Entretiens Sur La Pluralite Des Mondes Habites - Collection Preferences by Le Bovier De Fontenelle Bernard - 1945-01-01

15x22. 1991. Broché. 138 pages.

in8. 1945. Broché. 301 pages. veuillez lire la description complète de nos annonces avec leur état . Envois en suivi pour la France et l'étranger

Paris: Armand Pougin, Librarie, 1839. Nouvelle ed.. Hardback very small (13.6 x 9.0 cm), good plus condition, cross-hatched leather cover (gilt edges & elaborate spine decoration), spine name label, marbled endpapers, pages lightly toned, minor foxing, owner's written names. 173 pp. By the French man-of-letters (1657 - 1757), a member of the French Academy. A series of six essays on astronomy ("Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds"), ranging from First Night to Sixth Night.

London : Chez Nourse, 1861. New edition. Hardcover. Poor copy in the original paper-covered boards. All edges red. Spine missing, with tape to covers. Panel edges rubbed as with age. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 386 pp. Subjects; Astronomy. France. History 1686. Cosmology.

Dijon: De L'Imprimerie de P. Causse, An 2 [del Calendario Repubblicano, 1793/1794]. Legatura rustica originale con tracce d'uso, abrasioni da scaffale, sfrangiature della carta che riveste i piatti sui bordi, fessura della stessa lungo la cerniera anteriore. Internamente completo e ben conservato, marginoso e fresco, carte bianche (eccetto piccolo alone sul margine delle carte 135 e 137 e macchiolina sul margine di pagina 143. Legatura modesta ma complessivamente genuino e ben conservato.. Rilegatura coeva d'attesa in cartone rustico ricoperto di carta azzurra, tassello manoscritto sul dorso, 8vo cm11x18.5, pp (4) 291 (1) + 12 di NOTICE De quelques livres qui se trouvent chez Ant. Aug. RENOUARD, rue Apolline, n°. 25, à Paris; all'antiporta ritratto inciso da Augustsin de St Auban dal busto di Ljean-Baptiste Lemoyne.

Paris: Menard et Desenne, Fils, 1818. Calf & Boards. Very Good. pp: (iv), xxiv, 194, (4); frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, folding plate with tissue guard at rear, depicting the solar system with Herschell [Uranus] as the eighth planet. Bound in calf-backed marbled boards; gilt spine rules, devices and title; ends of joints barely started, lacking the rear free endpaper. 6.75" x 3.75" This famous work, first published in 1686 and arranged as six lectures given over the course of six evenings, was "a lucid exposition of astronomy according to Copernicus and Descartes, enlivened by speculations concerning life on other planets and elegantly presented in the form of after-dinner conversations with a Maraquise. It represents the first major attempt to present scientific knowledge to the layman in an attractive literary form, and was highly successful." (Penguin Companion to European Literature).

Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, 1710. Book. Good. Hardback. New Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A good set of the two volumes in matching contemporary calf, gilt decoration to spines, these show some rubbing particularly Volume 2. Vol I with two colour title page with engraved city view, engraved frontispiece, 358pp. Vol II, Two colour title pages, 2 engraved frontispieces and a fold-out plate of the planets.140pp. + 159pp. Both volumes have early ink notes to rear endpapers relating to the volumes. Also both volumes bear the bookplate of "Fintray House Library". Fintray house is in Aberdeenshire and was home to the Forbes-Semptill family..

A Londres, Aux depends de Paul & Isaak Vaillant..., 1707. 2 volumes. 12mo, 155 x 86 mms., pp. [9], 10 - 181 [182 - 187 table, 188 - 192 blank]; [vi], 103 [104 blank]; [11], 12 - 119 [120 table]. Volume 2: [7], 8 - 160 - 167 Table, 168 blank]; [9], 10 - 150 [151 - 156 Table], title-pages in red and black, and with general title-page as half-title in each volume, 5 engraved frontispieces, and one folding engraved plate in Entretiens, contemporary calf, spines richly gilt in compartments, title in gilt on spines; some slight wear to binding, but a very good set. Fontenelle, who lived to the ripe old age of 99 (1657 - 1757), dying only one month short of his 100th birthday (unlikely to have had a telegram from the King, however), was an exceptionally gifted writer, at home with scientific, moral, and narrative works, as well as poetry. One of the oldest jokes about old age is attributed to him: "When, in his late nineties he met the beautiful Madame Helvétius, he reportedly told… Read More

AUGMENTÉS DES DIALOGUES DES MORTS. Par M. de Fontenelle, de l'Académie Françoise. NOUVELLE ÉDITION. A MARSEILLE, Chez Jean Mossy, Imprimeur du Roi, de la Marine, & Libraire, au Parc. M. DCC. LXXX. [1780]. Avec Permission. In 8º de 16,8x10,5 cm. Com x, [ii], 434 págs. Encadernação de inícios do século XIX, com ferros a ouro e rótulo na lombada. Cortes das folhas carminados. Ilustrado, em extratexto, com uma gravura desdobrável que representa o sistema solar, com o Sol, Mercúrio, Vénus, Terra, Marte, Júpiter e Saturno. A obra diálogo dos mortos começa na página 165 e tem folha de rosto própria com pé de imprensa igual ao da obra principal e com os seguintes títulos: Dialogues des morts anciens. Par M. de Fontenelle, des Académies, Françoise, des Sciences, des Belles-Lettres, de Londres, de Nancy, de Berlin & de Rome. Nouvelle édition. A 1ª edição dos Entretiens foi publicada em 1686 e conheceu nova edição em 1724. Obra sobre astronomia dividida em seis lições,… Read More