Author: (TYSSOT DE PATOT), Simon.- Imaginary Voyages.- Jaques Massé.- 1710.- Utopia.-
Title: Voyages et Avantures de Jaques Massé.
Description: Bourdeaux, Chez Jacques l'Aveugle, 1710. [=Hage Comitum, Le Vier, around 1714 - 1718]. 12mo. [meas ca. 16.5 x 10 cm!]. W. W. woodcut vign. of an armillary sphere (base pointing down, typogr. line in 7 small parts instead of uninterrupted line) on the printed title. Woodc. ornamental head-piece on leaf A1 recto (p. 1). In contemp. full clf., spine in 6 compartments, w. red titleshield, giltl. (Spine ends and corners bumped/rubbed, some dam / some imperf., upper outer hinge weakening.). [*4, A12 - X12, Y2]. (VIII, 508 pp.). (small wormtrack, 2 - 4 mm, lower inner blank margin, in pp. 13 - 40; top inner margin a vague watersp., a bit more visible in the first 50 pp.; All edges red.). (Original comb marbled endpapers.). (Text overall some light yellowing, some light foxing towards extremities / blank margins.). Second issue [of 4], B (i) variant. (Aubrey) Rosenberg, 'Tyssot de Patot and his Works (1655 - 1738)' [Den Haag, Nijhoff, 1972], p. 84 -85 variant B (i): Aubrey Rosenberg, in her detailed study of the Tyssot, describes the 1710 printing with the armillary sphere on the title pointing to the left as the true first edition, with a publication date in the period 1714 and 1718. See the titlepages ill. on fig. 5, before p. 117. Gove, pp. 217 - 219: Hartig & Soboul, p. 38: Versins, pp. 900 - 901: Nic. van Wijngaarden 'Les Odyssées philosophiques en France entre 1616 et 1789' (Haarlem, Vijlbrief, 1932), pp. 119 - 122: INED, 4369: Cioranescu, 62587: Barbier, vol. IV, c. 1103: Atkinson, 'The Extraordinary Voyage in French Literature from 1700 - 1722', p. 70: Friederich, ...: Stroup, A. 'Massé's Haircut [in: Studies in Early Modern France V, 1999], see p. 1: Lestringant, F. 'Utopia and the Reformation'[in: Schaer, Claeys, Sargent, '...'? citaat!!! 'Predated to coincide with the millenariansim of 1710, the book was actually published between 1714 and 1717. Utopia proper is consigned to a limited space- fittingly located on the Australian hemisphere, somewhere in the vicinity of the as-yet undiscovered Kerguelen- where an ideal republic unfolds its methodical geometry on a rigorously flat landscape that recalls the polders of Holland.': Weil, 'Livres interdits, livres persécutés', 1999, item 577: Fortunati & Trousson, '...', p. 679 e.v.: arts? travel sec?; gelezen door Voltaire, Diderot, als voorbeeld voor Swift gediend...: Utopia literatuur en imaginary travel bekijken: Ullrich, Hermann, 'Robinson und Robinsonaden: Bibliographie...' (Weimar, 1898), pp....:

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