Set of 3 volumes: - Lot 176

Set of 3 volumes: - MORIN, A.-S. Du magnétisme et des sciences occultes. Paris, Baillière, 1860, in-8, faded black half cloth (modest), X, 536 pp. Some rare foxing. A stamp of the Société de Lecture de Genève at the bottom of the title page. Untrimmed copy. Magnetization of animals, plants and raw materials. Sleepwalking. Lucidity and some transcendent faculties of somnambulists. Mediums and spirits. Modern necromancy. Hallucinations. Some teachers of magic: Du Potet, M. A. Morin and, above all, the main works of Eliphas Lévi published in 1855 and 1857. Caillet 7774. Dorbon 6335. - LABIS, Canon. Liberalism, Freemasonry and the Catholic Church. Bruxelles, Devaux, 1870, in-8, later half cloth, 364 pp. Fesch 798 reports an original edition of 1869, then a third in 1904. Missing from Caillet and Dorbon. Second edition containing the text of a brief by Pope Pius IX. - MAGNETISM] REICHENBACH, Baron Charles de. Les Phénomènes odiques ou Recherches physiques et physiologiques sur les dynamides du magnétisme, de l'électricité, de la chaleur, de la lumière, de la cristallisation et de l'affinité chimique considérés dans leurs rapports avec la force vitale. Paris, Bibliothèque Chacornac, Collection des meilleurs ouvrages étrangers relatifs aux sciences occultes, 1904, in-8 burgundy half-percaline with corners, covers preserved, XIV, 564 pp. one fold-out plate. Illustrations in text. Triangular bookplate with the initials P. B. "Quo non ascendam?" at the front of the volume. French translation by Ernest Lacoste. Preface by Colonel de Rochas.