GOUGENOT DES MOUSSEAUX, Chevalier Henri-Roger - Lot 53

GOUGENOT DES MOUSSEAUX, Chevalier Henri-Roger Les hauts phénomènes de la Magie précédés du Spiritisme antique Paris, Plon, 1864, in-8, full posterior green cloth, gilt title, XLIV, 480 pp. Minor foxing. Caillet 4656: "One of the most sought-after works by the famous demonographer, for its prodigious assemblage of documents collected from all peoples and all times. Magical phenomena are examined from every angle: vampirism, lycanthropy. Incubation and succubation are dealt with in very detailed and extensive chapters, including an account of the spiritual love affairs of Gérard de Gaudemberg, a well-known polytechnician, with particularly suggestive astral entities. Dorbon 1906.