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Abbé Noël Antoine PLUCHE Histoire du ciel, où l'on recherche l'origine de l'idolatrie, et les méprises de la philosophie, sur la formation des corps célestes & de toute la nature

Abbé Noël Antoine PLUCHE

Histoire du ciel, où l'on recherche l'origine de l'idolatrie, et les méprises de la philosophie, sur la formation des corps célestes & de toute la nature

Chez La veuve Estienne, à Paris 1742, in-12 (9,5x16cm), (2) xx (2.) 411pp. (2) et (4) 459pp., 2 volumes reliés.


First edition illustrated with a frontispiece drawn and engraved by J. Le Bas, and 25 figures by the same.
Contemporary binding in full blond calf. Back with five nerves adorned with caissons and gilded florets, as well as pieces of title and tonnage of Havana morocco. Cups and caps decorated with golden nets. All red slices.
A pale wetting on the margin of a few leaves at the end of the first volume. Nice copy.
A well-known work on the cosmology of the ancients and which has experienced many reeditions, and which focuses mainly on the Egyptian cosmogony and its mythology as well as the various ancient cosmogonies (zodiac, symbolic writing, symbolic gémonies, theogony, divination, alchemy). A second part, very different, is attached to the chronology of ideas on creation and to the superiority of that of Moses. Caillet arranges the book in his occult library, because it contains a lot of information on alchemy, divination, symbolic ceremonies ...

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