Mundus Alter et Idem sive Terra Australis.Civitas Solis et Nova Atlantis

Joseph Hall; Tommaso Campanella; Francis Bacon

Verlag: Joannem Waesberge, Utrecht, 1643

Beschreibung

Contemporary full calf, rebacked, old bookplates on endpapers, some browning, spotting early on, wear in gutter to engraved title, page edges browned, otherwise clean internally with engraved title, 5 folding maps and a plate. xiv, 213, [23]; 106; 96 pp Joseph Hall's dystopian satire was written around 1605 and not intended for publication - it was first published anonymously in 1607, this is the second edition. Campanella Utopian La città del Sole was written in Italian around 1602 and first published in 1623 in Latin. Bacon's unfinished Utopian novel Nova Atlantis was first published in 1627. Hall's work is said to have inspired Gulliver's Travels and Bacon's and the Royal Society that it helped inspire are mocked by Swift in the same. First collected edition. Size: duodecimo (12mo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Science Fiction & Fantasy. Inventory No: 046710. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 046710

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Titel: Mundus Alter et Idem sive Terra ...

Verlag: Joannem Waesberge, Utrecht

Erscheinungsdatum: 1643

Einband: Hardcover (Full Leather)

Zustand: Very Good Condition

Auflage: First Edition.