Price: £1,200
Subject: Sciences
Published Date: 1767
Stock Number: 59249
Formey (Jean Henri Samuel)
Dictionnaire instructif
où l'on trouve les principaux termes des sciences et des arts dons l'explication peut être utile ou agréable aux personnes qui n'ont pas fait des études approfondies.
Description: FIRST EDITION, title printed in red and black and with engrave vignette (a seated putto leaning on a pile of books in a library setting), text in double columns, slightly browned, pp. [xvi], 639, 8vo, contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, split at head of upper joint, soundPublication Details: Halle: Jean Justin Gebauer, 1767
Notes: Many of the entries have citations, the author remarking in his preface that these are the chief merit of his work. He acknowledges his indebtedness to l'Encyclopédie, to which he was himself a contributor. See E. Marcu, Un Encyclopédiste oublié: Formey, in Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France, v53 n3 (1953): 296-305. No copies in WorldCat outside Continental Europe.
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