Fine Books and Manuscripts

Voyage de Nicolas Klimius dans le monde souterrain, contenant une nouvelle teorie de la terre, et l'histoire d'une cinquieme monarchie inconnue jusqu'a present. Copenhagen: J. Preuss, 1741. French translation by Eleazar Mauvillon, from the Latin work of Baron Ludvig af Holberg.Contemporary leather boards (16 cm. tall), rebacked, with five raised bands and gilt lettering to red leather compartment. Illustrated with frontispiece and folding map. With nineteenth century annotations to rear endpaper (in English), providing biographical information about the otherwise anonymous author.Bleiler 1114: "Essentially a satire on European culture and institutions in the guise of an imaginary voyage;" one of the cultures especially satirized being the French.