FONTENELLE (Bernard de). Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes. À Paris, chez la Vve Defer de Maisonneuve ; de l'Imprimerie de Didot le jeune, an IV - 1796.

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FONTENELLE (Bernard de). Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes. À Paris, chez la Vve Defer de Maisonneuve ; de l'Imprimerie de Didot le jeune, an IV - 1796.
FONTENELLE (Bernard de). Talks on the plurality of the worlds. In Paris, at the Vve Defer de Maisonneuve; from the printing house of Didot le jeune, year IV - 1796. Large in-4, pink marbled cardboard in the Bradel style of the time, green bronze basane title-piece, all margins preserved (cardboard unstained, corners worn, snags on to the headpieces). Neat edition printed on vellum paper and with large margins. It is illustrated in the frontispiece with a portrait of Fontenelle, before the letter, engraved by P. G. Langlois after Voirot and Forty, and with a plate of astronomy.
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