Abbé Grégoire - Histoire des sectes religieuses - 4
abbé Grégoire - Histoire des sectes religieuses qui sont nées, se sont modifiées, se sont éteintes dans les différentes contrées du globe, depuis le commencement du siÚcle dernier jusqu'à l'époque actuelle. Paris, Baudouin frÚres, . Half sheepskin, 4 octavo volumes, 463p, 431p, . Third edition of this book, which was put on the index. The book was published first in but was seized. Its small edition (50 copies) makes it extremely rare today. In , Grégoire publishes a second almost identical edition, with Grégoire having had to accept to replace a dozen passages forbidden by censorship. He reworked it to give the edition of reference here, which normally has 5 volumes (missing the last on foreign cults). The subjects are all possible sects: revolutionary cults (cult of reason, etc.), Theophilanthropy, illuminated, Convulsionnaires, cults of women, Camisards, various theosophists, Freemasons, Judaic cults, Rosenfelsiens, Schortinghuisiants, etc.The copy comes from the Vincentians of Dax (stamps on the title pages)A Saint-Simonien, Lazare Hippolyte Carnot, published in a 5th volume, but it is so rare that almost no bibliography mentions it.Half black sheepskin binding of the time, smooth back adorned, yellow edges, foxing in the margins mainly.Very rare work. Read More