Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410

Sale 2410 - Lot 7

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
ARATUS, pseud. A Voyage to the Moon, strongly recommended to All Lovers of Real Freedom. [4], 39 pages. 8vo, 308x130 mm, disbound; contents generally clean, top edge of title reinforced on verso. London: Printed for the Author, and sold by James Ridgway . . . and H. D. Symonds, 1793

Additional Details

scarce first edition of a satire of British society and politics describing the narrator's balloon voyage to an island on the Moon inhabited by upright-walking English-speaking snakes. Howgego V, A19; no copy recorded in ABPC or RHB.