LEGUAT, François. Eines Frankosen und seiner Gesehrten Reisen und Wunderliche Begebenheiten nach zuvenen unbeivohnten Ost-Indischen Insuln... Frankfurt and Leipzig: Michael Rohrlachs, 1709.
8° (170 x 105mm). Engraved frontispiece, 3 folding maps and 28 plates of exotic fish, animals and people. (Some light browning, contemporary marginalia). Contemporary blind-stamped vellum, clasps.
FIRST GERMAN EDITION. Now generally accepted as a spurious account, this remains a valuable source best known for its description of the Island of Rodriguez taken from earlier works and was reprinted by the Hakluyt Society, Howgego L109.
LEGUAT, François. Eines Frankosen und seiner Gesehrten Reisen und Wunderliche Begebenheiten nach zuvenen unbeivohnten Ost-Indischen Insuln... Frankfurt and Leipzig: Michael Rohrlachs, 1709.
8° (170 x 105mm). Engraved frontispiece, 3 folding maps and 28 plates of exotic fish, animals and people. (Some light browning, contemporary marginalia). Contemporary blind-stamped vellum, clasps.
FIRST GERMAN EDITION. Now generally accepted as a spurious account, this remains a valuable source best known for its description of the Island of Rodriguez taken from earlier works and was reprinted by the Hakluyt Society, Howgego L109.
