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Demonologia - Baltus, Jean Francois
Réponse a l'Histoire des oracles de Mr. de Fontenelle, de l'Academie francoise. Dans laquelle on réfute le systéme de Mr. Van-Dale, sur les auteurs des Oracles du paganisme, sur la cause & le temps de leur silence, 1707
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Strasbourg, Renauld Doulssecker, 1707. In 8th. Beautiful intaglio engraved by J.A. Seupel, title page printed in red and black ink, woodblock mark, wooden engraved heads, ends and drop caps, sporadic small halos, ancient hand note at C5, coeval binding in calfskin, with title embossed in gold on the back with 5 nerves with decorations gilded phytomorphs, two library paper pieces, woodworm holes on the plates, small gap in the back, restored cap. Signature of belonging on the front and back of the title page.
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Original edition. Treatise in which the Jesuit Baltus (1667-1743) replies with disdain to the hypothesis formulated by Anthony Van Dale in De oraculis veterum ethnicorum dissertationes (1683) and subsequently by & nbsp; Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle in his & nbsp; Histoire des oracles & nbsp; (1687) according to which pagan oracles were simply the fruit of fiction and lies and were not instead aroused by diabolical forces.