Taillepied, Noel (1540-1589) Traicte de lApparition des Esprits. Paris: Julliot, 1617 [Bound With] Pouparts Dissertation sur ce quon

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Taillepied, Noel (1540-1589) Traicte de l'Apparition des Esprits. Paris: Julliot, 1617 [Bound With] Poupart'sDissertation sur ce qu'on Doit Penser de l'Apparition des Esprits, a l'Occasion de l'Avanture qui est arrivee a Saint Maur. Paris: Cellier, 1707. Two 12mo volumes on supernatural and occult topics bound together; the second work rare, seven copies in WorldCat, no U.S. library holdings, the two bound together in contemporary French speckled calf, 5 1/2 x 3 in.

N.B. The second work was published anonymously but later attributed to a Monsieur Poupart, identified as "chanoine [or] chantre du chapitre" of Saint-Maur-des-Fosses in Paris. His text contains an account of a haunting visited on a twenty-four year-old man in 1706 identified only as "S." Poupart recounts the series of haunting incidents but ultimately refutes a supernatural explanation of S's experiences. His narrative was later incorporated into Augustin Calmet's (1672-1757) 1746 compilation of stories of the occult reusing the first phrase of Poupart's title, but the two books should not be confused; Calmet's is a completely different work. No copies in the auction record. (See Prieart's Histoire de Saint-Maur-des Fossés, Paris, 1876, pp. 111-12.)
Estimate $300-500

A-N12, O10; A-F8/4, D2.


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