Fontenelle's Diaglogues of the Dead in Three Parts

De Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bouvier ( Bouyer )

Jacob Tonson Within Grays-Inn Gate, 1708

1st English ed. 3/4 leather over marbled boards.  Hinges cracked, library call numbers on spine. Spine chipped. Library book plate. Front board detached. Title, li, 209pp, 1pp adverts. Engraved frontispiece.  Last few leaves have some marginal loss. Nouveaux Dialogues des Morts (1683), Translated from the French by John Hughes.  In three parts. I. Dialogues of the antients. II. The antients with the moderns. III. The moderns. With a reply to some remarks in a critique, call'd The judgment of Pluto, & c. and two original dialogues. English Short Title Catalog, ESTCT139460.