Poesies pastorales. Avec un traité sur la nature de l'Eglogue, & une digression sur les Anciens et les Modernes

Second edition, the first appeared in 1688.
Contemporary full speckled calf binding. Raised bands spine handsomely decorated. Tawny title label. A handsome copy.
In the quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns, Fontenelle here takes the side of the latter with numerous mockeries and satires against the defenders of the Ancients.