Bonhams 1793 : WILKINS (JOHN) The First Book. The Discovery of a New World or, a Discourse Tending to Prove, That tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World in the Moone. With a Discourse Concerning the Possibility of a Passage Thither. The Third Impression. Corrected and Enlarged, 2 parts in one vol., 1640

The First Book. The Discovery of a New World or, a Discourse Tending to Prove, That tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World in the Moone. With a Discourse Concerning the Possibility of a Passage Thither. The Third Impression. Corrected and Enlarged, 2 parts in one vol., engraved pictorial frontispiece by W. Marshall, several woodcut diagrams, lacks blank before second title, leaf 2P7 a cancellandum, leaves 2a1-2 bound at end of part one, gathering O1-8 misbound, short tear to final errata, cropped throughout touching rule borders and several side-notes, light dampstaining, blindstamp on three leaves, ink stamp on verso of title, modern cloth, upper cover and spine detached [STC 25641], 8vo (155 x 93mm.), John Norton for John Maynard, 1640

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