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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 the present work includes extracts from a 1670 interview with... 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). This is a clear, neat, and evocative example of contemporary popular grimoires and contains the works of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535) including his Heptameron, a concise book of magical rites concerned with conjuring specific angels for the seven... Learn More£4,000.00Stock Code: 121171
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![[Greek:] Esoptron astroligikon. Astrologicall Opticks.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/4/143758.jpg)
ANGELUS, Johannes, & Johannes Regiomontanus. [Greek:] Esoptron astroligikon. Astrologicall Opticks.London : [1655]
Rare first edition in English, with eight copies only showing at institutional libraries and just three on auction records. The translator, Robert Turner (b. 1619/20- c. 1664), "was one of an important group of translators who supplied English audiences with a wide range of occult and medical treatises and particularly with the writings of Paracelsus"... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 143758
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[SOELDNER, Johann Anton.] Fegfeuer Der Chymisten, Worinnen Für Augen gestellt die wahren Besitzer der Kunst;Amsterdam : 1701
The scarce and largely unrecorded first edition of this important collection of alchemical texts. This work is most often attributed to Johann Anton Soeldner and features excerpts from the works of many alchemists, including a striking account in verse of Edward Kelly and John Dee's alchemy experiments for the Bohemian nobleman Rosenberg and later for... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 143277
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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
