[VALLEMONT (Pierre Le Lorrain, abbé de)]

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[VALLEMONT (Pierre Le Lorrain, abbé de)]
Occult Physics, or Traité de la baguette divinatoire. The Hague, Adrien Moetjens, 1762. 2 volumes in-12, blond calf, golden castor, smooth decorated back, black title and tomaison pieces, inner Greek, golden slices (Bozerian). Caillet, n°10988. 24 intaglio figures, including a frontispiece for Volume I, some plates showing how to hold the divinatory rod and 8 others indicating the periods of the year when the rod must be cut to find various kinds of metals. The work, by a physicist born and died in Pont-Audemer (Eure), was first published in 1693. Charming binding of young Bozerian, executed around 1800. Minimal friction.
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