BEBESCOURT] - The Mysteries of Christianity radically deepen - Lot 205

BEBESCOURT] - The Mysteries of Christianity radically deepened, and recognized as physically true. London, P. Elmsly, 1771. 2 vol. in-8, front, (7) ff. of which errata, 431 pp.; front, (2) ff., 403 pp., errata, 4 vignettes after Gravelot, fawn calf gran. de l'ép., smooth ornamented back, flattened caps, coat of arms in the centre of the plates, two of these have been scratched. CAILLET n°893 : ''This astonishing work of which Moët, the translator of Swedenborg was the only one to know the author, very rare in the past, is now untraceable. Entirely based on the Cabala, whose profound mechanism is revealed in each line, this monument of singular erudition leads to incredible and astounding conclusions''. With the arms of Le Roux d'Esneval, mortar president of the Rouen parliament in 1770 (O-H pl. 196).