A VOYAGE TO THE MOON
Book Details + Condition: Doubleday and McClure Co (New York). First Edition by the publisher, 1899. Solid flexible covers - green with gilt to front and spine. Book measures 6" x 3.75". 219 pages; Illustrated. Cyrano de Bergerac's "stories of imaginary journeys to the Moon and Sun, published posthumously in 1656 and 1662, satirize 17th-century religious and astronomical beliefs, which saw man and the world as the centre of creation. Cyrano’s use of science helped to popularize new theories; but his principal aim was to ridicule authority, particularly in religion, and to encourage freethinking materialism" [Brittanica]. Firm binding; light age and wear to boards, with a bit of discoloration; interior is clean and free of markings, save owner name to title page.
