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

by W. Hooper, M.D. In Two Volumes by Louis-Sébastien Mercier

$3,500 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Printed for G. Robinson, in Pater-noster-Row, 1772. 12mo, two vo lumes: pp. i-v vi-viii ix-x 1 2-224; i-iv 1 2-248, eighteenth-century full speckled sheep, spine panels stamped in gold, gauffered edges. First edition in English. 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

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