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BALTUS (Jean-François). Réponse à l'histoire des Oracles de M. de Fontenelle, dans lequel on réfute le système de M. Van Dale sur les auteurs des Oracles du paganisme. Strasbourg, Doulsseker, 1707. Small in-8 of [42] 374 [13] pp. stiff ivory vellum, handwritten title on spine (contemporary binding). Title in red and black. Etched frontispiece signed J. A. Seupel. First edition. Jean-François Baltus (1667-1743), a learned Jesuit born in Metz and brother of Jacques Baltus, Master of the Church in Metz, taught literature in Dijon, theology in Strasbourg and directed several Jesuit colleges. In this work of Christian controversy, which made his name, he challenged Fontenelle's Histoire des Oracles (1687), in which the latter reports that oracles and miracles are the fruit of paganism and are merely superstitions that do nothing to strengthen Christianity, a view Baltus contests. From the library of the Jesuit College of Nancy, with handwritten bookplate on title: "Domus Probationis Nanceiana Soc. Iesu Catalogo inscriptus".

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BALTUS (Jean-François). Réponse à l'histoire des Oracles de M. de Fontenelle, dans lequel on réfute le système de M. Van Dale sur les auteurs des Oracles du paganisme. Strasbourg, Doulsseker, 1707. Small in-8 of [42] 374 [13] pp. stiff ivory vellum, handwritten title on spine (contemporary binding). Title in red and black. Etched frontispiece signed J. A. Seupel. First edition. Jean-François Baltus (1667-1743), a learned Jesuit born in Metz and brother of Jacques Baltus, Master of the Church in Metz, taught literature in Dijon, theology in Strasbourg and directed several Jesuit colleges. In this work of Christian controversy, which made his name, he challenged Fontenelle's Histoire des Oracles (1687), in which the latter reports that oracles and miracles are the fruit of paganism and are merely superstitions that do nothing to strengthen Christianity, a view Baltus contests. From the library of the Jesuit College of Nancy, with handwritten bookplate on title: "Domus Probationis Nanceiana Soc. Iesu Catalogo inscriptus".

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