Histoire d'un peuple nouveau, ou, Découverte d'une isle à 43. dégrés 14. minutes de latitude méridionale
By: par David Tompson, capitaine du vaisseau le Boston, à son retour de la Chine en 1756 ; ouvrage traduit de l'anglois.
Contributors: Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress); Yudin Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Aux dépens d'une société de libraires
Published: 1757
Place of publication: A Londres
Language: fre
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Utopias -- Early works to 1800.; Voyages, Imaginary -- Early works to 1800.; Geographical myths -- Early works to 1800.; Philosophy, French -- 18th century.; Philosophy and religion in literature.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Découverte d'une isle à 43. dégrés 14. minutes de latitude méridionale; Histoire d'un peuple nouveau dans l'Isle de la Raison
Notes: LC Copy 2: in contemporary binding, 16 cm., with raised bands and gold stamping on spine; spine label. Has LC accession no. 1035J14 dated 19 Dec. 1949.
LC Copy 3 untrimmed; in marbled paper wrappers. Vol. 1 lacks t.p., preface and contents. From the library of G.V. Yudin. Has Yudin's blind stamp on p. 13 (v. 1) and LC accession no. 104837 [19]07.
Hartig, I., and A. Soboul. Pour une histoire d l'utopie en France au XVIIIe siècle, p. 55
Wijngaarden, N. van. Les odyssées philosophiques en France entre 1618 et 1789, p. 198-203
A shipwrecked traveler discovers a Christian utopia on the Isle of Reason. According to Wijngaarden, this is an original work by an anonymous French author, and not a translation from English.
Signatures: *⁴ A-K⁸, chi² ²A-H⁸ ²I⁴ ²K².  (K8 is blank.  chi² and ²K2 are tipped onto adjacent gatherings.)