[Sacred Magic] - Collection of works on sacred magic and mag - Lot 477

[Sacred Magic] - Collection of works on sacred magic and mages. 1/ - Naude, Gabriel. - Apologie pour les grands hommes soupçonnez de Magie. Dernière édition où l'on a ajouté quelques remarques... Amsterdam, Pierre Humbert, 1712. In-8 bound in full contemporary calf, spine ribbed, title-piece - headbands partly faded, spalls - [9 ff;], 470 pp. Beautiful allegorical frontispiece drawn and engraved by Lamsveld. The author seeks to rehabilitate those great writers, philosophers and scholars who were interested in the occult, astrological or mathematical sciences, such as : Agrippa, Apollonius, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, Artephius, Bacon, Democritus, Empedocles, Geber, Jamblique, Raymond Lulle, Nostradamus, Orpheus, Paracelsus, Plotinus, Numa Pompilius, Porphyry, Pythagoras, Socrates, Trithemus, Arnaud de Villeneuve, Zoroaster, etc. Dorbon (3227) believes that the author of the remarks added to this second edition could be the "witty Dutch bookseller Jean-Frédéric Bernard", to whom we owe the Éloge de l'Enfer. 2/ - Lévi, Éliphas. - Dogme et rituel de Haute Magie. Paris, Chacornac Frères, 1930. 2 volumes in-8 paperback in soft cover - small hole in upper margin (T I, p. 147), handwritten notes in blue pencil on T II - T I , dogme, VIII, 371 pp. ; T II, Rituel, [2 ff.], 448 pp. Illustrated with 24 pll. h-t. 3/ - Mac Gregor-Mathers. - The book of the sacred magic of Abra-Melin the mage, as delivered by Abraham the Jew unto his son Lamech, A.D. 1458. From the manuscript in the Arsenal Library, Paris. London, John M. Watkins, 1898. In-4, publisher's cloth (stained and first cover partly detached) first illustrated cover preserved - xlviii, 268 pp. in-t. figures. 4/- Lexa, François. - La Magie dans l'Egypte Antique de l'Ancien Empire jusqu'à l'Epoque Copte. Paris, Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1925, 3 volumes in-4. the first 2 stapled, the 3rd in leaves in cardboard folder with laces and inner flaps. T I, Exposé, 220 pp., [1 f.] ; T II, Les textes magiques, [2 ff.], 235 pp., [1 f.] ; T III atlas, [3 ff.], IX pp. complete with 71 plates. 5/ - Laurent, A. - La Magie et la Divination chez les Chaldéo-Assyriens. Paris, Libr. de L'Art Indépendant, 1894. In-8 paperback - 89 pp. 6/ - Wallis Budge, E.A. - Egyptian Magic. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner C°, 1901. In-8, publisher's percaline - XV pp., [2 ff.], 234, [1] pp. A first volume dealt with Chaldea. 7/ - Du Potet. - La Magie dévoilée ou principe de science occulte. 4th edition. Paris, Vigot Frères, 1907. In-8, bound in black half-chagrin, spine ribbed with gilt fleurons, gilt author and title, covers preserved - XVI, 334 pp.