Occult, demonology, palmistry

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[PERNETY, Jacques || BOUGEANT, Guillaume-Hyacinthe ].

Lettres philosophiques sur les Physionomies.

La Haye, Neaulme, 1746.

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250 €

First edition.

[PERRIN, Louis].

Histoire véritable de la grande cruauté et tyrannie faicte et exercée par un colonel signalé de l'armée de Gallas, lequel a tué et violé plusieurs paysans et paysannes. Qui a esté emporté et mangé visiblement par les Diables.

Lyon, Louis Perrin, 1875.

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120 €

Reprint by the publisher Perrin of a curious booklet printed in Aix in 1637.

[PLUCHE, Noël Antoine].

Histoire du ciel, où l'on recherche l'origine de l'idolatrie, et les méprises de la philosophie sur la formation, & sur les influences des corps célestes.

Paris, Veuve Estienne, 1740.

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Second edition.

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 €

PLUCHE, Noël Antoine.

Histoire du ciel considéré selon les idées des poètes, des philosophes et de Moïse.

Paris, Veuve Estienne, 1739.

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300 €

First edition.
The chapters on the Egyptian cosmogony are particularly searched.

[PONCE, Nicolas] || LAVATER.

Le Lavater historique des femmes célèbres, des temps anciens et modernes; orné de douze portraits et de douze figures d'expressions, gravés en taille douce, d'après le meilleurs originaux. Par M. P.

Paris, F. Louis, 1809.

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1200 €

First edition, scarce first issue.
A second issue, with the same title page has and additionnal chapter with 4 more plates and a different table of contant page.
Rare with the plates colored.

PORTA, Jean Baptiste.

De Humana Physiognomona libri IV,
[suivi de : ]
Physiognomoniae Coelestis Libri Sex.

Rothomagi (Rouen), Ioannis Berthelin, 1650.

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950 €

I. De Humana Physiognomona libri IV.
Most complete edition of this work in which Porta analyzes the different facial features, and draws conclusions as to the character.
II. Physiognomoniae Coelestis Libri Sex. is a rare work of Porta, a disciple of Arnaud de Villeneuve and Cardan.
It is a treatise on astrology, which studies the influence of stars on the morphology and human temperaments.

PORTA, Jean Baptiste.

Physiognomoniae coelestis libri sex.

Rouen, Ioannis Berthelin, 1650.

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350 €

Rare work of Porta, a disciple of Arnaud de Villeneuve and Cardan.
It is a treatise on astrology, which studies the influence of stars on the morphology and human temperaments.

RICHARD, Charles-Louis (Abbé).

La Théorie des Songes.

Paris, Frères Estienne, 1766.

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600 €

First edition.

SALGUES, Jacques Barthélémy.

Des Erreurs et des Préjugés répandus dans la société.

Paris, F. Buisson, 1810-1813.

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300 €

First edition.
Each chapter is organized around a question or a belief: the existence of ghosts and specters, the healing of scrofula by the kings of France, should we be wary of Friday the 13th and needle knotters...
An unusual work, pleasant to read.

SALVERTE, Eusèbe.

Essai sur la Magie, les Prodiges et les Miracles chez les Anciens.

Bruxelles, Arnold Lacrosse, 1821.

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250 €

The first edition.
Rare missing to Caillet, Dorbon, Yve-Plessis.

Société Rouennaise de Bibliophiles.

Histoire Prodigieuse d'une invasion d'oiseaux ravageurs en Normandie et Pays du Maine en 1618 précédée d'une notice par Michel Hardy.

Rouen, Imprimerie de Espérance Cagniard, 1879.

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120 €

Rare reissue made after the only known copy, that of BNF, of this opuscule originally published in 1618.
Edition given by the by the "Société Rouennaise de Bibliophiles" whose publications were limited to there 75 members and their friends.
Our copy, No. 15, printed for M.Revel.

STEYERT, A.

La merveilleuse histoire de l'esprit qui est apparu aux religieuses de Saint-Pierre, à Lyon en l'année 1527.

Lyon, Mougin-Rusand, 1887.

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150 €

Rare, only 100 copies.

[STEYERT, André].

Brief discours des horrificques & célestialles visions qui furent veües en diverses régions &t notament en la Cité de Lyon, ez années 1527 & 1528, nouvellement mis en lumière, jouxte l'imprimé & augmenté de nottes très- amples & profictables à tous chrestiens & bons françois.
[Suivi de] : La terrible et espouventable comette, laquelle apparut le xi jour d’octobre l’an 1527 en Almaigne.

Lyon, Alf. Louis Perrin et Marinet, 1875.

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350 €

Rare booklet, n° 7 on chinese paper.

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.

THIERS, Jean-Baptiste.

Critique de l'histoire des flagellans, et justification de l'usage des disciplines volontaires.

Paris, Jean de Nully, 1703.

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250 €

Curious work on the Flagellants, fanatics religious of the XIII and XIV centuries, so named because they flogged themselves in public.

First edition.

THIERS, Jean-Baptiste.

Traité des superstitions selon l'Écriture Sainte, les décrets des conciles et les sentiments des saints Pères….

Paris, Antoine Dezallier, 1679.

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750 €

Rare first edition.

THOMAS, Gabriel.

Les procès de sorcellerie et la suggestion hypnotique.

Nancy, Vagner, 1885.

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90 €

First edition.

Presentation copy.

[TWELLS, Léonard].

Recherches Sur Ce Qu'iI Faut Entendre Par Les Démoniaques Dont Il Est Parlé Dans Le Nouveau Testament [suivi de] Réponse aux Recherches.

Leide, Boudouin, 1738.

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450 €

First edition in French.
Uncommon work that examines the cases of possession and exorcisms in the New Testament from a theological angle.

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.

VALLEMONT, Abbé (de).

Curiositez de la nature et de l'art sur la végétation, ou l'agriculture, et le jardinage dans leur perfection.

Bruxelles, Jean Leonard, 1715.

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400 €

New edition.
Abbot de Vallemont is well known for his curious works on occultism. These two volumes deal with all sorts of strange phenomena: the tree of Diana or metallic vegetation, the plant phoenix, palingenesis or the resurrection of plants from their ashes. Allegorical frontispieces and engraved figures.

Copy uncrop.

WAGGONER, Joseph Harvey.

D'Eden en Eden, étude scripturaire et prophétique.

Bâle, Société internationale de traités, 1889.

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150 €

First edition. Fine copy.

This book, written by Joseph Harvey Wagoner (1820 -1889), deals with an interpretation of the Bible and a history of prohets related to the doctrine of a new Church, born in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century:The Adventists.

WALSH, Cte Théobald.

Dunglas Home et le spiritualisme américain.

Paris, J.claye, 1858.

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600 €

Scarce first edition of this wotk on Dunglas Home and american spiritualism.
Only 100 copy printed.
Not in Caillet, Dorbon, Guaita ...
Dunglas Home was one of the greatest mediums of his time.
Inscribed copy.

WECKER, Jean Jacques.

Les Secrets et merveilles de nature.

Lyon, Jean Aymée Candy, 1652.

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600 €

Jean-Jacques Wecker (1528-1585) German physician, philosopher and alchemist. This book contains beauty secrets, advice on destroying parasites, information on dyes, varnishes and gilding, gardening, preserving fruit, making ink, how to remove stains, amusing physics tricks... and more esoteric chapters on demons and alchemy.

WRONSKI, Hoëné.

Sept manuscrits inédits, écrits de 1803 à 1806.

Paris, A dépot des ouvrages de l'auteur, 1879.

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550 €

First edition published after the death of Wronski.

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Occult, demonology, palmistry

[PERNETY, Jacques || BOUGEANT, Guillaume-Hyacinthe ].

Lettres philosophiques sur les Physionomies.

First edition.

[PERRIN, Louis].

Histoire véritable de la grande cruauté et tyrannie faicte et exercée par un colonel signalé de l'armée de Gallas, lequel a tué et violé plusieurs paysans et paysannes. Qui a esté emporté et mangé visiblement par les Diables.

Reprint by the publisher Perrin of a curious booklet printed in Aix in 1637.

[PLUCHE, Noël Antoine].

Histoire du ciel, où l'on recherche l'origine de l'idolatrie, et les méprises de la philosophie sur la formation, & sur les influences des corps célestes.

Second edition.

PLUCHE, Noël Antoine.

Histoire du ciel où l'on recherche l'origine de l'idolatrie, et les méprises de la philosophie.

PLUCHE, Noël Antoine.

Histoire du ciel considéré selon les idées des poètes, des philosophes et de Moïse.

First edition.The chapters on the Egyptian cosmogony are particularly searched.

[PONCE, Nicolas] || LAVATER.

Le Lavater historique des femmes célèbres, des temps anciens et modernes; orné de douze portraits et de douze figures d'expressions, gravés en taille douce, d'après le meilleurs originaux. Par M. P.

First edition, scarce first issue. A second issue, with the same title page has and additionnal chapter with 4 more plates and a different table of contant page. Rare with the plates colored.

PORTA, Jean Baptiste.

De Humana Physiognomona libri IV, [suivi de : ] Physiognomoniae Coelestis Libri Sex.

PORTA, Jean Baptiste.

Physiognomoniae coelestis libri sex.

Rare work of Porta, a disciple of Arnaud de Villeneuve and Cardan. It is a treatise on astrology, which studies the influence of stars on the morphology and human temperaments.

RICHARD, Charles-Louis (Abbé).

La Théorie des Songes.

First edition.

SALGUES, Jacques Barthélémy.

Des Erreurs et des Préjugés répandus dans la société.

First edition.Each chapter is organized around a question or a belief: the existence of ghosts and specters, the healing of scrofula by the kings of France, should we be wary of Friday the 13th and needle knotters... An unusual work, pleasant to read.

SALVERTE, Eusèbe.

Essai sur la Magie, les Prodiges et les Miracles chez les Anciens.

The first edition. Rare missing to Caillet, Dorbon, Yve-Plessis.

Société Rouennaise de Bibliophiles.

Histoire Prodigieuse d'une invasion d'oiseaux ravageurs en Normandie et Pays du Maine en 1618 précédée d'une notice par Michel Hardy.

Rare reissue made after the only known copy, that of BNF, of this opuscule originally published in 1618. Edition given by the by the "Société Rouennaise de Bibliophiles" whose publications were limited to there 75 members and their friends. Our copy, No. 15, printed for M.Revel.

STEYERT, A.

La merveilleuse histoire de l'esprit qui est apparu aux religieuses de Saint-Pierre, à Lyon en l'année 1527.

Rare, only 100 copies.

[STEYERT, André].

Rare booklet, n° 7 on chinese paper.

THEULIER, Albert.

Du Merveilleux en médecine.

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.

THIERS, Jean-Baptiste.

Critique de l'histoire des flagellans, et justification de l'usage des disciplines volontaires.

Curious work on the Flagellants, fanatics religious of the XIII and XIV centuries, so named because they flogged themselves in public. First edition.

THIERS, Jean-Baptiste.

Traité des superstitions selon l'Écriture Sainte, les décrets des conciles et les sentiments des saints Pères….

Rare first edition.

THOMAS, Gabriel.

Les procès de sorcellerie et la suggestion hypnotique.

First edition. Presentation copy.

[TWELLS, Léonard].

Recherches Sur Ce Qu'iI Faut Entendre Par Les Démoniaques Dont Il Est Parlé Dans Le Nouveau Testament [suivi de] Réponse aux Recherches.

First edition in French. Uncommon work that examines the cases of possession and exorcisms in the New Testament from a theological angle.

VALERIAN Jean-Pierre.

Les Hiéroglyphiques. Autrement Commentaires des lettres et figures sacrées des Aegyptiens & autres nations.

VALLEMONT, Abbé (de).

Curiositez de la nature et de l'art sur la végétation, ou l'agriculture, et le jardinage dans leur perfection.

WAGGONER, Joseph Harvey.

D'Eden en Eden, étude scripturaire et prophétique.

First edition. Fine copy. This book, written by Joseph Harvey Wagoner (1820 -1889), deals with an interpretation of the Bible and a history of prohets related to the doctrine of a new Church, born in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century:The Adventists.

WALSH, Cte Théobald.

Dunglas Home et le spiritualisme américain.

Scarce first edition of this wotk on Dunglas Home and american spiritualism. Only 100 copy printed. Not in Caillet, Dorbon, Guaita ... Dunglas Home was one of the greatest mediums of his time. Inscribed copy.

WECKER, Jean Jacques.

Les Secrets et merveilles de nature.

WRONSKI, Hoëné.

Sept manuscrits inédits, écrits de 1803 à 1806.

First edition published after the death of Wronski.

First edition.
The chapters on the Egyptian cosmogony are particularly searched.

First edition, scarce first issue.
A second issue, with the same title page has and additionnal chapter with 4 more plates and a different table of contant page.
Rare with the plates colored.

De Humana Physiognomona libri IV,
[suivi de : ]
Physiognomoniae Coelestis Libri Sex.

Rare work of Porta, a disciple of Arnaud de Villeneuve and Cardan.
It is a treatise on astrology, which studies the influence of stars on the morphology and human temperaments.

First edition.
Each chapter is organized around a question or a belief: the existence of ghosts and specters, the healing of scrofula by the kings of France, should we be wary of Friday the 13th and needle knotters...
An unusual work, pleasant to read.

The first edition.
Rare missing to Caillet, Dorbon, Yve-Plessis.

Rare reissue made after the only known copy, that of BNF, of this opuscule originally published in 1618.
Edition given by the by the "Société Rouennaise de Bibliophiles" whose publications were limited to there 75 members and their friends.
Our copy, No. 15, printed for M.Revel.

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.

Curious work on the Flagellants, fanatics religious of the XIII and XIV centuries, so named because they flogged themselves in public.

First edition.

First edition.

Presentation copy.

First edition in French.
Uncommon work that examines the cases of possession and exorcisms in the New Testament from a theological angle.

First edition. Fine copy.

This book, written by Joseph Harvey Wagoner (1820 -1889), deals with an interpretation of the Bible and a history of prohets related to the doctrine of a new Church, born in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century:The Adventists.

Scarce first edition of this wotk on Dunglas Home and american spiritualism.
Only 100 copy printed.
Not in Caillet, Dorbon, Guaita ...
Dunglas Home was one of the greatest mediums of his time.
Inscribed copy.