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réf. 62848Kiøbenhavn Trykt hos N. Møller 1764. 8vo. I samtidigt hellæderbind med forgyldt titel og ornamentik på ryg og rødt snit. Udvendig med en smule slitage indvendig sporadisk brunplettet. Titel-blad beskåret i nedre margin uden tab af tekst. Tidligere ejernavne på forsatsblade. 1-335 pp. med 14 træsnit af planetbaner månefaser og andre astrologiske fænomener i teksten. Andet oplag af den danske oversættelse af Fontenelle's "Entretiens sur la pluralité des Mondes". unknown
1793réf. 62726Dijon Imprimerie de P Causse An 2 1793. 8vo. In contemporary half calf. Wear to extremities. Ex-libris pasted down to pasted down front end-paper and previous owner's name to front free end-paper. First and last leaves with light browning and a small stain to upper margin but generally internally nice and clean. 4 291 pp. unknown
1929réf. 030848London: The Nonesuch Press 1929. Book. Illus. by T.L. Poulton. Near Fine. Soft cover. Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Full vellum wraps gilt bottom front cover bumped faintly soiled. Limited edition 814 of 1200. Pages uncut. Interior crisp and clean. Translated from French by John Glanvill. This book of philosophy for women masquerades as fiction. The Nonesuch Press Paperback
1727réf. 59036Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1727. 4to. Fine contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Tome- and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Gilt borders on covers. A small nick in leather at upper compartmen. Light wear to foot of spine. 26548 pp. 1 folded engraved plate. Clean and fine. The offered item includes the entire volume of "Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Sciences. Années MDCCXXV. Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1727" of which the memoir of Fontenelle is printed as a "suite". With the engraved frontispiece. 61543542 pp. 14 partly folded engraved plates. Original papers by: Maraldi Petit Nicole Winslow du Fay Pitot Delisle d'Aine Geoffroy le Cadet Reaumur Nicole Cassini de Mairan Saurin de Lagny Fizes. First edition. "In 1727 as a "Suite des mémoires de l’Académie royale des sciences" he published the Élémens de la géométrie de l’infini. Some doubted whether it was really the work of a mathematician but the author believed it was and attached great value to it. He had worked on it for a long time probably since the period of his preface to the Analyse des infiniment petits. The term élémens is to be understood in the sense of "first principles." According to Fontenelle none of the geometers who had invented or employed the calculus of infinity had given a general theory of it; that is what he proposed to do. The work is divided into a preface relating the history of this branch of calculus and into two main parts: "Système général de l’infini" and "Différentes applications ou remarques." The author discusses "the infinite in series or in progressions of numbers" and then examines "the infinite in straight and curved lines" in the words of the Abbé Terrasson who reviewed the work in the Journal des sçavans July-October 1728." There was a great deal of discussion in the scientific community about this work in which mathematicians found numerous paradoxes. Johann I Bernoulli for example in his correspondence with Fontenelle allowed his criticisms to show through his praise: he did not understand what was meant by finis indéterminables. Fontenelle attempted to defend his theory and above all his distinction between metaphysical infinity and geometric infinity: one must ignore the metaphysical difficulties in order to further geometry and the finis indéterminables ought to be considered "as a type of hypothesis necessary until now in order to explain several phenomena of the calculus" letter to Johann I Bernoulli 29 June 1729. "The orders of infinite and indeterminable quantities like the magnitudes that they represent are only purely relative entities hypothetical and auxiliary. The subject matter of mathematics is only ideal" according to the terms of a "Projet de rapport" of Dortous de Mairan to the Academy on this work." DSB. hardcover
1769réf. 59212No Place No Publisher 1769. Contemp. boards. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Light wear along edges and spine-ends. Scattered brownspots. hardcover
1744réf. 69229à La Haye The Hague: Chez Pierre Gosse 1744. Fine. Chez Pierre Gosse à La Haye The Hague 1744 10 x 17 cm relié First edition illustrated with a captioned and unsigned frontispiece and a title vignette bearing the motto on a banderole: Illuminat et foecundat. Title page in red and black. Dutch binding in full brown morocco of the period. Spine with raised bands decorated with compartments tooled in blind. Brown morocco title-label tooled in blind. Some rubbing. Half-title and frontispiece partially detached. Handsome copy. Fontenelle's maxims and thoughts are grouped under different themes: Man happiness on literary matters on different sciences. Chez Pierre Gosse hardcover
1732réf. 69103à Paris: Chez Jean-Baptiste Coignard 1732. Fine. Chez Jean-Baptiste Coignard à Paris 1732 26 x 40 cm 2 volumes reliés New edition corrected and expanded by Fontenelle. Volume I extends from A to L volume II from M to Z. 2 title vignettes and engraved initials by Mariette. Title pages in red and black. Printed in 2 columns. Armorial copy with arms completely scraped away. One can still distinguish an anchor in the shield and a shell at the upper right of the anchor. Contemporary full brown calf binding. Spine with raised bands richly decorated with central fleuron and scattered stars. Title and volume labels in garnet morocco. Split headcaps. Joints cracked at head and foot. Corners very bumped and worn. Lacks to edges along the raised bands. This dictionary of terms used in the sciences and arts originally appeared in 1684. Fontenelle corrected numerous errors and approximations in it notably due to a certain lack of knowledge of the origin of words particularly Greek ones. Fontenelle further extended the dictionary to other fields natural sciences with birds fish but also religious and military orders certain words from old French. His work ranks him among the first encyclopedists of the 18th century. Chez Jean-Baptiste Coignard hardcover
1764réf. 57289Kiøbenhavn Trykt hos N. Møller 1764. 8vo. I samtidigt hellæderbind med forgyldt titel og ornamentik på ryg og blågrønt snit. Lille papirmerkat påklistret ryggen. Udvendig med en smule slitage ellers pænt eksemplar. 1-335 pp. med 14 træsnit af planetbaner månefaser og andre astrologiske fænomener i teksten. Andet oplag af den danske oversættelse af Fontenelle's "Entretiens sur la pluralité des Mondes" unknown
1727réf. 171224to. Cont. full calf. 5 raised bands and richly gilt compartments. Faint scratches on covers. Corners and edges a little rubbed. 2 small holes in leather at sides of upper compartment. 26548 pp. and 1 folded engraved plate. Engraved vignette. On good paper. First edition of the well-known French philosopher and mathematician's main mathematical work. Fontenelle author of "The Plurality of Worlds" claims here that Geometry is entirely intellectual and independent of the actual decription and existence of figures following more the conceptions of Descartes than those of Newton. hardcover
1727réf. 35645La Haye P. Gosse & J. Neaulme 1727. Small8vo. Contemporary full calf. Covers with large gilt arms with lions. Gilt back in 6 compartments. A few small nicks to covers. 12180 pp. Some browning to leaves. unknown
1727réf. 2790Nouvelle Edition revue & corrigée par l'Aute ur. A la HayeP.Gosse & J.Neaulme1727. Cont.fu11 calf. Gi1t ba ck. Coat of arms in gold on both sides. 12180 pp. unknown
1701réf. 33569Amsterdam Pierre Mortier 1701. Small 8vo. Bound together in one cont full calf rubbed and tear to fronthinge not detached.14140 - 12159 pp. 2 engraved frontispieces. 1 large folded plate. second frontispiece cut close to edges and loose title beneath image cut but present Oeuvres de Fontenelle tome II. unknown
1702réf. 44534Paris Jean Boudot 1702. 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences". Année 1699. With the fine engraved frontispiece and the titlepage to the volume. 22 pp. Stamped in blind on the 2 first leaves in margins. First appearance of Fontenelle's famous program for the philosophy of science of the Enlightment stipulating the nature of scientific research in terms of the analytical geometry."From 1699 to 1740 Fontenelle devoted himself almost exclusively to his task of editing the Histoire de l’Académie royale des sciences . . . avec les mémoires de mathématique et de physique pour la même année tirés des registres de cette Académie. The volume for the year 1699 which appeared in 1702 opens with an untitled preface usually called "Préface sometimes "Discours préliminaire" sur l’utilitë des mathématiques et de la physique et sur les travaux de l’Académie the paper offered which contains essential material on the philosophy of science and is a sort of bridge between Descartes’s Discours de la méthode and Claude Bernard’s Introduction à l’étude de la médecine expérimentale. Here one finds the first literary expression of the idea of the interdependence of the sciences and of the constancy of the laws of nature." unknown
1760réf. 18137Senere papiromsl. m. papirtitelfelt på forperm. Enkelte brune pletter. Første danske udgave. Bibl.Dan. IV:398. unknown
1703réf. 49900à Paris: Chez Michel Brunet 1703. Fine. Chez Michel Brunet à Paris 1703 9.50 x 16.50 cm relié Second edition after the first published in 1684. Contemporary full blonde calf binding. Spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt compartments and fleurons as well as a red title-label. Gilt roulette on edges and headcaps. All edges speckled red. Handsome copy. The work was written after the publication of the Nouveaux dialogues de mort and is connected to it only by the literary device of giving voice to the dead a genre which was very popular in the 17th century. Through a series of letters Lettres des Vivants aux Morts Requête des morts désintéressés. Fénelon presents a satirical portrait of the political events of his time. Chez Michel Brunet hardcover
1790réf. 3002018Paris: Jean-Francois Bastien 1790. One or two joints slightly weak. Eight volumes octavo engraved portrait frontispiece in volume 1 and a folding plate in vol. 2; a fine set in contemporary French polished marbled calf; flat spines ornately gilt with double red labels. A very attractive set of Fontenelle's works including his enormously popular Entretiens sur la Pluralité des Mondes: this utopian analysis of the universe took Europe by storm and was precursor and inspiration to scores of imitations. It was first published in 1686 and first translated into English by Aphra Behn only two years later. Although the Entretiens clearly owes a tremendous debt to the astronomical traditions of Galileo and Brahe Fontenelle's sensational tale of the inhabitants in "other planets in other galaxies and even on comets could hardly fail to captivate" Nina Rattner Gelbart Introduction to the Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds. In the form of an elegant dialogue between a scientist and a Marquise it takes as its starting point that "Toute la philosophie n'est fondée sur deux choses: sur ce qu'on a l'esprit curieux et les yeux mauvais": that is that if we had a perfect understanding we would not need science because all would be spontaneously revealed. Meant as a quick summation of scientific discovery but also as pure speculation on the possibilities of the universe it suggests that as it has taken six millennia for Europeans to cross the Atlantic Ocean to America it may take a little longer for the inhabitants of other worlds to cross the far greater expanses of space. This set also includes "Dialogues des Morts anciens" and "Histoire des Oracles" works which exemplify Fontenelle's desire to propagate philosophical thinking. Voltaire described Fontenelle as having the most universal mind produced by the era of Louis XIV. . Jean-Francois Bastien unknown
1952réf. 28630Paris: Les nouvelles éditions 1952. Fine. Les nouvelles éditions Paris 1952 12 x 19 cm broché First edition of which there were no deluxe copies. Precious autograph inscription by the author to Moïse Kisling mentioning a mutual friend who also inscribed the book to Moïse Kisling. Les nouvelles éditions unknown
1836réf. 21754Paris: Arthus BertrandBohaireMadame Huzard 1836. Fine. Arthus Bertrand Bohaire Madame Huzard Paris s. d. ca 1836 13 x 21 cm relié New edition with some parts in first edition. Half tan calf binding spine lacking front board detached loose marbled paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Work illustrated with engravings in the text. Some very occasional foxing handsome interior condition. Arthus BertrandBohaireMadame Huzard hardcover
1698réf. 19607à Paris: Chez Michel Brunet 1698. Fine. Chez Michel Brunet à Paris 1698 10 x 16.50 cm relié Second edition the first appeared in 1688. Contemporary full speckled calf binding. Raised bands spine handsomely decorated. Tawny title label. A handsome copy. In the quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns Fontenelle here takes the side of the latter with numerous mockeries and satires against the defenders of the Ancients. Chez Michel Brunet hardcover
2016réf. BTR-0010027Niterói: Editora Impetus 2016. Good. Condition not individually assessed. Graded conservatively; from a bulk return. Photographs available on request. Editora Impetus unknown
1715réf. 1008F35London: A. Bettesworth; E. Curll 1715 . First edition. Leather. Good. 6.5" by 4.5". Not Stated. The very scarce first William Gardiner English language translation of Fontenelle's important early work of astronomy which speculates on the possibility of extra-terrestrial life. First published in French in 1686 this is the very scarce first English language translation of this work from William Gardiner.Illustrated with a frontispiece.ESTC T137582A6 B-I12. Collated complete.Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle expresses support for cosmic pluralism and discusses the topic of astrobiology in this work while also speculating on the existence of Venusians as a species of extra-terrestrial life.It helped popularise the theories of Rene Descartes and Nicolas Copernicus taught through constructive conversations between a philosopher and a Marquise. In a full calf binding. Loss to back strip tail. Joints starting rear board firmly held and front board just a touch tender. Internally firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned due to paper type but generally clean and bright with the odd handling mark and light tide marks to perimeters of six leaves towards the rear. Good A. Bettesworth; E. Curll hardcover
1746réf. 56266Leipzig 1746. Liten 8vo. Noe senere grønt papirbind. Enkel gulldekor på ryggen. Tittelblad trykt i rødt og svart. 12 180 s. Cez Jean Theophile Crull Fransk. unknown
1687réf. 817P20Amsterdam: Abraham Wolfgang 1687. Vellum. Good. 5.5" by 3". None. An early edition of Fontenelle's interesting series of imaginary conversations between notable figures across history and mythology. Complete in three parts with 'Nouveaux Dialogues des Morts' parts I and II and 'Jugement de Pluton' with a continuous pagination and register.An early edition first published in 1683.In French.Register runs as A-O12 P10.Collated complete. Collated from Jisc from a copy held at the University of Bristol Libraries. A series of imaginary conversations between the dead the author pairing together couples for a conversation whether or not they were contemporaries ancient or modern mythological or historical.Some of the conversations included are Diane of Poitiers and Anne Boleyn Dido and Stratonice of Syria Homer and Aesop Sappho and Laura de Sade Charles V and Erasmus Cosimo II de' Medici and Bernice II Plato and Margaret of Scotland Mary Stuart and David Riccio Seneca and Paul Scarron Brutus and Faustina the Younger Helen and Fulvia and more. The conservations vary much in conversation the figures talking about philosophy delicacy oddities of fortunes immortality of the name the comparison of ambition and love madness the power of women the concern for the future vanity and indiscretion freedom and more.By Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle a note figure of the Age of Enlightenment. In a full vellum binding. Externally boards and spines are discoloured as is not uncommon with vellum. Marks to the boards and spines. Boards are a little bowed. Small chip to the front endpaper. Rear endpaper is a little worn. Internally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean with a few very occasional spots. Leaf I1 has a small chip. Good Abraham Wolfgang hardcover
1728réf. 780P8London: E. Curll 1728. Leather. Good Only. 6.5" by 4". None. The second edition of William Gardiner's translation of Fontenelle's important early astronomical work an early work of the Age of the Enlightenment. The second edition of this work translated by William Gardiner.ESTC citation number N25366.A popular early science work on cosmic pluralism a fascinating work on astronomy.This was Fontenelle's most famous work and indeed was one of the first major works of the Age of Enlightenment.Fontenelle is known for his accessible treatment of scientific subjects during the beginnings of the Age of Enlightenment.Bound without the frontispiece and pages 197-200 two leaves of text in total. In a full calf binding. Externally generally smart boards and spine are rubbed. Some bumping to the spine and extremities with a small amount of loss to the head and tail of the spine. Joints are starting. Hinges are weak. Internally firmly bound. Pages are age-toned with some odd spots. Bound without the frontispiece and pages 197-200 two leaves of text in total. Last leaf page 195/196 is torn with some loss. Good Only E. Curll hardcover
réf. 6100055707Other. New. pp. xvi 328 unknown
