Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Swedenborg, Emanuel. Traité curieux des charmes de l’amour conjugal dans ce monde et dans l’autre.

23 leaves, pp. (3)–206. 12mo. Contemp. marbled boards. – Berlin and Basel, George-Jacques and J. Henri Decker, 1784.

First French edition of Swedenborg’s (1688–1772) „Delitiae sapientiae de amore conjugali“ (1768), a treatiese about the conjugal love between man and woman after death, when they become one being as an andogynous angel. The translator given on the title page is Brumore, while other sources say that it was Guyton de Morveau. – Some bronwing to paper, a nice copy in all. – Best.-Nr. 18818