Pensées diverses ecrites à un docteur de Sorbonne, a l'occasion de la comete qui parut au mois de decembre 1680.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bayle, Pierre, 1647-1706.

Contributor:

Leers, Reinier, 1654-1714, bookseller.

Swift's Library and Reading Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Pensées diverses sur la comète

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Comets--Early works to 1800.

Comets.

Omens--Early works to 1800.

Omens.

Penn Provenance:

Elias, Archibald C. (donor) (RBC copy)

Lincoln's Inn Library (stamp) (RBC copy)

Vienken, Heinz J. (honoree) (Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy)

Elias, Susan Homans (honoree) (Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 17 cm (12mo)

Edition:

Quatrieme edition.

Place of Publication:

A Rotterdam : Chez Reinier Leers, MDCCIV [1704]

Notes:

Published anonymously. By Pierre Bayle. Cf. Barbier.

First published, Cologne [i.e. Rotterdam, R. Leers] 1682, under title: Lettre à M.L.A.D.C., docteur de Sorbonne, cù il est prouvé? ... que les comètes ne sont point le présage d'aucun malheur.

At end of vol. 2, with special t.p.: Addition aux pensées diverses sur les cometes, ou response à un libelle intitulé, Courte Revuë des maximes de morale [et] des principes de religion de l'auteur ... Troisieme edition ... MDCCIV.

With continuous pagination: v.1: [30], 312; v.2: [313]-530, [8], 531-616, [18] p.

Signatures: v.1: *¹² 2*⁴(-2*4) A-N¹²; v.2: P-2C¹² 2D¹⁰(-2D10).

Leaves C4 and P7 missigned C7 and P5 respectively.

Woodcuts: devices; initials.

With side- and shoulder-notes.

Includes index at end of vol. 2.

Local Notes:

This title is part of The Library and Reading of Jonathan Swift: a Partial Replication, a collection given to the University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 2005 in memory of Susan Homans Elias and in honor of the late Heinz J. Vienken.

Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy with bookseller's description laid in.

Cited in:

Barbier, A.A. Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes, III, col. 821

Passmann-Vienken. Swift's Library, I, 167

OCLC:

45564973