1790 LEOPOLDUS II IN CAMPO RAKOS VISIO ELEUTHERII PANNONII UTOPIAN HUNGARY NOVEL - $500 - (New York, NY)
Hardcover. 8vo. Unknown Publisher. 1790. 266 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Text in Latin. Bound in paper covered cloth boards with black spine label present to the spine. Board are chipped and worn at the edges of the boards. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards very lightly rubbed and worn. A curious and fascinating Neo-Latin novel written at the end of the 18th century by Joseph Keresztury (1739-1794), an ex-Jesuit lawyer and long-time agens aulicus in the Habsburg court. Entitled Leopoldus II. in campo Rákos: Visio Eleutherii Pannonii, the novel features a prophetic protagonist named Eleutherius Pannonius, “the free Hungarian,” who falls asleep in 1790 and wakes up twenty years in the future, when the kingdom of Hungary has become a veritable paradise on earth. 1790 LEOPOLDUS II IN CAMPO RAKOS VISIO ELEUTHERII PANNONII UTOPIAN HUNGARY NOVEL Track Page Views WithAuctiva's FREE Counter
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