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Imaginary Voyages, Voyages and travels, Fiction, Imaginary languages, Discovery and explorationPlaces
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Attributed to Simon Tyssot de Patot by Cioranescu and Alden.
First printed in Bordeaux, 1710, which is a false imprint and might have been printed in The Hague in 1714.
The fictitious account of a voyage to an imaginary land, which includes some references to America.
Includes a small vocabulary of the language of the imaginary land, a conjugation of the verb "manger", and discussion of the alphabet and numbering system, and the declination of the word "mouton" on p. 119-122.
Signatures: *⁴ (-4) (1 verso blank) A-X¹² Y²
Title page printed in red and black; engraved vignette of the god Mercury on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.
Gove, P.B. Imaginary voyage, 217.
Rosenburg, A. Jaques Massé, C.
Cioranescu, A. 18. s., 62587.
Alden, J.E. European Americana, 734/215.
John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: p. [3-6], 1st count, misbound following p. 506.
John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary calf, rebacked.
John Carter Brown Library copy acquired as a gift of Harcourt Brown.
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