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60 - [OCCULTISM]. LENGLET DUFRESNOY (Nicolas, known as the abbot)…
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[OCCULTISM]. LENGLET DUFRESNOY (Nicolas, known as the abbot) (1674-1755). Collection of old and new dissertations on apparitions, visions and dreams. With a historical preface. Very nice copies of this important work of occultism, in contemporary monogrammed bindings. Avignon and found in Paris, Jean-Noel Leloup, 1752. 2 volumes in-12 (170x100mm), full shagreened calf, smooth spines decorated with monogrammed gilt boxes and false nerves, red morocco title-pieces, boards framed with a triple gilt fillet, speckled edges, marbled end-papers (period bindings). 4ff. - 4ff.n.c. warning - clxiipp. preface - 7ff. table - 192pp. [part 1] + 287pp. [part 2] - 1f. ; 4ff. n.c. - xiipp. table - 336pp. - xiipp. table - 336pp. [part 1] + 312pp. [part 2]. Corners slightly worn, hinge of upper board of t.1 worn, otherwise very fresh inside. First edition of a collection of old and new essays on Apparitions, Visions and Dreams. The publishing venture was to republish 45 unobtainable works on witchcraft, dreams, apparitions, vampires, spectres, werewolves and other nocturnal creatures inhabiting children's bedrooms. A bible for every budding Charles Nodier! Nicolas Lenglet Du Fresnoy (1674-1755) was a scholar and churchman during the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV, specialising in hermeticism and the occult, and a historian of alchemy. He was imprisoned five times in the Bastille, once in the Strasbourg citadel and once in Vincennes. The strangest things are said about his death: on 16 January 1755, returning home at about six o'clock in the evening, he began to read the "Considerations on the Revolutions of the Arts" by the Abbé de Méhégan. After reading a few pages, it is said that he dozed off and fell into the fire; his neighbours rushed to his aid, but his head had already been devoured by the flames when they pulled him from the hearth. The second part of Volume I is dated 1751, unlike the other three parts, which are dated 1752. Handwritten bookplate "de Contréglise".
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About the sale Prestige sale - Antiquarian and collectible books
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Auction time 06/15/2026 at 2:00 PM
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