If the original sheet was folded in half again, the result was eight pages, referred to as octavo ( 8vo ), which is roughly the size of an average modern novel.

Deluc was an ardent admirer of Francis Bacon, on whose writings he published two works ; Bacon tel qu ' il est ( Berlin, 1800 ), showing the bad faith of the French translator, who had omitted many passages favourable to revealed religion, and Précis de la philosophie de Bacon ( 2 vols 8vo, Paris, 1802 ), giving an interesting view of the progress of natural science.

8vo, 1849 ), with an elaborate introduction, are most accessible.

), 8vo., 47 p. / Metz: Impr.

A collected edition of his works was published at Edinburgh in 1761 ( 4 vols., 8vo ), and again at Perth in 1782 ( 5 vols., 8vo ).

4to, 1838 ; 8vo ed., 4 vols., 1842 ; new 4to ed., with additional plates, 2 vols., 1877 ), forming a unique record of the social life and popular habits of Edinburgh at its most interesting epoch.

He prepared elaborate Notes on the Bucolics and Georgics of Virgil with Excursus, terms of Husbandry, and a Flora Virgiliana, London, 1846, 8vo, and edited Virgil's Bucolics and Georgics ( 1847 ), Horace's Satires and Epistles ( 1848 ), Ovid's Fasti ( 1848 ), and Sallust's Catilina and Jugurtha ( 1849 ).

8vo ), which contained some curious information, along with a great deal of trifling criticism and mistaken interpretation.

: 6 Plates, ( 8vo ), 25 cm ; plates engraved by J. Linnell.

The first edition, printed at Paris in 20 volumes ( 4to ), 1691, was followed by many others, among which may be mentioned that of Brussels, in 32 vols ( 8vo ), 1692, and that of Nîmes, in 25 vols ( 8vo ), 1778 to 1780.

( 8vo ), carries the work down to 1684.

8vo, Boston, 1838 ), adopted by Harvard College as a text book, and commended by Kent and Story

See Mancel, Alain Chartier, étude bibliographique et littéraire, 8vo ( Paris, 1849 ); Didier Delaunay's Étude sur Alain Chartier ( 1876 ), with considerable extracts from his writings.

8vo, with an atlas of plates in 4to ), which forms one of the classical treatises on British geology.

The first edition of Man's Place in Nature is arranged as follows: 8vo, 9x5 < sup > 7 / 8 </ sup > inches ( 23x15cms ), + 159 ++ 8ads.

The type was reset and the format was slightly smaller than the London edition: 8vo, 8 < sup > 1 / 4 </ sup > x5 < sup > 1 / 4 </ sup > inches ( 21x13. 3 cms ), ix + 9 – 184 + 8ads +.

The genuine work of Alexander Numenius has also been edited, together with Minucianus and Phoebammon, by L. Normann, with a Latin translation and useful notes, Upsala, 1690, 8vo.

It was first published at Frankfort, 1577, 8vo., in a Latin translation, made by Leunclavius, from a very imperfect Greek manuscript, with the title " Apomasaris Apotelesmata, sive de Significatis et Eventis Insomniorum, ex Indorum, Persarum, Aegyptiorumque Disciplina.

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Octavo ( abbreviated 8vo or 8 °) is a technical term describing the format of a book, which refers to the size of leaves produced from folding a full sheet of paper on which multiple pages of text were printed to form the individual sections ( or gatherings ) of a book.

Bodley wrote his autobiography up to the year 1609, which, with the first draft of the statutes drawn up for the library, and his letters to the librarian, Thomas James, was published by Thomas Hearne, under the title of Reliquiae Bodleianae, or Authentic Remains of Sir Thomas Bodley, ( London, 1703, 8vo ).

* The Works, Political, Metaphysical and Chronological, of the late Sir James Steuart of Coltness, Bart., now first collected, with Anecdotes of the Author, by his Son, General Sir James Denham Steuart, were published in 6 vols 8vo in 1805.

( London: Secker & Warburg, 1953, 1954, 1960, first editions, 8vo ( max.

* Nineteen Pages of Advice to the Protestant Freemen and Freeholders of the City of Dublin, containing Observations on the Speeches and Conduct of a late Aggregate Meeting in Liffey St. Chapel, the first of June ; recommended to the deep and serious consideration of every Protestant in Ireland, Dublin, 1821, 8vo.

1855, 8vo 2nd edition, 1856.

The Theological Works of Leslie were collected and published by himself in 2 vols folio in 1721 ; a later edition, slightly enlarged, appeared at Oxford in 1832 ( 7 vols 8vo ).

His speech of 31 Dec. 1810 on the regency resolutions was published in 1811 ( London, 8vo, second edition ).

Seventy-two new letters were added from a Vienna and a Vatican manuscript by Stephan Bergler, in his edition ( Leipzig, 1715, 8vo.

A. Wagner, in his edition ( Leipzig, 1798, 2 vols, 8vo.

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The title was afterwards altered to ‘ The Astrologer .’ Many of his miscellaneous poems were printed in the ‘ Sheffield Iris .’ After his death a collected edition of his ‘ Poetical Works ,’ with a sketch of his life by Dr. G. Calvert Holland, was published ( Sheffield, 1858, 8vo ).

Aulard, Les Orateurs de la Constituante ( 2nd ed., Paris, 1905, 8vo ).

royale, 1786, 8vo., 24 p. / 1788, 4to., 15 p. / Paris: Buisson, 1786, 8vo., 44 p. / 1787 ( 3e éd.

de Ve Hérissant, 1786, 8vo., 40 p. / Paris: chez Onfroy et Petit, 1788, 8vo., 47 p. / édition raccourcie, Paris, Impr.

* De Anni Ratione, or De Computo Ecclesiastico, printed, Paris, 1550, 1572, 8vo.

8vo ; deuxième partie, de 1771 a 1782, in 1812 in 5 vols.

8vo ; and troisième partie, pendant une partie des années 1775 et 1776, et pendant les années 1782 a 1790 inclusivement, in 1813 in 5 vols.

8vo., 4 vols.

4 vols., 8vo.

4 vols., royal 8vo.

* Select Works ( 8vo, Glasgow, 1806 – 07, 2 vols.

* Kirby, W., Monographia Apum Angliae ; 2 vols., 8vo ( 1802 ).

The work which he then wrote, and which in his own judgment was his best, was published in 1820, under the title of An Attempt to demonstrate from Reason and Revelation the Necessary Existence, Essential Perfections, and Superintending Providence of an Eternal Being, who is the Creator, the Supporter, and the Governor of all Things ( 2 vols 8vo ).

* Handbuch der topographischen Anatomie, 2 vols., 8vo ( Vienna, 1853 )