Henry L'Estrange - Platonia: A Tale of Other Worlds - J.W. Arrowsmith & Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1893, First Edition.

Bristol & London, J.W. Arrowsmith & Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1893. First edition, first impression. Hardback. A fine copy. A little bumping to the spine tips and corners, but a fantastic copy overall. "Science fiction story of a space flight to the planet Platonista, a small, previously undiscovered, world closer to Earth than Mars, encountered accidentally after the hazardous navigation of a meteor shower. The inhabitants are human, scientifically advanced, and the planet has some curious properties, of which the oddest is that its atmosphere slows light down so that the Platonian astronomers viewing Earth see it as it was 100 years earlier." [Locke, Voyages, p129]. [11980, Hyraxia Books].