Author: LE BRUN, P.
Title: Histoire critique des pratiques superstiteuses, qui ont séduit les peuples, et embarrassé les savans. Av.frontisp., 2 ills.& 2 pl.
Description: Par.1750-51. 4 vols. Plein veau. Front., xcvi, 433, (23), 568, (22), (8), 567, xlvi, 530 pp. (cachets s.titre, mais un bel ex.) ¶The author deals with a wide range of superstitions, esp.the 'baguette divinatoire' or divining rod, of which he gives a full explication with illustrations. - Klinckowstroem 'Bibliographie der Wünschelrute', p.61 for the first ed.1702. Old owners entry: H. F. van Camp, 1779.

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