L'esprit de Fontenelle. Ou recueil de pensées tirées de ses ouvrages

First edition, illustrated with a captioned and unsigned frontispiece and a title vignette bearing the motto on a banderole: Illuminat et foecundat. Title page in red and black.
Dutch binding in full brown morocco of the period. Spine with raised bands decorated with compartments tooled in blind. Brown morocco title-label tooled in blind. Some rubbing. Half-title and frontispiece partially detached. Handsome copy.
Fontenelle's maxims and thoughts are grouped under different themes: Man, happiness, on literary matters, on different sciences...