Occult, demonology, palmistry

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D'ARIANYS, (Professeur) [PONS, Edouard].

Traité de Force puissante et des phénomènes provoqués par la bague Toute Puissante Bijou Radio-Actif.

s.l., s.n., [v.1910].

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80 €

First edition.
Curious work in which Professor d'Arianys (pseudonym of Edouard Pons) praises the powers of his magic ring "Toute Puissante". Edouard Pons was convicted of fraud in 1910...
The work is illustrated with compositions depicting the powers of the ring.

D'AUBERNY, (Professeur).

L'Irrésistible puissance par "La Rénovatrice".

s.l., s.n., [v.1910].

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200 €

First edition.
A curious work in which Professor d'Auberny praises the powers of his magic ring "La Rénovatrice": "The composition of the metal is such that its effect must be infallible. It has a surprising radioactivity and, through the condensation of the powerful elements it contains, an incalculable power".
The work is illustrated on almost every page by Verdier with compositions depicting the powers of the ring.

DURVILLE, Henri.

La Science secrète.

Paris, Henri Durville, 1923.

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250 €

First edition (30000e print).
An imposing work decorated with 59 figures in and outside the text. The first part of the work is a sort of encyclopedia of all initiatory currents since ancient China: Vedic traditions, Gnosticism, Masonry, Eleusis, Martinism.

[GRIMOIRE].

Les Admirables secrets de Magie naturelle du Grand Albert et du Petit Albert.

Paris, Albin Michel, [v.1920].

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50 €

Edition by Albin-Michel of the two most famous witchcraft grimoires.

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.

Abbé JULIO [HOUSSAY, Julien-Ernest].

Le Livre secret des Grands exorcismes.

Paris, Henri Durville, [v.1920].

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120 €

Third edition.
Abbé Julio, whose real name was Julien-Ernest Houssay (1844-1912), was a French priest known for his mystical and esoteric writings. He distanced himself from the institutional Church to devote himself to occult sciences, theurgy, and healing prayers. His Secret Book of Great Exorcisms and Blessings is a collection of spiritual formulas, powerful prayers, and rituals designed to combat negative influences, curses, and evil spirits. This work, still valued in esoteric circles, blends Catholic traditions with occult practices to provide a guide for spiritual protection and purification.

[GRIMOIRE].

Enchiridion Leonis, Papae serenissimo Imperatori - Enchiridion du Pape Léon.

Rome, s.n., 1740 [v.1910].

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400 €

This grimoire is a collection of magical orations to ward off all kinds of illnesses, on bewitchments, possessions, curses. According to legend it was written by Pope Leo III around 795 and offered to Charlemagne.

[GRIMOIRE].

Le Véritable Dragon rouge où il est traité de l'art de commander les esprits infernaux [...] plus La Poule noire édition augmentée des secrets de la Reine Cléopatre.

s.l., s.n., [v.1910].

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950 €

Famous grimoire of witchcraft that gives the secret names of demons and the means to invoke them. This edition is augmented with the secrets of the black hen, but also the secrets of Cleopatra to preserve her legendary beauty and the secrets of Artephius to become invisible.
Indispensable to any occult library.

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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500 €

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.

[GRAND ALBERT].

Les Admirables secrets d'Albert le grand.

Lyon [Avignon], Héritiers de Beringos, 1791 [1850].

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500 €

The most famous of the grimoires of popular magic.
This edition attributed to Offray in Avignon is sought after for its colored plates and its numerous engravings in the text (sometimes full-page).

SAINTYVES, Pierre.

Les Origines de la médecine: Empirisme ou magie ?.

Paris, Nourry, 1920.

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60 €

First edition.
Presentation copy.

[BINET, Benjamin].

Idée générale de la théologie payenne, servant de réfutation au système de M. Bekker touchant l'existence et l'opération des démons, ou Traité historique des dieux du paganisme.

Amsterdam, Jean du Fresne, 1699.

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300 €

First edition.
This is a refutation of Balthazar Bekker's system.
Operations and nature of demons, mystery and oracles of ancient religions, etc.

[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.

[BELIN, Jean Albert].

Traité des talismans ou figures astrales.

Paris, P. De Bresche, 1658.

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450 €

First edition.
A work on astrology dedicated to Kenelm Digby, it was refuted in a book by Placet (La Superstition du Temps, 1667).
A leaf of text is missing from our copy, as is the copy from the Lyon library, the copy from the Wellcome collection and one of the rare copies sold at auction in 2017.

DUVAL, Jacques.

Traite des Hermaphrodits parties genitales, accouchemens des femmes, etc.

Paris, Isidore Liseux, 1880.

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250 €

New edition by Isidore Liseux of the very rare original edition of 1612 which was condemned and seized.

Printed in 400 numbered copies on laid paper and initialed by the publisher, ours no. 22.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

[MANUSCRIT].

Livre pour les communications dicté l'esprit de.

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 as a sort of amicorum album to note famous quotes and thoughts (out of 114 pages, around twenty leaves were cut from this part) then 250 blank pages remain.

[GRIMOIRE].

Les Secrets merveilleux de la magie naturelle du Petit Albert.

Lyon [Paris], Héritiers de Béringos Fratres [Jules Bonaventure], 1868.

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360 €

Rare edition of Petit Albert, one of the most sought-after witchcraft grimoires.
This mid-19th century edition begins with chapters on physiognomy and palmistry, before moving on to the making of talismans, then dealing with natural magic, folk remedies and necromancy.
This edition by Bonaventure has the particularity of placing the figure of Véronique's Veil on the frontispiece.

MARY-LAFON, Jean-Bernard.

Histoire politique, religieuse et littéraire du Midi de la France, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours.

Paris, Paul Mellier, 1845.

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300 €

Mary Lafon is favorably cited as "one of the rare writers who have understood the history and doctrine of the Albigensians", thanks to his knowledge of the language of the people he studied.
The religious issue is thus at the center of his history of the south and remains a valuable source for the history of the Waldensian and Albigensian heresies.
A very complete copy of the 3 maps enhanced with watercolor.

GUAITA, Stanislas (de).

La Muse Noire.

Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1883.

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600 €

First edition.
Presentation copy signed by the author dedicated to Auguste Vacquerie.

Stanislas de Guaïta was one of the most important occultists of the end of the 19th century, co-founder with Papus and Joséphin Péladan of the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Croix. The Black Muse is his second collection of poems, exploring the themes of mysticism, death and love in a complex and dense poetic style.

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.

[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.

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.

[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.

CAUZONS, Thomas de.

La Magie et la Sorcellerie en France.

Paris, Dorbon Ainé, [1901-1912].

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600 €

First edition.

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Occult, demonology, palmistry

D'ARIANYS, (Professeur) [PONS, Edouard].

Traité de Force puissante et des phénomènes provoqués par la bague Toute Puissante Bijou Radio-Actif.

First edition. Curious work in which Professor d'Arianys (pseudonym of Edouard Pons) praises the powers of his magic ring "Toute Puissante". Edouard Pons was convicted of fraud in 1910... The work is illustrated with compositions depicting the powers of the ring.

D'AUBERNY, (Professeur).

L'Irrésistible puissance par "La Rénovatrice".

DURVILLE, Henri.

La Science secrète.

First edition (30000e print).An imposing work decorated with 59 figures in and outside the text. The first part of the work is a sort of encyclopedia of all initiatory currents since ancient China: Vedic traditions, Gnosticism, Masonry, Eleusis, Martinism.

[GRIMOIRE].

Les Admirables secrets de Magie naturelle du Grand Albert et du Petit Albert.

Edition by Albin-Michel of the two most famous witchcraft grimoires.

DUGASTON, G.

Magie et Sorcellerie.

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

Abbé JULIO [HOUSSAY, Julien-Ernest].

Le Livre secret des Grands exorcismes.

[GRIMOIRE].

Enchiridion Leonis, Papae serenissimo Imperatori - Enchiridion du Pape Léon.

This grimoire is a collection of magical orations to ward off all kinds of illnesses, on bewitchments, possessions, curses. According to legend it was written by Pope Leo III around 795 and offered to Charlemagne.

[GRIMOIRE].

Le Véritable Dragon rouge où il est traité de l'art de commander les esprits infernaux [...] plus La Poule noire édition augmentée des secrets de la Reine Cléopatre.

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.

[GRAND ALBERT].

Les Admirables secrets d'Albert le grand.

The most famous of the grimoires of popular magic. This edition attributed to Offray in Avignon is sought after for its colored plates and its numerous engravings in the text (sometimes full-page).

SAINTYVES, Pierre.

Les Origines de la médecine: Empirisme ou magie ?.

First edition.Presentation copy.

[BINET, Benjamin].

Idée générale de la théologie payenne, servant de réfutation au système de M. Bekker touchant l'existence et l'opération des démons, ou Traité historique des dieux du paganisme.

First edition.This is a refutation of Balthazar Bekker's system.Operations and nature of demons, mystery and oracles of ancient religions, etc.

[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.

[BELIN, Jean Albert].

Traité des talismans ou figures astrales.

First edition. A work on astrology dedicated to Kenelm Digby, it was refuted in a book by Placet (La Superstition du Temps, 1667). A leaf of text is missing from our copy, as is the copy from the Lyon library, the copy from the Wellcome collection and one of the rare copies sold at auction in 2017.

DUVAL, Jacques.

Traite des Hermaphrodits parties genitales, accouchemens des femmes, etc.

New edition by Isidore Liseux of the very rare original edition of 1612 which was condemned and seized. Printed in 400 numbered copies on laid paper and initialed by the publisher, ours no. 22.

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.

WECKER, Jean Jacques.

Les Secrets et merveilles de nature.

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.

VALLEMONT, Abbé (de).

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

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.

PAULET, Jean Jacques.

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

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.

[MANUSCRIT].

Livre pour les communications dicté l'esprit de.

[GRIMOIRE].

Les Secrets merveilleux de la magie naturelle du Petit Albert.

MARY-LAFON, Jean-Bernard.

Histoire politique, religieuse et littéraire du Midi de la France, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours.

GUAITA, Stanislas (de).

La Muse Noire.

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.

[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.

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.

[DAMAS-HINARD, Jean].

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

First edition.

CAUZONS, Thomas de.

La Magie et la Sorcellerie en France.

First edition.
Curious work in which Professor d'Arianys (pseudonym of Edouard Pons) praises the powers of his magic ring "Toute Puissante". Edouard Pons was convicted of fraud in 1910...
The work is illustrated with compositions depicting the powers of the ring.

First edition (30000e print).
An imposing work decorated with 59 figures in and outside the text. The first part of the work is a sort of encyclopedia of all initiatory currents since ancient China: Vedic traditions, Gnosticism, Masonry, Eleusis, Martinism.

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

The most famous of the grimoires of popular magic.
This edition attributed to Offray in Avignon is sought after for its colored plates and its numerous engravings in the text (sometimes full-page).

First edition.
Presentation copy.

First edition.
This is a refutation of Balthazar Bekker's system.
Operations and nature of demons, mystery and oracles of ancient religions, etc.

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.
A work on astrology dedicated to Kenelm Digby, it was refuted in a book by Placet (La Superstition du Temps, 1667).
A leaf of text is missing from our copy, as is the copy from the Lyon library, the copy from the Wellcome collection and one of the rare copies sold at auction in 2017.

New edition by Isidore Liseux of the very rare original edition of 1612 which was condemned and seized.

Printed in 400 numbered copies on laid paper and initialed by the publisher, ours no. 22.

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.
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.

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.

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

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