VIAL (Louis-Charles-Émile). Le Positif + et le Négatif -: Du - Lot 300

VIAL (Louis-Charles-Émile). Le Positif + et le Négatif -: Duo d'amour en un acte, by Un Pruneau de Tours. Collection of three extremely rare publications by a Parisian pharmacist, esotericist and "literary madman", presented to his son Édgard and enriched with signed autographs. Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1890? In-8 (170×260mm), havana half-maroquin with corners, five-ribbed spine, morocco title-pieces, covers preserved, gilt-edged headband; contemporary binding. Illustrated in the text with alchemical symbols, figures, diagrams, tables and playlets featuring a man and a woman. First edition; copy no. 2/330. Autograph letter. In addition:? [1] Mécanisme et Dynamisme: loi fonctionnelle de la création, with a paradoxical, even absurd self-epigraph: "All creation lies in this mathematical axiom: 3 is the product of the two halves of1 and, in the algebraic symbol, -et-=+et-". Paris, chez l'auteur, 1901. Two parts in one In-8 volume (150×230mm). Same binding as the previous volume. First edition with autograph dispatch. [2] L'Origine de la lumière et sa fonction génératrice. Paris, A.Maloine, 1915. In-8 (130×200mm), paperback. First edition with autograph dispatch. Louis-Charles-Émile Vial (1833-1917), Parisian pharmacist, art lover, philosopher of science and esotericist, considered a "literary madman". An exceptional collection of these curious, often delirious texts, now impossible to find.