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CHEVANES, Jacques de. L'Incredulité scavante, et la credulité ignorante:Lyons : 1671
First edition, a reply to Gabriel Naudé's sceptical Apologie pour tous les grands personnages, qui ont été faussement soupçonnés de magie, recently republished in 1669. Jacques de Chevanes (c.1608-1678) of Autun had personal experience of a witch-hunt in Burgundy in 1648/9, and he includes extracts from a 1670 interview with a woman accused of... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 84955
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(GRIMOIRE.) AGRIPPA, Henri-Corneille. Les Œuvres Magiques.Rome [actually Lille : 1740 & 1744 [but 1830 & 1813]
A superb early 19th-century French copy of two grimoires, printed by Simon Blocquel (1780-1863). Blocquel, a bookseller, freemason, and printer, published a number of grimoires from his publishing press in Lille, giving them fictitious imprints - a common practice with such occult books that "served the dual purpose of frustrating the censors and giving... Learn More£4,000.00Stock Code: 121171
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[TURNER, Robert.] Astrological Institutions.London : 1658
First edition of this illustrated astrological manual, explaining the influence of the planets and their alignments, and how to use astrology to answer questions such as whether a woman is with child, whether her husband is really the father, whether a disease shall be fatal, whether stolen goods will be returned, whether a legal trial will fall in... Learn More£4,000.00Stock Code: 139144
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DUNSANY, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord. Tales of Three Hemispheres.London : 1920
First UK edition, first impression, using the sheets of the American edition (published by Luce in Boston in 1919); most uncommon in the jacket, whose blurb describes this as "a collection of twelve fantastic stories, nearly all Oriental, or semi-Oriental". Dunsany (1878-1957) was "unquestionably one of the most important writers of heroic fantasy of... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 106480
