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BINET, BENJAMIN. Idée Générale de la Théologie Payenne, servant de Réfutation au Système de Mr. Bekker. [12], 227 pages. 12mo, 163x93 mm, 18th-century mottled calf gilt, spine rubbed, chipped at top, joints starting; contents toned, with scattered foxing. Bookplate of Arthur Brölemann. Amsterdam: Jean du Fresne, 1699
Second edition of Binet's 1696 Traité Historique des Dieux et des Démons du Paganisme, a refutation of Balthasar Bekker's De Betoverde Wereld, which had denied the reality of witchcraft and demonic possession. Caillet 1167; Seligmann, The Mirror of Magic, page 451; Yve-Plessis 254. bound with: [François, Laurent.] Examen du Catéchisme de l'Honête-Homme [sic]. viii, 182, [1] pages, including half-title and final leaf of errata. Brussels & Paris: chez Babuty, père, 1764. Attack on Voltaire's Catéchisme de l'Honnête-Homme. and: [Gauchat, Gabriel.] Catéchisme du Livre de l'Esprit. [2], 92 pages. Np, 1758.
