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GODWIN, Francis (1562-1633). L'Homme dans la lune, ou le voyage chimerique fait au monde de la lune... Paris: Anthoine de Sommaville, 1654.
8o. Engraved frontispiece and 2 plates. (p. 45 misbound between p. 36 and p. 37, small hole in title-page not affecting text.) Half sheep, spine gilt, edges gilt (spine perishing, some light wear). Provenance: Archives du Department de la Loire (library stamp on title-page and a few leaves); William A.M. Burden (bookplate).
Later French edition of Godwin's The Man in the Moone, a travel narrative presented through the fictitious narrator Domingo Gonsales. Published posthumously, Godwin's work is one of the earliest science fiction novels and discusses the theories of Copernicus, as well as the gravitational pull of the earth and the moon. A manuscript note on the front blank of this copy attributes the French translation to F. Baudoin. Bleiler Revised, 1978, p. 83.
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Later French edition of Godwin's The Man in the Moone, a travel narrative presented through the fictitious narrator Domingo Gonsales. Published posthumously, Godwin's work is one of the earliest science fiction novels and discusses the theories of Copernicus, as well as the gravitational pull of the earth and the moon. A manuscript note on the front blank of this copy attributes the French translation to F. Baudoin. Bleiler Revised, 1978, p. 83.