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FONTENELLE (Bernard LE BOUYER de) - Lot 563

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FONTENELLE (Bernard LE BOUYER de) - Lot 563
FONTENELLE (Bernard LE BOUYER de) Works. New expanded edition. Paris, Brunet, 1742. 6 volumes in-12; illustrated with 6 frontispieces and a plate (with tear). Missing the folding plate of the Celestial Orbs. A few damaged leaves at the beginning of volume I. Contemporary speckled fawn calf, spine ribbed and decorated, 8 headpieces damaged, red title and endpapers, 2 bites cracked, epidermal marks and small losses of leather on boards and spine, cold fillet framing the boards, gilt fillet on edges, red edges. Copy in used condition. Contents: - Volume I: Dialogues of the dead; Judgment of the dead; Gallant letters - Volume II: Talks on the plurality of worlds; History of oracles - Volume III: History of the French theater until M. Corneille; Life of M. Corneille; Reflections on Poetics; Discourse on patience; On the existence of God; On happiness; On the origin of fables; Discourse to the French Academy; Letter - Volume IV: Eglogue; Pastoral poetry; Discourse on the nature of the Eglogue; Digression on the Ancients and the Moderns; Thetis and Peleus; Aeneas and Lavinia; Letters; Various small pieces of poetry - Volume V: History of the renewal of the Royal Academy of Sciences. Éloges des académiciens - Volume VI : Éloges des académiciens (suite).
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