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Mundus Alter et Idem sive Terra Australis...Civitas Solis et Nova Atlantis
by Joseph Hall; Tommaso Campanella; Francis Bacon
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition
- Seller
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Roslindale, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Utrecht: Joannem Waesberge, 1643. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. 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.
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.
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- Bookseller
- Pazzo Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 046710
- Title
- Mundus Alter et Idem sive Terra Australis...Civitas Solis et Nova Atlantis
- Author
- Joseph Hall; Tommaso Campanella; Francis Bacon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Full Leather)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Joannem Waesberge
- Place of Publication
- Utrecht
- Date Published
- 1643
- Keywords
- Literature & Literary; Science Fiction & Fantasy. NOISBN
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About the Seller
Pazzo Books
Biblio member since 2003
Roslindale, Massachusetts
About Pazzo Books
For years an open shop in the Boston neighborhoods of Roslindale and West Roxbury, now by appointment only and back in Roslindale. We carry a range of rare and out of print books with strengths in literature, cookery and early printing. We are members of the ABAA and ILAB.
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