Nov 12, 2013 - Sale 2330

Sale 2330 - Lot 204

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
[FOIGNY, GABRIEL DE.] Nouveau Voyage de la Terre Australe, contenant les Coûtumes & les Moeurs des Australiens [etc.]. 177, [3] pages, including final blank. 12mo, 129x74 mm, contemporary mottled sheep gilt, worn; outer margin of D10 restored minimally affecting text. Paris: Claude Barbin, 1693

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Third edition of a 1676 imaginary voyage in which the narrator is shipwrecked on an unknown southern continent, where he discovers a utopian society of enlightened hermaphrodites. Gibson 682 ("a major utopia, rich in satire and iconoclasm"). bound between: [Vries, Simon de.] La Vie et les Actions de Monseigneur Christophle Bernard de Gale, Evéque de Munster. 8 engraved plates, 3 of them folding. [24], 336 pages, including engraved frontispiece portrait and additional title. Cologne: Pierre Le Jeune, 1679. and: Garandi, [-] de. Description de la Ville de Londres, avec des Reflexions Politiques sur l'Angleterre & l'Espagne. [12], 184 pages. Cologne: Pierre Marteau, 1697.