Voyage à la lune, d'après un manuscrit authentique projeté d'un volcan lunaire
Contributors: Tissandier, Gaston, 1843-1899, former owner
Publisher: Librairie Achille Faure
Published: 1865
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Imaginary Voyages; Space flight to the moon; Fiction
Notes: Introduction, "Découverte du manuscrit," by "Alexandre Cathelineau, docteur médecin" (p. [1]); signed on p. 7: Alexandre Cathelineau, D.M.P. ..., mars 1865.

Frontispiece wood engraving signed: Marchand.

Purportedly the French edition of History of a voyage to the moon, with an account of the adventurers' subsequent discoveries : an exhumed narrative ... [By S.H. and C.G., with a preface, signed C. Trueman]. London, 1864. The British Library Catalog supplies full names for the authors, Stephen Howard, Carl Geister and Chrysostom Trueman, all described as pseudonyms. (See BLC To 1975.) Alexandre Cathelineau is considered to be a pseudonym for the anonymous translator of the the French edition. (See the entry for Trueman, Chrysostom, in SFE,  Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, online: http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com.)

Publisher's advertisements at end.

BLC To 1975 vol. 153, p. 455; vol. 330, p. 123

BN vol. 24, column 1124

LC copy quarter bound in dark blue morocco with raised bands, gilt title and gilt hot-air balloons on spine. Has bookplates: Ex libris Gaston Tissandier; The Daniel Guggenheim Fund. Has LC accession number G.F. 397283 dated 1930.