Occult, demonology, palmistry

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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.

VISSAC, Marc.

Allégories & symboles.

Paris, Aubry, 1872.

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50 €

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

[BELIN, Albert].

Apologie du Grand OEuvre, ou Élixir des philosophes, dit vulgairement pierre philosophale.

Paris, Pierre de Bresche, 1659.

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2500 €

Bound with :
- Traité des Talismans, ou figures astrales. Paris, Pierre de Bresche, 1658 .
and
- La Poudre de sympathie justifiée. Paris, Pierre de Bresche, 1658
The three works in first edition.

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.

BROUSSAIS, François Joseph Victor.

Cours de phrénologie.

Paris, Baillière, 1836.

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120 €

First edition.
Broussais the most famous doctor of the Restoration also gave a course in phrenology and created the Phrenological Society of Paris in 1831.

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.

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.

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.

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.

BODIN, Jean.

De la Démonomanie des sorciers.

Paris, Jacques du Puys, 1580.

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The scarce first edition.

This work is considered as the best we have on Witchcraft.
Bodin believes in pacts with demons, in the remembrance of the dead and carnal copulation with devils. He also has, for his personal account, a familiar spirit that does not leave him, to advise him in all circumstances of life.
While at the religious point of view, Bodin was very tolerant, he is much harder with witches. Since in his refutation of the opinions of John Wier who claimed that sorcerers are more often sick or crazy and that they should not burn, Bodin expresses the desire to raise hundreds of wizards and witches for burning them itself.

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.

COLLIN DE PLANCY, Jacques Albin Simon.

Dictionnaire infernal ou recherches et anecdotes sur les Démons, les Esprits.

Paris, P. Mongie, 1818.

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2800 €

First edition.
First edition of Collin de Plancy's famous work, which presents itself as an encyclopedia of superstitions, demonology, occult sciences and all popular beliefs related to the devil and magic.
The work is both erudite and tinged with irony, typical of the rationalist tone of the 19th century.

Our copy, complete with the two allegorical frontispieces by Delignon, one representing a sabbath, the other represents Superstition.

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.

Discours prodigieux de ce qui est arrivé en la Comté d'Avignon contenant tant le déluge degast des eaux et feu tombé du ciel que les ruines du pont de Sorgues Bederide et Aubainien et austres prodiges estranges arrivez ausdits lieux, le dimanche vingt-unième jour d'Août 1616.

Paris [Lyon], Nicolas Rousset [Perrin], 1616 [ca. 1874].

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Rare reprint from the 1616 edition.

FAVA, Mgr Amand-Joseph.

Discours sur le secret de la Franc-maçonnerie.

Paris, H.Oudin, 1882.

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150 €

Rare first edition of this anti Masonic work.

[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.

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.

Effroyable histoire arrivée cette année 1583 dans la ville et hors la ville de Hambourg, ou l'on a pris quarnate trois Esprits ou sorcières; ce qu'elles ont avoué avoir fait; les premières révélations des crimes; jugées le 20 mai, et brulées.

Hambourg [Lille], Jean Grunsblatt [Imprimerie de Horemans], 1583 [v. 1866].

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250 €

Rare reprint from the 1583 edition.

LECOCQ, Ad.

Empiriques somnambules et rebouteurs Beaucerons.

Chartres, Petrot-Garnier, 1862.

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250 €

Rare.

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.

DOYOTTE, A.-F.-M.

Essai sur le surnaturel, Sa notion.

Saint-Cloud, Ve Belin, 1865.

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80 €

Rare first edition of this thesis on supernatural.
Inscribed copy.

LEONET, Albert.

Etude sur les zoopsies - Essai d'interprétations pathogéniques.

Lyon, Imprimeries réunies, 1926.

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150 €

First edition.
Presentation to Dr. Boulland.

This doctoral thesis deals with "zoopsies" (visual hallucinations that consist of visions of animals, usually ferocious and terrifying).

FRERE, Abbé.

Examen du magnétisme animal.

Paris, Gaume Frères, 1837.

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125 €

First edition.

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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250 €

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).

MICHAËLIS, P.F. Sébastien.

Histoire admirable de la possession et conversion d'une pénitente, séduite par un magicien, la faisant sorcière & princesse des sorciers au païs de Provence, conduite à la Scte Baume pour y estre exorcizée l'an M. DC. X. au mois de Nouembre
[relié avec :]
Discours des esprits en tant qu'il est de besoin, pour entendre & résoudre la matière difficile des Sorciers.

Lyon, Charles Chastellain, 1613.

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2000 €

The "Histoire admirable de la possession et conversion d'une pénitente, " is a rare work of sorcery which traces the history of Louis Gaufridy, burnt alive as a sorcerer, by a decree of the Parliament of Aix of April 30, 1611, and which contains the record of the exorcisms practiced from 27 November 1610 to 23 April 1611 on two Ursulines of Aix, Magdaleine of Demandouls and Louyse Capeau

Bound after is the "Discours des esprits", a rare Treaty of demonology, one of the most complete (Dorbon).
The first edition was published in 1587 under the title "Pneumalogie ou discours des esprits".
This work is on the devil, witches, incubi and succubi, ...
A very good copy.

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.

[GOUJET, Claude Pierre (Abbé)].

Histoire des Inquisitions ; Où l'on rapporte l'origine & le progrès de ces Tribunaux, leurs variations, & la forme de leur Jurisdiction.

Cologne, Pierre Marteau, 1759.

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350 €

First edition.
Interesting work in which Abbé Goujet compiles and comments on the main texts relating to the Inquisition.
The engravings depict scenes of torture and auto-da-fés committed by the Spanish Inquisition.

BALLET, François (Abbé).

Histoire des Temples des Payens, des Juifs et des Chrétiens.

Paris, Cailleau, 1760.

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250 €

First edition.

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.

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Occult, demonology, palmistry

PERERIUS, Benedictus.

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

VISSAC, Marc.

Allégories & symboles.

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

[BELIN, Albert].

Apologie du Grand OEuvre, ou Élixir des philosophes, dit vulgairement pierre philosophale.

Bound with : - Traité des Talismans, ou figures astrales. Paris, Pierre de Bresche, 1658 . and - La Poudre de sympathie justifiée. Paris, Pierre de Bresche, 1658 The three works in first edition.

NAUDE, Gabriel.

Apologie pour les grands hommes soupçonnez de magie.

BROUSSAIS, François Joseph Victor.

Cours de phrénologie.

First edition.Broussais the most famous doctor of the Restoration also gave a course in phrenology and created the Phrenological Society of Paris in 1831.

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

Coutumes mythes et traditions des provinces de France.

First edition.

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.

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.

PORTA, Jean Baptiste.

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

BODIN, Jean.

De la Démonomanie des sorciers.

BIZOUARD, Joseph.

Des Rapports de l'Homme avec le Démon, essai historique et philosophique.

COLLIN DE PLANCY, Jacques Albin Simon.

Dictionnaire critique des reliques et des images miraculeuses.

First edition.

COLLIN DE PLANCY, Jacques Albin Simon.

Dictionnaire infernal ou recherches et anecdotes sur les Démons, les Esprits.

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.

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

Discours prodigieux de ce qui est arrivé en la Comté d'Avignon contenant tant le déluge degast des eaux et feu tombé du ciel que les ruines du pont de Sorgues Bederide et Aubainien et austres prodiges estranges arrivez ausdits lieux, le dimanche vingt-unième jour d'Août 1616.

Rare reprint from the 1616 edition.

FAVA, Mgr Amand-Joseph.

Discours sur le secret de la Franc-maçonnerie.

Rare first edition of this anti Masonic work.

[VALMONT, (de)].

Dissertation sur les maléfices et les sorciers.

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.

Effroyable histoire arrivée cette année 1583 dans la ville et hors la ville de Hambourg, ou l'on a pris quarnate trois Esprits ou sorcières; ce qu'elles ont avoué avoir fait; les premières révélations des crimes; jugées le 20 mai, et brulées.

Rare reprint from the 1583 edition.

LECOCQ, Ad.

Empiriques somnambules et rebouteurs Beaucerons.

Rare.

SALVERTE, Eusèbe.

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

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

DOYOTTE, A.-F.-M.

Essai sur le surnaturel, Sa notion.

Rare first edition of this thesis on supernatural. Inscribed copy.

LEONET, Albert.

Etude sur les zoopsies - Essai d'interprétations pathogéniques.

First edition. Presentation to Dr. Boulland. This doctoral thesis deals with "zoopsies" (visual hallucinations that consist of visions of animals, usually ferocious and terrifying).

FRERE, Abbé.

Examen du magnétisme animal.

First edition.

COLLET, Pierre.

Examen et résolutions des principales difficultés qui se rencontrent dans la célébration des SS. Mystères.

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).

MICHAËLIS, P.F. Sébastien.

BATTEUX, Charles (Abbé).

Histoire des causes premières, ou exposition sommaire des pensées des philosophies sur les principes des êtres.

First edition.

[GOUJET, Claude Pierre (Abbé)].

Histoire des Inquisitions ; Où l'on rapporte l'origine & le progrès de ces Tribunaux, leurs variations, & la forme de leur Jurisdiction.

First edition.Interesting work in which Abbé Goujet compiles and comments on the main texts relating to the Inquisition.The engravings depict scenes of torture and auto-da-fés committed by the Spanish Inquisition.

BALLET, François (Abbé).

Histoire des Temples des Payens, des Juifs et des Chrétiens.

First edition.

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.

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

Bound with :
- Traité des Talismans, ou figures astrales. Paris, Pierre de Bresche, 1658 .
and
- La Poudre de sympathie justifiée. Paris, Pierre de Bresche, 1658
The three works in first edition.

First edition.
Broussais the most famous doctor of the Restoration also gave a course in phrenology and created the Phrenological Society of Paris in 1831.

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. 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.

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

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.

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

Rare first edition of this thesis on supernatural.
Inscribed copy.

First edition.
Presentation to Dr. Boulland.

This doctoral thesis deals with "zoopsies" (visual hallucinations that consist of visions of animals, usually ferocious and terrifying).

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).

First edition.
Interesting work in which Abbé Goujet compiles and comments on the main texts relating to the Inquisition.
The engravings depict scenes of torture and auto-da-fés committed by the Spanish Inquisition.

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