[Esotericism] [MARÉCHAL Pierre-Sylvain]: Travels of Pythagoras in Egypt, Chaldea, India, Crete, Sparta, Sicily, Rome, Carthage, Marseilles and the Gauls, followed by his political and moral laws. Paris, Deterville, An seventh (1799). 6 volumes. 12 by 19,5 cm. (6)-XXIV456 ; (6)-471 ; (6)-448 ; (6)-464 ; (6)-455 ; (6)-489 + 4 (leaflets) pages. One large folding map. Full contemporary calf, smooth spine decorated, havana title page. Some light spotting on the boards, a small wormhole on the front cover of volume 3. Some old restorations in the margin of the map (not missing), two leaves with light wetness at the beginning of volume 4, and very rare foxing, otherwise good condition inside. First edition. For CAILLET, this is the most important work on Pythagoras. The work evokes Hermes, litanies of Venus, Prodigies of Egypt, teachings of the Priests of Memphis, the science of numbers, initiation and trials of Pythagoras, cult of Isis, cult of Mythras, Delphe, Pythagoras among the magi, Pythagoras among the Druids, etc. Volume VI is entirely devoted to the symbols and laws of Pythagoras. Six steel-engraved frontispieces after the author's drawings (complete) and a large folded map of the journey from Italy to India, returning through Arabia. A table of Pythagoreans and a detailed table of contents complete this account of Pythagoras' initiatory travels. Pythagoras is at the same time a great scientist (arithmetic, geometry, music, ), a philosopher, and a thaumaturgist at the origin of an initiatory brotherhood A rare book