Occult, demonology, palmistry

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[DAMAS-HINARD, Jean].

Un prophète inconnu. Prédictions, jugements et conseils par le Marquis de La Gervaisais.

Paris, Ledoyen, 1850.

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100 €

First edition.

FABRE D’OLIVET, Dioclès.

Un Médecin d’autrefois.

Paris, Ambroise Dupont, 1838.

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300 €

Second edition.
Biography of Paracelsus written by the son of the famous occultist Antoine Fabre d'Olivet (to whom this work is often mistakenly credited).

BARREIRA, Isidoro de.

Tratado das significaçoens das plantas, flores e frutos.

Lisbonne, Manoel Lopes Ferreyra, 1698.

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300 €

Second edition.
Rare Portuguese treatise on the symbolism of plants in sacred and secular writings.

HUET, Pierre Daniel.

Traitté de la Situation du Paradis Terrestre.

Paris, Jean Anisson, 1691.

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1500 €

First edition.
Curious work in which Huet try to find the location of Paradise.
Rare in morocco binding (not in Caillet, Dorbon as only the 1701 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.

COMBE, George || LEBEAU, H.

Traité de phrénologie.

Bruxelles, Société Belge de librairie, 1840.

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110 €

Translated in french with notes by Lebeau.
George Combe is one of the pioneers of phrenology, he founded in 1820 the Phrenological Society of Edinburgh, the first and most famous working group on the subject.

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.

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.

AFFAIRE GIRARD-CADIÈRE.

Recueil des pièces concernant le procès entre la Demoiselle Cadière, de la Ville de Toulon et le Père Girard, Jésuite.

s.l., s.n., 1731.

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1950 €

Collection of 45 pieces of the witchcraft trials of Girard priest, accused of bewitching, raped and aborted on a girl of Toulon, Catherine Cadière.

BOURQUELOT, Felix.

Recherches sur la lycanthropie.

s.l., s.n., [1848].

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450 €

Rare offprint from XIXe volume des Mémoires de la Société des antiquaires de France".
Scholarship paper on lycanthropy.

LABORDE, Léon de.

Recherches sur ce qu'il s'est conservé dans l'Egypte moderne de la science des anciens magiciens.

Lille, Jules Renouard et Cie, 1841.

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600 €

Scarce. Only 25 copies.
Work on Egyptian magic.

[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.

MICHAËLIS, P.F. Sébastien.

Pneumalogie ou discours des esprits en tant qu'il est de besoin pour entendre et resouldre la matiere difficile des sorciers.

Paris, Guillaume Bichon, 1587.

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3500 €

First edition.

Sébastien Michaelis (1543-1618), a Dominican priest, participated as vice-inquisitor in one of the most spectacular witchcraft trials of the great witch hunts that shook Europe at the turn of the 16th century.
The Avignon affair, as it would later become known, ended with the conviction and execution of eighteen individuals.

The trial, whose judgment Michaelis reproduces in his book, provided an opportunity to delve into the practices of witches and their dealings with demons: On which day is Satan celebrated? Why does the Devil appear in the form of a goat? Can human bodies fly? Why are there more witches than warlocks? These are among the questions to which the inquisitor provides answers.

In his conclusion—which would vanish from subsequent editions—the inquisitor wonders whether the witches' testimonies might simply be the product of "dreams and imaginations." However, even if they were dreams, our Dominican concludes that if imagination produced pleasure, then the witch is doubly guilty and deserves death!

This valuable copy previously belonged to Maurice Garçon (no. 135 in his sale catalog), a renowned collector specializing in demonology and witchcraft trials. He left a handwritten note on the endpaper, highlighting the significance of the conclusion.

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.

DIGBY, Kenelm.

Nouveaux secrets experimentez pour conserver la beauté des Dames et pour guérir plusieurs sortes de maladie.

La Haye, Jean Van Vlaenderen, 1715.

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450 €

Receipt and the curious treatise on the powder of sympathy of Digby.

[MONTFAUCON DE VILLARS , Abbé].

Nouveaux entretiens sur les sciences secrètes, ou le Comte de Gabalis. Nouvelle édition augmentée d'une lettre sur le sujet.

Cologne, Paul de la Tenaille, 1693.

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950 €

LIEUTAUD, V.

Notes pour servir à l'Histoire de Provence.
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.

Marseille & Aix, Boy & Maikaire, 1873.

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Rare reprint from the 1616 edition.
Presentation copy.

DUGASTON, G.

Magie et Sorcellerie.

Paris, Albin Michel, [1922].

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50 €

First edition.
The witchcraft section contains the secrets of the Red Dragon and the black masses in Indian tradition.

[MANUSCRIT].

Livre pour les communications dicté par l'esprit de Mon grand Père , Moret Louis Piere, donner à Madame Parain.

s.l., s.n., [v.1867].

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2500 €

Very rare manuscript of spiritualist session reports.
The spiritualist wave arrived in France in 1854, and spread to all walks of life. We will remember, for example, the famous sessions of Victor Hugo in Guernsey...
In the following decades, all bourgeois families tried to turn the tables or dance. Methods of spiritualist contact are becoming more refined, we are seeing automatic writing methods appear in the presence or absence of a medium.

Very few of the sessions from this period have left written traces; the manuscript we present is the transcription of automatic writing sessions that took place between October 1866 and March 1867 in the Moret family. The first sessions took place in the presence of the medium Ms. Parain then in Bordeaux with the help of Ms. Benoit. Mrs. X. (unidentified) first contacted her grandfather Louis Pierre Moret. This is also why she transcribed the content of her communications in this notebook which belonged to her grandfather. The first communications are short, but little by little the mind gains confidence and the communications are longer. It was then his mother Marie Louise Moulins who “took up” the pen, then his father Moret. It is also amusing to note that the signatures of the spirits gradually become different.

The spirits advise their descendants to pray for them, to be charitable and above all to spread the ideas of spiritualism! We know that her husband tried a session but seems very skeptical...In a communication one of the spirits evokes the Other world which is organized into planets hierarchized according to the degree of wisdom, the summit seems to be the planet Juno .

70-page manuscript, quite fascinating to read!

The book is continued by another hand (probably at the beginning of the 20th century) who used it to note famous quotes and thoughts (out of 114 pages, around twenty leaves were cut from this part) then 250 blank pages remain.

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

Lettres philosophiques sur les Physionomies.

La Haye, Neaulme, 1746.

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250 €

First edition.

LEMNE, Levin [LEMNIUS, Levinus].

Les Secrets miracles de nature et divers enseignemens de plusieurs choses.

Lyon, Jean Frellon, 1566.

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2500 €

First french edition.
A Dutch doctor and disciple of Gesner and Vesalius, Lemne here delivers a veritable cabinet of curiosities on the origins of living and evil beings.

JOLLIVET-CASTELOT, François.

Les Sciences Maudites.

Paris, La Maison d'art, 1900.

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250 €

First edition. Printed on paper white, red and blue.

THOMAS, Gabriel.

Les procès de sorcellerie et la suggestion hypnotique.

Nancy, Vagner, 1885.

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90 €

First edition.

Presentation copy.

SAINTYVES, Pierre.

Les Origines de la médecine: Empirisme ou magie ?.

Paris, Nourry, 1920.

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60 €

First edition.
Presentation copy.

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.

LE BRETON, Jean.

Les Clefs de la Philosophie Spagyrique, qui donnent la connoissance des Principes & des véritables opérations de cet Art dans les Mixtes des trois genres.

Paris, Claude Jombert, 1722.

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3000 €

Scarce first edition of this important alchemical treatise.
Le Breton's Les Clefs de la Philosophie spagirique (1722) is quoted at least twice by Fulcanelli in Le Mystère des Cathédrales.
1.
"Selon Le Breton, « il y a quatre putréfactions dans l’Œuvre philosophique. La première, dans la
première séparation ; la seconde, dans la première conjonction ; la troisième dans la seconde
conjonction, qui se fait de l’eau pesante avec son sel ; la quatrième, enfin, dans la fixation de
soulphre. Dans chacune de ces putréfactions, la noirceur arrive. » [Le Breton, Clefs de la
Philosophie Spagyrique. Paris, Jombert, 1722, p. 282.] "
2.
« Il y a, dit Le Breton, un minéral connu des vrais Sçavans qui le cachent dans leurs écrits sous
divers noms, lequel contient abondamment le fixe et le volatil. » [Le Breton, Clefs de la
Philosophie Spagyrique. Paris, Jombert, 1722, p. 240.]

Very good copy.

FAVA, Mgr Amand-Joseph.

Le secret de la Franc-maçonnerie.

Lille, Société de Saint-Augustin, Desclée, De Brouwer et Cie, 1883.

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Second edition of this anti Masonic work.

[GUENEBAULD, Jean].

Le Réveil de Chyndonax, prince des Vacies, druides celtiques diionois.

Dijon, Claude Guyot, 1621.

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800 €

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.).

[ALARY, François].

Le Parnasse Assiégé ou la Guerre Declarée entre les Philosophes Anciens & Modernes.

Lyon, Antoine Boudet, 1697.

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1750 €

First edtion.
It is only recently that the author of this rare treatise has been identified through the work of Didier Kahn. François Alary is also the author of the famous Texte d'Alchymie, et le songe-verd.
"It is a very curious effusion in which the author attemps to prove the reality of the Hermetic Science and the correctness of the views of Paracelsus" (Duveen).

BOECE DE BOODT, Anselme.

Le Parfaict Joaillier, ou Histoire des pierreries ou sont amplement descrites leur naissance, de juste prix, moyen de les cognoistre, & se garder des contrefaites, facilitez medicinales, & propriectez curieuses.

Lyon, Jean Antoine Huguetan, 1644.

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3000 €

First french edition.
Milestone in mineralogy and gemmology.
Translation by Jean Bachou from the Latin edition of the "Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia" and enriched with annotations by André Toll.
All precious stones are studied there as well as the cutting and polishing processes. Boodt also describes the virtues of stones, medicinal and magical faculties.
Numerous woodcuts in the text.

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Occult, demonology, palmistry

[DAMAS-HINARD, Jean].

Un prophète inconnu. Prédictions, jugements et conseils par le Marquis de La Gervaisais.

First edition.

FABRE D’OLIVET, Dioclès.

Un Médecin d’autrefois.

Second edition.Biography of Paracelsus written by the son of the famous occultist Antoine Fabre d'Olivet (to whom this work is often mistakenly credited).

BARREIRA, Isidoro de.

Tratado das significaçoens das plantas, flores e frutos.

Second edition. Rare Portuguese treatise on the symbolism of plants in sacred and secular writings.

HUET, Pierre Daniel.

Traitté de la Situation du Paradis Terrestre.

First edition. Curious work in which Huet try to find the location of Paradise. Rare in morocco binding (not in Caillet, Dorbon as only the 1701 edition).

THIERS, Jean-Baptiste.

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

Rare first edition.

COMBE, George || LEBEAU, H.

Traité de phrénologie.

Translated in french with notes by Lebeau. George Combe is one of the pioneers of phrenology, he founded in 1820 the Phrenological Society of Edinburgh, the first and most famous working group on the subject.

GOULART, Simon.

Thresor d'histoires admirables et mémorables de nostre temps.

LEGUE & GILLES DE LA TOURETTE.

Soeur Jeanne des Anges supérieure des ursulines de Loudun, Autobiographie d'une hystérique possédée.

First edition.Contains a reproduction of the famous letter from Asmodeus.

AFFAIRE GIRARD-CADIÈRE.

Recueil des pièces concernant le procès entre la Demoiselle Cadière, de la Ville de Toulon et le Père Girard, Jésuite.

Collection of 45 pieces of the witchcraft trials of Girard priest, accused of bewitching, raped and aborted on a girl of Toulon, Catherine Cadière.

BOURQUELOT, Felix.

Recherches sur la lycanthropie.

Rare offprint from XIXe volume des Mémoires de la Société des antiquaires de France". Scholarship paper on lycanthropy.

LABORDE, Léon de.

Recherches sur ce qu'il s'est conservé dans l'Egypte moderne de la science des anciens magiciens.

Scarce. Only 25 copies. Work on Egyptian magic.

[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.

MICHAËLIS, P.F. Sébastien.

Pneumalogie ou discours des esprits en tant qu'il est de besoin pour entendre et resouldre la matiere difficile des sorciers.

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.

DIGBY, Kenelm.

Nouveaux secrets experimentez pour conserver la beauté des Dames et pour guérir plusieurs sortes de maladie.

Receipt and the curious treatise on the powder of sympathy of Digby.

[MONTFAUCON DE VILLARS , Abbé].

Nouveaux entretiens sur les sciences secrètes, ou le Comte de Gabalis. Nouvelle édition augmentée d'une lettre sur le sujet.

LIEUTAUD, V.

Rare reprint from the 1616 edition. Presentation copy.

DUGASTON, G.

Magie et Sorcellerie.

First edition.The witchcraft section contains the secrets of the Red Dragon and the black masses in Indian tradition.

[MANUSCRIT].

Livre pour les communications dicté par l'esprit de Mon grand Père , Moret Louis Piere, donner à Madame Parain.

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

Lettres philosophiques sur les Physionomies.

First edition.

LEMNE, Levin [LEMNIUS, Levinus].

Les Secrets miracles de nature et divers enseignemens de plusieurs choses.

First french edition.A Dutch doctor and disciple of Gesner and Vesalius, Lemne here delivers a veritable cabinet of curiosities on the origins of living and evil beings.

JOLLIVET-CASTELOT, François.

Les Sciences Maudites.

First edition. Printed on paper white, red and blue.

THOMAS, Gabriel.

Les procès de sorcellerie et la suggestion hypnotique.

First edition. Presentation copy.

SAINTYVES, Pierre.

Les Origines de la médecine: Empirisme ou magie ?.

First edition.Presentation copy.

PERNETY, Antoine Joseph.

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

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

LE BRETON, Jean.

Les Clefs de la Philosophie Spagyrique, qui donnent la connoissance des Principes & des véritables opérations de cet Art dans les Mixtes des trois genres.

FAVA, Mgr Amand-Joseph.

Le secret de la Franc-maçonnerie.

Second edition of this anti Masonic work.

[GUENEBAULD, Jean].

Le Réveil de Chyndonax, prince des Vacies, druides celtiques diionois.

[ALARY, François].

Le Parnasse Assiégé ou la Guerre Declarée entre les Philosophes Anciens & Modernes.

Second edition.
Biography of Paracelsus written by the son of the famous occultist Antoine Fabre d'Olivet (to whom this work is often mistakenly credited).

Second edition.
Rare Portuguese treatise on the symbolism of plants in sacred and secular writings.

First edition.
Curious work in which Huet try to find the location of Paradise.
Rare in morocco binding (not in Caillet, Dorbon as only the 1701 edition).

Translated in french with notes by Lebeau.
George Combe is one of the pioneers of phrenology, he founded in 1820 the Phrenological Society of Edinburgh, the first and most famous working group on the subject.

First edition.

Contains a reproduction of the famous letter from Asmodeus.

Rare offprint from XIXe volume des Mémoires de la Société des antiquaires de France".
Scholarship paper on lycanthropy.

Scarce. Only 25 copies.
Work on Egyptian magic.

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

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.

Rare reprint from the 1616 edition.
Presentation copy.

First edition.
The witchcraft section contains the secrets of the Red Dragon and the black masses in Indian tradition.

First french edition.
A Dutch doctor and disciple of Gesner and Vesalius, Lemne here delivers a veritable cabinet of curiosities on the origins of living and evil beings.

First edition.

Presentation copy.

First edition.
Presentation copy.

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