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BEAUMONT, JOHN. GLEANINGS OF ANTIQUITIES. Containing, I. An Essay for Explaining the Creation and the Deluge, According to the Sense of the Gentiles. In a Letter to a Learned Person. II. A Discourse of Oracles, Giving and Account of the Sibylline Oracles; with an
Uncommon Explication of Virgil's Fourth Eclogue, and Some Other Parts of his Works Relating to Them. To Which is Added, An Account of the Oracles Delivered at Delphos, and in the Other Temples of the Gentiles; and of the Rise and Cessation of Oracles, Both Among the Jews and Gentiles. III. Some Notes Concerning Familiar Spirits. London: W. Taylor, 1724. 8vo, vii, (1), 206pp, 1 woodcut in text, initials, head- and tail-pieces by F. Hoffman. Disbound, first few leaves frayed at corners, clean copy with some scattered browning of the first 12 leaves. ¶ First Edition. Apparently intended by Beaumont as a continuation of his Treatise of Spirits, Apparitions, Witchcraft, and other Magical Practices of 1705. Cf. Lowndes, vol I, p.138.
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