[PLUCHE, abbé Noël Antoine]. History of the... - Lot 58 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL

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[PLUCHE, abbé Noël Antoine]. History of the... - Lot 58 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL
[PLUCHE, abbé Noël Antoine]. History of the sky, in which the origin of idolatry is sought, and the misunderstandings of philosophy, on the formation of the celestial bodies and of all nature. Third edition. Paris, Veuve Estienne, 1742, 2 vol. in-12, XXXVII-(3)-518-(2) and (4)-495-(3) p., edition illustrated with a frontispiece drawn and engraved by J. Le Bas, as well as 25 figures by the same author. Bound in full brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt boxes and fleurons, as well as with tan morocco title-pieces and tomes. A fine copy (jaws restored). Well-known work on the cosmology of the ancients, which was reprinted many times, and which focuses essentially on the Egyptian cosmogony and its mythology as well as on the various ancient cosmogonies (zodiac, symbolic writing, symbolic gemonias, theogony, divination, alchemy). A second part, quite different, focuses on the chronology of ideas about creation and the superiority of that of Moses. Caillet places the book in his occult library, because it contains a lot of information on alchemy, divination, symbolic ceremonies...
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