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HUYGENS, CHRISTIAN. Nouveau Traité de la Pluralité des Mondes. 5 engraved plates. [24], 277, [9] pages. 12mo, contemporary calf gilt, lettering piece off, top of spine chipped; contents clean. Early booklabel of "Monsieur Cochin, ancien Echevin"; bookplate of Frederick I. Ordway III. Paris: Jean Moreau, 1702
First edition in French of Huygens's 1698 Kosmotheoros, elaborating his theories about life on other planets and the possible existence of beings comparable to man. Crowe, pages 20-22; DSB VI, 611; Nicolson, pages 60-62; Von Braun & Ordway, page 15.
