EL ANACRONÓPETE The Time Ship

by Enrique Gaspar, F. Gómez Soler, Enrique Gaspar y.

$8,000 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

First edition

Barcelona: Biblioteca Arte y Letras, 1887. First edition of the first modern Western novel featuring a time machine, published eight years before THE TIME MACHINE by H.G. Wells. Near fine. Item #50165 Gaspar coined anacronópete from the Greek for ana along , chronos time , and petomai to fly . In this book, a corrupt gentleman of science tries to use a time machine to take his niece back to an era in which he

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