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VALLEMONT, Pierre le Lorrain abbé de. La Physique Occulte, ou Traité de la Baguette Divinatoire … Augmentée dans cette édition d’un Traité de la Connoissance des Causes Magnétiques des Cures Sympatiques, des Transplantations & comment agissent les Philtres.Paris, Jean Boudot, 1696 Small 8vo, mm. 140x80; Contemporary full calf binding, gilt titles and ornaments, sprayed edges; pp. [14], 422, 34, [8]; Red and Black Title page, 26 copper plates out text. Ancient marginal notes. Slight dampstain in the first and last quires, overall god copy.
Rare Second Edition Increased. This curious treatise is not just about dumbfounding, but more generally magnetic phenomena, in particular the 'magnetic cures': there is also talk of the compass, the dark room and the magic lantern, the mirrors, the barometers and the hygrometer, Of smoking tobacco. The boards show how to keep the stick wand and present the astronomical cadres that indicate the 7 periods in which the seven chopsticks corresponding to the seven metals must be prepared. Di notevole interesse l’antiporta allegorica e la tavola con una donna persiana che fuma il narghilè. Wheeler Gift: “This edition has an appendix which gives an account of the sympathetic telegraph”. Dorbon: “Cette édition est une des meilleures de cet ouvrage curieux”. Wheeler Gift, n. 206a;. Dorbon, n. 5042. No in Caillet. The lot is offered with a valid export license.