Travels in phrenologasto

by Giovanni Battista Balscopo

$2,500 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

London: Saunders and Otley, 1829. 8vo. 217 pp. SECOND EDITION. Full contemporary calf, boards outlined in gilt, title and year in gilt on spine, paste-downs, fly-leaves and edges marbled. An absolutely exquisite, wide-margined copy. Item #20024 Second edition, apparently preceded by an 1825 printing from Calcutta, India. A fascinating, crazy story bordering science fiction and fact.

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