The Moon Hoax The History Of The Moon Or An Account Of The Wonderful Discoveries Of Sir John Herschel

by Richard Adams Locke

$1,500 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

London: Printed and Published by B. D. Cousins, 18, Duke street, Lincoln's-inn-fields , n.d. 1836 . Octavo, pp. 1 2-4 5 6-7 8-9 10-16, double page wood engraving on pages 8-9 , bound without the publisher's wrappers in nineteenth-century three-quarter leather and marbled boards. First illustrated British edition. A penny pamphlet reprint of Locke's successful hoax perpetrated in the NEW YORK SUN, in August

• Printing: later
• Binding: Wrappers

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