Estimate: | £100 - £150 |
Hammer price: | £320 |
[Petit Grimoire.] [Colophon, possibly stamped:] Lille: Imprimerie de Blocquel, [c. 1840]. 8vo in 6s (148 x 100mm). 6 woodcut plates, all but one printed in red and black, illustrations and tables, 4-pages of publisher's advertisements for other occult books at the end (lacks all before the "Prélude" including title, but title supplied in manuscript, hinged throughout, some light browning). Old vellum [?pre-dating the book], yapp edges, with title in manuscript on the spine (stained and wrinkled). Provenance: pencil annotation to first text leaf. A "Grimoire" is a book of magic spells and invocations.