MEMOIRS OF THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED ... Translated from the French,

by W. Hooper, M.A. by Louis-Sébastien Mercier

$1,750 · Offered by L. W. Currey

Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobson, 1795. 12mo, pp. i-v vi-vii viii-ix x-xi xii 1 2-360, rebound to style in full leather, spine ruled in gold and tooled in blind, reddish-brown title piece lettered in gold. First U.S. edition. A translation of L'AN DEUX MILLE QUATRE CENT QUARANTE, first published in Amsterdam in 1771. This first utopia set in future time was one of the eighteenth century's most successful

• Binding: Leather

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