Jacques Sadeur is the pseudonym of Gabriel de Foigny.

First printed in Vannes [i.e. Geneva] 1676, under title: La terre australe connue.

The present edition, however, follows the text of the Paris, 1692, edition which was printed under title: Les avantures de Jacques Sadeur.

An imaginary voyage which compares commodities of America to those found in an imaginary land.

Signatures: A-L¹² (A1 verso blank) M¹² (-M12) (M11 verso blank)

Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Cf. Storer, M.E. Foigny, 143-147.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, books printed 1675-1700, p. 298.

European Americana 695/73.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full mottled calf.