AETHERIO. EINE PLANETENFAHRT

by August Niemann, Wilhelm Otto

$350 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

Regensburg: W. Wunderling's Hofbuchhandlung, 1909. Octavo, pp. 1-3 4-222 223-224: ads , modern rebind in cloth-backed boards. First edition. A utopian fantasy anticipating the planetary romances of Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Princess Fantasia, Dr. Practico, a physician, Mediator, a chemist, and Peppino, a clever mechanic, travel through the solar system in the Aetherschiffes Aetherio, visiting the Moon, Venus, and Mars.

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