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1401 - VALLEMONT, Pierre Le Lorrain de. *La physique occulte ou traité de la baguette divinatoire …*, Paris (Jean Anisson) 1693. In-12°, contemporary tortoiseshell-patterned calf (heavily worn), gilt spine (top cap torn, gilding faded), marbled endpapers (one missing), pp. [xxviii] + 609, 24 woodcut figures signed 'P.L. S.' in the text, 12 full-page plates, copper-engraved headpiece on the dedication page. Text entirely browned. Handwritten note concerning Jacques Aymar’s divining rod on the second endpaper.
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VALLEMONT, Pierre Le Lorrain de. *La physique occulte ou traité de la baguette divinatoire …*, Paris (Jean Anisson) 1693. In-12°, contemporary tortoiseshell-patterned calf (heavily worn), gilt spine (top cap torn, gilding faded), marbled endpapers (one missing), pp. [xxviii] + 609, 24 woodcut figures signed 'P.L. S.' in the text, 12 full-page plates, copper-engraved headpiece on the dedication page. Text entirely browned. Handwritten note concerning Jacques Aymar’s divining rod on the second endpaper. Provenance Pierre Miche (signature on the endpaper) A modest copy of the first edition of this treatise by Jacques Aymar, the renowned dowser of St. Vérand Provenance: library of Jean-Nérée RONFORT (1943–2012)
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