Categories
![A Miscellany of Divers Problems Containing ingenuous solutions of sundry questions, partly moral, partly of other subjects.
translated out of French by Henry Some [Meslange de divers problèmes]. Image](../../assets/uploaded/images/large/37359.jpg)
PELLISSON-FONTANIER, Paul [Georges?]
| Title | A Miscellany of Divers Problems Containing ingenuous solutions of sundry questions, partly moral, partly of other subjects. translated out of French by Henry Some [Meslange de divers problèmes]. |
|---|---|
| Publisher | London Printed for Charles Adams and are to be sold at his shop |
| Date | 1662 |
| Book ID | 37359 |
Description
12mo., (121 x 67 mm), [58]+227 pp.. Sympathetically re-backed in gilt-ruled calf, cloth boards and new end-papers. Title within double-ruled border, lacks initial blank and A, leaves A3–5 mis-signed A2–4 (title-page should be A2): A 10(-A) a12 b6 B-K12 L6.
Minor loss to t.p. leading corners, else tight and clean.
Attributed to Paul Pellisson-Fontanier (1624–1693) born in Béziers, of a distinguished Calvinist family. He studied law at Toulouse and become secretary to Nicolas Fouquet. Later in life he became official historian to the king, and in that capacity wrote a fragmentary Histoire de Louis XIV. The present work is sometimes attributed to his brother Georges.
Other books in this category
![[Regarding Slave Trade]. A Letter to the Rev. Percival Stockdale, Vicar of Lesbury, & Longhoughton, in the County of Northumberland:
in Consequence of his late Letter addressed to The Honourable, & Right Reverend, The Lord Bishop of Durham, &c. Price Sixpence.](../../assets/uploaded/images/thumb/38747.jpg)
£80.00
£25.00
