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Photo WRONSKI, Hoëné. 

WRONSKI, Hoëné. 

Sept manuscrits inédits, écrits de 1803 à 1806. 

Paris, A dépot des ouvrages de l'auteur, 1879.
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550 €

First edition published after the death of Wronski.

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 LABORDE, Léon de. 

LABORDE, Léon de. 

Recherches sur ce qu'il s'est conservé dans l'Egypte moderne de la science des anciens magiciens. 

Lille, Jules Renouard et Cie, 1841.
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600 €

Scarce. Only 25 copies.
Work on Egyptian magic.

Photo WALSH, Cte Théobald. 

WALSH, Cte Théobald. 

Dunglas Home et le spiritualisme américain. 

Paris, J.claye, 1858.
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600 €

Scarce first edition of this wotk on Dunglas Home and american spiritualism.
Only 100 copy printed.
Not in Caillet, Dorbon, Guaita ...
Dunglas Home was one of the greatest mediums of his time.
Inscribed copy.

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 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 RICHARD, Charles-Louis (Abbé). 

RICHARD, Charles-Louis (Abbé). 

La Théorie des Songes. 

Paris, Frères Estienne, 1766.
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600 €

First edition.

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 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 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 THIERS, Jean-Baptiste. 

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.

Photo MENKEN [MENCKE, Johann Burkhard]. 

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.

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 [MONTFAUCON DE VILLARS , Abbé]. 

[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 €
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 PORTA, Jean Baptiste. 

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.

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 [PONCE, Nicolas] || LAVATER. 

[PONCE, Nicolas] || LAVATER. 

Le Lavater historique des femmes célèbres, des temps anciens et modernes; orné de douze portraits et de douze figures d'expressions, gravés en taille douce, d'après le meilleurs originaux. Par M. P. 

Paris, F. Louis, 1809.
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1200 €

First edition, scarce first issue.
A second issue, with the same title page has and additionnal chapter with 4 more plates and a different table of contant page.
Rare with the plates colored.

Photo HUET, Pierre Daniel. 

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).

Photo PERERIUS, Benedictus. 

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.

Photo [ALARY, François]. 

[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).

Photo AFFAIRE GIRARD-CADIÈRE. 

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.

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 MICHAËLIS, P.F. Sébastien. 

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
[relié avec :]
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.

Photo [BELIN, Albert]. 

[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 .
and
- La Poudre de sympathie justifiée. Paris, Pierre de Bresche, 1658
The three works in first edition.

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 LE BRETON, Jean. 

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.
1.
"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.] "
2.
« 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.

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.

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