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Conversations with a lady, on the plurality of worlds / written in French by Mons. Fontenelle ... ; translated by Mr. Glanvill.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection QB54 .F65 1728
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier), 1657-1757.
- Standardized Title:
- Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Plurality of worlds.
- Life on other planets.
- Penn Provenance:
- Elias, Archibald C. (donor)
- O'Brien, Michael (autograph, 1796)
- Tyrrell, James (autograph)
- Salomon, Max (bookplate)
- Physical Description:
- xi pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 168 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm (12mo)
- Edition:
- The fifth edition, with the addition of a sixth conversation, to which is also added, A discourse concerning the antients and moderns / written by the same author, and translated by Mr. Hughes.
- Fingerprint:
- hoi- s.ty ntot thli (3) 1728 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin : Printed by William Forrest ... for G. Risk, G. Ewing, and W. Smith, booksellers ..., MDCCXXVIII [1728]
- Notes:
- Translation of: Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes.
- Signatures: A⁸ [B]⁴ C-O⁸/⁴ P⁸.
- Engraved illustration (frontispiece plate).
- Factotum initials, head- and tail-pieces.
- Lacks all before p. 3.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries copy has autographs of Michael O'Brien (one dated 1796, another 1797) and ms. inscriptions in his hand on pastedowns, front free endpaper, and verso of back free endpaper, and his autograph alone on leaves A9r and I1r; autograph ("James Tyrrell") and effaced ms. inscription on title leaf; embossed bookplate of Max Salomon with ms. shelf number in red ink on front pastedown; modern ms. notes in pencil on front pastedown.
- Penn Libraries copy: leaf P8 (contents) bound in out of order after leaf A7.
- Athenaeum copy: Breck bequest.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T119084
- OCLC:
- 21062901
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