3 works on magic and ghosts.

1. Naudé, Gabriel - Apologie pour les grands hommes soupçonnez de magie. Dernière édition où l'on a ajoûté quelques remarques [...]. Amsterdam, J.F. Bernard, 1712. Sm. 8vo (some foxing). Contemp. calf (def.). Famous defence of men falsely suspected of magic (Zoroaster, Pythagoras, Scaliger, Ramon Llull, Paracelsius, Roger Bacon, Nostradamus, Savonarola...), by the librarian of Jules Mazarin. Illustrated with a frontispiece figuring Orpheus and the animals. Ref. Coumont N5.7. - Caillet 7923. - Blake p. 320. - 2. Garinet, Jules - Histoire de la magie en France, depuis le commencement de la monarchie jusqu'à nos jours. Paris, Foulon & comp., 1818. 8vo (some foxing, sl. marg. damp stain and a larger one in the end). Sewn, orig. wrappers (uncut copy). First edition of this "ouvrage curieux" (Caillet) by the lawyer Garinet. Ill. with a frontispiece fig. Joan of Arc on the pyre. With chapters on demons, Sabbath, werewolves, Templars, Gilles de Rais, "toutes les possessions connues", etc. Ref. Coumont G11.1 (= Yves-Plessis 75). - Fesh 673. - Caillet 4345. - Dorbon 1824. - 3. Nav, Yor - Histoire des revenants, des fantômes, des spectres, des esprits, apparitions nocturnes, aventures singulières, etc., etc. Brussels, Van Roy, 1855. 12mo. Bradel half mod. paper. First edition of this collection of stories about ghosts, revenants, night-appearances, etc. Ill. with a frontispiece fig. a skeleton.