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3 volumes 4to (281 x 1218 mm) allegorical engraved title and engraved frontispiece, 5 nn.ll., 376 pp., 3 engraved plates for volume I; 4 nn.ll., 440 pp., 1 engraved plate for volume II; 3 nn.ll., 434 pp. for volume III. Contemporary polished calf, triple gilt filet on covers, spine richly gilt with raised bands, light brown morocco spine labels, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges.
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Tchemerzine-Scheler, III, 332 ; Cohen de Ricci, 407-408.
A very handsome edition, richly decorated with 6 plates and 174 vignettes in the text, all engraved by Bernard Picart.
It contains : Volume I: Dialogues des Morts Anciens; Entretiens sur la pluralité des Mondes, Histoire des Oracles. Volume II: Poésies pastorales; Poésies diverses; Lettres Galantes; Oeuvres mêlées. Volume III: Préface sur l’utilité des mathématiques; Eloges des académiciens de l’Académie royale des Sciences morts depuis 1699 (with eulogies for Bernoulli, de Tournefort, Leméry, Leibniz, Newton, just to mention a few).
A fine copy of this luxuriously illustrated edition.
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