Apr 03, 2008 - Sale 2140

Sale 2140 - Lot 70

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
[LA FOLIE, LOUIS-GUILLAUME.] Le Philosophe sans Prétention; ou, L'Homme Rare. Ouvrage Physique, Chymique, Politique et Moral. Engraved plate depicting interplanetary flying machine; 2 vignettes. 349, [1] pages. 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, flat spine attractively gilt with green morocco lettering piece, spine ends and cover corners rubbed; 19th-century owner's note tipped to blank verso of half-title, light dampstain in blank lower inner corner of opening leaves, scattered minor stains elsewhere, blank lower outer corners of V7-8 restored. Paris: Clousier, 1775

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first edition of a work of popular science in which a visitor from an advanced civilization on Mercury arrives on earth in an electrical flying chariot to explain miscellaneous topics in electricity, gravity, chemistry, geology, medicine, etc. Cohen-de Ricci 546; Nicolson, pages 196-99; Ordway, pages 46-47.