FONTENELLE, Bernard le Bovier de. Entretiens sur la pluralit - Lot 227

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FONTENELLE, Bernard le Bovier de. Entretiens sur la pluralit - Lot 227
FONTENELLE, Bernard le Bovier de. Entretiens sur la pluralité des Mondes... Dijon : de l'imprimerie de P. Causse, An II [1794]. In-12 (17x11 cm) of [4], 291 p. (works on sale at A. A. Renouard), frontispiece. Blond glazed calf, long spine decorated with gilt fillets and small irons, red morocco title-piece, gilt roulette on the boards, gilt roulette on the edges, all edges gilt, marbled paper end-papers (period binding). A good copy, with good margins, irreproachable condition of the text (boards slightly rubbed, corners bumped with lack of leather). A very fine Dijon printing for Antoine-Augustin Renouard. This is the first book published by A. A. Renouard (1765-1853), as he himself wrote: "This small volume, which has become rare, is my first publication; and it is to its success that I owe the happiness or misfortune of having let myself be drawn into the manufacture of books, and the bookshop business. Complete with the frontispiece portrait on laid paper by Augustin de Saint-Aubin (1736-1807). Brunet, II, 1332 (1793); Monglond, III, 157; Quérard, III, p. 155. ATTACHED: FONTENELLE, Bernard le Bovier de. Entretiens sur la pluralité des Mondes, augmentés des dialogues des morts... New edition, Lyon : De l'imprimerie d'Amable Leroy, 1810. In-12 (17x10 cm) of 394 p., 1 folding plate. Full basane, cold fillet, long spine with gilt decoration, red morocco title-piece, speckled edges. A good copy of this Lyon edition, complete with its folding plate entitled "Pluralité des mondes".
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