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[THEATER]. [FONTENELLE Bernard de (1657-1757)] Oeuvres de Monsieur de Fontenelle, des Académies, Françoise, des Sciences, & des Belles-Lettres, & de la Société Royale de Londres. In Paris, Au Palais, Chez Michel Brunet, Père, au Mercure Galant, 1742-1766. 11 volumes in-12 (170 x 105 mm). Full speckled calf, fillet stamped on the boards, spine ribbed and decorated, blond morocco title-piece, brown morocco tomato-piece, red edges, bookmarks preserved (period bindings). New enlarged edition. I (engraved portrait-frontispice by Etienne Fessard, 1 pl.); II (2, 1 pl. folding, dated 1766); III (frontispiece); IV (frontispiece); V (frontispiece) contains important handwritten notes in brown ink, including "Acdotes folâtres du Carnaval de 1787" with incidental music; VI (frontispiece, dated 1752); VII, dated 1757 (no pl.); VIII (frontispiece); IX and X (without frontispieces), XI (dated 1766, frontispiece engraved by Cochin fils). (Good general condition inside; used condition of bindings). PROVENANCE Pigné de Montchevrel (bookplate with arms pasted on endpaper of volume 3).
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[THEATER]. [FONTENELLE Bernard de (1657-1757)] Oeuvres de Monsieur de Fontenelle, des Académies, Françoise, des Sciences, & des Belles-Lettres, & de la Société Royale de Londres. In Paris, Au Palais, Chez Michel Brunet, Père, au Mercure Galant, 1742-1766. 11 volumes in-12 (170 x 105 mm). Full speckled calf, fillet stamped on the boards, spine ribbed and decorated, blond morocco title-piece, brown morocco tomato-piece, red edges, bookmarks preserved (period bindings). New enlarged edition. I (engraved portrait-frontispice by Etienne Fessard, 1 pl.); II (2, 1 pl. folding, dated 1766); III (frontispiece); IV (frontispiece); V (frontispiece) contains important handwritten notes in brown ink, including "Acdotes folâtres du Carnaval de 1787" with incidental music; VI (frontispiece, dated 1752); VII, dated 1757 (no pl.); VIII (frontispiece); IX and X (without frontispieces), XI (dated 1766, frontispiece engraved by Cochin fils). (Good general condition inside; used condition of bindings). PROVENANCE Pigné de Montchevrel (bookplate with arms pasted on endpaper of volume 3).
