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68 3772 Occultism Mencke J B 68/3772 [Occultism]. Mencke, J.B. De Charlataneria eruditorum declamationes duae (...) accessit Epistola Sebastiani Stadelii ad Janum Philomusum de circumforanea literatorum vanitate. Amst., n.publ., 1716, 3rd ed., (4),VI,153[=253],(11)p., engr. frontisp., woodcut title-vignette, contemp. hvellum, sm. 8vo. - A few lvs. waterst. in lower (mostly blank) margin (i.a. title and frontisp.) Corners bumped; rubbed along extremities. Vellum soiled. = Goed. II, p.350, 5; Caillet 7367. One of the best known books by this Leipsic professor, in which he satirizes the idleness, the avarice, the quarreling and the jealousy of learned men. Nice frontispiece.