Voyage De Nicolas Klimius Dans Le Monde Souterrain Contenant Une Nouvelle Teorie De La Terre Et

by Ludvig Holberg

$1,000 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

Copenhage: Chez Jaques Preuss, 1741. Small octavo, pp. 1-6 1 2-388, four inserted plates, one folded, title page printed in red and black, eighteenth century full calf, spine panel tooled in gold and blind, reddish brown title piece. First edition in French. Holberg's Niels Klim is the first important fictional use of astronomer Edmond Halley's theory suggested in a paper to account for magnetic phenomena published by

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