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xiv, 213, [23]; 106; 96 pp. With engraved title, five folding maps and one plate.(Small 12mo) 12.5x7 cm (5x3"), early calf  with modern re-backing, red morocco spine label with gilt lettering. First Edition thus.

A collection of three influential imaginary voyages and works of utopian fiction, here first collected together: Mundus Alter et Idem by Joseph Hall (in its third edition - first published in 1605); Civitas Solis, Ida Republic Philosophic by Thomas Campanella (in its second edition - first published in 1623); and Nova Atlantis by Francis Bacon (in its second edition - first published in 1638). Hall’s work is the earliest utopia set in Australia, and Campanella's City of the Sun and Bacon's New Atlantis were two of the most reprinted (often together with More's Utopia and Harrington's Oceana) of all the 17th century works on the ideal republic. Decorative bookplate of Robert Carl and Marion Oak Sticht on the front paste-down; bookplate of Rodney Davidson on the front free endpaper.