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Photo WECKER, Jean Jacques. 

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.

Photo SALGUES, Jacques Barthélémy. 

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.

Photo VALLEMONT, Abbé (de). 

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.

Photo PERNETY, Antoine-Joseph. 

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.

Photo PAULET, Jean Jacques. 

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.

Photo BOECE DE BOODT, Anselme. 

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.

Photo [MANUSCRIT]. 

[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.

Photo [GRIMOIRE]. 

[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.

Photo MARY-LAFON, Jean-Bernard. 

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.

Photo GUAITA, Stanislas (de). 

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.

Photo PLUCHE, Noël Antoine. 

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.

Photo [PERRIN, Louis]. 

[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.

Photo PERNETY, Antoine Joseph. 

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.

Photo [DAMAS-HINARD, Jean]. 

[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.

Photo [GUENEBAULD, Jean]. 

[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.).

Photo CAUZONS, Thomas de. 

CAUZONS, Thomas de. 

La Magie et la Sorcellerie en France. 

Paris, Dorbon Ainé, [1901-1912].
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600 €

First edition.

Photo BATTEUX, Charles (Abbé). 

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.

Photo [MORELLET, André]. 

[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.

Photo BATTEUX, Charles (Abbé). 

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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150 €

First edition.

Photo RICHARD, Charles-Louis (Abbé). 

RICHARD, Charles-Louis (Abbé). 

La Théorie des Songes. 

Paris, Frères Estienne, 1766.
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600 €

First edition.

Photo [PERAU, Gabriel Louis Calabre Abbé]. 

[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.

Photo GOULART, Simon. 

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.

Photo COLLET, Pierre. 

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).

Photo DUPLEIX, Scipion. 

DUPLEIX, Scipion. 

Corps de Philosophie contenant la Logique, La Physique, La Métaphysique et l'Ethyque. 

Rouen, Jean Baptiste Behourt, 1640.
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950 €

the "Corps de philosophie" or sometimes "Cours de philosophie" are more or less complete collections of the works of the Dupleix of which we know many editions.
Our copy, similar to that noted by Dorbon [1376], is composed as follows:
- "La Logique" in eight books.
- "Physics or science of natural things" in eight books.
- and the first eight books of the "The Metaphysics or supernatural science".

If the structure of this philosophy course is inspired by Aristotle's Compendium philosophiae as it was taught in all the faculties of the time. The content is very different and often deals with magic, sorcery of the angelic world. The Eighth Book of Physics is concerned with the soul, and the last parts of Metaphysics constitute a veritable treatise on Angels and Demons.

Photo BAZOT, E.F. 

BAZOT, E.F. 

Manuel du Franc-Maçon. 

Paris, Michalet, 1836.
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150 €

Sixth edition completely revised, corrected and enlarged.

Photo THEULIER, Albert. 

THEULIER, Albert. 

Du Merveilleux en médecine. 

Paris, A. Parent, 1869.
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80 €

First edition.
Medicine thesis by Albert Theulier (1840-1912) who later became a politician and deputy for the Dordogne.
He discusses various subjects such as epidemics of witchcraft, stigmatization, mersmerism, mithridatization.

Photo VALERIAN Jean-Pierre. 

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.

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. 

Paris, Vve Estienne & fils, 1749.
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200 €
Photo BIZOUARD, Joseph. 

BIZOUARD, Joseph. 

Des Rapports de l'Homme avec le Démon, essai historique et philosophique. 

Paris, Gaume frères et Duprey, 1863-1864.
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2000 €

First edition.
A work highly regarded as indispensable to any occult library.

Divided into 36 parts: the first four deal with the times when idolatry reigned, the fifth with the Middle Ages and finally in the other parts, Bizouard studies magic and witchcraft from the 16th to the 19th century.
Stanislas de Guaita's copy (manuscrit ex libris on freeflyleaf).

Photo COLLIN DE PLANCY, Jacques Albin Simon. 

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.

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