Utopian literature VARAISSE D'ALAIS (Denis) History... - Lot 747 - Briscadieu

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Utopian literature VARAISSE D'ALAIS (Denis) History... - Lot 747 - Briscadieu
Utopian literature VARAISSE D'ALAIS (Denis) History of the sevarambes, people who inhabit a part of the third continent, commonly called the Southern Land. Containing a relation of the government, the customs, the religion, and the language of this nation, unknown until now to the peoples of Europe. Amsterdam, Mortier, 1715. 2 volumes in 1 volume in-12. of wax p 172 without gravity, worm hole on the last leaf. Brown calf of the time, blond title on spine, red edges. The History of the Sevarambes is a utopia, a fictional novel presented as an anthropological account. Its author, by summoning the myth of the austral lands, signs one of the first great texts of modern utopian literature.
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