[Rarebooks] FS: Fictitious imprint circa 1691 of Mountfacon de Villars" "Le Comte de Gabalis..."

[Kenneth Karmiole]

[Montfaucon de Villars, Nicolas de]. LE COMTE DE GABALIS, Ou Entretiens sur les Sciences Secretes. Renouvelle & Augments d'une Lettre sur Ce Sujet. Cologne: Chez Pierre Marteau. No date (ca. 1691). 12mo. 169,(1)pp. Cont. calf, gilt tooled spine with brown calf label. Covers rubbed & minor chips at extremities of spine, outer front hinge cracked but holding nicely.    $375.00 (trade discount allowed)
This is a fictitious imprint, probably printed in Holland; it had previously been published in Paris in 1670 and 1671 by Claude Barbin. There are 3 Cologne, Marteau, no date printings, of 155pp., 161pp., and 169pp. Caillet, Vol. 3, pp. 131-132.

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