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Recueil De Dissertations Anciennes Et Nouvelles; Sur les Apparitions, les Visions & les Songes.
by Lenglet Du Fresnoy, Nicolas
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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Fallon, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
Avignon & Paris:: Jean-Noel Leloup,, 1751-2.. First Edition.. 12mo. 2 pts. in 4 vols.. Contemporary calf-backed, paste-paper decorated boards, minor shelf wear to edges, hinges cracked but strong, gilt rules on spines, title labels chipped, edges speckled in colors. Tiny annotation of p.277 of vol.4, otherwise text is clean, very nice copies. Lenglet DuFresnoy (1674-1755) French historian and first bibliographer of alchemy."His passion was to write, think, act, and live, with a kind of cynical freedom; and though badly lodged, clothed, and fed, he was still satisfied; liberty to say and write what he pleased; which liberty, however, he carried to so great an extreme, and so strangely abused, that he was sent to the bastille ten or twelve times."[Chalmers] Contains his long dissertation on apparitions as well as, selections from various works on examples of apparitions; legal documents relating to them and various other short pieces. Caillet 6498. Esoterica 2631. Cornell, Witchcraft, 344. Coumont L53.2. Yves-Plesses 403. Casanatense 725. Guaita 1544. Ouvaroff 1742.
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- Bookseller
- Dark Parks Books & Collectibles
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20190
- Title
- Recueil De Dissertations Anciennes Et Nouvelles; Sur les Apparitions, les Visions & les Songes.
- Author
- Lenglet Du Fresnoy, Nicolas
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jean-Noel Leloup,
- Place of Publication
- Avignon & Paris:
- Date Published
- 1751-2.
- Pages
- [12],clxii, [14],192; [4],287,[1]; [4],xii,336; [4],312p.
- Size
- 12mo. 2 pts. in 4 vols.
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About the Seller
Dark Parks Books & Collectibles
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Fallon, Nevada
About Dark Parks Books & Collectibles
Early english printed books specializing in occult, science, religion and oddities. We also have a strong emphasis on modern first editions of horror, sci-fi, and fantasy.
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