FONTENELLE (Bernard de). Oeuvres de Fontenelle... A Paris, chez J.-F. Bastien, 1790.

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FONTENELLE (Bernard de). Oeuvres de Fontenelle... A Paris, chez J.-F. Bastien, 1790.
FONTENELLE (Bernard de). Works of Fontenelle... A Paris, chez J.-F. Bastien, 1790. 8 vols. in-8, contemporary dark green morocco, smooth spines decorated with lyre irons, title and tomaison gilt, boards bordered with gilt roulettes and multiple gilt fillets, gilt roulette at the edges of the cups and endpapers, gilt edges (spines uniformly browned, small worms' tracts at the edge of 4 counterpanes, and at the edges of 2 vols. without gravity; freckles on vol.2, otherwise very rare). New edition, illustrated with a copper-engraved frontispiece portrait of Fontenelle, and a folding plate in vol. 2, illustrating the Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes. A fine copy in a neat binding in the style of Bradel-Derôme. Provenance: Old label of Blaise jeune, bookseller in Paris; Germanic armorial bookplate in gilt medallion on blue leather; Marchal (20th century armorial bookplate).
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