52 - [BORDELON (Laurent)].

[BORDELON (Laurent)]. • The History of Monsieur Oufle’s Extravagant Fantasies, Caused by Reading Books on Magic, Grimoires, Demons, Witches, Werewolves, Incubi, Succubi, and the Sabbath […]. Paris: Nicolas Gosselin & Charles Le Clerc, 1710. •• The Story of Monsieur Oufle’s Extravagant Fantasies […] Part Four. Paris: Prault père, 1753. ••• The History of Extravagant Fantasies by Monsieur Oufle, serving as a safeguard against reading books dealing with magic […] Part Five. In Paris, at Duchesne, Bookseller, 1754. Set of 2 in-12 volumes, half-basane, smooth spine with decoration (late 18th-century binding). Combined in a single binding are the first volume of the original edition (containing chapters I through XX), the fourth part of the 1753 edition (containing chapters XXI through XXVI), and the fifth part of the 1754 edition (containing chapters XXVII through XXIX and XXIX[bis]) of this satirical work on the occult sciences attributed to Abbé Bordelon (1653–1730), a theologian, playwright, and utopian from Bourges. • [XII] + 453 + [III] pp. Six plates engraved by Jean CRESPY. •• 172 + [III] pp. A frontispiece engraved by CRESPY. “New Edition. ” ••• 204 + [VIII (Catalog)] pp. A frontispiece and a large folded plate titled “Description of the Assembly of Witches Known as the Sabbath,” engraved by CRESPY. Chapter II does indeed contain the very valuable bibliographic list of books on the occult sciences, which is said to be missing from the 1710 edition. Our edition includes the publisher’s preface (6 pp.), which is absent from the Amsterdam edition published the same year. Binding damaged; one plate missing; the Sabbath plate trimmed at the lower margin with a missing section. Dorbon, 428; Cohen, 175 (for the 1754 edition).