Author: Bekker, Balthasar.
Title: Le monde enchante: ou, Examen des communs sentimens touchant les esprits, leur nature, leur pouvoir, leur administration, & leurs operations. Et touchant les efets que les hommes sont capables de produire par leur communication & leur vertu, ...
Description: A Amsterdam: Chez Pierre Rotterdam, libraire sur le Vygendam, 1694, 0. Hardcover. Duodecimo. Four volumes. I: [lxviii]ff. 387, [v]pp.; II: [xii]ff. 733, [vii]pp.; III: [xviii]ff. 484, [iv]pp.; IV: [xvi]ff. 727, [ix]pp. [last leaf blank]. I: *8, **12-******12, A12-Q12, R4; II: *12, A12-Z12, AA12-FF12; III: *12, **6, A12-U12, X4; IV:*12, **4, A12-Z12, AA12-GG12, HH8. Final leaf of volume one is the errata. Includes indexes. Volumes 2-4 have special title-pages. Contemporary mottled calf, repaired. All edges gilt. Volune one has metalcut frontispiece portrait of the author and six plates in volume four. From the library of Frances Mary Richardson Currer, with her bookplate in each volume. This item may not be in the catalogue compiled by Charles James Stewart, "A Catalogue of the Library collected by Miss Richardson Currer at Eshton Hall, Craven, Yorkshire." Caillet 915; Graesse, Bibliotheca Magica 62; Cornell, Witchcraft 42. Good.

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