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. Imprimatur, Charles Hein.
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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 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. Imprimatur, Charles Hein.
- Terre australe connue. English
- Southern world
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London: printed for John Dunton, at the Raven in the Poultry, 1693.
- Publication year
- 1693-1693
- ESTC No.
- R20648
- Grub Street ID
- 82997
- Description
- [10], 88, 97-186, [6] p. ; 12⁰
- Note
- First published under title: La terre Australe connue. Vannes [Genve?], 1676; later editions have title: Les avantures de Jacques Sadeur.
Text continuous despite pagination.
- Uncontrolled note
- Signatures from DFo. DFONOTE jre: title reads: "...studies, and war,...Hern."; please verify surname ending title -- in DFo copy appears to be 'Hern' with a broken serif on the 'r'; pag: [8],...; with 3 final adv. leaves