An historical and geographical description of Formosa, an island subject to the Emperor of Japan : g...
An historical and geographical description of Formosa, an island subject to the Emperor of Japan : giving an account of the religion, customs, manners, &c. of the inhabitants : together with a relation of what happen'd to the author in his travels; particularly his conferences with the Jesuits, and others, in several parts of Europe : also the history and reasons of his conversion to Christianity, with his objections against it (in defence of paganism) and their answers : to which is prefix'd, a preface in vindication of himself from the reflections of a Jesuit lately come from China, with an account of what passed between them / by George Psalmanaazaar, a native of the said island, now in London.
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London : Printed for Dan. Brown ... G. Strahan, and W. Davis ... and Fran. Coggan ... , 1704.
Date
1704.
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DSM/915.12/P , RB/DS951.2A/15
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English
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[8], xiv, [2], 131 [i.e. 331], [5] p., 16 leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
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London : Printed for Dan. Brown ... G. Strahan, and W. Davis ... and Fran. Coggan ... , 1704.
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England
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1704.
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An historical and geographical description of Formosa, an island subject to the Emperor of Japan : giving an account of the religion, customs, manners, &c. of the inhabitants : together with a relation of what happen'd to the author in his travels; particularly his conferences with the Jesuits, and others, in several parts of Europe : also the hist...
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A fictitious account. "Psalmanazar ... wrote in Latin, and the main portion of his manuscript was translated by Mr. Oswald ... What was not due to his own imagination he borrowed from Varenius's 'Descriptio regni Japoniae et Siam' (Amsterdam, 1649) or Candidius's 'Voyages'."--DNB.
George Psalmanazar is a pseudonym.
Rare Books copy: Has stamp of the "Free Public Library of New South Wales, Sydney"....
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DSM/915.12/P , RB/DS951.2A/15
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74VK6XP3OzXM
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823.5
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991020921449702626
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