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sent by the sultan of the Indies to make a discovery of the island of Borico, where the fountain which restores past youth is supposed to be found : also, an account of the travels of Rouschen, a Persian lady, to the Topsy-Turvy island, undiscover'd to this day. The whole intermix'd with several curious and instructive histories
6 unnumbered pages, vi, xvi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 169 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 8 unnumberd leaves of plates : illustrations (including frontispiece) ; 20 cm
Translated into French from an Arabick manuscript found at Batavia, with notes explaining such passages as relate to the religion, customs, &c.of the Indians and Mahometans, by Mr. de Sandisson, done into English by William Hatchett, Gent. Adorn'd with eight cuts finely engraven.
Translation of: Les avantures d'Abdalla, fils d'Hanif, ... ; originally published in Paris, 1712.
Mr. de Sandisson is a pseudonym of Jean Paul Bignon.
Page ii (second sequence) misnumbered 158.
Woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces.
The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature.