COMTE DE GABALIS, OU ENTRETIENS SUR LES SCIENCES SECRÈTES. RENOUVELLÉ & AUGMENTÉ D'UNE LETTRE SUR CE SUJET [bound with:] LA SUITE DU COMTE DE GABALIS, OU NOUVEAUX ENTRETIENS SUR LES SCIENCES SECRETES, TOUCHANT LA NOUVELLE PHILOSOPHIE. OUVRAGE POSTHUME by [Villars, Abbé de (Nicolas-Pierre-Henri de Montfaucon)] - 1691
by [Villars, Abbé de (Nicolas-Pierre-Henri de Montfaucon)]
COMTE DE GABALIS, OU ENTRETIENS SUR LES SCIENCES SECRÈTES. RENOUVELLÉ & AUGMENTÉ D'UNE LETTRE SUR CE SUJET [bound with:] LA SUITE DU COMTE DE GABALIS, OU NOUVEAUX ENTRETIENS SUR LES SCIENCES SECRETES, TOUCHANT LA NOUVELLE PHILOSOPHIE. OUVRAGE POSTHUME
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Cologne: Pierre Marteau, [ca. 1691 and ca. 1703.] 16mo. Two volumes in one. 155;[2],150pp. In French. 18th or early 19th-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt spine rules, gilt leather label. First title page printed in red and black with armillary sphere device. Early inscriptions in flyleaf. Closely trimmed at fore-edge, touching some characters of text (with no loss). Joints expertly repaired, binding rubbed and moderately worn. Very good.
Early edition of the best known work of Henri de Montfaucon, Abbé de Villars (1635-1673), for which he is said to have been murdered by the Rosicrucians. This edition adds the Réponse à la lettre de Monseigneur to the 1670 original text and is bound with a posthumous sequel published ca. 1703 by Pierre Mortier in Amsterdam. The primary work, a satirical dialogue between a Cabalist and a skeptic, addresses the Paracelsan idea of the marriage of elemental spirits to human beings. It ostensibly unveiled Rosicrucian secrets, which may be what led to Villarss assasination on the road to Lyon in 1673. Despite its satirical nature, the book has been treated as a source for esoteric knowledge over the generations to the present day. F. Leigh Gardner describes it in that spirit in his BIBLIOTHECA ROSICRUCIANA:
"The chief figure in it is said to be taken from G. F. Borri, who is the imaginary Count de Gabalis; although written in a satirical vein yet it contains profound truths; possibly the author found it necessary in those days to disseminate knowledge in this fashion. It is also stated that Pope in his work, 'The Rape of the Lock,' obtained his ideas of the Elementaires and the general outline from this work."
The second title, whose true author is unknown, further pursues the theme of the marriage between elementals and human beings with a character named Jean le Brun. Gardner describes it as a Burlesque on the original work, and presumably only written to enable it to be sold on the reputation enjoyed by the re-issue of the original one.
A brief, but extremely important work in the history of occult literature, bound with a very rare edition of the Suite, for which OCLC records four copies. Main title: Caillet 7707 (noting editions printed with sphere and no date). Main title (other editions): Caillet 7701, Duveen,pp. 411-412, Gardner 556, Graesse, p. 59. Second title: Caillet 7709 (another edition), Gardner 562n.
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- Date Published 1691
- Keywords religion, occult, Cabala, Rosicrucians, Hermeticism, alchemy, Paracelsus, French language
ELECTA SACRA in quibus quam ex Latino, Graeco, ex Latino, Graeco et Hebraico fonte; quam ex Hebraeorum, Gentiliumque ritibus nonnulla divinarum litterarum loca aut novo explicatu donantur .. subque AGNO EUCHARISTICO ita de augustissimo, Deoque ipso diuite Eucharistiae sacramento, eius institutione, excellentia, laudibus .. mysteriis, figuris, ritibus .. ex prophana, & ex nostra schola mutuata publicae notitiae, utilitati publicae exponantur. His insertae variae formae Eucharisticae, ex multis orbis partibus ad nos transmissae, aeri incisae.
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L'USAGE DES GLOBES CELESTES ET TERRESTRES, ET DES SPHERES, SUIVANT LES DIFFERENS SYSTEMES DU MONDE. PRÉCEDÉ D'UN TRAITÉ DE COSMOGRAPHIE, OÙ EST EXPLIQUÉ AVEC ORDRE TOUT CE QU'IL Y A PLUS CURIEUX DANS LA DESCRIPTION DE L'UNIVERS, SUIVANT LES MEMOIRES & OBSERVATIONS DES PLUS HABILES ASTRONOMES & GEOGRAPHES. . .
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STORIA ECCLESIASTICA DALLO STABILIMENTO DELLA CHIESA SINO AL PRESENTE DIVISA PER SECOLI
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DE BETOVERDE WEERELD ["The World Bewitched"] ... [in four books; bound with:] ARTICULEN TOT SATISFACTIE AAN DE EERW. CLASSIS VAN AMSTERDAM, VAN BALTHASAR BEKKER, OVERGELEVERD DEN 22 JANUARY 1692
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La Sainte Bible traduite sur les textes originaux
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Nicolas Le Gros was an early 18th-century French Jansenist theologian who, in addition to numerous theology treatises, published an important French Bible translation based on the original Vulgate. According to Saebo, this 1739 Bible was second only to de Sacy's translation in readership throughout France.
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ELECTA SACRA in quibus quam ex Latino, Graeco, ex Latino, Graeco et Hebraico fonte; quam ex Hebraeorum, Gentiliumque ritibus nonnulla divinarum litterarum loca aut novo explicatu donantur .. subque AGNO EUCHARISTICO ita de augustissimo, Deoque ipso diuite Eucharistiae sacramento, eius institutione, excellentia, laudibus .. mysteriis, figuris, ritibus .. ex prophana, & ex nostra schola mutuata publicae notitiae, utilitati publicae exponantur. His insertae variae formae Eucharisticae, ex multis orbis partibus ad nos transmissae, aeri incisae.
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L'USAGE DES GLOBES CELESTES ET TERRESTRES, ET DES SPHERES, SUIVANT LES DIFFERENS SYSTEMES DU MONDE. PRÉCEDÉ D'UN TRAITÉ DE COSMOGRAPHIE, OÙ EST EXPLIQUÉ AVEC ORDRE TOUT CE QU'IL Y A PLUS CURIEUX DANS LA DESCRIPTION DE L'UNIVERS, SUIVANT LES MEMOIRES & OBSERVATIONS DES PLUS HABILES ASTRONOMES & GEOGRAPHES. . .
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STORIA ECCLESIASTICA DALLO STABILIMENTO DELLA CHIESA SINO AL PRESENTE DIVISA PER SECOLI
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DE BETOVERDE WEERELD ["The World Bewitched"] ... [in four books; bound with:] ARTICULEN TOT SATISFACTIE AAN DE EERW. CLASSIS VAN AMSTERDAM, VAN BALTHASAR BEKKER, OVERGELEVERD DEN 22 JANUARY 1692
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Nicolas Le Gros was an early 18th-century French Jansenist theologian who, in addition to numerous theology treatises, published an important French Bible translation based on the original Vulgate. According to Saebo, this 1739 Bible was second only to de Sacy's translation in readership throughout France.
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Le GROS, Nicolas [transl.]
La Sainte Bible traduite sur les textes originaux
Cologne, aux dépens de la Compagnie 1739. 1st edition
Details:
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IV, 884
· References: Saebo, Hebrew Bible Old Testament; p. 556
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