Set of 5 volumes: - Lot 147

Set of 5 volumes: - DU PREL, Baron Carl. La magie, science naturelle (en 2 volumes) I La physique magique II La psychologie magique. Liège et Paris, H. Vaillant-Carmanne and Librairie Des Sciences Psychiques, Leymarie, 1907-1908, 2 volumes in-8, paperback, XVI, 256 ; IV, 440 pp. and a frontispiece portrait. French first edition (German ed. H. Costenoble, 1899). Translated by Nissa. Caillet 3415: "In magic considered as a natural science, the great science of Carl Du Prel has applied itself to proving that the human being is the manifestation of his soul, that the latter forms the body to make it its instrument, that it is the creator, sustenance and repairer of the flesh, that it modifies it to the point of making it act often beyond the limits of the organism, and that it survives the destruction of the body. This work, in its entirety and in each of its parts, is a first-rate working tool, thanks to the prodigious accumulation of facts and documents". Enclosed: - CASTIGLIONI, Arturo. Incantation et Magie - Les Aventures de l'Esprit. Paris, Payot, 1951. - FILLIOZAT, Jean. Magic and Medicine. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1943. - GARINET, Jules. History of Magic in France. Paris, Club du Libraire, 1965. - LECOUTEUX, Claude. Dictionary of magic formulas. Paris, Imago, 2014.