Lot Essay
The journeys to the moon and the sun, described in this work, set a literary precedent for Gulliver's voyages to Brobdignag and Laputa.
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CYRANO DE BERGERAC, Savinien. The Comical History of the States and Empires of the Worlds of the Moon and Sun ... and newly Englished by A. Lovell, London: for Henry Rhodes, 1687, 8°, 2 parts in one volume (lacking frontispiece, title trimmed and mounted, one quire detached), contemporary calf (worn). [Wing C7717; Lowndes I, p. 160]