel.
Mercure Trismégiste Hermes très ancien théologien & excellent Philosophe, de la puissance &
sapience de Dieu.
Paris, Estienne Groulleau, 1549.
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950 €
First edition in French.
Translated into Latin from Greek fragments in 1471 by Marcile Ficino, the writings of Mercury Trismegistus then spread throughout Europe. The French translation from Latin of Henri Estienne's 1505 edition by Gabriel Du Préau is one of the first in the vernacular after the Florentine language edition of 1548.
Gabriel du Préau's work gives thus access in French to the Corpus Hermeticum and the Aesclepius, mystical texts attributed to Mercury Trismegistus, but also to the Crater Hermetis (the basin of Hermes) text by Ludovico Lazarelli.
Bassin d'Hermès, although published as an appendix, is the real key to this book, Du Préau constantly quoting it in his commentary on the Corpus Hermeticum. Text of Christian Kabbalah on the possibility of a "second birth" understood as the transmutation of being by virtue of a gnosis.
CAUZONS, Thomas de.
La Magie et la Sorcellerie en France.
Paris, Dorbon Ainé, [1901-1912].
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600 €
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BATTEUX, Charles (Abbé).
Histoire des causes premières, ou exposition sommaire des pensées des philosophies sur les principes des êtres.
Paris, Saillant, 1769.
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200 €
First edition.
[MORELLET, André].
Le Manuel des Inquisiteurs à l'usage des inquisitions d'Espagne & de Portugal.
Lisbonne, s.n., 1762.
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500 €
First edition.
Work of the Abbé Morellet which was put on the index in 1764, he proposed there a summarized translation of the "Directorium Inquisitorium" of the grand inquisitor Aragon Nicolas Eymeric, in order to show the horror of the trials of the Inquisition.
[DELACROIX, Jean-Baptiste].
Dictionnaire historique des cultes religieux, établis dans le monde depuis son origine jusqu'à présent.
Copenhage et Genève, Cl. Philibert, 1769.
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200 €
First edition.
Book to read as instructive as it is fun on all religious cults.
BATTEUX, Charles (Abbé).
Histoire des causes premières, ou exposition sommaire des pensées des philosophies sur les principes des êtres.
Paris, Saillant, 1769.
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150 €
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BOURRU, Henri || BUROT, Prosper.
La Suggestion mentale et l'action à distance des substances toxiques et médicamenteuses.
Paris, JB Baillière, 1887.
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Quite singular work recounting experiences of suggestion on hysterical patients and in particular curious protocols showing the remote action of drugs.
bound to the following:
PETIT, La Metallothérapie, Paris, Octave Doin, 1881
(4)-135-(1) pages. Second expanded edition.
RICHARD, Charles-Louis (Abbé).
Théorie des Songes.
Paris, Frères Estienne, 1766.
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600 €
First edition.
LEGUE, Gabriel || GILLES DE LA TOURETTE, Georges.
Soeur Jeanne Des Anges Supérieure Des Ursulines De Loudun.
Paris, Lecrosnier, 1886.
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Very complete first edition of the two letters in facsimile, including the famous letter from Asmodeus written by the superior of Loudun under the influence of the demon.
Legué and Gilles de la Tourette, students of Charcot (who wrote the preface) and drawing on their experience with the hysterical patients of the Pitié Salpêtrière, re-examine the most famous case of demonic possession in history.
[PERAU, Gabriel Louis Calabre Abbé].
L'Ordre des Francs-Maçons trahi et Le Secret des Mopses révélé.
Amsterdam, s.n., 1771.
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450 €
Edition which includes the text and the plates of the original edition of 1745.
Many curious figures representing Masonic ceremonies.
[AUBIN, Nicolas].
Histoire des Diables de Loudun, ou de la possession des religieuses ursulines, et de la condamnation & du supplice d'Urbain Grandier curé de la même ville.
Amsterdam, Aux dépens de la compagnie, 1716.
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Book dedicated to the most famous story of demonic possession of the 17th century.
Aubin, Protestant pastor of Loudun, reveals with great art how a grudge of Richelieu and Father Joseph had led to the stake, in 1634, Urbain Grandier who had made enemies because of his eloquence and his advocacy against the celibacy of priests.
GOULART, Simon.
Thresor d'histoires admirables et mémorables de nostre temps.
Genève, Samuel Crespin, 1620.
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600 €
A very curious collection of singular and extraordinary facts classified in alphabetical order. Our second volume ends at the letter Z but this edition will see a two-volume suite published by Jacques Crespin in 1628.
First edition done in 1610.
Bibliophilic curiosity at the end of the second volume is the colophon of Jean III de Tournes who then begins his work as a printer in Geneva.
COLLET, Pierre.
Examen et résolutions des principales difficultés qui se rencontrent dans la célébration des SS. Mystères.
Paris, Debure l'ainé, 1760.
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Work of Christian mysticism devoted to the holy sacraments and mainly to the Eucharist.
Copy which was successively in the libraries of Maurice Garçon (his ex libris on the inside cover) and of Guy Bechtel (lot n°84 of his sale catalog in 1978, the provenance Garçon is mentioned there).
DUPLEIX, Scipion.
Corps de Philosophie contenant la Logique, La Physique, La Métaphysique et l'Ethyque.
Rouen, Jean Baptiste Behourt, 1640.
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950 €
the "Corps de philosophie" or sometimes "Cours de philosophie" are more or less complete collections of the works of the Dupleix of which we know many editions.
Our copy, similar to that noted by Dorbon [1376], is composed as follows:
- "La Logique" in eight books.
- "Physics or science of natural things" in eight books.
- and the first eight books of the "The Metaphysics or supernatural science".
If the structure of this philosophy course is inspired by Aristotle's Compendium philosophiae as it was taught in all the faculties of the time. The content is very different and often deals with magic, sorcery of the angelic world. The Eighth Book of Physics is concerned with the soul, and the last parts of Metaphysics constitute a veritable treatise on Angels and Demons.
BAZOT, E.F.
Manuel du Franc-Maçon.
Paris, Michalet, 1836.
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150 €
Sixth edition completely revised, corrected and enlarged.
THEULIER, Albert.
Du Merveilleux en médecine.
Paris, A. Parent, 1869.
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80 €
First edition.
Medicine thesis by Albert Theulier (1840-1912) who later became a politician and deputy for the Dordogne.
He discusses various subjects such as epidemics of witchcraft, stigmatization, mersmerism, mithridatization.
VALERIAN Jean-Pierre.
Les Hiéroglyphiques. Autrement Commentaires des lettres et figures sacrées des Aegyptiens & autres nations.
Lyon, Paul Frellon, 1615.
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900 €
First edition of the translation in French by Jean de Montlyard
One of the most famous emblem books from the end of the 16th century.
Pierio Valeriano (1477-1558) was inspired by the works left by Horapollo, the only ancient source on Egyptian hieroglyphics, to compose a book of allegorical emblems where the hieroglyphs mingle with biblical references and memories of classical antiquity.
Several hundred woodcuts illustrate the text.
PLUCHE, Noël Antoine.
Histoire du ciel où l'on recherche l'origine de l'idolatrie, et les méprises de la philosophie.
Paris, Vve Estienne & fils, 1749.
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200 €
BIZOUARD, Joseph.
Des Rapports de l'Homme avec le Démon, essai historique et philosophique.
Paris, Gaume frères et Duprey, 1863-1864.
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2000 €
First edition.
A work highly regarded as indispensable to any occult library.
Divided into 36 parts: the first four deal with the times when idolatry reigned, the fifth with the Middle Ages and finally in the other parts, Bizouard studies magic and witchcraft from the 16th to the 19th century.
Stanislas de Guaita's copy (manuscrit ex libris on freeflyleaf).
COLLIN DE PLANCY, Jacques Albin Simon.
Dictionnaire critique des reliques et des images miraculeuses.
Paris, Guien et Compagnie, 1821-1822.
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220 €
First edition.
DE STENAY, Victor Comte de.
Derniers avis prophétiques (dont 20 inédits) précisant la solution de la crise actuelle, le règne de l'Antechrist et la fin du monde.
Paris, Victor Palmé, 1872.
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80 €
First edition.
Work very borrowed from royalism which lists the eschatological prophecies on the history of France: Nostradamus, Ste Hildegarde, Curé d'Ars.
AMIABLE, Louis || COLFAVRU, J-C.
La Franc-Maçonnerie en France depuis 1725 (exposé historique et doctrinal).
Paris, Editions de l'Acacia, 1927.
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Speech given on July 16, 1889 in the Session of the International Masonic Congress by Br. Amiable and Colfavru.
New enhanced edition of a Memento of the last forty years.
BROUWERS, Alphonse.
L'Action de la Franc-Maçonnerie dans l'histoire moderne.
Liège, H. Dessain, 1892.
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80 €
First edition.
"Stimulated by the encyclical" Humanum genus "of our great Pope Leo XIII, I undertook to unveil the action of the Freemasons in modern history. This study did not lead me to find a single good work accomplished by the sect; on the contrary, its action has been and still is most pernicious for the family and society. " (extract from the preface).
LEGUE & GILLES DE LA TOURETTE.
Soeur Jeanne des Anges supérieure des ursulines de Loudun, Autobiographie d'une hystérique possédée.
Paris, A. Delahaye et Lecrosnier, 1886.
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75 €
First edition.
Contains a reproduction of the famous letter from Asmodeus.
BENET, Armand.
Procès verbal fait pour délivrer une fille possédée par le malin esprit à Louviers.
Paris, A. Delahaye et Lecrosnier, 1883.
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On a case of demonic possession in Louviers in 1591 in the famous collection of the Bibliotheque diabolique de Bourneville.
LOREDAN, Jean.
Un Grand Procès de Sorcellerie au XVIIème siècle.
Paris, Perrin et Cie, 1912.
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60 €
First edition.
Work devoted to the affair of the possessions of Aix en Provence, witchcraft trial where Abbot Gaufridy was accused of having bewitched Madeleine de Demandolx. He will be burned alive in 1611.
Presentation copy to Paul Lacour.
LEGUE, Gabriel.
Urbain Grandier et les possédées de Loudun.
Paris, Ludovic Baschet, 1880.
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The most beautiful book published on the affair of the possessed women of Loudun at the beginning of the 17th century which will end with the stake of Urbain Grandier.
Numbered copy on Holland paper (n ° 135/462).
KORNMANN, Heinrich.
Sibylla TrygAndriana seu De Virginitate, Virginum statu & jure tractatus novus & iucundus, in qui exivre naturali, divini, canonico et civili… [relié à la suite] Linea amoris, sive commentarius.
Francfort, Matthias Becker, 1610.
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1250 €
First edition.
One of the best work of Kornmann, at once erotic, medical and occult.
It deal of magic and superstition surrounding the virginity of women.
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