‎Fontenelle‎

‎FONTENELLE‎

‎BIBLIOTHEQUE POPULAIRE N°218 : LES ACADEMICIENS + Notice biographique et littéraire‎

‎HENRI GAUTIER. NON DATE. In-8. En feuillets. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 32 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 800-LITTERATURE (BELLES-LETTRES)‎

‎Classification Dewey : 800-LITTERATURE (BELLES-LETTRES)‎

Bookseller reference : R200079277

‎Fontenelle Sebastien‎

‎Casque bleu pour rien : Ce que j'ai vraiment vu en Bosnie‎

‎Jean-Claude Latt�s 1995. 22x14x2cm. Broch�. 138 pages. Jean-Claude Latt�s unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 89426

‎FONTENELLE B. LE B.‎

‎CHOIX D'ELOGES DE SAVANTS II. PHYSICIENS-MEDECINS. FACSIMIL. NOTICE PRELIMINAIRE DE D. BOUREL‎

‎PARIS: VRIN J. 1981. 1� edicion. . Encuadernacion original. NUEVO / NEW. FONTENELLE B. LE B. CHOIX D'ELOGES DE SAVANTS II. PHYSICIENS-MEDECINS. FACSIMIL. NOTICE PRELIMINAIRE DE D. BOUREL. PARIS 1981 228 p. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo. <br/> <br/> VRIN, J. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 58560

‎Fontenelle‎

‎Choix D`Eloges De Savants. TWO VOLUME SET. 1. Mathematiciens-Philosophes & Volume 2. Physciens-Medecins.‎

‎Paris: J. Vrin 1981. TWO VOLUME SET softcover 253 & 227 pages ex reference library with the usual marks otherwise very good clean and complete. shelf 205. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Ex- Reference Library. J. Vrin Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 76205

‎Fontenelle Bernard de; Lalande Jerome de Editor; Gunning Elizabeth Translator;‎

‎Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds‎

‎Tiger of the Stripe 2008-11-14. Paperback. Very Good. Tiger of the Stripe paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 190479937X-2-17143369 ISBN : 190479937X 9781904799375

‎Fontenelle Bernard de; Lalande Jerome de Editor; Gunning Elizabeth Translator;‎

‎Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds‎

‎Tiger of the Stripe 2008-11-14. Paperback. Acceptable. FAST SHIPPING!! No CD Included. Access code may be previously used. Heavy wear wrinkling creasing or tears on cover and spine. Heavy writing and highlighting. Cover has used book stickers or residue. Marker on cover or bottom edge of book. Book may have additional damage or defects not listed above. Tiger of the Stripe paperback‎

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‎Fontenelle M. de Bernard Le Bovier‎

‎Conversations on the plurality of worlds 1761 Leather Bound‎

‎2019. Leather Bound. New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine. Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition published long back 1761. This book is printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Lang: - eng Pages 278. EXTRA 10 DAYS APART FROM THE NORMAL SHIPPING PERIOD WILL BE REQUIRED FOR LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. FOLIO EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE. hardcover‎

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‎Fontenelle M. de Bernard Le Bovier Gunning Miss Elizabeth tr Lalande Joseph Je?ro?me Le Franc?ais de‎

‎Conversations on the plurality of worlds 1803 Leather Bound‎

‎2019. Leather Bound. New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine. Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition published long back 1803. This book is printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Lang: - eng Pages 188. EXTRA 10 DAYS APART FROM THE NORMAL SHIPPING PERIOD WILL BE REQUIRED FOR LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. FOLIO EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE. hardcover‎

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‎Fontenelle M. de Bernard Le Bovier‎

‎Conversations on the plurality of worlds / by M. de Fontenelle ; translated from the last edition of the French ; illustrated with notes collected from the most approved writers ; and containing all the late discoveries in astronomy ; together with copper-plates. 1761 Hardcover‎

‎2020. Hardcover. New. Lang: - eng Pages 274. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1761. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. hardcover‎

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‎Fontenelle M. de Bernard Le Bovier‎

‎Conversations on the plurality of worlds. By Monsieur Fontenelle. Translated from the last Paris ed. Wherein are many improvements throughout; and some new observations on several late discoveries which have been made in the heavens. By William Gardiner esq. 1715‎

‎2020. Paperback. New. Lang: - eng Pages 216. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1715. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Soft Cover HARDCOVER EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. paperback‎

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‎Fontenelle Bernard le Bovier Sieur de‎

‎CONVERSATIONS ON THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS . Translated from the Last Paris Edition. Wherein are Many Improvements Throughout; and Some New Observations on Several Late Discoveries Which Have Been Made in the Heavens. By William Gardiner Esq‎

‎London: Printed for A. Bettesworth 1715. 12mo pp. 1-12 1-192; collates A 6 B-I 12 frontispiece eighteenth-century brown leather front and rear panels ruled and tooled in blind four raised bands on spine panel no title label. The first printing of the Gardiner edition. Fontenelle's ENTRETIENS SUR LA PLURALITE DES MONDES his most famous and frequently reprinted and translated book was first published in 1686. It is "the first example in French of a learned work placed within the reach of an educated but non specialized public." - DSB V 59. A popular account of the systems of Ptolemy Copernicus and Tycho Brahe in dialogue form the treatise "awakened general interest in astronomy and popularized the scientific system of inquiry; it also emphasized the small space occupied by man and this planet relatively to the rest of the universe. The work was ridiculed by Voltaire though it suggested his MICROMEGAS." - The Oxford Companion to French Literature 1959 p. 278. The first of the three seventeenth-century English translations was A DISCOURSE OF THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS . Translated into English by Sir W. D. Knight. Dublin: Printed by Andr. Crook and Sam. Helsham for William Norman 1687. The first edition of the Glanvill translation containing five dialogues was published in 1688 the same year Aphra Behn's translation of Fontenelle's book A DISCOVERY OF NEW WORLDS was published in London by William Canning. This Gardiner translation first published in 1715 is the first edition to include a translation of Fontenelle's sixth dialogue. "In all the literature of the cosmic voyage there was no book more popular than Fontenelle's CONVERSATIONS OF THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS. Translated again and again it seemed to the British peculiarly their own book read for at least a century both by men and by those 'ladies' of whom we have many a description one of whom would read it aloud to others who were busily engaged in making strawberry jam. This was a book indeed that warranted a subtitle I once discovered in an eighteenth-century popularization of astronomy: 'Science made clear to the Meanest Capacities even those of Women and Children.'" - Nicolson Voyages to the Moon pp. 58-9. Fontenelle's book "became a seminal influence on proto science fiction . This is one of the earliest works ever written popularizing science notably astronomy for the layman which it does by wittily presenting its speculations -- many about the possibility of life on other worlds -- in the form of conversations after dinner between the author and a marquise." - Clute and Nicholls eds The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction 1993 p. 437. "A great stimulant to utopian speculations and science fiction." - Gibson and Patrick "Utopias and Dystopias 1500-1750" in Gibson St. Thomas More: A Preliminary Bibliography 1961 683. See Ley Rockets Missiles and Space Travel 1951 pp. 22-4 and Ley Rockets Missiles and Men in Space 1968 pp. 21-2 for a good summary of the book. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years p. 853. Howgego Encyclopedia of Exploration: Invented and Apocryphal Narratives of Travel F16. Negley Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 371. Versins Encyclopédie de l'Utopie des Voyages Extraordinaires et de la Science Fiction pp. 341-42. NCBEL II 1513. An early important and scarce edition of this classic work. A lovely copy. Enclosed in a custom quarter leather rounded back clamshell box. #160304 Printed for A. Bettesworth unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 160304

‎Fontenelle M. de Bernard Le Bovier‎

‎Conversations on the plurality of worlds by M. de Fontenelle. 1809 Hardcover‎

‎2020. Hardcover. New. Lang: - eng Pages 170. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1809. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1111009845212

‎Fontenelle M. de Bernard Le Bovier Gardiner William‎

‎Conversations on the plurality of worlds 1715 Hardcover‎

‎2020. Hardcover. New. Lang: - eng Pages 220. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1715. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. hardcover‎

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‎Fontenelle M. de Bernard Le Bovier‎

‎Conversations on the plurality of worlds 1761 Hardcover‎

‎2020. Hardcover. New. Lang: - eng Pages 278. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1761. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. hardcover‎

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‎Fontenelle M. de Bernard Le Bovier Gardiner William‎

‎Conversations on the plurality of worlds 1715‎

‎2020. Paperback. New. Lang: - eng Pages 220. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1715. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Soft Cover HARDCOVER EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. paperback‎

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‎Fontenelle Bernard le Bovier Sieur de‎

‎CONVERSATIONS WITH A LADY ON THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS. Written in French by M. Fontenelle Author of the Dialogues of the Dead. Translated by Mr. Glanvill. The Fourth Edition. With the Addition of a Sixth Conversation. To Which is Also Added a Discourse Concerning the Antients and Modern. Written by the Same Author: and Translated by Mr. Hughes‎

‎London: Printed by J. Darby 1719. 12mo pp. i-iii iv-x xi-xii 1-176 177-178 179-211 212: blank 213-216: ads two inserted plates one folded early full paneled calf spine panel tooled in gold and blind brown leather title label affixed to spine panel. The fourth edition of the Glanvill translation with additions. Fontenelle's ENTRETIENS SUR LA PLURALITE DES MONDES his most famous and frequently reprinted and translated book was first published in 1686. It is "the first example in French of a learned work placed within the reach of an educated but non specialized public." - DSB V 59. A popular account of the systems of Ptolemy Copernicus and Tycho Brahe in dialogue form the treatise "awakened general interest in astronomy and popularized the scientific system of inquiry; it also emphasized the small space occupied by man and this planet relatively to the rest of the universe. The work was ridiculed by Voltaire though it suggested his MICROMEGAS." - The Oxford Companion to French Literature 1959 p. 278. The first of the three seventeenth-century English translations was A DISCOURSE OF THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS . Translated into English by Sir W. D. Knight. Dublin: Printed by Andr. Crook and Sam. Helsham for William Norman 1687. The first edition of the Glanvill translation containing five dialogues was published in 1688 the same year Aphra Behn's translation of Fontenelle's book A DISCOVERY OF NEW WORLDS was published in London by William Canning. A later translation by Gardiner was first published in London by Bettesworth and E. Curll in 1715. "In all the literature of the cosmic voyage there was no book more popular than Fontenelle's CONVERSATIONS OF THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS. Translated again and again it seemed to the British peculiarly their own book read for at least a century both by men and by those 'ladies' of whom we have many a description one of whom would read it aloud to others who were busily engaged in making strawberry jam. This was a book indeed that warranted a subtitle I once discovered in an eighteenth-century popularization of astronomy: 'Science made clear to the Meanest Capacities even those of Women and Children.'" - Nicolson Voyages to the Moon pp. 58-9. Fontenelle's book "became a seminal influence on proto science fiction . This is one of the earliest works ever written popularizing science notably astronomy for the layman which it does by wittily presenting its speculations -- many about the possibility of life on other worlds -- in the form of conversations after dinner between the author and a marquise." - Clute and Nicholls eds The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction 1993 p. 437. See Ley Rockets Missiles and Space Travel 1951 pp. 22-4 and Ley Rockets Missiles and Men in Space 1968 pp. 21-2 for a good summary of the book. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years p. 853. Howgego Encyclopedia of Exploration: Invented and Apocryphal Narratives of Travel F16. See Negley Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 368 one copy of this edition recorded. Versins Encyclopédie de l'Utopie des Voyages Extraordinaires et de la Science Fiction pp. 341-42. CBEL II 1513. Recently rebacked to style text paper tanned some scattered foxing but overall a clean tight very good copy. A nice copy of a scarce edition of this classic work. #153244 Printed by J. Darby unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 153244

‎Fontenelle Bernard Le Bovier De‎

‎Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds‎

‎University Of California Press 1990. Paperback. Good. some notes and underlining to text. <br/><br/> University Of California Press paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 52037 ISBN : 0520071719 9780520071711

‎FONTENELLE‎

‎CORNEILLE - CHEFS-D'OEUVRE PRECEDES DE LA VIE DE PIERRE CORNEILLE : LE CID. HORACE. CINNA. POLYEUCTE. POMPEE. LE MENTEUR.‎

‎E. DUCROCQ. NON DATE. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Plats abîmés, Dos abîmé, Mouillures. 435 pages. Trace de mouillures sans réelle conséquence sur la lecture. Tampon sur le premier plat, la page de titre et la page 25. Coins frottés et pliés.. . . . Classification Dewey : 928-Ecrivains‎

‎BIBLIOTHEQUE DES LYCEES ET DES COLLEGES. Classification Dewey : 928-Ecrivains‎

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‎Fontenelle M. de Bernard Le Bovier . n Bode Johann Elert . n‎

‎Dialogen uber die Mehrheit der Welten 1780 Leather Bound‎

‎2019. Leather Bound. New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine. Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition published long back 1780. This book is printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Lang: - ger Pages 396. EXTRA 10 DAYS APART FROM THE NORMAL SHIPPING PERIOD WILL BE REQUIRED FOR LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. FOLIO EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE. hardcover‎

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‎Fontenelle M. de Bernard Le Bovier‎

‎Dialogen uber die mehrheit der welten mit anmerkungen und kupfertafeln von J.E. Bode. 1780 Hardcover‎

‎2020. Hardcover. New. Lang: - ger Pages 410. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1780. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. hardcover‎

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‎Fontenelle Bernard Le Bovier‎

‎Dialogen ã1â„4ber die Mehrheit der Welten 1780 Leather Bound‎

‎2019. Leather Bound. New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine. Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition published long back 1780. This book is printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Lang: - German Pages 386. EXTRA 10 DAYS APART FROM THE NORMAL SHIPPING PERIOD WILL BE REQUIRED FOR LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. FOLIO EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE. hardcover‎

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‎Fontenelle Bernard Le Bovier‎

‎Dialogen ã1â„4ber die Mehrheit der Welten 1780 Hardcover‎

‎2020. Hardcover. New. Lang: - German Pages 386. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1780. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. hardcover‎

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‎Fontenelle M. de Bernard Le Bovier‎

‎Dialogen �ber die mehrheit der welten. Mit anmerkungen und kupfertafeln von Johann Elert Bode . 1780 Hardcover‎

‎2020. Hardcover. New. Lang: - ger Pages 428. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1780. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. hardcover‎

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‎Fontenelle M. de Bernard Le Bovier‎

‎Dialogues of Fontenelle / translated by Ezra Pound 1917 Hardcover‎

‎2020. Hardcover. New. Lang: - eng Pages 60. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back 1917. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover Printed on high quality Paper re-sized as per Current standards professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set then it is only single volume if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. hardcover‎

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‎FONTENELLE Bernard Le Bouyer de 1657 1757‎

‎Dialogues of the Dead In Three Parts. I. Dialogues of the Antients. II. The Antients with the Moderns. III. The Moderns. Translated from the French. With a Reply to some Remarks in a Critique call'd The Judgment of Pluto &c. And Two Original Dialogues‎

‎London: Printed for Jacob Tonson within Grays-Inn Gate next Grays-Inn 1708. Full Calf. Near Fine. First edition of this translation by John Hughes superseding that of Dryden. 8vo; 2 l 2 209 1pp with a finely engraved frontispiece. Bound in contemporary or slightly later 18th-century Cambridge-paneled calf the spine richly gilt in six compartments divided by raised bands with a red leather lettering piece in the second. The joints very skillfully mended a Near Fine copy the pages bright and fresh. ESTC Citation No. T139460. The Dialogues modeled on the dialogues of Lucian unite in conversation figures from antiquity such as Socrates and Aristotle with more recent personages including Erasmus and Montaigne to discuss the literary and philosophical developments of Fontenelle's day. First published anonymously in 1683 Dialogues des morts and Nouveaux dialogues des morts were Fontenelle's first works and ignited his reputation which was consolidated three years later with Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes through which he popularized Copernicus's heliocentric model of the Universe. To this edition John Hughes contributes both an appreciation and assessment of Fontenelle as well as two dialogues of his own. Printed for Jacob Tonson, within Grays-Inn Gate next Grays-Inn unknown‎

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