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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.

[MORELLET, André].

Le Manuel des Inquisiteurs à l'usage des inquisitions d'Espagne & de Portugal.

Lisbonne, s.n., 1762.

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500 €

First edition.
Work of the Abbé Morellet which was put on the index in 1764, he proposed there a summarized translation of the "Directorium Inquisitorium" of the grand inquisitor Aragon Nicolas Eymeric, in order to show the horror of the trials of the Inquisition.

[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".

[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.

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.

[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.

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.

Le NOSTRADAMUS MODERNE. Almanach national et patriotique, avec des changemens notables dans le Calendrier et des Prédictions pour chaque mois.

Liege, s.n., 1790.

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450 €

Rare Almanach.

[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.

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.

[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.

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.

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).

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.

[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.

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.

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.

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).

LECOCQ, Ad.

Empiriques somnambules et rebouteurs Beaucerons.

Chartres, Petrot-Garnier, 1862.

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250 €

Rare.

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.

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

Lettres philosophiques sur les Physionomies.

La Haye, Neaulme, 1746.

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250 €

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).

BALLET, François (Abbé).

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

Paris, Cailleau, 1760.

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250 €

First edition.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 €

[HORNOC, Comtesse de].

Histoire miraculeuse et admirable de la comtesse de Hornoc, Flamande, estranglée par le diable dans la ville d'Anvers, pour n'avoir trouvé son rabat bien godronné, le quiziesme avril 1616. Lyon. 1616.

Paris & Gand, Auguste Aubry & Duquesne, 1856.

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180 €

Rare reprint to only 150 copies from the 1616 edition.
This one of the 134 on Hollande paper.

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.

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Occult, demonology, palmistry

GUAITA, Stanislas (de).

La Muse Noire.

[MORELLET, André].

Le Manuel des Inquisiteurs à l'usage des inquisitions d'Espagne & de Portugal.

First edition.Work of the Abbé Morellet which was put on the index in 1764, he proposed there a summarized translation of the "Directorium Inquisitorium" of the grand inquisitor Aragon Nicolas Eymeric, in order to show the horror of the trials of the Inquisition.

[MONTFAUCON DE VILLARS , Abbé].

Le Comte de Gabalis ou entretiens sur les sciences secrètes Renouvellé & augmenté d'une lettre sur le sujet.

Rare edition "A la Sphère".

[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.

BOURQUELOT, Felix.

Recherches sur la lycanthropie.

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

[PERAU, Gabriel Louis Calabre Abbé].

L'Ordre des Francs-Maçons trahi et Le Secret des Mopses révélé.

Edition which includes the text and the plates of the original edition of 1745. Many curious figures representing Masonic ceremonies.

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.

Le NOSTRADAMUS MODERNE. Almanach national et patriotique, avec des changemens notables dans le Calendrier et des Prédictions pour chaque mois.

Rare Almanach.

[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.

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.

[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.

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.

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).

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.

[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.

SALVERTE, Eusèbe.

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

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

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.

SEDIR, Paul.

Les Amitiés Spirituelles (166 numéros).

LECOCQ, Ad.

Empiriques somnambules et rebouteurs Beaucerons.

Rare.

JOLLIVET-CASTELOT, François.

Les Sciences Maudites.

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

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

Lettres philosophiques sur les Physionomies.

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).

BALLET, François (Abbé).

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

First edition.

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.

COLLIN DE PLANCY, Jacques Albin Simon.

Dictionnaire critique des reliques et des images miraculeuses.

First edition.

BATTEUX, Charles (Abbé).

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

First edition.

D'AUBERNY, (Professeur).

L'Irrésistible puissance par "La Rénovatrice".

PLUCHE, Noël Antoine.

Histoire du ciel où l'on recherche l'origine de l'idolatrie, et les méprises de la philosophie.

[HORNOC, Comtesse de].

First edition.
Work of the Abbé Morellet which was put on the index in 1764, he proposed there a summarized translation of the "Directorium Inquisitorium" of the grand inquisitor Aragon Nicolas Eymeric, in order to show the horror of the trials of the Inquisition.

Le Comte de Gabalis ou entretiens sur les sciences secrètes
Renouvellé & augmenté d'une lettre sur le sujet.

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

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

Edition which includes the text and the plates of the original edition of 1745.
Many curious figures representing Masonic ceremonies.

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.

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.

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.

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

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).

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

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

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

Curious work on the Flagellants, fanatics religious of the XIII and XIV centuries, so named because they flogged themselves in public.

First edition.

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).

Rare reprint to only 150 copies from the 1616 edition.
This one of the 134 on Hollande paper.