PERNETY (Antoine-Joseph).

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PERNETY (Antoine-Joseph).
Dictionnaire portatif de peinture, sculpture et gravure (...). Paris, Bauche, 1757, in-12°, 120-505-(4) p., 8 folding plates, full brown calf of the time, spine decorated (spine damaged, corners worn). Antoine-Joseph Pernety (1716-1796), Benedictine of the Congregation of Saint-Maur, which he left to return to the lay state. Theosophist and alchemist. Chaplain of the Bougainville expedition. Curator of the Berlin Library, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Belles-Lettres of Prussia and of Florence, abbot of Burgell. Founder of the "Illuminated of Avignon", name of the masonic spiritual group "The Order of the New Jerusalem", based on the ideas of Swedenborg, whose works he translated.
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