Title: Relation du Voyage de l’Isle d’Eutopie
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. [4], 240. Page 148 misnumbered 184. Signatures: pi² (pi1 verso blank) A-V⁸⁻⁴ (C5 missigned C4). Closed tear in leaf C4 (no loss). Bound in contemporary smooth calf, spine gilt in compartments.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First edition of an imaginary voyage to a South American island, entirely populated by the descendents of a shipwrecked French merchant and his wife, where (as in Plato) all children are collectively raised, and spared the ‘excessive indulgence’ of their own parents. Lefebvre (1648-1721) was born and died in Abbeville, where he served as parish priest and canon. R. J. Howgego (Encyclopedia of exploration: invented and apocryphal narratives of travel. Potts Point, New South Wales, L 25) says the text ‘is found only in the single edition of 1711, and has never been reprinted or translated’, but van Rhin may have reprinted it in 1716.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_7138280" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>