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FONTENELLE, BERNARD LE BOVIER DE.] Entretiens sur la Pluralité des Mondes. Folding engraved plate of the solar system (with repaired clean tear). [28], 359 pages. 12vo, 152x85 mm, later 19th-century brown morocco by Raparlier; contents clean. Bookplate of Francis John Hughes. Paris: chez la veuve C. Blageart, 1686
first edition of the author's most famous and frequently reprinted and translated book, explaining the systems of Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Tycho Brahe in dialogue form for a general audience. DSB V, 59; Crowe, pages 18-21; Tchemerzine (1977) III, 321a.
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