The dictionary historical and critical of Mr. Peter Bayle (v.4)
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Type of record: Book
Title: The dictionary historical and critical of Mr. Peter Bayle (v.4)
Other titles: Dictionnaire historique et critique
Classmark: Large Gillinson Collection BAY
Creator(s): Bayle, Pierre (1647-1706)
Additional creator(s): Desmaizeaux, Pierre (1673?-1745) (Other); Tricaud, Anthelme de (1671-1739) (Other); Gaudin, Alexis (1650-1708?) (Other)
Related people: Gustav II Adolf, King of Sweden, 1594-1632; Moréri, Louis, 1643-1680; Languet, Hubert, 1518-1581
Publisher: Printed for J. J. and P. Knapton; D. Midwinter; J. Brotherton; A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch... [and 25 others]
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1734-1738
Language: English
Size and medium: 5 volumes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/188427
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008733909705181
Description
Engraved frontispiece.
Each vol. with half-title: Mr. Bayle's historical and critical dictionary.
Title-pages in red and black; title vignettes; head- and tail-pieces and initials.
Published in parts: v.1,1734; v.2,1735; v.3,1736; v.4,1737; v.5,1738 (imprints vary slightly).
Includes chronological table and index.
Vol. 1: A - Bi; -- Vol. 2: Bi - E; -- Vol. 3: F - L; -- Vol. 4: M - R; -- Vol. 5: S - Z; Vol. 5 also contains: An historical discourse on the life of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden. -- Critical remarks [by Anthelme de Tricaud and Alexis Gaudin] upon the new edition of Moreri's historical dictionary, published in the year 1704. With a preface and several observations written by Mr. Bayle, for the use of the new editors of that dictionary. Translated into English from the third edition of the original French. To which are added New observations upon those critical remarks, and on the edition of Moreri printed in the year 1725. -- A dissertation concerning the book of Stephanus Junius Brutus, printed in the year 1579. -- A dissertation concerning defamatory libels. -- A dissertaiton concerning the hippomanes. -- A dissertation upon the day. -- A dissertation which was printed before some essays or fragments of this work, in the year MDCXCII, under the title of, A project of a critical
dictionary. -- Remarks on a pamphlet intitled, The judgment of the public, and particularly of the Abbot Renaudot, on Mr. Bayles critical dictionary. -- Explanations concerning... atheists ... Manichees ... sceptics ... obscenities.
Indexed in: ESTC t143097.
Additional description
Armorial bookplate of S. Lawrence
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