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Le monde dans la lune : divisé en devx livres : le premier, prouuant que la lune peut estre vn monde : le second, que la terre peut-estre vne planette / De la traduction du Sr. de La Montagne.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilkins, John, 1614-1672.
- Standardized Title:
- Discovery of a world in the moone. French
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Astronomy--Early works to 1800.
- Astronomy.
- Moon--Early works to 1800.
- Moon.
- Penn Provenance:
- Verrue, Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes, comtesse de, 1670-1736 (armorial binding) (RBC copy)
- Physical Description:
- [8], 269, [3], 284, [4] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 16 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Monde dans la lvne
- Fingerprint:
- onil esnt urue Suig (3)1656 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- A Rouen : Chez Iacques Cailloüé ..., MDCLVI [1656]
- Notes:
- Translation of Bishop John Wilkins's The discovery of a world in the moone. Cf. Barbier.
- Signatures: ã⁴ A-2L⁴, ²A-2N⁴.
- Added engraved title leaf (plate).
- Woodcut illustrations, initials and head-pieces.
- Type ornament head-pieces.
- Printed marginalia.
- Errata on leaf 2N2v.
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy has ms. bibliographical note in pencil on verso of blank leaf preceding added engraved title leaf; a few early ms. notes on verso of front free endpaper and on back free endpaper.
- RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2018 from Amanda Hall Rare Books.
- RBC copy bound in full contemporary red morocco; boards triple-ruled in gold with small gold ornament at each corner; gold-stamped supralibros of Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes, comtess de Verrue, beneath gold-stamped word "MEUDON" on each board; gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; 5 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; gold-stamped black leather spine label ("LE MONDE"); marbled endpapers; all edges marbled and gilt; yellow(?) silk marker.
- RBC copy: a few leaves closely cropped at fore-edge margin with damage to printed marginalia.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward W. Lanius Book Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- Cited in:
- Barbier, A.A. Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes (3. éd.), 333-334
- OCLC:
- 224581024
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