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Brotherton Collection17
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Herbert Read Collection2

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french poetry6
plurality of worlds6
oracles4
botany3
natural history3
voyages and travels3
curves, plane1
infinite1
literature, comparative1
mathematicians1

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Middle East3
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Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier De (1657-1757)62
Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier De23
Aulnoy6
Aulnoy Madame D' (1705)6
Barbin, Claude6
Barbin, Claude (1680-)6
Behn, Aphra (1640-1689)6
Corneille, Pierre (1606-1684)5
Behn, Aphra4
Ozell, John4

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Élements de la geometrie de l'infini... [etc.]

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de (1657-1757); Académie royale des sciences

1727

Title page vignette. Errata on p. 548. By Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle.

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Eloge de Monsieur le Chevalier Neuton

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de (1657-1757)

1728

Signatures: A-D⁴ E².

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Nouveaux dialogues des morts

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de (1657-1757)

1730

Title-page in black and red. Engraved frontispiece. Head and tail pieces.

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Letters of gallantry

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de (1657-1757); Ozell, John (1743)

1715

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The history of oracles, and the cheats of the pagan priests : In two parts. Made English

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de (1657-1757); Dale, Antonius van (1638-1708); Behn, Aphra (1640-1689)

1688

Fontenelle's work was originally based on A. van Dale's De oraculis ethnicorum dissertations duæ.

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The Northern worthies, or, The lives of Peter the Great, father of his country, and emperor of all Russia, and of his illustrious consort, Catherine, the late czarina

Price, John (fl. 1728); Rousset de Missy, Jean (1686-1762); Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de (1657-1757)

1728

Second part has special t.p. and separate pagination. Translated by J. Price.

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Seventeen histories and novels written by the late ingenious Mrs. Behn, compleat in two volumes.... Together with the history of the life and memoirs of Mrs. Behn, by one of the fair sex. Intermix'd with pleasant love letters that pass'd betwixt her and Minheer Van Bruin, a Dutch merchant; with her character of the country and lover; and her love letters to a gentleman in England (v.1)

Behn, Aphra (1640-1689); Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de (1657-1757); Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de (1657-1757)

1718

Neither title-page appears to be recorded elsewhere. It seems possible that the first volume was circulated separately and not always issued as part of a 2-vol. set. Vol.1.: Stub following title-lea...

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Seventeen histories and novels written by the late ingenious Mrs. Behn, compleat in two volumes.... Together with the history of the life and memoirs of Mrs. Behn, by one of the fair sex. Intermix'd with pleasant love letters that pass'd betwixt her and Minheer Van Bruin, a Dutch merchant; with her character of the country and lover; and her love letters to a gentleman in England (v.2)

Behn, Aphra (1640-1689); Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de (1657-1757); Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de (1657-1757)

1718

Neither title-page appears to be recorded elsewhere. It seems possible that the first volume was circulated separately and not always issued as part of a 2-vol. set. Vol.1.: Stub following title-lea...

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Fontenelle's Dialogues of the dead : in three parts. I. Dialogues of the antients. II. The antients with the moderns. III. The moderns

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de (1657-1757); Hughes, John (1677-1720)

1708

Dedication signed: John Hughes. First ed. of Hughes' translation. Title within Double line border.

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Nouveaux dialogues des morts (v.1)

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de (1657-1757)

1716

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Nouveaux dialogues des morts (v.2)

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de (1657-1757)

1716

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The Lives of the French, Italian and German philosophers : late members of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris. Together with abstracts of some of the choicest pieces, communicated by them to that illustrious society

Chamberlayne, John (1666-1723); Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de (1657-1757); Académie des Sciences

1717

Dedication signed by the translator: John Chamberlayne. Book-lists of William Innys (4 pp.) and John Darby (16 pp.) at end.

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