[PALTOCK, Robert]; [LEGRAND, Marc-Antoine]; VOLTAIRE. Les Hommes Volans, ou les Aventures de Pierre Wilkins.Suivi de: The Adventures of the Air Traveler. Followed by: Micromégas ou Voyages des habitans de l'Etoile Sirius. [Amsterdam and Paris, 1788]. 2 volumes in-8. T.I: xx, 427p.; T.II: viii, 208p. (pagination error pp. 150-159, marked 250-259), [3p.], 212-381p. (erroneously paginated 281), [4p.], 386-422p.Bound in contemporary speckled basane, framed on the boards, smooth spine decorated, marbled endpapers and edges. Worn but solid bindings (cracks in the spines, snags in the headpieces, dull corners). The headpieces have been redone later with the title "Les hommes volans". 22 and 23 are the only volumes of the Collection of "Voyages imaginaires, romanesques, merveilleux, allégoriques, amusans, comiques et critiques. Followed by the Songes et Visions, and the Romans cabalistiques", published by Charles Garnier in 1787-8 and comprising in total 36 volumes. Without the general title pages of the collection, but with the false titles. Barbier I,344.
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[PALTOCK, Robert]; [LEGRAND, Marc-Antoine]; VOLTAIRE. Les Hommes Volans, ou les Aventures de Pierre Wilkins.Suivi de: The Adventures of the Air Traveler. Followed by: Micromégas ou Voyages des habitans de l'Etoile Sirius. [Amsterdam and Paris, 1788]. 2 volumes in-8. T.I: xx, 427p.; T.II: viii, 208p. (pagination error pp. 150-159, marked 250-259), [3p.], 212-381p. (erroneously paginated 281), [4p.], 386-422p.Bound in contemporary speckled basane, framed on the boards, smooth spine decorated, marbled endpapers and edges. Worn but solid bindings (cracks in the spines, snags in the headpieces, dull corners). The headpieces have been redone later with the title "Les hommes volans". 22 and 23 are the only volumes of the Collection of "Voyages imaginaires, romanesques, merveilleux, allégoriques, amusans, comiques et critiques. Followed by the Songes et Visions, and the Romans cabalistiques", published by Charles Garnier in 1787-8 and comprising in total 36 volumes. Without the general title pages of the collection, but with the false titles. Barbier I,344.
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