The History Of A Voyage To The Moon With An Account Of The Adventurers Subsequent Discoveries An

by Chrysostom Trueman I E H Cowen

$3,750 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Lockwood & Co., 1864. Octavo, pp. 1-4 1 2-204, inserted lithographed frontispiece, original decorated green pebbled cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, cream coated endpapers. First edition. An interplanetary fantasy whose protagonists employ a force of 'repulsion' to convey an 'island earth' to the Moon. They discover a communistic utopian society of miniature humans,

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