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Occulta - Vallemont, Pierre Lorrain de. The secret and inscrutable nature-detector, or: Accurate description of the divining-rod, therein contained the special use in discovering water-springs, metals, buried treasures, fugitive thieves and murderers. With 23 copper plates. Nuremberg, Otto, 1694. 7 p., 530 p. 16.5 x 10 cm. New half vellum binding. First German edition. - Klinckowstroem 56 - Graesse, Magica p. 37 - Classic of divining rod literature, first published in 1693 under the title "Traité de la Baguette Divinatoire". - "Vallemont's book is the most detailed and best known. He elaborated the corpuscular theory, based on Gassendi and Descartes, in the greatest detail and already describes the same type of depth determination that is still common today." (Klinkowstroem). - The engravings show diviners, hygrometers, camera obscura, magic lantern, etc. - Title page with small holes, slightly browned or stained. VAT: *
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Occulta - Vallemont, Pierre Lorrain de. The secret and inscrutable nature-detector, or: Accurate description of the divining-rod, therein contained the special use in discovering water-springs, metals, buried treasures, fugitive thieves and murderers. With 23 copper plates. Nuremberg, Otto, 1694. 7 p., 530 p. 16.5 x 10 cm. New half vellum binding. First German edition. - Klinckowstroem 56 - Graesse, Magica p. 37 - Classic of divining rod literature, first published in 1693 under the title "Traité de la Baguette Divinatoire". - "Vallemont's book is the most detailed and best known. He elaborated the corpuscular theory, based on Gassendi and Descartes, in the greatest detail and already describes the same type of depth determination that is still common today." (Klinkowstroem). - The engravings show diviners, hygrometers, camera obscura, magic lantern, etc. - Title page with small holes, slightly browned or stained. VAT: *
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