[FRINELLAN]. Le triple vocabulaire infernal. Manuel du démon - Lot 221

[FRINELLAN]. Le triple vocabulaire infernal. Manuel du démonomane ou les ruses de l'enfer dévoilées par Frinellan, démonographe. A Paris, chez tous les libraires, s. n. (imp. Bloquel-Castiaux, Lille), s. d. (c. 1840). In-16, 319 pp. half blond basane, ornate ribbed spine, title page, combed edges (contemporary binding). Curious work, conceived as a dictionary and divided into 4 parts. Numerous woodcuts in and out of text; the two in color are absent here. Frinallan appears to be one of Simon BLOCQUEL's pseudonyms. I. Cabalistic magic, apparitions, exorcisms, oracles, predictions, dreams, etc. - II. Divinatory art. - III. List of the principal powers of Hell. - IV. Biographies of authors who have written on demonolatry and books they have published. Corners worn, scattered brown spots, otherwise a good copy of what Caillet calls "a veritable demonological museum". (Caillet, II, 116; Yve-Plessis, no. 288, Dorbon-Ainé, 182).