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L'optique, ou, Le Chinois à Memphis : essais traduits de l'égyptien.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection FC75 G9367 763o p.1/2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guérineau de Saint-Péravi, Jean-Nicolas-Marcelin, 1735-1789.
- Language:
- Egyptian
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Utopias.
- Penn Provenance:
- Norris, George W. (bookplate)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes in 1 ; 17cm (12mo)
- Other Title:
- Optique
- Chinois à Memphis
- Fingerprint:
- uees u-m- erle cope (3) 1763 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- A Londres : Chez Marc-Michel Rey, libraire, MDCCLXIII [1763]
- Notes:
- A novel, originally written in French by Jean-Nicolas-Marcellin Guérineau de Saint-Péravi. Has been wrongly attributed to Voltaire and J-J. Rousseau. Cf. Barbier.
- The imprint is false. Printed in Paris cf. Weller and Barbier.
- Each part has separate t.p, pagination and signatures.
- Title vignette; woodcut initials; head- and tail pieces.
- Published in Paris.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has the bookplate of George W. Norris on front pastedown.
- Cited in:
- Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes, III, col. 718-719
- Weller, E.O. Falsche Druckorte, II, p. 166
- ESTC T108190
- OCLC:
- 84974407
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