A new discovery of Terra Incognita Australis, or the southern world, by James Sadeur, a French-man,...
A new discovery of Terra Incognita Australis, or the southern world, by James Sadeur, a French-man,...
A new discovery of Terra Incognita Australis, or the southern world, by James Sadeur, a French-man, who being cast there by a shipwrack, lived 35 years in that country, and gives a particular description of the manners, customs, religion, laws, studies, and wars, of those southern people; and of some animals peculiar to that place: with several other rarities : these memoirs were thought so curious, that they were kept secret in the closet of a late great minister of state, and never published till now since his death / translated from the French copy, printed at Paris, by publick authority, April 8, 1693.
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London : Printed for John Dunton ..., 1693.
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Date
1693.
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SC/0030 , 69/14 , 910.43/F
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English
French
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[8], 186 [i.e. 178], [6] p. ; 15 cm. (12mo)
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Publisher
London : Printed for John Dunton ..., 1693.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1693.
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A new discovery of Terra Incognita Australis, or the southern world, by James Sadeur, a French-man, who being cast there by a shipwrack, lived 35 years in that country, and gives a particular description of the manners, customs, religion, laws, studies, and wars, of those southern people; and of some animals peculiar to that place: with several oth...
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First published under title: La terre Australe connue; later eds. have title: Les avantures de Jacques Sadeur ...
Pages 89-96 omitted in numbering.
Signatures: Ap4s B-Cp1sp2s Dp8s E-Fp6s 2A-2Dp1sp2s.
The final three leaves contain advertisements.
Translated by John Dunton. Cf. Cox, E.G. Travel, v. 2, p. 475.
Fly leaf inscribed "A very curious work which probably suggested to Swift some notion of Gulliver's travel's. The account of the hermaphrodite nation, and their means of reproducing the species, brings it within the class of Facetiae"....
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Sabin, 74823.
Wing, F1395.
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Online images available via the State Library of NSW at: http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/album/albumView.aspx?itemID=1046090&acmsid=0 ; Digital order number a8939.
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SC/0030 , 69/14 , 910.43/F
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74VKZrJ7zEDA
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843.4
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991018695069702626
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