Author: ANONYMOUS (ARGENS, JEAN BAPTISTE DE BOYER)
Title: Lettres cabalistiques, ou correspondance philosophique, historique et critique, Entre deux Cabalistes, divers Esprits Elementaires, et le Seigneur Astaroth. Nouvelle édition, augmentée de LXXX Nouvelles Lettres, de Quantité de Remarques, et de plusieurs Figures. Complete set, 6 volumes
Description: La Haye, Chez Pierre Paupie, 1741. Small 8vo. (40),374 pp. (including frontispiece and portrait; (18),392; (12),395; (18),344; (4),350; (2) 244,(90). Internally very good. Contemp. halfleather, worn and partly damaged at joints. FRENCH. Second, augmented edition. The first edition appeared in 1737 in 4 vols. Marquis d'Argens, 1703-1771), freethinker, influenced by a.o. Pierre Bayle was very much interested in Spinoza. In this work work on all kinds of religions, superstition and philosophy. Spinoza and Spinozism are discussed at several places, a.o. Vol. 1, pp. 45-58 containing a dialogue between Spinoza and Mariana, the Spanish Jesuit historian of the sixteenth century. Caillet 1605. See Bamberger, Spinoza and anti-Spinoza, p. 217 and p. 157. See also Enc. Judaica 3, p. 408.

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