BAYLE, Pierre (1647-1706, philosopher and writer). Autograph letter signed to Simon de Valhebert, Rotterdam, 1 January 1699, 1½ pages, 4to , annotated by the recipient below signature, integral address panel (stain on right hand side of 2nd leaf, not touching text, small old tape repair in central vertical fold); and an engraved portrait
BAYLE, Pierre (1647-1706, philosopher and writer). Autograph letter signed to Simon de Valhebert, Rotterdam, 1 January 1699, 1½ pages, 4to , annotated by the recipient below signature, integral address panel (stain on right hand side of 2nd leaf, not touching text, small old tape repair in central vertical fold); and an engraved portrait A summary account of the latest bibliographical news: 'On a donné une nouvelle edition augmentée de la bibliotheque choisie du feu sieur Colomies, et on l'a fait servir d'appendix à un petit livre de peu de consequence intitulé la Rhetorique de l'honnête homme ... Nous avons depuis peu de jours une nouvelle relation de Moscovie faite par un nomme Ysbrandt qui a eté Ambassadeur du grand Duc de Moscovie à la Chine. On a aussi publié les memoires d'un M. Fontaine ... un avanturier qui narre beaucoup des choses assez surprenantes et bizarres'. Bayle, who had reconverted to protestantism in 1670, moved to Rotterdam when the protestant academy of Sedan closed. From 1693 he was entirely occupied with scholarly work of which the Dictionnaire historique et critique (1697) was his greatest achievement. His correspondent Valhebert was the librarian to the Abbé Bignon (later the director of Louis XIV's Bibliothèque Royale) and had edited the Dictionnaire of 1694. He was a correspondent of Foucault and the Abbé Ménage. Paul Colomiès (1638-1692) whose library Bayle mentions was librarian to the archbishops of Canterbury. (2)
BAYLE, Pierre (1647-1706, philosopher and writer). Autograph letter signed to Simon de Valhebert, Rotterdam, 1 January 1699, 1½ pages, 4to , annotated by the recipient below signature, integral address panel (stain on right hand side of 2nd leaf, not touching text, small old tape repair in central vertical fold); and an engraved portrait
BAYLE, Pierre (1647-1706, philosopher and writer). Autograph letter signed to Simon de Valhebert, Rotterdam, 1 January 1699, 1½ pages, 4to , annotated by the recipient below signature, integral address panel (stain on right hand side of 2nd leaf, not touching text, small old tape repair in central vertical fold); and an engraved portrait A summary account of the latest bibliographical news: 'On a donné une nouvelle edition augmentée de la bibliotheque choisie du feu sieur Colomies, et on l'a fait servir d'appendix à un petit livre de peu de consequence intitulé la Rhetorique de l'honnête homme ... Nous avons depuis peu de jours une nouvelle relation de Moscovie faite par un nomme Ysbrandt qui a eté Ambassadeur du grand Duc de Moscovie à la Chine. On a aussi publié les memoires d'un M. Fontaine ... un avanturier qui narre beaucoup des choses assez surprenantes et bizarres'. Bayle, who had reconverted to protestantism in 1670, moved to Rotterdam when the protestant academy of Sedan closed. From 1693 he was entirely occupied with scholarly work of which the Dictionnaire historique et critique (1697) was his greatest achievement. His correspondent Valhebert was the librarian to the Abbé Bignon (later the director of Louis XIV's Bibliothèque Royale) and had edited the Dictionnaire of 1694. He was a correspondent of Foucault and the Abbé Ménage. Paul Colomiès (1638-1692) whose library Bayle mentions was librarian to the archbishops of Canterbury. (2)
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