Author: LE CLERC, J.- BIBLIOTHEQUE CHOISI
Title: Bibliothèque Choisi pour servir de suite à la Bibliothèque Universelle par J. de Clerc.
Description: Amsterdam, Chez Henry Schelte, 1703. 12mo. In 26 vols. (of 28). W. front.ill. Contemp. full vellum. (1 upper cover dam.). (all edges red.). Van Eeghen IV, 94: V.d.Aa C. 135/41: Sequel to Bibl. Univ. and written by Le Clerc. Without the vols VI and XVI but with the index vol. (Amsterdam Wetstein, 1718): Hatin 211/2: Wijngaarden, 'De Bibl. Choisie van J. Le Clerc (1657-1736), Een Amsterdams geleerden tijdschrift uit de jaren 1703-1713: H. Schelte, 1703/13. Le Clerc incorporated many important articles in his periodical, especially concentrating on the important english philosophers, phycisists and scientists as John Locke [of whom an abridged version of his 'On Human Understanding' appeared in French translation in the Bibl. Universelle, vol. for 1688, 2 years before the book was published!!], Robert Boyle, Shaftesbury, Nehemiah Grew, Isaac Newton, Berkeley etc.

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