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1707104326Strasbourg; Amsterdam: Jean Renault Doulssecker; Pierre Humbert 1707; 1709. Leather Bound. Fair. 2 volumes: 374 12; 459 11. Engraved frontispiece and black and red title page in volume 1. Full leather with gilt embellishment and titles on spines. All corners and edges worn covers rubbed spine tails chipped gilt wearing off spines hinges cracked. Front cover of vol. 1 detached. Bookplates for Sir Lister Holte of Aston in Warwickshire Bart. on front pastedowns. <br/><br/>Title continues: "Dans laquelle on réfute le Systéme de Mr. Van-Dale sur les Auteurs des Oracles du Paganisme sur la cause & le temps de leur silence; & où l'on établit le sentiment des Peres de l'Eglise sur le même sujet." Second volume title: "Suite de la Réponse a l'Histoire des Oracles Dans laquelle on réfute les objections inferees dans le XIII. Tome de la Biblioteque Choisie & dans l'Article II. de la République des Lettres du mois de Juin 1707; & où l'on étabit sur de nouvelles preuves le sentiment des SS. Peres touchant les Oracles du Paganisme." The author was a Jesuit father and was responding to Fontenelle's assertion that pagan oracles were the work of idolatrous priests only stopped under the first Christian emperors. Baltus contends that the oracles were the work of a demon and were silenced by the arrival of Jesus Christ. Fontenelle did not reply to this volume but Leclerc made a spirited critique to which Balthus responded in this second volume. French text. Jean Renault Doulssecker; Pierre Humbert hardcover