From Ludwig Rosenthal's Antiquariaat, Leidschendam, Netherlands
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La Haye, T. Johnson, 1709. With engraved frontispiece showing Lucien and Fontenelle engraved by D. Coster, device on title. 4 lvs., 18, 469 pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, back gilt with label (rubbed, corners and foot of spine slightly damaged).*A. Rosenberg, Nicolas Gueudeville and his work, The Hague 1982, pp. 63 ff.: "Gueudeville's third and final anonymous publication . , an advertising catalogue put out by the publisher identifies him as the author". Not in Barbier, Ouvrages anonymes. Nicolas Gueudeville (Rouen 1652-The Hague 1721?), a Benedictine monk, who became a journalist, pamphleteer, historian and writer, had to flee to Holland, where he adopted Calvinism. Contains 6 philosophical dialogues, between Alcinoë and Aegialia, Myrrha and Alcmene, Apuleius and Agrippa, Heliogabalus and Diogenes, Brutus and Caesar, Nero and Caligula. "The idea for this publication was borrowed from Lucian, though it is probable that the dialogues of Fontenelle and Fénelon played a part in the genesis of the work" (Rosenberg). Publisher's advertisement at the end. - Stamp on title, occasionally browned.[(3658)]. Seller Inventory # 3658
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Title: Dialogues des morts, d'un tour nouveau, pour...
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