Entretiens Sur La Pluralité des Mondes

Description

Nouvelle édition, Augmentée de pieces diverses. Contemporary, brown mottled leather, raised bands, gilt spine decorations, red edges, ribbon marker. 12mo., 16.5×10 cm. Brunet. Paris. 1724. xiv, 304 pp. One engraved folding plate. Very good, previous owner’s marks to endpapers. French text. A nice copy of Fontenelle’s famous book written to explain the Copernican model of the universe in layman’s terms. Engraved plate shows an image with the sun in the center and six labeled planets: Mercury, Venus, La Terre, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. weight: 0.8 lb.