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Les avantures de Jacques Sadeur dans la decouverte et le voyage de la terre australe. : 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

Foigny, Gabriel de, approximately 1630-1692 · 1695 · A Amsterdam : Chez David Mortier, libraire, à la Mappe-Monde · 3 pictures

A 1695 French utopian voyage narrative by Gabriel de Foigny, printed in Amsterdam by David Mortier for French-speaking readers, with a Carter Brown Library copy. Its pictures are small typographic ornaments: a horizontal border of scrolling foliage, urns and volutes, and a decorated initial letter Q with a bird-like figure, useful to a designer looking for early printed frame and capital-letter models.

Imprint 1732

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