1768 - 2 Volume Dictionary of Heresies
First published in 1762, the Dictionary of Heresies was a famous and influential work. It went through a dozen reprints until 1853. The book begins with the study of the "primitive religion of men", dwells on the advent of Christianity and continues until the sixteenth century. Pluquet analyzes at length the pagan cults of Antiquity, including Judaism and Eastern religions (Hinduism, Zoroastrians, Islam, etc.). The rest of the work constitutes the ‘dictionary’, which contains many detailed portraits (Hus, Abelard, Manes), descriptions of the Eastern Christian Churches (Abyssinians, Nestorians), and a large number of schisms, including the Luciferian schism and the Hebrew cabal.
The dictionary treats of numerous Christian sects and obscure heresies, from movements of social protest (Hussites, Lollards, Anabaptists) to those that gave rise to true "parallel" Churches (Arians, Albigensians, Bogomils, Waldensians). Entries can also be found on the Adamites, who lived naked, the Cainites, who worshiped Judah, the Valesians, who became eunuchs, and the Messalians, who, endowed with the faculty of seeing demons, engaged in intense, prolonged prayer in order to “crush” them. This is an engrossing and sometimes delightfully quirky two volume work in excellent condition with a gilded spine.
1768. François-André-Adrien Pluquet - Dictionnaire des hérésies, des erreurs et des schismes, précédé d'un Discours... Paris, chez Nyon: chez Barrois, chez P.Fr. Didot le Jeune, in-8 (18x11cm) 612+575 pp. Beautiful copy, well-made bindings in marbled sheepskin, ribbed spine decorated with 2 leather pieces and rich decoration with gilded irons, red edges. Decorative set, epidermure with missing head cap from volume 1, foot cap from volume 2 leveled. A few marks on the dishes, corners of the dishes trimmed. Fresh and clean interiors. In volume 1, there is a slight angular wetting on the last leaves. Some burnished leaves.
First published in 1762, the Dictionary of Heresies was a famous and influential work. It went through a dozen reprints until 1853. The book begins with the study of the "primitive religion of men", dwells on the advent of Christianity and continues until the sixteenth century. Pluquet analyzes at length the pagan cults of Antiquity, including Judaism and Eastern religions (Hinduism, Zoroastrians, Islam, etc.). The rest of the work constitutes the ‘dictionary’, which contains many detailed portraits (Hus, Abelard, Manes), descriptions of the Eastern Christian Churches (Abyssinians, Nestorians), and a large number of schisms, including the Luciferian schism and the Hebrew cabal.
The dictionary treats of numerous Christian sects and obscure heresies, from movements of social protest (Hussites, Lollards, Anabaptists) to those that gave rise to true "parallel" Churches (Arians, Albigensians, Bogomils, Waldensians). Entries can also be found on the Adamites, who lived naked, the Cainites, who worshiped Judah, the Valesians, who became eunuchs, and the Messalians, who, endowed with the faculty of seeing demons, engaged in intense, prolonged prayer in order to “crush” them. This is an engrossing and sometimes delightfully quirky two volume work in excellent condition with a gilded spine.
1768. François-André-Adrien Pluquet - Dictionnaire des hérésies, des erreurs et des schismes, précédé d'un Discours... Paris, chez Nyon: chez Barrois, chez P.Fr. Didot le Jeune, in-8 (18x11cm) 612+575 pp. Beautiful copy, well-made bindings in marbled sheepskin, ribbed spine decorated with 2 leather pieces and rich decoration with gilded irons, red edges. Decorative set, epidermure with missing head cap from volume 1, foot cap from volume 2 leveled. A few marks on the dishes, corners of the dishes trimmed. Fresh and clean interiors. In volume 1, there is a slight angular wetting on the last leaves. Some burnished leaves.
First published in 1762, the Dictionary of Heresies was a famous and influential work. It went through a dozen reprints until 1853. The book begins with the study of the "primitive religion of men", dwells on the advent of Christianity and continues until the sixteenth century. Pluquet analyzes at length the pagan cults of Antiquity, including Judaism and Eastern religions (Hinduism, Zoroastrians, Islam, etc.). The rest of the work constitutes the ‘dictionary’, which contains many detailed portraits (Hus, Abelard, Manes), descriptions of the Eastern Christian Churches (Abyssinians, Nestorians), and a large number of schisms, including the Luciferian schism and the Hebrew cabal.
The dictionary treats of numerous Christian sects and obscure heresies, from movements of social protest (Hussites, Lollards, Anabaptists) to those that gave rise to true "parallel" Churches (Arians, Albigensians, Bogomils, Waldensians). Entries can also be found on the Adamites, who lived naked, the Cainites, who worshiped Judah, the Valesians, who became eunuchs, and the Messalians, who, endowed with the faculty of seeing demons, engaged in intense, prolonged prayer in order to “crush” them. This is an engrossing and sometimes delightfully quirky two volume work in excellent condition with a gilded spine.
1768. François-André-Adrien Pluquet - Dictionnaire des hérésies, des erreurs et des schismes, précédé d'un Discours... Paris, chez Nyon: chez Barrois, chez P.Fr. Didot le Jeune, in-8 (18x11cm) 612+575 pp. Beautiful copy, well-made bindings in marbled sheepskin, ribbed spine decorated with 2 leather pieces and rich decoration with gilded irons, red edges. Decorative set, epidermure with missing head cap from volume 1, foot cap from volume 2 leveled. A few marks on the dishes, corners of the dishes trimmed. Fresh and clean interiors. In volume 1, there is a slight angular wetting on the last leaves. Some burnished leaves.