Lettres cabalistiques,

ou corrispondence philosophique, historique, et critique, entre deux cabalistes, divers esprits elementaires, et le Seigneur Astaroth

  • La Haye: Pierre Paupie, 1741
By Boyer d'Argens, Jean Baptiste de, Marquis .
La Haye: Pierre Paupie, 1741. Nouvelle édition, augmentée de LXXX nouvelles lettres..... Good. Six volumes 12mo (16 cm). Title pages in red and black. Vignettes on title pages. Frontispiece portrait and full-page engraved allegory of Truth lifting the veil that conceals the Afterlife. Bound in full mottled calf, spines in six compartments decorated with gilt. Marbled edges and endleaves. Title labels no longer present. Spine ends worn and joints tender. Corners reinforced. Text clean, sound, and entire. Reference: Caillet, 1605.

Second, much enlarged edition of this anti-clerical, anti-religious epistolary fiction (non-narrative novel?) that was slapped onto the Index within a year of publication. Particularly venomous toward the Jesuit order.

Details

Title

Lettres cabalistiques,

Author

Boyer d'Argens, Jean Baptiste de, Marquis .

Condition

Good

Publisher

Pierre Paupie: La Haye

Date

1741

Edition

Nouvelle édition, augmentée de LXXX nouvelles lettres....


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