Accession number
PML 196480
Creator
Tiphaigne de La Roche, Charles-François, 1722-1774.
Published
A Babylone [i.e. Paris] : [publisher not identified], 1760.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2016.
Notes
Presumed first edition.
Published also under title: Voyages à Giphantie.
Novel recounting an imaginary voyage and describing a utopian community in the quicksands of the desert of Africa; particularly noted for its prescient description of an apparatus operating on the principles of photography in Chapter 18.
Published also under title: Voyages à Giphantie.
Novel recounting an imaginary voyage and describing a utopian community in the quicksands of the desert of Africa; particularly noted for its prescient description of an apparatus operating on the principles of photography in Chapter 18.
Description
2 volumes in 1 (176; 174 pages) ; 17 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Contemporary calf.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of a descendant of François de Bournonville (1662-1705).
Classification
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