La Physique occulte, ou traité de la baguette divinatoire

by Pierre le Lorrain de Vallemont

$1,800 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

The Hague: 1747. 2 vols. 12mo. xxv , 275; ii , 246 pp. Engraved frontispiece and 23 full-page engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf, spine and labels gilt, edges marbled blue. Old signatures on the titles. A very nice set. Item #20078 A mechanistic and scientific approach to dowsing and magnetism, the first French book published on the subject. Here the author attempts to remove occultism from the practice by posturing that the circulating

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