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BEKKER, BALTHASAR. Le Monde Enchanté ou Examen des communs sentimens touchant les Esprits, leur nature, leur pouvoir, leur administration, & leurs opérations. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Bekker in Volume 1; 6 plates (one showing the Oldenburg horn, the rest depicting dowsing rod use) in Volume 4. [136], 387, [3]; [24], 733, [7]; [36], 484, [4]; [32], 727, [5] pages. 4 volumes. 12mo, 19th-century red straight-grain morocco by Francis Bedford, bound uniformly with lot 144; few minor marginal stains in Volume 4, contents otherwise clean. Bookplate of Charles Butler of Warren Wood, Hatfield. Amsterdam: Pierre Rotterdam, 1694
First edition in French of Bekker's controversial attack on belief in witchcraft and demonic possession, originally published in 1691-93 as De Betoverde Wereld. Caillet 915.
