Live auction - Lot 500

[Esoterics]

Collection of 6 interesting illustrated grimoires.


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12mo (foxing).

Contemp. half sheep, marbled paper on covers, flat spine titled in gilt, marbled edges (front cover detached, leather unstuck to spine, rubbed).

1. Enchiridion Leonis papae, serenissimo imperatori Carlo Magno. Enchiridion du pape Léon, envoyé comme un rare présent à l'empereur Charlemagne. Édition corrigée. Rome, s.n., 1740 [ca. 1880]. 162 pp.; 7 pl. On Kabbalah and magic containing orations (against someone's enemy, to make a woman honest, etc.), "Exorcisme des parchemins, encre et plume", benediction of fire, mystical secrets, prayers against the hunting of wild game, to make the hail stop, etc. Illustrated with 7 plates and the portrait of Pope Leo on title hand-coloured. Ref. Bibliotheca esoterica 1493. - Cp. Caillet 3620 (ed. Rome, 1847). - Not in Duveen. - 2. Grimoire du pape Honorius, avec un recueil des plus rares secrets. Rome (Lille, Blocquel), 1760 [1810?]. Front.-3/126 pp.; 10 pl. Work on black magic attributed to Pope Honorius III (ca. 1227), who was condemned post mortem for his tolerance against heretical practices (1st ed.: 1629). Contains various conjurations (against Lucifer, Astaroth, Guland...) and secrets to make someone suffer, against fevers, "pour sembler être accompagné de plusieurs", "contre le bouquet chancreux", etc. Illustrated with 11 hand-coloured pl. (front. incl.). Ref. Cp. Bibliotheca esoterica 1992 (ed. Rome, 1670), Caillet 4781 (id. and ed. 1787). - 3. Les véritables clavicules de Salomon, trésor des sciences occultes, suivies d'un grand nombre de secrets, et notamment de la grande cabbale dite du Papillon vert [...]. Memphis, Alibeck l'Égyptien, 1827 [ca. 1840?]. 11 [front. incl.]-[1] pp.; 1 pl. Classical treatise of witchcraft illustrated with 1 hand-coloured fold. pl. (sphere of planets) and 11 black plates (incl. in pagination). Butterfly vign. on title and p. 102 green coloured. That work supposedly contains the key of the "Magnum opus". Ref. Caillet 9859. - Bibl. Esoterica 5100 (dates the book ca. 1860). - Coumont V23.1. - CCFr. - 4. Agrippa, Henri Corneille; Petrus de Abano - Les oeuvres magiques de Henri-Corneille Agrippa, mises en français par Pierre d'Aban, avec des secrets occultes, notamment celui de la Reine des mouches velues [...]. Rome (Lille, Blocquel), 1744 [1830?]. 112 [front. incl.]-[2] pp.; 4 pl. With conjurations, spells, in French and Latin, and various recipes ("pour rendre une fille amoureuse", against dogs' barking, robbery, etc.). Ill. with the portrait of Abano in front., 4 plates and 2 woodcuts in-text. Ref. Not in Bibliotheca esoterica. - 5. Iroe-Grego - La véritable magie noire, ou Le secret des secrets; manuscrit trouvé à Jérusalem, dans le sépulcre de Salomon. Contenant quarante-cinq talismans avec leurs gravures, ainsi que la manière de s'en servir, et leurs merveilleuses propriétés; et tous les caractères magiques connus jusqu'à ce jour [...]. Rome, Garcia (Lille, Blocquel), 1750 [19th c.]. Front.-142 pp. First edition of the translation of the manuscript based on the Kabbalah and astrology, written in Hebrew by Iroe-Grego. The first part deals with the right time to practice magic, exorcism, invisibility..., the second is mainly about the pentacles. Illustrated with a frontispiece on yellow paper (instruments needed in magic) and 45 woodcut pentacles in-text. Ref. Caillet 5419 ("Ouvrage sérieux, véritable traité de Magie-pratique, basé sur la Kabbale et l'astrologie"). - Not in Bibliotheca esoterica. - 6. Le véritable dragon rouge, ou L'art de commander les esprits célestes, aériens, terrestres et infernaux, avec le secret de faire parler les morts; de gagner toutes les fois qu'on met aux loteries; de découvrir les trésors cachés; etc., etc.; Suivi de la poule noire, cabale qui était restée inconnu jusqu'ici. (Lille, Blocquel), 1521 [ca. 1880]. 124 [front. incl.] pp.; 6 pl. (marg. damp stain on last f.). Deals with pacts with demons, the appearance of spirits, recipes (how to make judges favourable, to be invisible, to mutilate the enemies, etc.). Illustrated with a front. and 5 plates printed in red & black, and 1 black plate ("Secret de la poule noire") and a woodcut in-text. Ref. Bibliotheca esoterica 5088.

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