(HOLBERG, LUDVIG)

Nicolai Klims Unterirdische Reise, worinnen eine ganz Neue Erdbeschreibung, wie auch eine umständliche Nachricht von der fünften Monarchie

Copenhagen & Leipzig Jacob Preuss, 1741.

8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands. Wear and micolouring to extremities. Leather on spine cracked. Inner hinges split. Internally with occassional foxing. 382 pp. frontispiece and three plates. 

First German translation, published same year as the original Latin, of this classic in utopian fiction, being the first fully developed novel to be set in the earth's interior.

Order-nr.: 61424