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COYER (GABRIEL-FRANCOIS) A Supplement to Lord Anson's Voyage Round the World. Containing a Discovery and Description of the Island of Frivola, A. Millar, J. Whiston, and B. White, 1752
26 February 2020, 13:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £765 inc. premium
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COYER (GABRIEL-FRANCOIS)
A Supplement to Lord Anson's Voyage Round the World. Containing a Discovery and Description of the Island of Frivola, collating: xi, [1], 63, [1], untrimmed and stitched without wrappers, preserved in solander box [Sabin 17318], 8vo, A. Millar, J. Whiston, and B. White, 1752
Footnotes
A satire on the French nation, based upon the supposed discovery of the Utopian island of "Frivola" by Admiral Anson during his journey around the world, the author investigating why Anson should "hide from our Knowledge an Island which Nature destined as much for our Use as his...". To win favour with the island's Governor, Anson was obliged to dance a hornpipe whilst Richard Walter provided the music, having "whipped out of his side-pocket a German flute, an instrument never heard in Frivoland before".