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2716London: printed for A. Bettesworth and E. Curll 1715. Hardcover. Good. Duodecimo. xii 192pp. Contemporary calf rebacked. With a frontispiece. ESTC T137582. With the ownership inscription of James Hardy . <br/> <br/> London: printed for A. Bettesworth, and E. Curll, 1715. hardcover
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1715160304London: Printed for A. Bettesworth 1715. 12mo pp. 1-12 1-192; collates A 6 B-I 12 frontispiece eighteenth-century brown leather front and rear panels ruled and tooled in blind four raised bands on spine panel no title label. The first printing of the Gardiner edition. Fontenelle's ENTRETIENS SUR LA PLURALITE DES MONDES his most famous and frequently reprinted and translated book was first published in 1686. It is "the first example in French of a learned work placed within the reach of an educated but non specialized public." - DSB V 59. A popular account of the systems of Ptolemy Copernicus and Tycho Brahe in dialogue form the treatise "awakened general interest in astronomy and popularized the scientific system of inquiry; it also emphasized the small space occupied by man and this planet relatively to the rest of the universe. The work was ridiculed by Voltaire though it suggested his MICROMEGAS." - The Oxford Companion to French Literature 1959 p. 278. The first of the three seventeenth-century English translations was A DISCOURSE OF THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS . Translated into English by Sir W. D. Knight. Dublin: Printed by Andr. Crook and Sam. Helsham for William Norman 1687. The first edition of the Glanvill translation containing five dialogues was published in 1688 the same year Aphra Behn's translation of Fontenelle's book A DISCOVERY OF NEW WORLDS was published in London by William Canning. This Gardiner translation first published in 1715 is the first edition to include a translation of Fontenelle's sixth dialogue. "In all the literature of the cosmic voyage there was no book more popular than Fontenelle's CONVERSATIONS OF THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS. Translated again and again it seemed to the British peculiarly their own book read for at least a century both by men and by those 'ladies' of whom we have many a description one of whom would read it aloud to others who were busily engaged in making strawberry jam. This was a book indeed that warranted a subtitle I once discovered in an eighteenth-century popularization of astronomy: 'Science made clear to the Meanest Capacities even those of Women and Children.'" - Nicolson Voyages to the Moon pp. 58-9. Fontenelle's book "became a seminal influence on proto science fiction . This is one of the earliest works ever written popularizing science notably astronomy for the layman which it does by wittily presenting its speculations -- many about the possibility of life on other worlds -- in the form of conversations after dinner between the author and a marquise." - Clute and Nicholls eds The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction 1993 p. 437. "A great stimulant to utopian speculations and science fiction." - Gibson and Patrick "Utopias and Dystopias 1500-1750" in Gibson St. Thomas More: A Preliminary Bibliography 1961 683. See Ley Rockets Missiles and Space Travel 1951 pp. 22-4 and Ley Rockets Missiles and Men in Space 1968 pp. 21-2 for a good summary of the book. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years p. 853. Howgego Encyclopedia of Exploration: Invented and Apocryphal Narratives of Travel F16. Negley Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 371. Versins Encyclopédie de l'Utopie des Voyages Extraordinaires et de la Science Fiction pp. 341-42. NCBEL II 1513. An early important and scarce edition of this classic work. A lovely copy. Enclosed in a custom quarter leather rounded back clamshell box. #160304 Printed for A. Bettesworth unknown books
ROD0103958E. DUCROCQ. NON DATE. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Plats abîmés, Dos abîmé, Mouillures. 435 pages. Trace de mouillures sans réelle conséquence sur la lecture. Tampon sur le premier plat, la page de titre et la page 25. Coins frottés et pliés.. . . . Classification Dewey : 928-Ecrivains
2005719212005 Editions Campoamor, 2005, 1 volume in-8 de 349 pages, broché.
200727716Des Idées & des Hommes 2007 252 pages 20x14x2cm. 2007. Broché. 252 pages.
20029956Denoël (Impacts) 2002 238 pages + annexes pages in8. 2002. Broché. 238 pages + annexes pages.
2002238502002, ed Denoël, coll'Impacts '. in-8 br noir de 279 pages. | Etat : Bon état général; très bon état intérieur, couv un peu frottée, tranches sales. Occasion. (Ref.: ref11971)
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181883990Paris Ménard et Desenne, FIls, 1818, in-16 (8,5x14cm), demi-reliure, dos lisse orné de triples filets et titre à l'or, 285p. Bon exemplaire.
1908R320060513LIBRAIRIE DE LA BIBLIOTGH. 1908. In-18. Relié. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 189 pages - 1 etiquette collée en 1er plat.. . . . Classification Dewey : 848-Ecrits divers, citations, journaux intimes, souvenirs, mémoires
1876RO40006658Bibliothèque nationale. 1876. In-18. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos abîmé, Rousseurs. 189 pages. Coiffes abîmées. Mors fendus. Premier plat abîmé.. . . . Classification Dewey : 840.04-XVII ème siècle
1878011577Librairie De La Bibliothèque Nationale reliure Rigide Décorative Paris 1878 189 pages en format 9 - 13 cm - reliure rigide en percaline
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