Mencke (Menken), Johann Burkhard. - De la charlatanerie des Savans. Avec des Remarques Critiques de differens Auteurs.A la Haye: Chez Jean van Duren, Marchand Libraire, 1721. 0. Hardcover. Duodecimo . [xxxviii], 242, [xxxviii]pp. Title-page in red-and-black. First edition in French. Quarter vellum over marbled boards. With an engraved frontispiece - with a speaker and tightrope walker on a stage and the public below. The inscription "Mundus vult decipi" on top. The title-page has an engraved vignette in the center, representing a monkey surrounded by the public, speaking on a stage and holding on his right hand a paper in which "Bubels" can be read. The inscription on the vignette reads: "Sic Deludimus Ineptos." The vignette is by B. Picart. Bibliotheca Esoterica 6291; Stanislas de Guaïta, Bibliothèque occulte 1611; Brunet, III, 1620. Very Good. USD 325.00 [Appr.: EURO 301.75 | £UK 259.5 | JP¥ 50657] Book number 2423is offered by:
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