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FONTENELLE, Bernard Le Bovier de (1657-1757). Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes. Paris: la veuve C. Blageart, 1686. 12° (152 x 78mm). Folding engraved plate by I. D'Olivar. (Plate with closed 30mm. tear into image, stain to H4v, some spotting.) Red morocco by Trautz-Bauzonnet, gilt spine-lettering and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt and marbled edges, blue silk marker (front free endpaper torn). Provenance: L. Giraud-Badin, 1926.
FONTENELLE, Bernard Le Bovier de (1657-1757). Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes. Paris: la veuve C. Blageart, 1686. 12° (152 x 78mm). Folding engraved plate by I. D'Olivar. (Plate with closed 30mm. tear into image, stain to H4v, some spotting.) Red morocco by Trautz-Bauzonnet, gilt spine-lettering and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt and marbled edges, blue silk marker (front free endpaper torn). Provenance: L. Giraud-Badin, 1926.

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FONTENELLE, Bernard Le Bovier de (1657-1757). Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes. Paris: la veuve C. Blageart, 1686. 12° (152 x 78mm). Folding engraved plate by I. D'Olivar. (Plate with closed 30mm. tear into image, stain to H4v, some spotting.) Red morocco by Trautz-Bauzonnet, gilt spine-lettering and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt and marbled edges, blue silk marker (front free endpaper torn). Provenance: L. Giraud-Badin, 1926.

FIRST EDITION of Fontenelle's 'highly influential piece of scientific popularisation; it expounds the Copernican world system and the mechanistic physics of Descartes in elegant dialogues between a philosopher and a lady' (OCFL). Brunet II, 1332; Cioranescu 30742; Tchemerzine V, 321.

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