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Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

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Paris, Claude Barbin, au Palais, Avec Privilege du Roy, 1693.. TITLE CONTINUED: Contenant, les Coutumes, les Moeurs des Australiens, leur Religion, leurs Exercices, leur Etudes, leurs Guerres, les Animaux particuliers a ce Pays & toutes les Raretez curieuses qui s'y trouvent. Scarce third edition, 1693, first published as La Terre Australe connue 1676, revised and altered by François Raguenet, Paris in 1692. French text, small 12mo, approximately 140 x 75 mm, 5½ x 3 inches, pages: [12], 1-177, [1], title printed in red and black with small vignette, contemporary full calf, gilt lettered label and gilt decoration to spine, edges speckled red. Binding rubbed and scuffed, hinges beginning to crack but covers still attached, top corners slightly worn, slight loss of leather to head and tail of spine, small repair to top corner of upper cover, tiny private library stamp to blank side of title page and to lower margin of page 51, pale age -browning to pastedowns and endpapers, otherwise a very good clean… Read More

Amsterdam: David Mortier, 1732. Slight wear at extremities; label missing but the underlying type impression serves to replace it.. Duodecimo, contemporary calf, spine panelled in gilt between raised bands. Uncommon fourth French edition, based on the Raguenet edition of 1692, the version thought to have been influenced by a now unknown manuscript version by Foigny himself. The most remarkable aspect of this 1732 edition is that it was published by David Mortier, best known as one of the partners of the great Dutch mapmaking firm Covens and Mortier (the title-page calls him a bookseller at the sign of the "Mappe-Monde"), an association which must explain the renewed interest in Foigny's book while also showing the continued confusion about where the truth really lay. Foigny, a defrocked Franciscan monk, wrote this work while sheltering in Geneva in the 1670s. The inventiveness of the story, into which Foigny has packed any number of incredible creations, has baffled and delighted generations of… Read More

Amsterdam: David Mortier, 1732. A few bumps, hinges starting but still firm, an attractive copy,. Small octavo; contemporary French mottled calf, spine panelled in gilt between raised bands, red morocco label. Uncommon fourth French edition, based on the Raguenet edition of 1692, the version thought to have been influenced by a now unknown manuscript version by Foigny himself. The most remarkable aspect of this 1732 edition is that it was published by David Mortier, best known as one of the partners of the great Dutch mapmaking firm Covens and Mortier (the title-page calls him a bookseller at the sign of the "Mappe-Monde"), an association which must explain the renewed interest in Foigny's book while also showing the continued confusion about where the truth really lay. Foigny, a defrocked Franciscan monk, wrote this work while sheltering in Geneva in the 1670s. The inventiveness of the story, into which Foigny has packed any number of incredible creations, has baffled and delighted generations of… Read More