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[BAYLE, PIERRE.] Pensées Diverses, ecrites à un Docteur de Sorbonne, à l'Occasion de la Comète qui parut au Mois de Decembre 1680.<> 4 volumes in 2. 12mo, contemporary calf, gilt spine lettering and decoration mostly rubbed off; wormhole in blank lower margins through most of Volume 1/2, another wormhole in outer margins through the first quarter affecting some sidenotes. Contemporary armorial bookplates of Sir William Baird of Newbaith, Bart. Rotterdam: Reinier Leers, 1704-05
Rationalist attack on supersitition with anti-Catholic overtones first published in 1682, taking as its point of departure a discussion of the belief in comets as portents of disaster. Thorndike VIII, 338-40.<
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