Author: Chevalier de Béthune 468945
Title: Relation du monde de Mercure. Partie I & II
Description: Barillot & fils, 1750. Ed./Druk: 1e druk. Contemp. leather, gilt spine with 5 raised bands & leather title label. Very rare first edition of one of the very first books of science fiction, an account of an imaginary voyage on the planet Mercury. Translated, according to the author, from an Arabic manuscript that describes observations through a "microscope philosophique", a species of telescope invented by a rosicrucian. This "fiction amusante" (p. xiv) gives an account of the whole mercurian society: government, law, customs, buildings, religion, animals, science and literature. Illustrated with frontispice and 2 engraved headpieces. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
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Title: Relation du monde de Mercure. Partie I & II
Description: Barillot & fils, 1750. Ed./Druk: 1e druk. Contemp. leather, gilt spine with 5 raised bands & leather title label. Very rare first edition of one of the very first books of science fiction, an account of an imaginary voyage on the planet Mercury. Translated, according to the author, from an Arabic manuscript that describes observations through a "microscope philosophique", a species of telescope invented by a rosicrucian. This "fiction amusante" (p. xiv) gives an account of the whole mercurian society: government, law, customs, buildings, religion, animals, science and literature. Illustrated with frontispice and 2 engraved headpieces. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
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Price: EUR 500.00 = appr. US$ 543.42 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 3906865
- Book number: 3906865
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