Title: De charlataneria eruditorum declamationes duæ; autore J. B. Menckenio
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 8vo. ff. [2] (blank), pp. [14], 154, [6], f. [1] (plates), ff. [2] (blank). Signatures: a⁸(-a8) A-K⁸. Illustrated with an engraved plate. Includes an engraved vignette on title page, headpieces, tailpiece, and engraved initial. Contains a bookplate of Michel Chasles, the mathematician, Académician, and victim of Vrain-Denis Lucas.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">A classic of forgery criticism, ridiculing the credulous.</span></font><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/t3c16/alma991039130329707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>