BOULANGER M., “LAntiquité Dévoilée par Ses Usages, ou Examen critique des principales Opinions, Cérémonies et Institutions religieuses et politiques des différents Peuples de la Terre”, a Amsterdam, chez Marc Michel Rey, MDCCLXVI (1766). 3 volumes in 12-mo, XVI-400 pp.; (4)-404 pp. ; (4)-419-(1). COMPLETE. This book “was redone based on the original manuscript by Baron d’Holbach, with a biography of the author by Diderot, based on Grimm.” Caillet I, 1530. Several chapters are devoted to the mysteries of Eleusis, the oracles of the Sibyls, Sabianism or the worship of the stars, the astronomical and astrological visions of the ancients, the fears caused by eclipses, comets and other natural phenomena. Published the same year as the original quarto. Full speckled calfskin, smooth adorned spine with gold fleuron, title pieces and volume numbering in garnet Moroccan and dark brown labels respectively; insect’s marks on boards, slight rubbing on extremities. Marbled end papers, red edges, some foxing inside. Dorbon, 458. Tchemerzine, II, 715. Good copy.