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[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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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.
[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.
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.
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.
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"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.] "
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« 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.
MENKEN [MENCKE, Johann Burkhard].
De la Charlatanerie des Savans.
La Haye, Jean Van Duren, 1721.
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750 €
First edition in french.
Fin copy in contempoaray morocco.
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.
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.
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.
[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).
[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 €
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).
[MONTFAUCON DE VILLARS , Abbé].
Le Comte de Gabalis ou entretiens sur les sciences secrètes
Renouvellé & augmenté d'une lettre sur le sujet.
Cologne, Pierre Marteau, [1691].
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450 €
Rare edition "A la Sphère".
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.
[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 .
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- La Poudre de sympathie justifiée. Paris, Pierre de Bresche, 1658
The three works in first edition.
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.
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.
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.
[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.).
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.
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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150 €
Rare reprint from the 1616 edition.
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.
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
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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.
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.
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.
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