Item #66263 Magica Sexualis. Mystic Love Books of Black Magic and Secret Sciences. Sexual Occultism, Dr. Emile LAURENT, Prof. Paul NAGOUR, Raymond Sabatier.
Magica Sexualis. Mystic Love Books of Black Magic and Secret Sciences.
Magica Sexualis. Mystic Love Books of Black Magic and Secret Sciences.

Magica Sexualis. Mystic Love Books of Black Magic and Secret Sciences.

New York, NY: Falstaff Press Inc., ND [ 1934 ]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo. xx + 274 pp + xx pp plates at rear. Gilt decorated purple cloth with gilt titling to spine and upper board, printed endpapers, duo-tone plates, bibliography. The First English language edition, (c. 1934) of one of the first major studies of western sexual occultism. The text appears to have been largely drawn from the work first published in French as 'L'occultisme et l'amour' in 1902, and in German as 'Okkultismus und Liebe' in 1903. Chapters include "Sex in the World of Magic", "Satanism and Demon Worship - Erotico-Mystic Perversions' "Incubi and Succubi", "The Witches' Sabbath", "The Black Mass and Its Orgies", "Werewolves and Vampires" "Sex Enchantments" "Magic Drinks-Magic Invocations, Magic Aphrodisiacs", "Sex Talismans and Amulets" "Sex Languages and Symbols" "Dreams and Sexual Magic" etc. etc. A well used copy. Cloth rubbed, unevenly faded and a bit discoloured. Spine lettering faded. Spine ends and corners bruised and chafed with some loss and fraying to cloth at spine edges and fore and lower edges, page edges darkened and thumbed, rear endpapers slightly split at inner hinge but hinge tight and solid. Pages toned with occasional foxing, some creased corners but text is clean and unmarked. Despite use - a solid, internally clean Good + copy. (no dust jacket issued). Item #66263

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