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LA FOLIE, LOUIS-GUILLAUME. Le Philosophe sans Prétention; ou, L'Homme Rare. Ouvrage Physique, Chymique, Politique et Moral. 1775
[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
- Notes: 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.
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