Histoire des Sevarambes, peuples qui habitent une partie du troisiéme continent communément appellé la Terre Australe: Contenant une relation du gouvernement, des moeurs, de la religion, & du langage de cette nation, inconnuë jusques à present aux peuples de l'Europe

by [Denis Vairasse d'Allais (Denis Veiras)] (ca. 1630-1685?)

Published by Amsterdam: Chez Pierre Mortier, Libraire, chez qui l'on trouve toute sorte de musique, n. d. ca. 1686, 1686

About this Item

Two volumes bound in one. [18], 412 pp. (lacking frontispiece). Hardcover, bound in early 19th c. leather over marbled boards. The binding well rubbed with a short crack along the front joint. The lower third of the title repaired from the scan of the Bodleian copy. Scattered minor blemishes with a few small stains to the text. Rare 17th edition of this great Utopia, one of the first modern ones. The author, a French Protestant, bilingual in English-French, published the first edition in England in two parts in 1675 and 1679. The first French edition, probably translated by the author, was published in 1677 and 1679. This book was popular and reedited several times. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, Vairesse emigrated to Holland in 1685, this edition probably published while he was there. There were several Mortier editions published in Amsterdam as late as 1734.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Histoire des Sevarambes, peuples qui habitent une partie du troisiéme continent communément appellé la Terre Australe: Contenant une relation du gouvernement, des moeurs, de la religion, & du langage de cette nation, inconnuë jusques à present aux peuples de l'Europe
• Publisher: Amsterdam: Chez Pierre Mortier, Libraire, chez qui l'on trouve toute sorte de musique, n. d. ca. 1686
• Publication Date: 1686
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
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