SWEDENBORG, Emmanuel - Lot 125

SWEDENBORG, Emmanuel The Wonders of Heaven and Hell and the Planetary and Astral Lands A Berlin, J. Decker, 1782, two volumes bound in an in-8 volume, full contemporary calf, spine ribbed, ornamented, 304; IV, 382 pp. one errata leaf and one engraved frontispiece portrait. Old restorations to the headpieces, small epidermis to the bottom of the engraved portrait, foxing to the title page. Translated from the Latin by A.J.P. (Dom Pernety). Rare first edition of the translation. Dorbon 4720 "Dom A. J. Pernety, then librarian to Frederick II of Prussia, who founded the Sect des Illuminés d'Avignon, whose members professed the Swedenborgian doctrines allied to those of Guillaume Postel and practiced Alchemy". Caillet 10472. Guaita 2139.