(PLUCHE, N. A.)

Histoire du Ciel considéré selon les idées des poëtes, des philosophes, et de Moise. 2 vols.

A la Haye, Neaulme, 1740.

8vo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary full calf binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Light wear to extremities, with a few wormholes and scratches to boards and spine. Ex-libris (Carl Juel, Danish statesman and owner of Valdemar's Castle) to verso of front boards. Vague dampstain to upper outer corner of of first 30 pp. in vol. 2, otherwise internally nice and clean. (III)-XIX, 456 (wrongly numbered 156) pp. + frontispiece and 22 plates; (2), 495, (3), 143 pp. + 1 plate.

Second edition of this treatise on cosmology, mythology, creation and religion versus science.

Order-nr.: 60762