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Original edition of an important imaginary voyage to America by Robert Lade

[PRÉVOST D'EXILES, Antoine François].
Voyages du Capitaine Robert Lade en differentes parties de l'Afrique, de l'Asie et de l'Amerique: contenant l'histoire de la fortune, & les observations sur les colonies & le commerce des Espagnols, des Anglois, des Hollandois, &c. Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglois.


Folding map of Eastern America and the Caribbean by Jacques Nic. Bellin engraved by F. Desbruslins, and a folding engraved map of the world showing the route of the voyage by Jean Lattré, dated 1743.

Folding map of Eastern America and the Caribbean by Jacques Nic. Bellin engraved by F. Desbruslins, and a folding engraved map of the world showing the route of the voyage by Jean Lattré, dated 1743.

Folding map of Eastern America and the Caribbean by Jacques Nic. Bellin engraved by F. Desbruslins, and a folding engraved map of the world showing the route of the voyage by Jean Lattré, dated 1743.

Folding map of Eastern America and the Caribbean by Jacques Nic. Bellin engraved by F. Desbruslins, and a folding engraved map of the world showing the route of the voyage by Jean Lattré, dated 1743.



Paris, Cl. Simon for Didot, 1744. 2 vols. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with red and green morocco title labels lettered in gold. Folding map of Eastern America and the Caribbean by Jacques Nic. Bellin engraved by F. Desbruslins, and a folding engraved map of the world showing the route of the voyage by Jean Lattré, dated 1743. (2), XVI, 370; (2), 384, (2), 387(-400) pp.

First edition of an delightful and wholly imaginary voyage. On the title page is stated that the account was translated from an original English version which, however, never existed. The work is generally attributed to Antoine François Prévost (1697-1763), best known for his massive compilation of voyages issued from 1746 to 1789 in 20 volumes. Prevost also translated Henry Neville's Isle of Pines (1668) under the title Découverte d'une Isle Inconnue ou avanture de George Pinès.
Noteworthy in this account is the lengthy description of affairs in the infant colony of Georgia, founded only a decade earlier, evidently drawn from English sources. This account contributed towards the confusion that this work had to be translated from English sources. But a Captain Robert Lade can not be traced and therefore the work is to all probability a fictious account composed by the supposed translator Prévost.
The contents of this book also gives information of the voyage of Francis Drake, the most famous privateer to attack Cartagena. Drake attacked the city in 1572. Also the voyages of Thomas Cavendish, Henry Hudson, Olivier van Noort and Joris van Spilbergen, Le Maire and Captain Sharp, the famous English buccaneer who could have made history as possibly the only man to have lived in the company of the two notorious pirate captains. Back in 1671, Sharpe had been a young buccaneer in Morgans raiding party, and almost three decades later, in 1699, he was at St. Thomas when the British Royal Navy visited the island looking to capture Captain Kidd. The last 14 pages of vol. 2 contain a stock list of the publisher Didot.
A second edition was published in Amsterdam and Paris in 1784. Modern editions followed in 1844 in Paris, and the account was also included in the Oeuvres de Prévost, vol. 6, ed. by John Abioyé in Grenoble in 1984.

Good copy.- (Corners of bindings sl. rubbed, sm. tear in one map).

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Africa  America, North  Asia  French  Imaginary Voyages & Utopias  Travel & Voyages 

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