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211 - MERCIER (Louis-Sébastien). The Year Two Thousand Four Hundred and Forty: A Dream, If Ever There Was One. London, n.p., 1774. In-8, xii pp., 410 pp. Contemporary binding in marbled fawn half-basane, decorated ribbed spine, title page. Handwritten ex-libris on the half-title page accompanied by a 19th-century ink drawing depicting Mercier’s bust.
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MERCIER (Louis-Sébastien). The Year Two Thousand Four Hundred and Forty: A Dream, If Ever There Was One. London, n.p., 1774. In-8, xii pp., 410 pp. Contemporary binding in marbled fawn half-basane, decorated ribbed spine, title page. Handwritten ex-libris on the half-title page accompanied by a 19th-century ink drawing depicting Mercier’s bust. This literary utopia is one of the first French science fiction novels. The work was first published in 1770. In it, Mercier describes society in the 25th century. Binding rubbed, corners and edges worn, cap bands missing. Experts: Loup Axmann and Jean-Luc Boisseau
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