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Esotericism is the teaching of sciences professed within initiated circles.
Occult sciences, hidden from the profane world.
For a long time, these beliefs took the place of Knowledge for what the “exoteric” Sciences could not explain.
You will be able to find among our rare books on Astrology, grimoires of Sorcery, manuals of Alchemy and many others.

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Photo DE STENAY, Victor Comte de. 

DE STENAY, Victor Comte de. 

Derniers avis prophétiques (dont 20 inédits) précisant la solution de la crise actuelle, le règne de l'Antechrist et la fin du monde. 

Paris, Victor Palmé, 1872.
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80 €

First edition.
Work very borrowed from royalism which lists the eschatological prophecies on the history of France: Nostradamus, Ste Hildegarde, Curé d'Ars.

Photo AMIABLE, Louis || COLFAVRU, J-C. 

AMIABLE, Louis || COLFAVRU, J-C. 

La Franc-Maçonnerie en France depuis 1725 (exposé historique et doctrinal). 

Paris, Editions de l'Acacia, 1927.
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50 €

Speech given on July 16, 1889 in the Session of the International Masonic Congress by Br. Amiable and Colfavru.

New enhanced edition of a Memento of the last forty years.

Photo BROUWERS, Alphonse. 

BROUWERS, Alphonse. 

L'Action de la Franc-Maçonnerie dans l'histoire moderne. 

Liège, H. Dessain, 1892.
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80 €

First edition.

"Stimulated by the encyclical" Humanum genus "of our great Pope Leo XIII, I undertook to unveil the action of the Freemasons in modern history. This study did not lead me to find a single good work accomplished by the sect; on the contrary, its action has been and still is most pernicious for the family and society. " (extract from the preface).

Photo LEGUE & GILLES DE LA TOURETTE. 

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.

Photo LOREDAN, Jean. 

LOREDAN, Jean. 

Un Grand Procès de Sorcellerie au XVIIème siècle. 

Paris, Perrin et Cie, 1912.
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60 €

First edition.
Work devoted to the affair of the possessions of Aix en Provence, witchcraft trial where Abbot Gaufridy was accused of having bewitched Madeleine de Demandolx. He will be burned alive in 1611.

Presentation copy to Paul Lacour.

Photo GLAUBER, Johann Rudolf. 

GLAUBER, Johann Rudolf. 

Première [seconde, troisième] partie de l’oeuvre minérale, où est enseignée la séparation de l’Or des Pierres à feu, Sable, Argile, et autres Fossiles, par l’Esprit de Sel, ce qui ne se peut faire par autre voye. Comme aussi une Panacée, ou Médecine niverselle, antimoniale, & son usage.
[Reliés à la suite :]
- La Teinture de l'or ou le véritable or potable
- Traitté de la Médecine universelle, ou le vray or potable.
- La Consolation des navigants. Dans laquelle est enseigné à ceux qui voyagent sur mer un moyen de se garantir de la faim & de la soif, voire mesme des maladies qui leur pourroient survenir durant un long voyage. 

Paris, Thomas Jolly, 1659.
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2500 €

First edition in French.
Rare treatises on Glauber's alchemy.
The 3 parts of the mineral work as well as the three linked works have a title page and a separate pagination.

Our copy contains the treatise on "or potable" panacea widely used throughout the Renaissance.

Photo LEFEVRE, Nicolas. 

LEFEVRE, Nicolas. 

Cours de chymie pour servir d’introduction à cette science. 

Paris, Jean-Noel Leloup, 1751.
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1750 €

Rare fifth last and greatly enlarged edition with 11 plates of this famous chemical course.
This edition is not in Duveen and Neville.

Photo LENGLET DUFRESNOY, Nicolas. 

LENGLET DUFRESNOY, Nicolas. 

Recueil de dissertations anciennes et nouvelles sur les Apparitions, les Visions & les Songes. 

Avignon, Jean-Noel Leloup, 1751-1752.
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First edition.

Lenglet-Dufresnoy compiles and reproduces here a number of untraceable brochures relating wonderful facts (apparitions, visions, demonic possessions ...) which constitutes a veritable bibliography of the domain.

Curiosity of our copy: at the end of each volume was bound a dozen leaves, duplicate leaves of text, placed in a jumble (probably printer rejects).

Photo [TWELLS, Léonard]. 

[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.

Photo VALENTIN, Basile. 

VALENTIN, Basile. 

Les Douze Clefs de Philosophie ... Traictant de la vraye Médecine Metalique.
Plus l'Azoth, ou le moyen de faire l'Or caché des Philosophes.
suivi de : [BERNARD LE TRÉVISAN] Traité de la nature de l’oeuf des philosophes de Bernard de Trèves... 1659. 

Paris, Pierre Moët, 1660.
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4500 €

Important alchemical treatise bound in one volume.
Complete with the three text which are often sold separatly.
Second edition in french, the first with the 13 plates for the 12 keys and the furnace.
The Twelve Keys, here in second isssue of the title page dated 1660 is the most important work of Basile Valentin and one of the most important in the alchemical litterature.
Very rare with the remarkable plates of the keys and the furnace from Jean Gobille.
Bound after with a separate title page and pagination, the Azoth, a treaty both hermetic and cabalistic. Azoth is the name that Hermetic philosophers commonly gave to their Mercury the prima materia.
The third text, with title page and separate pagination; another important treatise on alchemy: the Treaty of the Nature of the Egg of the Philosophers of Bernard le Trevisan.

Photo [BELIN, Albert]. 

[BELIN, Albert]. 

Les Avantures du philosophe inconnu en la recherche & en l'invention de la Pierre Philosophale. 

Paris, Jacques de Laize-de-Bresche, 1674.
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1350 €

Second edition of this rare alchemical work.

Photo BALLET, François (Abbé). 

BALLET, François (Abbé). 

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

Paris, Cailleau, 1760.
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250 €

First edition.

Photo EIDOUS, Marc-Antoine. 

EIDOUS, Marc-Antoine. 

Mémoires littéraires sur différens sujets de Physique, de Mathématique, de Chymie, de Médecine, de Géographie, d'Agriculture, d'Histoire naturelle. 

Paris, André Cailleau, 1750.
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150 €

First edition.
Compilation of different texts collected throughout Europe by Eidus on subjects as diverse as the Philosopher's Stone, burning fountains, the increase in yields, the origin of nations ...
The author indicates in the preface that he will publish other memoirs if this first volume is successful, which he did the same year.

Photo BROUSSAIS, François Joseph Victor. 

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.

Photo COMBE, George || LEBEAU, H. 

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.

Photo YSABEAU, Victor Frédéric Alexandre. 

YSABEAU, Victor Frédéric Alexandre. 

Physiognomonie et Phrénologie, rendues intelligibles pour tout le monde. 

Paris, Garnier frères, [v. 1909].
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30 €

Text with 150 engravings.

Photo GESSMANN, G.W. 

GESSMANN, G.W. 

Katechismus der Kopfformenkunde das ist der Lehre von der Lokalisation der geistgen Fähigkeiten des Menschen im Gehirne. 

Berlin, Karl Siegismund, 1897.
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30 €

First edition.
Phrenology book in German.
Funny figure on double page representing the phrenological zones.

Photo PARFAIT, Paul. 

PARFAIT, Paul. 

Le Dossier des pèlerinages suite de l'arsenal de la dévotion. 

Paris, Maurice Dreyfous, [v. 1880].
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35 €

Paul Parfait continues his census of the superstitious practices of the Catholic Church, in this volume he is interested in pilgrimages (relics, myths, holy places ...).

Photo PARFAIT, Paul. 

PARFAIT, Paul. 

La Foire aux reliques. 

Paris, Maurice Dreyfous, [v. 1880].
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30 €

Paul Parfait continues his census of the superstitious practices of the Catholic Church, in this volume he is interested in relics.

Photo PARFAIT, Paul. 

PARFAIT, Paul. 

L'Arsenal de la dévotion, notes pour servir à l'histoire des superstitions. 

Paris, Georges Decaux, [v. 1880].
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30 €

Paul Parfait identifies the superstitious practices of the Catholic Church then in progress: pious waters, amulets, candles.

Photo [STEYERT, André]. 

[STEYERT, André]. 

Brief discours des horrificques & célestialles visions qui furent veües en diverses régions &t notament en la Cité de Lyon, ez années 1527 & 1528, nouvellement mis en lumière, jouxte l'imprimé & augmenté de nottes très- amples & profictables à tous chrestiens & bons françois.
[Suivi de] : La terrible et espouventable comette, laquelle apparut le xi jour d’octobre l’an 1527 en Almaigne. 

Lyon, Alf. Louis Perrin et Marinet, 1875.
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350 €

Rare booklet, n° 7 on chinese paper.

Photo PHILALETHE, Eiraeneus. 

PHILALETHE, Eiraeneus. 

Introitus apertus ad occlusum regis palatium. 

Amsterdam, Joannemm Janssonium, 1667.
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7500 €

The scarce first edition of this monument of the alchemical litterature.
Not in Duveen, Neville, Dorbon, Guaita, Verginelli, Ouvaroff.

Photo [PLUCHE, Noël Antoine]. 

[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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200 €

Second edition.

Photo OCELLUS, Lucanus. 

OCELLUS, Lucanus. 

De la nature de l'univers Avec la Traduction Françoise & des Remarques, par M. l'Abbé Batteux. 

Paris, Saillant, 1768.
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150 €

First edition of the Batteux's translation in french. With the text in greek.
Bound after, Timée de Locres "De l'Ame du Monde" and Aristote "Lettres d'Aristote à Alexandre sur le Système du Monde", also with the translation of Batteux.

Photo COUTAN. 

COUTAN. 

Le Grand Oeuvre dévoilé en faveur des enfans de la Lumière. 

Paris, Delalin, 1775.
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950 €

III. Scarce first edition of the "Grand oeuvre dévoilée".

First are bound two other works :
I. LE CHOYSELAT, Prudent. Discours oeconomique, non moins utile que recreatif, monstrant comme de cinq cens livres pour une foys employées, l'on peult tirer par an quatre mil cinq cens livres de proffict honneste, qui est le moyen de faire profier son argent. Rouen: Martin le Menestrier, 1612 [but c. 1745].
II. LE BRETON. Divers Objets d'économie rurale et domestique. Chez l'Auteur. Paris [1788].

Photo MYNSICHT, Adrian von. 

MYNSICHT, Adrian von. 

Thesaurus et Armamentarium medico chymicum. 

Lyon, Jean Antoine Huguetan, 1640.
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1500 €

Adrian von Mynsicht (1603-1638) is a German physician and alchemist. In his Thesaurus, he gives us his best recipes of ointments, emplatres, liqueurs for medicine. As always at this time, chemistry, alchemy and pharmacopoeia are closely intertwined.
In the Testamentum Hadrianeum following the Thesaurus, we are given in a versified form the secret of the philosopher's stone of Mynsicht.
Rare edition not spotted by Ferguson, nor Caillet.

Photo SCHULTZ, Gottfried || MICHAELIS, Johann. 

SCHULTZ, Gottfried || MICHAELIS, Johann. 

Dissertatio pharmaceutico-therapeutica de Natura Tincturae Bezoardicae
[Relié à la suite : ]
Scrutinium Cinnabarinum Seu Triga Cinnabriorum, Hall. Saxon, Simon Joh. Hubner, 1680. 

Hall. Saxon, Simon Joh. Hubner, 1678.
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1350 €

Bound together, two rare works by Gottfried Schultz (1643-1698) based on the work of Johann Michaelis (1606-1667).

1. First edition of this work in wich Schultz focuses on the preparation and use of the Michaelis bezoardic dye. This preparation will be part of the pharmacopoeia until the second half of the eighteenth century.

2. First edition.
Work devoted to the preparation and use of cinnabar (mercury sulphide) in the pharmacopoeia. The author discusses the different forms of cinnabar, natural cinnabar, cinnabar of antimony, ...
It is Paracelsus who first popularizes the use of cinnabar in medicine with its antimony oil.
At the end we find an appendage devoted to magnetic plaster.

Few references of a medicine then strongly influenced by alchemical works.

Photo VIGENERE, Blaise de. 

VIGENERE, Blaise de. 

Traicté du feu et du sel. Excellent et rare opuscule du Sieur Blaise de Vigenère, Bourbonnois, trouvé parmy ses papiers après son décès. 

Rouen, Jacques Cailloué, 1642.
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3500 €

Copy of the 1618 edition.
This classical alchimical treatise contains an interesting passage in which Vigenre described the discovery of th crystalline benzoic acid, obtained by the sublimation of gum benzoin (Partington).

Photo LEONET, Albert. 

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).

Photo GLAUBER, Jean Rodolphe. 

GLAUBER, Jean Rodolphe. 

Miraculum mundi, sive plena perfectaque descriptio admirabilis naturae ac proprietatis potentissimi subiecti, ab antiquis menstruum philosophorum dicti : quo vegetabilia, animalia & mineralia facillime in faluberrima medicamenta, & imperfecta metalla in permanentia ac perfecta transmutari possunt. 

Amsterdam, Joannem Janssonium, 1653.
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900 €

First Latin edition.
Rare copy.

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