FAUCONNEY, Jean, as Docteurs Caufeynon et Jaf.

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Les Messes noires. Le culte de Satan-Dieu. First edition of this guide to Satanic worship. Fauconney (1850-1950) was a physician who specialized in sexuality. His "books were stuffed with a curious hodgepodge of citations drawn from both ancient and modern discussions" (McLaren, p. 149). This copy has the ownership stamp on the front free endpaper of the psychoanalyst and historian Michael Collée.

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