BROWN Pierre. CRITICAL HISTORY OF SUPERSTITIOUS... Lot 381

BROWN Pierre. CRITICAL HISTORY OF SUPERSTITIOUS PRACTICES, which have seduced peoples, & embarrassed scholars. With the method and principles to discern the natural effects from those that are not. Second enlarged edition. PARIS, at the home of the Widow DELAULNE, 1732 - 1737. Four volumes, in-12, full contemporary bindings in brown calf. Spine with 5 cloisonné, floral and gilt nerves. Gilt arms at the foot of the spines. Gilded fillet on the cups, gilded lace on the hunting, red slices. Small wears on the corners, on the caps, dark spot on the first dish of volume II, on the second dish of volume III. Remains a good copy. Second edition greatly increased (the first one was only two volumes). Rare when complete as here of the fourth volume of supplement published 5 years after the first 3. Precious source of information on the occult sciences in their various manifestations. 4 figures out of text and 10 figures in the text, without the frontispiece. Caillet II, 6322.