Les avantures de Jacques Sadeur dans la decouverte et le voyage de la terre australe
Subtitle: Contenant les coûtumes et les moeurs des Australiens, leur religion, leurs exercices, leurs études, leurs guerres, les animaux particuliers de ce païs, & toutes les raretez curieuses qui s'y trouvent
Publisher: Chez David Mortier, libraire, à la Mappe-Monde
Published: 1695
Place of publication: A Amsterdam
Language: fre
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: Imaginary Voyages; Description and travel
Other titles: Voyage de la terre australe.
Notes: Jacques Sadeur is the pseudonym of Gabriel de Foigny.

First printed in Vannes [i.e. Geneva] 1676, under title: La terre australe connue.

The present edition, however, is a probable reissue of the Paris, 1705 edition, which was first printed in this verson in Paris, 1692.

An imaginary voyage which compares commodities of America to those found in an imaginary land.

Signatures: a⁸ (a1 verso blank) A-2E⁸⁻⁴ 2F⁴ (2F4 verso blank)

Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Storer, M.E. Foigny, 143-147.

European Americana 732/97.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full mottled calf.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Harper Fund.