The lots illustrated and described there fared as follows:
• Jacques AC Charles’ Représentation du globe aérostatique…: £650
• Johannes Kepler’s Somnium, or ‘The Dream’: £22,000
• Restif de la Bretonne’s La decouverte australe par un homme-volant…: £7500
• Francesco Lana Terzi’s Prodomo…: £2200
• English, US and French editions of HG Wells’ The First Men in the Moon: £1400
• Other highlights included a 1752 first of Voltaire’s Le Micromégas, a ‘conte philosophique’ that features the planetary voyages of an inhabitant of the planet Sirius, at £7000.
