Dissertation sur les maléfices et les sorciers : selon les principes de la théologie & de la physique, où l'on examine en particulier l'état de la fille de Tourcoing.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valmont, de, author.

Contributor:

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Demoniac possession--France--Tourcoing--Early works to 1800.

Demoniac possession.

France--Tourcoing.

Penn Provenance:

Leclair, Edmond (bookplate) (Lea Library copy)

Physical Description:

102 pages ; 15 cm (12mo)

Place of Publication:

A Tourcoing : [publisher not identified], 1752.

Summary:

Treatise on demonology and possession written in the form of a letter to an unknown recipient. Describes the nature of demons and evil spirits, focusing in particular on the purported possession of a young girl in Tourcoing.

Notes:

Attributed to de Valmont by Barbier.

Signatures: A-D¹² E⁴(-E4).

Type ornament title ornament, head- and tail-pieces.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Lea Library copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2024 from Edmund Brumfitt Rare Books.

Lea Library has illustrated bookplate ("Ex Libris EDM. LECLAIR Insul. Doct. Pharmac.") of Edmond Leclair (1873-1948) on front pastedown.

Lea Library copy has bookseller's description of another copy of this edition laid in.

Cited in:

Barbier, A.A. Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes (3. éd.), I, column 1083

British Museum. General catalogue of printed books, XIII, column 240

OCLC:

81558015