Title: Voyages du Capitaine Robert Lade en différentes parties de l’Afrique, de l’Asie et de l’Amérique
Description: <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;"><b>Full title:</b> Voyages du Capitaine Robert Lade en différentes parties de l’Afrique, de l’Asie et de l’Amérique: contenant l’Histoire de sa fortune, &amp; ses Observations sur les Colonies &amp; le Commerce des Espagnols, des Anglois, des Hollandois, &amp;c. Ouvrage traduit de l’Anglois. Tome premier.</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 of two volumes in 8vo. f. [1] (blank), [2], xvi, [2] (plates, folded), pp. 370, f. [1] (blank). Mottled calf, gilded spine, red lettering panel, marbled pastedowns, red edges. Includes folded maps, printer's device on title page, headpieces, and engraved initials. First map isigned "Lattré Sculp. 1743". Second map signed "Desbrulins Sculp." Stamp "M. Ludovic de Belot, rue Madame, 8."</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;">This travel narrative is now believed to be an imaginary voyage, since neither ‘Captain Robert Lade’ nor the English work claimed as the original can be traced. It is most likely a fictional account written by the supposed translator, the Abbé Prevost (1697-1763), although J. Sabin (A dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time. New York, 1962, 38529) lists it as genuine. Exposed by N. Broc, La géographie des philosophes. Geographes et voyageurs français au xviiie siècle. Strassbourg, 1975, pp. 211-212. See also R. J. Howgego, Encyclopedia of exploration: invented and apocryphal narratives of travel. Potts Point, New South Wales, 2013, P33; P.B. Grove, Imaginary voyage in prose fiction. New York, 1941.</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/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039115559707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>