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Photo WALSH, Cte Théobald. 

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.

Photo WAGGONER, Joseph Harvey. 

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.

Photo VISSAC, Marc. 

VISSAC, Marc. 

Allégories & symboles. 

Paris, Aubry, 1872.
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50 €

First edition.
Printed within 460 copies on beautiful laid paper.

Photo [VALMONT, (de)]. 

[VALMONT, (de)]. 

Dissertation sur les maléfices et les sorciers. 

Tourcoing, Cavelier, 1752.
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1100 €

First edition.
Book that analyzes the case of "the girl from Tourcoing" who produced needles inside her body. The author then extends the work to the question of evil spells and the means of preventing sorcerers.

According to Deschamps (in Dictionnaire de géographie ancienne et moderne à l'usage du libraire et de l'amateur de livres. 1269), this is the first book printed in Tourcoing. Others believe it was printed in Tournai or Lille.

This work on a thorny subject was bound after: Longueruana, or collection of thoughts, speeches and conversations, Berlin, 1754. xxiii-391 pages.

Photo [TWELLS, Léonard]. 

[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.

Photo THOMAS, Gabriel. 

THOMAS, Gabriel. 

Les procès de sorcellerie et la suggestion hypnotique. 

Nancy, Vagner, 1885.
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90 €

First edition.

Presentation copy.

Photo THIERS, Jean-Baptiste. 

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.

Photo THIERS, Jean-Baptiste. 

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.

Photo STEYERT, A. 

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.

Photo Société Rouennaise de Bibliophiles. 

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.

Photo SEDIR, Paul. 

SEDIR, Paul. 

Les Amitiés Spirituelles (166 numéros). 

Paris, s.n., 1920-1971.
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250 €

Collection of 166 volumes of the Bulletin of the Association of Spiritual Friendships founded in 1920 by Paul Sédir, French esotericist and mystic.
This association, still active, defines itself as: "a group of people of good will, whatever their nationality or religion, who recognize Christ as the only Master of the interior life and the Gospel as the true law of consciences and peoples."

Volume details:
2nd year 1920-1921: 8 issues (missing numbers 7, 8, 10).
3rd year 1921-1922: 10 issues (full year).
4th year 1922-1923: 9 issues (missing number 6).
5th year 1923-1924: 9 issues (missing number 4).
6th year 1924-1925: 10 issues (full year).
7th year 1925-1926: 9 issues (missing no. 5).
1928: no. 1 .
1930: no. 7, 9, 10 .
1931: no. 12 .
1932-1937: 16 issues (no. 18 to 34) .
1938: no. 39 .
1939: no. 43, 44 .
1950-1971: continuous series of 88 volumes (no. 1 to 88).

Photo SALVERTE, Eusèbe. 

SALVERTE, Eusèbe. 

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

Bruxelles, Arnold Lacrosse, 1821.
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The first edition.
Rare missing to Caillet, Dorbon, Yve-Plessis.

Photo SAINTYVES, Pierre. 

SAINTYVES, Pierre. 

Les Origines de la médecine: Empirisme ou magie ?. 

Paris, Nourry, 1920.
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60 €

First edition.
Presentation copy.

Photo RICHARD, Charles-Louis (Abbé). 

RICHARD, Charles-Louis (Abbé). 

La Théorie des Songes. 

Paris, Frères Estienne, 1766.
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600 €

First edition.

Photo PORTA, Jean Baptiste. 

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.

Photo PORTA, Jean Baptiste. 

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.

Photo [PONCE, Nicolas] || LAVATER. 

[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.

Photo PLUCHE, Noël Antoine. 

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 €
Photo PLUCHE, Noël Antoine. 

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.

Photo [PERRIN, Louis]. 

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

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

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

Lettres philosophiques sur les Physionomies. 

La Haye, Neaulme, 1746.
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250 €

First edition.

Photo PERNETY, Antoine-Joseph. 

PERNETY, Antoine-Joseph. 

Dictionnaire mytho-hermétique dans lequel on trouve les Allégories Fabuleuses des Poètes, les Métaphores, les énigmes et les Termes barbares des Philosophes Hermétiques expliqués. 

Paris, Bauche, 1758.
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650 €

First edition of this important source for knowledge of the history of alchemy and its symbols.

Photo PERNETY, Antoine Joseph. 

PERNETY, Antoine Joseph. 

Les Fables Egyptiennes et Grecques dévoilées & réduites au même principe, avec une explication des hiéroglyphes et de la guerre de Troye. 

Paris, Delalain, 1786.
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600 €

Second edition.
Treatise by Pernety in which he argues that the Greek and Egyptian mythologies contain the secret of the Great Work.

Photo PERERIUS, Benedictus. 

PERERIUS, Benedictus. 

Adversus fallaces et superstitiosas Artes. Id est, de Magia, de Observasione Somniorum et de Divinatione Astrologica. 

Lugduni, Officina Juntarum, 1592.
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1750 €

Rare treaty on witchcraft and magic of the sixteenth century.
Lyon first edition (first in 1591), well complete with the last blank leaf (with old manuscript notes).
The book is divided into three parts. The first deals with different aspects of magic, the second is about dreams and their interpretation and the last on astrology.

Photo [PERAU, Gabriel Louis Calabre Abbé]. 

[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.

Photo PAULET, Jean Jacques. 

PAULET, Jean Jacques. 

L'Antimagnétisme ou origine, progrès, décadence, renouvellement et réfutation du magnétisme animal. 

Londres, s.n., 1784.
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120 €

First edition.
Work criticizing Mesmer and his demonstrations of animal magnetism.
In his introduction, the author accuses economists of having introduced the taste for mysticism into good society.

Photo PARFAIT, Paul. 

PARFAIT, Paul. 

Le Dossier des pèlerinages suite de l'arsenal de la dévotion. 

Paris, Maurice Dreyfous, [v. 1880].
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35 €

Paul Parfait continues his census of the superstitious practices of the Catholic Church, in this volume he is interested in pilgrimages (relics, myths, holy places ...).

Photo PARFAIT, Paul. 

PARFAIT, Paul. 

La Foire aux reliques. 

Paris, Maurice Dreyfous, [v. 1880].
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30 €

Paul Parfait continues his census of the superstitious practices of the Catholic Church, in this volume he is interested in relics.

Photo NORE, Alfred de || [CHESNEL, Adolphe de]. 

NORE, Alfred de || [CHESNEL, Adolphe de]. 

Coutumes mythes et traditions des provinces de France. 

Paris, Perisse Frères, 1846.
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150 €

First edition.

Photo NAUDE, Gabriel. 

NAUDE, Gabriel. 

Apologie pour les grands hommes soupçonnez de magie. 

Amsterdam, Pierre Humbert, 1712.
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600 €

Last old edition of this treatise on magic and medieval science, which set out to defend men accused of being magicians, such as Merlin, Nostradamus, Roger Bacon, Paracelsus, and Popes Sylvester II and Gregory VII.

A rationalist defense of figures accused of magic. An emblematic text of the humanist critique of superstitions, heralding the Enlightenment.
It features: Socrates, Aristotle, Plotinus, Paracelsus, Agrippa, Savonarola, Nostradamus, Roger Bacon, Albertus Magnus, and more.

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