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IMAGINARY VOYAGES
PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH
IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
INCLUDING THOSE TRANSLATED FROM OTHER LANGUAGES
A TERM PROJECT IN LIBRARY SCIENCE 325
DECEMBER 1955
by Renwick Garypie
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"They watched the sun as he went past them
Westward, and they marvelled much concerning
his course, and in what direction goes he
when he goes under the sea?" --Celtic
"yet now thoughts press upon my heart that
I might explore the deep floods, the self-
same tumult of the salty sea." -Anglo-Saxon
(from The Times, London, August 7, 1930)
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Definition.
INTRODUCTION
The term "imaginary voyage" has been defined at length by Philip
Babcock Gove in The Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction (New York, co-
lumbia University Press, 1941). However, before 1700 there were not
enough examples, nor was the genre well enough established, to make a
strict definition feasible. Therefore I have used the simplest pos-
sible description: a work of the imagination, in which a voyage takes
place.
Editions.
Most editions for books reprinted before 1700 are listed. Since
authorities differ in the amount of information they give, I have not
been able to be consistent in my descriptions; and I have abbreviated
many titles in the interests of space. But full title pages are some-
times listed, in lieu of a longer descriptive note.
An attempt has been made to list all the holdings of the various
editions, in the following libraries:
British Museum, Department of Printed Books (B.M.)
Library of Congress (L.C.)
University of Michigan Libraries(MiȚ.)
The following authorities are also cited occasionally:
Sources.
printed catalog of the Bodleian Library (B.I..)
printed catalog of the Bibliotheque Nationale (B.N.)
Esdaile, Arundell. A List of English Tales and Prose Romances
Printed before 1740. (London, Bibliographical Society,
1912). (Esd.)
The most useful single work has been the above-mentioned one by
Gove. Helpful also were the books by Geoffrey Atkinson, especially
The Extraordinary Voyage in French Literature before 1700 (New York,
:
Columbia University Press, 19:0) and Les Relations de voyages au XVIIe
siecle et l'evolution des idees contribution a l'etude de la formation
de l'esprit du XVIIIe siecle. (Paris, Champion, 1924). For the rest,
space does not permit a listing; but a large proportion of the works
consulted woula be found in Gove's biblicgraphy (in his The Imaginary
Voyage, pp.403-420).
Further introduction seems unnecessary; I wish to thank wr. Joseph
Roberts for suggesting the subject, Miss Ella M. Hymans for expert ad-
vice, and Mr. Philip B. Gove for moral support. I should also like to
borrow a subtitle from the New Atlantis, viz., "A Worke Unfinished."
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Forde, Emmanuel
1598
--Parismus, the renowned prince of Bohemia; his most famous, delec-
table, and pleasant historie: conteining his noble battailes fought
against the Persians. His love to Laurana the king's daughter of Thes-
saly and his strange adventures in the desolate Iland, etc. 2 pt. Lon-
don, 1598-99. B.L. U.Mic. Mill?
--Another edition. The First part of Parismus the renowned Prince
of Bohemia. His most famous...historie (Parismenos. The second part of
the most famous...hystorie of Parismus.) 2 ft. London, 1203-09. B.L.
---The Most Famous, Delectable, and pleasant History of Parismus,
the Renowmed Prince of Bohemia....London, Printed by B. Alsop, and T.
Fawcet and are to be sold in Grubstreet, neere the lower Pumpe. 1633.
L.C.
[Another edition. With an address at the end of pt.1, subscribed
L. P. 2 pt. London, 1649.
B.L.
---Ninth impression. 2 pt. London, 1671-72.
B.M.
---The most renowned and pleasant history of Parismus. Conteyning
his triumphant battels fought against the Persians, his love to the
beautiful princess Laurana, the great dangers he passed in the land of
Rocks and of his strange adventures in the Desolate island. Together
with the adventurous travels, and noble chivalry of Parismenos the
knight of fame, with his love to the fair princess Angelica, the lady
of the golden tower... London Printed by H. B. for J. Wright, J.
Clark, W. Thackeray, and T. Passenger, 1683. L.C.
---Twelfth impression. 2 pt. London, 1684. B.L., L.C.
---Thirteenth impression. 2 pt. London, 1682. B.L.
---Fourteenth impression, corrected and amended. 2 pt. London, 1396.
B.M., MiU.
This work is in the pure chivalric manner, and is full of
strange and marvelous incidents. It illustrates a part of the
heritage upon which later authors drew.
Perier, Antoine du, Sieur de la Salargue
--Les Amours de Pistion., Paris? 1501. (Mentioned in chinard,
Gilbert, L'Amérique et là rêve exotique dans la littérature française
au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siecle, Paris, 1913, at page 61)

M. Chinard says or this: "...l'action se place au Canada,
mais dans un Canada encora assez chimerique pour que nous puissions
ranger Pistion dans la même categorie que le Polexandre."(#10
below). The whole work now appears rather "chimérique," as I
could find it listed in none of the major catalogues. From this
description, however, it appears to have been one of the early
French "voyages extraordinaires."
1609
Hall, Joseph, successively Bp. of Exeter and of Norwich
---Mundus Alter et Idem, sive Terra Australis antehac semper incog-
nita longis itineribus peregrini Academici nuperimme lustrata, auth.
Mercurio Britannico. Frankfurt, 1605, (Listed in Baker, E. A., History
of the English Novel, v.3, p.269)
Another edition. Edited by Gulielmus Knight. Hannoviae, 1307.
B.M., Miu.
Another edition. Accessit propter affinitatem materiae Thomae
Campanellae, Civitas solis. Et Nova Atlantis. Franc. Baconis, bar. de
Verulamio. Ultraiecti, apud J. a Waesberge, CI I CXLIII (1643). B.M.,
L.C., Miu.
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--[Another edition. ... Francofurti apud haeredes Ascanij de Rinialme
Miu
in.d.
--The Discovery of a New World, or A Description of the South Indies,
Hetherto Unknowne. By an English Mercury. Translated by John Healey.
London, 1609. (from the 1937 facsimile edition.) B.L.
[A
---A reissue?, ...For E. Blount and W. Barrett. London, 16:0?, B.M.
---Psittacorum Regio. The Land of Parrots: Or, The She-Lands. With a
Description of other strange adjacent Countries, in the Dominions of the
Prince de l'Amour, not hitherto found in any Geographical Map. By one
of the late most reputed Wits. For F. Kirkman. London, 1969. B.M.
Bishop Hall was a man of wide learning. Familiar with all the
geography of his day, he places his Terra Australis Incognita in
the only truly unexplored region on the globe, what is now known
as the Antarctic. There he wanders among the nations of Tenter-
belly, with its provinces, Eat-allia and Drinke-allia; She-landt,
or Womandecoia; Fooliana; and Theev-ingen.
This is not only a social satire foreshadowing Swift's; it is
also a burlesque of Utopias. That it was successful in this re-
spect one can little doubt after reading the attack on Hall's
work by John Milton, who felt that the Utopia was a valid form
of literature: "...having rambl'd over the huge topography of
his own vain thoughts, no marvell, if he brought us home nothing
but a mere tankard drollery, a venerous parjectory for a stewes.
Certainly he that could indure with a sober pen to sit and devise
laws for drunkards to carouse by, I doubt me whether the very
sobernesse of such a one, like an unlicour'd Silenus, were not
stark drunk." (Milton's Works, ed. J. A. Patterson, v.III, pt.I,
p.299.)
One wonders what Milton would have said about the coarse
imitation that Francis Kirkman published (Psittacorum Regio, last
in the list of editions, above).
1614
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Ordonez de Ceballos, Don Pedro
kamai apti
-Historia y viage del mundo del clerigo agradecido. L. Sanchez.
Madrid, 1614. B.M.
---Historia y Viage del Mundo del Clerigo Agradecido Don Pedro de
Zeballos. J. Garcia Infanzon, acosta de Joseph Vascones. Madrid, 1291.
B.M., L.C., Miu.
---Eyghentlijcke beschryvinghe van West-Indien...ghedaen van Pedro
Ordonnez, de Cevallos, priester. Die de landen met groote neerstich
eyt doorest en besichticht heeft. Tot Amsterdam, By Michiel Colijn.
1621.
L.C., Miu.
In the Mediterranean and the Black Sea Don Pedro engages in minor
raiding expeditions and acquires great wealth. Returning to Spain,
he is ordained. One commentator thus describes his further pere--
grinations: " ...we next find him in the Pacific sending the here-
tics to the bottom and rescuing the true believers in a manner
thoroughly worthy of his cloth. He engages in personal combat
with, and slays, and Indian prince; he founds Colonies and dis-
penses charity to the needy, and finally converts and baptizes
the Queen of Cochin China, and her ladies and officials."(Malcolm
Letts, "Of Lying Travellers," Contemporary Review v.118, p.99)
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The Spanish work formed the basis for Les Adventures de
Don Juan de Vargas (Paris, 1853).
162€
Bacon, Francis, Lord Verulam
---Sylva Sylvarum; or A Naturall Historie. In ten centuries. Krit-
ten by the right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam Viscount St. Alban,
Published after the Authors death, by illiam Rawley Doctor of Divin-
ity, late his lordships Chaplaine. (New Atlantis. A Worke unfinished.)
2 pt. J. H. John Haviland for . Lee. London, 1626.
B.L.
---Another edition?, London, 1617. additional t.p., engraved.
B.M.
The second Edition. 2 pt. J. H., for William Lee. London,
1628. B.M., L.C.
---The third edition. 2 pt. J. H., for William Lee. London,
1631. L.C.
[Another edition. 2 pt. John Haviland, for William Les.
London, 1635. B.M.
---The fifth edition.
1639. B.M.
Another edition. bound with Hall Joseph. Mundus lter et idem.
London, 1643 see #3 above.
B.M., L.C., Miu.
---The sixt sic #dition.
.Fhereunto is added the History Natur-
all and Experimentall of Life and Death.... 3 pt. J. F., for "illiam
Lee. London, 1651. B.M.
IT'
2 pt. J. Haviland, for . Lee. London,
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---The Seventh Edition. 3 pt. 4. M. for F. Lee, and are to be sold
...by T. Johnson. London, 1659. B.M., L.C., Miu.
---The eighth edition, whereunto is adued Articles of Enquiry touch-
ing Metals and Minerals. 3 pt. J. F. & S. G. for E. Lee; sclú by T.
Williams. London, 1664. B.M., Miu.
--The ninth and last edition, etc. 5 pt. J. R., for W. Lee: London,
1670.
B.M.
---The tenth edition, in which is auded and Epitomy of another piece
...intitled Novum Organum (translatea and taken out of the Latine by
M. D.B.D.), never before published in english. 3 pt. S. G. & B. Grif-
fin, for Thomas Lee. London, 1675.
B.M.
---pa reissue
-
...1677/.
Mr. Thomas Bushell's Abridgment of the Lord Chancellor Bacon's
Philosophical Theory in Mineral Prosecutions. Printed by Tho. Newcomb.
London, 1659. B.M.
---An Extract by Mr. Bushell of his late Abridgment of the Lord Chan-
cellor Bacons Philosophical Theory in Mineral Prosecutions
With a por-
trait of Charles II. Printed by Tho. Leach. London, 1660. B.M.
-New Atlantis. Begun by the Lord Berulam...and continued by R. H.
Esquire, etc. Containing an epitome only of Bacon's "New Atlantis."
London, 1660. B.M.
While generally considered a Utopia, the New Atlantis begins as a
voyage: "We sailed from Peru...." After sailing for months, the
island of Bensalem is reached, "beyond the Old World and the New. 11
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Lucian, of Samosata
WORKS GREEK
Οι Λουκιανού Σαμοσατέως Διάλογο. Περι του Ενύπνιου ήτοι βιος
6. η
ΛούκικνονED. PR. Φλωρεντικ, 1493.
B.M.
--- τκδε ένεστιν ἐν τῷδε τῷ βιβλίω Λουκιανου. φιλοστρατου εικονες,
…. του κύτου ἡρωικά, …. βίοι σοφιστων. φιλοστράτου νεωτερου
ELKOVES. KRISTμTO kui hoc volumine continentur Luciani opera,
etc. pp.571. in aedlib. Aldi. Venetiis, 150%.
B. m.
pp.571.
Another edition. With a preface by Franciscus Asulanus.
In aedibus Aldi et A. Asulani. Venetiis, 1522. B.M.
Another edition, Florence? 1525?, "A reprint of the Aeuine edi-
tion of 1522, but without the Imagines of Philostratus, etc." -B.M.
--- AukeKvOU μEPOS πTPWTOV (-SEUTE pov). Tuciani pars prima (-secunda).
Λυκιανού μέρος πρώτον
2 pt. Per J. Secerium. Haganoae,
Haganoae, 1526. B. M.
[Another edition. Edited by A. Francino.
? pt. In officina L. A.
Grade Mat
1634
Juntae. Venetiis, 1535. B.M.
--- MOUKLAVOU V™. Luciani...opera...omnia. With a preface by
Moukekvou
J. Ribittus. 2 pt. Basileae, 1545. B..
GREEK AND LATIN
---Noukixvou 'I KUPOμEVɩTITUS ...Luciani Icaromenippus. ...Vitarum
---Λουκιανού Ικαρομένιππος
auctio. T. Martinus. Louvain, 1520? B.M.
**-Moukivvou TV SWSONENX.Tuciani omnia quae extant, cum Latina
interpretatione. J. Bourdelotius cum Regiis codd. aliisque MOS
...emendavit...Adjectae sunt ejusdem Bourdelotii, T. Marcilii, G.
Cognati notae. Cum indice locupletissimo. pp.1153. Parisiorum, 1315.
B.M.
---MOYKLANDY ATTANTALuciani Samosatensis opera, quae quidem extant,
omnia, Graece & Latine; ...una cum Gilberti Cognati, et Ioannis Cambuci
annotationibus utilissimus; narratione item de vita 2 scriptis authoris
Iacobi Zvingeri: adiectis suo loco Tractatuum elenchis, & nitidissima...
Basileae, per Sabastianum Henricpetri 1563-181?
4 v. Miu.
---MOUKLOVOU EKMOGKITEWS RTTV.Luciani...opera omnia, J. Benedictus
ex antiquis libris...emendaviti et Latinam versionem...recognovit…..
Editio purissima, cum indice locupletissimo. 2 tom. Salmurii, 1013. R.M.
--- Nookervou... KπKVIK. Lúciani Samosatensis opera...ex versione J.
Benedicti. cum notis.... Accedunt inedita scholia, etc. Edited by J. G.
Graevins. 2 tom. P. & J. Blaeu: Amstelodami, 1687.
Miu.
LATIN
---Luciani Samosatensis Saturnalia, Cronosolon..., Epistolae Saturnales,
De luctu, Abdic atus, Icaromenippus..., Toxaris..., Alexader..., Gallus...,
Timon..., Pro tyranicida declamatio, Erasmi declamatio Lucianicae respon-
dens, De iis qui mercede conducti degunt, Dialogi XVIII., Hercules Gal-
licus, Eunuchus..., De sacrificiis, Conuiuium seu Lapithae, ne astrologia,
D. Erasmo...interprete, quos in calce huius libri numeratos peperies, etc.
pp. 298. Apud Io. Frob enium: Basileae, 1521. B.M.
---Another edition. Lagdun, 1549.
ENGLISH
vidual
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Mł. 1
Certaine select dialo ues of Lucian, together with his true historie,
translated from the Greeke...by Mr. F. Hickes. Whereunto is aaded the
Life of Lucian gathered out of his owne writings, with...notes...by T.
Hickes, Mr. of Arts of Christ Church in Oxford. pp.196. W. Turner.
Oxford, 1634. MLU, B. M.
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7.
--Lucian's Works, translated from the Greek. To which is prefixt,
the life of Lucian. By F. Spence. 5 v. London, 1684, 85. B.M.
FRENCH
---Les Oeuvres de lucian, ...traduitées du Grec, par F. Eretin. Repur-
gees de parolles impudiques et profanes. 3 tom. Paris, 1583. B.M.
---Lucien, de la traduction de N. Perrot, Sr. d'Ablancourt.
2 pt.
A Courbe. Paris, 1654.
---Nouvelle edition...corrigee. 3 pt. Paris, 1674. B.M.
S
SPANISH
---Problemas, o preguntas problematicas, ansi de Amor como naturales,
y a cera del Vino: bueltas nuevamente de Latin en lengua Castellana: y
copiladas...por Juan de Jarava. Y un diologo de Luciano, que se dize
Icaro Menippo. Mas un diologo del viejo y del Mancebo, que disputan del
amor. Y un colloquio de la Mosca y de la Hormiga. Louyna, 1544, B.M.
The True History includes a voyage to the moon, and among the
planets, which is the prototype of many later stories. Icaromenippus
makes a similar journey; and this one is not unpremeditated, but a
true expedition. Even closer to modern tales than specific parallels
is the half-serious attitude of the story-teller.
1638
Godwin, Francis, successively Bp. of Llandaff and of Hereford
---The Man in the Moone; or a Discourse of a Voyage thither by Domingo
Gonsales, The Speedy Messenger. Printed by John Norton, for Joshua
Kirton, and Thomas Warren, 1638. London. B.M.
Another edition. The Man in the Moone; Or A Discourse of a Voyage
thither; By F. G., B. of H. To which is added Nuncius Inanimatus, written
in Latin by the same author, and now Englished by a Person of Forth. The
Second Edition. Printed for Joshua Kirton, at the Signe of the Kings
Arms.... London, 1657. (from the facsimile edition of 1937.)
--L'Homme dans la lune, ou le voyage chimerique fait au monde de la
lune, nouvellement decouvert par Dominique Gonzales, avanturier espagnol;
autrement dit, le Courier volant. Nouv. ed., rev. & corr. A Paris, Chez
J. Cochart, 1671. B.M, L.C.
1
A machine carried by 25 large geese carries Domingo aloft. To
their passenger's dismay, they proceed on their annual migration
to the moon. After many adventures there, he returns in the same
manner, landing by mistake in China; from which he eventually makes
his escape. Godwin's scientific tone is unusual, for his period.
The beginning of the tale may have been used by Defoe; for Domingo
was put ashore on an uninhabited island, with a negro servant, and
it is from boredom that he begins training his geese.
Wilkins, John, Bp. of Chester
8. ---The discovery of a world in the moon. Or, a discourse tending to prove,
that 'tis probable there may be another habitable world in that planet...
London, printed by E.G. for M. Sparke and E. Forrest, 1538. L.C, Miu.
---A discovery of a new world, or A discourse tending to prove, that
'tis probable there may be another habitable world in the moon. With a
discourse concerning the probability of a passage thither. Unto which
is added, A discourse concerning a new planet, tending to prove, that
'tis probable our earth is one of the planets...by John Wilkins... The
4th ed., corr. and amended. London, Printed by T. M. & J. A. for J.
Gillibrand, 1684.
Miu.
9.
10.
11.
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This work is more scientific speculation that fictional
voyage. It is included here partly to distinguish it from
Godwin's work, with which it was contemporaneous but other-
wise unrelated; and partly because it was tue source for later
writings.
Rossi, Giovanni Vittorio
---Eudemia by Jani Nicii Erythraie (pseud.). Coloniae Ubiorum
apud Jodacum' Kalcovium et socios. Second ed., 1645. (Begley, "al-
ter. "Bibliography of Romance from the Renaissance to the Tnd of the
Seventeenth Century," in Nova Solyma by Samuel Gott. London, Hurray,
1902, II. P. 369).
The above reference is the only authority for this work.
If the work exists, it fits the definition of imaginary voyage
rather perfectly. Briefly, two Romans of classical times are
driven by storms to an unknown island, where they find a Latin-
speaking people.
B.L.
1640?
Le Roy, Louis, Sr. de Gomberville
---The History of Polexander.... Done into English by . Browne.
London, 1647. B.M.
• Pr
1647
---ra reissue
This originally appeared in French in 5 volumes, from 100
to 1637. The unifying element is hero chasing heroine; waich he
does over most of the known and unknown world. A number of ques-
tions are here solved, perhaps as well as they ever will be:
Saint Brendan's Isle turns out to be "L'ile Inaccessible;" the
"Fortunate Islands" of ancient fable are the Canaries; and to
complete the picture, the Carribs live in Panama, and are
taigne's "bons cannibales"!
on..
1653
Rabelais, Francois (No attempt is made to give all French ditions.)
---Pantagruel. Awon Tuxn. Les horribles faictz et prouesses es
pouventables de Pantagruel: Roy des dipsodes, coposez par M. Alcofribas
abstracteur de quinte essence. Pierre de Saincte Lucie. Lyỡ, 1535
(Esd.)
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--Les oeuvres de m. Francois Rabelais docteur en medecine. Augmentees
de la vie de l'auteur.... A Bruxelles, MDCLIX (1659).
L.C., Miŋ.
..The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor In Physick: Containing
five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, And
his sonne Pantagruel. Together With the Pantagrueline Prognostication,
the Oracle of the divine Bacbuc, and response of the bottle. Hereunto
are annexed the Navigations unto the sounding Isle, and the Isle of the
Apedefts: as likewise the philosophical cream with a Limosm Epistle. All
done by Mr. Francis Rabelais, in the French tongue, and nor faithfully
translated into English...London, Printed for Richard Baddeley. 1855-184¬
B.M.
...For R. B. and are to be sold by J. Starkey. 1084.
---The works of F. Rabelais, M. D.; or, The lives, heroic deeds and
sayings of Gargantua and Pantagruel. Done out of French by Sir Tho.
į Urchard, and others.... London, Printed for . Baldwin, 1894. B.M.
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---Affentheurliche, naupengeheurliche geschichtkliierung: von thaten
und rahten der vorkurtzen, langen und jeweilen vollenwolbeschreyten
helden und heran: Grandgoschier, Gorgellantua vund Pantagruel...Etwann
von m. Frantz Rabelais frantzesisch entworfen; nun aber uberschrecklich
lustig in einen teutschen model vergossen...Durch Hularich Elloposcleron
...Gedruckt zur Grenflug im Ganssereich Strasburg, E. Jobin 1608.
B.M, MiU.
---Another edition?, ...1631. Miu.
---Alle de geestige erken van ar. Francois Rabelais, Genees-Heer...
beneffens een sleutel of verklaring van 't geheele werk, Met groote
vlijt uyt het Fransch vertaelt door Claudio Gallitalo. 2 Deel Jan ten
Hoorn: Amsterdam, 1682. B.M.
The idea of strange-sized people certainly did not originate
with Rabelais; but it is quite possible that Gulliver was inspired
by this tale. At one point Pantagruel makes a journey around the
Cape of Good Hope to Utopia. The geography described in this is
similar to that in actual voyages of the period.
1859
Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien
---Les OEuvres diverses de M. Cyrano de Bergerac. Paris, C. de Sercy,
1654. B.N.
--Les OEuvres diverses (et les Nouvelles oeuvres) de 4. Cyrano de
Bergerac. Paris, C. de Sercy, 1661-166?.
B.N.
B.N.
B.N.
---Another edition 1663.
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​---Another euition. 1676.
--Another edition. 1678.
-Another edition. 1681.
-Another edition.3 1699.
·ΣeλyvkeXck. Or, the Government of the world in the moon: a comical
history.... Done into English by T. St. Serf. Printed by J. Cottrel; solu
by Hum. Robinson. London, 1659.
London, 1659. B.M.
Rouen, J. Besougne.
Paris, C. de Sercy.
Amsterdam, D. Pain.
B.N.
--The Comical History of the States and Empires of the Forlus of the
Moon and Sun...Newly Englished by A. Lovell. 2 pt. Henry Rhodes. London,
1687.
B.M, Miu.
As with so many voyages to imaginary places, Cyrano took the
opportunity to make comparisons with our own world; some of them
so biting, that Lovell's translation was carefully expurgated.
Cyrano owed considerable to both Godwin and Lucian; some passages
in Gulliver were taken directly from Cyrano.
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1660
Bergeron, Pierre
---Les Voyages fameux du Sieur V. Leblanc,...le tout recueilly de
ses memoires par le Sieur Coulon, 3 pt. Paris, 1648 B.M.
[Another edition. Les voyages fameux...Redigez fidellement sur
ses Memoirs, par P. Bergeron. Paris, 1649. B.M., Miu.
Another edition. Nouvellement corrige et augmente par le Sr.
3 pt. N. Oudot. Troyes, 1658.
Coulon.
B.M.
---The World surveyed; or the famous voyages and travailes of V. Te
Blanc, or White...Originally written in French, and...rendred into Eng-
lish by F. B., Gent. J. Starkey. London, 1860.
B.M.
---De vermaarde reizen van de Heer V. Le Blanc.... Nieuwelijks door
J. H. Glazemaker uit de Fransche in de Neder lantische taal vertaalt,
en met treffelijke kopere Platen verciert. 2 Deel. Amsterdam, 1654. B.M.
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From the age of twelve Vincent had a great yearning to go to
sea. Some of the descriptions are geographically accurate, while
others are purely imaginary. The opening pages, particularly, have
the same ring as Robinson Crusoe.
Sadler, John
----Olbia: The New Iland lately discovered.... By a Christian Pilgrim,
driven by Tempest from Civita Vecchia, or some other parts about Rome;
through the Straits into the ATLANTICK OCEAN. The First Part. From the
Original. For Samuel Hartlib. London, 1860.
Although this is a Utopia, there is
give verisimilitude to the journey to Olbia to rank it as a voyage,
enough attempt made to
1665
Head, Richard
---The English Rogue described, in the life of Meriton Latroon...
Being a compleat history of the most eminent cheats.... London, 1685.
B.M.
1860. Esd.
Another editions For F. Kirkman.
---Another edition. For F. Kirkman. 1367. Esa.
---Part 2, The Fnglish Rogue, Continued, in the Life of Meriton La-
troon, and other Extravagants. Comprehending the Most Eminent Cheats of
Most Trades and Professions. The Second Part. Printed for F. Kirkman.
1668. Esd.
Fsd.
1974. Esd.
Parts 1-4, For F. Kirkman. 1671.
Part 3 A. Johnson for F. Kirkman.
---Another edition of Parts 1-4, For F. Kirkman, and are to be sold
by W. Rands. 1680. Esd.
---An abridgement of part 1, The Life and Death of the English Rogue;
Or, His Last Legacy to the World...To which is added an Alphabetical
Canting dictionary.... For C. Passinger. 1679. Esd.
---Another edition. The English Rogue, Containing a brief Discovery
of the most Eminent Cheats, Robberies, and other Extravagancies, by him
Committed.... For J. Blare.
For J. Blare. 1668. Esd.
---LA different abridgement of parts 1-4, with part 5 The English
Rogue: or, Witty Extravagant: Described in the Life of Meriton Latroon
...The Four Parts. To which is added a Fifth Part, compleating the whole
History of his Life.... For J. Back. 1688. Esd.
---Another edition. The Third Edition. For J. Back. 1693. Esd.
---Another edition. The Fourth Edition. For J. Back. 1597. Esd.
---The English Rogue, or Mitty Extravagant; described in the life of
M. Latroon. Preceded by the "Birth, parentage, and education, life
and conversation of Mrs. Dorothy." ...Fourth edition, with large
additions. Gosport, n.d.j
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B.M.
This is a typical picaresque novel, no doubt inspired by the
recent translations of Gil Blas, etc. The hero goes to sea and has
many adventures with pirates and shipwrecks, finally settling down
and marrying a "Black Indian" for her fortune. The later parts were
probably written by Kirkman.
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1
Sorel, Charles
---La vraye histoire comique de Francion...Amplifiee... augmentee
d'un livre... Rouen, Paris, 1663.
B.M., L.C.
--- Another eäition, Revvue et corrigee par N. Duez.... Leyde 1
Rotterdam, 1668. B.M.
--The Comical History of Francion, wherein the variety of vices that
abuse the ages are satyrically limn'd in their native colours.... Done
into English by a person of honor. 19 pt. London, 1865. B.M
Basically a social satire, this includes a voyage to the moou
that was plagiarized by Cyrano (it first appeared, anonymously, in
1623).
2
1666
Cavendish, Margaret, Dutchess of Newcastle
---Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. To which is adued, The
Description of a New Blazing World. 4 pt. Printed by A. Maxwell.
London, 1666. B.M.
---Another edition of pt. 4 The Description of a Ner Forla, cellca
the Blazing-World. 158p. Printed by A. Maxwell. London, 1668, B.M.
The Blazing World is close to our own, being attached at the
pole. It was discovered by an English lady, who married its emperor.
She subsequently became acquainted with that most wonderful lady,
the Dutchess of Newcastle, and so brought back a great army to
fight for Bonnie Prince Charlie.
1663
Lisieux, Zacharie des, Capuchin
---Relation du pays de Jansenie, ou il est traitte des singularitezs
qui s'y trouvent, des coustumes, moeurs et religion des habitaus.
Paris, 1660. B.M.
---Description du pays de Jansenie, ou il est traitte aes singu-
laritez qui s'y trouvent, de coutumes, moeurs et religion des sic,
ses habitans. Bourg-Fontaine. 1688. B. M.
[
---A relation of the country of Jansenia...composed in French by L.F.
and newly translated into English by P.E. London, 1668. B.M., Min.
A social satire, not so biting as Swift's.
Neville, Henry
---The isle of Pines: or, A late discovery of a fourth island in
Terra Australis Incognita. Being a true relation of certain English
persons, who, in the dayes of Queen Elizabeth, making a voyage to the
East Indies, were cast away, and wrecked, upon the island near to the
coast of Terra Australis Incognita, and all drowned, except one man
and four women, whereof one was a negro. And now lately, An. Dom.
1667, a Dutch ship, driven by foul weather there, by chance have found
their posterity (speaking good English) to amount to ten or twelve
thousand persons, as they suppose. The whole relation follows, written
and left by the man himself, a little before his death, and declared
to the Dutch by his grand-child. London, 1663. L. C.
zan
--The Isle of Pines, or, A late discovery of a fourth island near
Terra Australis, Incognita; by Henry Cornelius van Sloetten. Wherein
is contained A true relation of certain English persons, who in Queen
Elizabeths time, making a voyage to the Fast Indies were cast away,
and wrecked near to the coast of Terra Australis, Incognita, and all
drowned, except one man and four women. And now lately anno Dom. 1367
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22.
It is strange that this story has not been revived in recent
times. As one commentator expressed it, "...the rapid propagation
of the species...is dwelt upon with a certain cheeriness of detail
rarely to be met with between the time of the alleged Pines and that
of the lady novelists of today."(Goodrick, "Fobinson Crusoe, Im--
poster," Blackwood's Magazine, 1908, p.676). Almost a best seller
in 1668, the tale was even more popular abroad, and was accepted
with complete credulity for years. The publication was well docu-
mented; Van Sloetten actually existed, and ships were lost in the
year 1668; so that even modern researchers have been very careful
before pronoucing it imaginary.
23.
1671?
Schooten, Hendrick van
---The Hairy-Giants: or a description of two Islands in the South
Sea,
called by the name of Benganga and Coma: discovered by Henry Schoo--
ten of Harlem; in a voyage began January 1869, and finished October 1671.
...with the customs and manners of the inhabitants; which are of an ex-
traordinary stature, viz., twelve foot high, or thereabouts. Likewise,
a description of the compass and situation of those islands, with their
longitude and latitude. Whereunto is annexed an appendix for the in-
struction of mariners. Written in Dutch by Henry Schooten; and now
Englished by P.M., Gent. B.M., L.C. (1671?)
Still in the tradition of pretensions to reality, this never-
theless is clearly imaginary. But it is yet only a short step from
the exaggerated tales of travelers.
1673
Head, Richard
21. ---The Floating Island: or, a New discovery relating to the strange
adventure on a late yoyage from Lambethana to Villa Franca, alias Ram-
allia, to the Eastward of Terra del Templo: by three ships, viz. the
Pay-naught, Excuse, Least-in-Sight, under the conduct of Captain Ro-
bert Owe-much...Published by Franck Careless, one of the discoverers.
39 p. London, 1673. B.M., L.C.
A biting satire, which mimicked the imaginary voyage, now
becoming a better known form of literature.
---The Western Wonder: or, 0 Brazeel, An Inchanted Island aiscovered;
With a Relation of Two Ship-wracks in a dreadful Sea-storm in that dis-
covery. To which is added, A description of a Place, called Monteca-
pernia.
For N.C., 1674. B.M.
Another skit on extravagant travelers' tales. Includes an
account of the land of goats, and its brutish population. Simi-
lar to "The Floating Island" (above), this indicates Head's dis-
gust with the tales of voyages that hau preceded it; but in the
process, he contributes to this literature.
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1674
Abu Bakr Ibn Al-Tufail (Abu Ja Far) al-Ishbili
---Philosophus autodidactus, sive epistola Abi Jaafar Ebn Tophail de
Hai Ebn Yokdan, in qua ostenditur quomodo ex inferiorum contemplatione
åd superiorum notitiam ratio humana ascendere possit. Ex Arabica in
linguam Latinam versa ab E. Pockockio. Arab.
Arab. & Lat, 200p. H. Hall.
Oxonii, 1671. B.M.
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24.
15.
---An Account of the oriental Philosophy showing...particularly, the
profound wisdom of Hai Ebn Yokdan...out of the Arabick translated into
Latine, by E. Pokok and now faithfully out of his Latine, translated
into English. 117p. London, 1674.
B.M.
---Another edition. The history of Hai eb'n Yockdan, an Inuian
prince.... 217 p. London, Printed for R. Chiswell...1686. B.M., Miŋ.
--- An abridgement. The History of Josephus the Indian Prince. Bound
with The Pleasant and Delightful History of Dorastus, Prince of Sicily,
and Fawnia, only Daughter and Heir to Pandosto, King of Bohemia...
For G. Conyers. -1696?, B.M.
-Het leeven van Hai ebn Yockdan, in het arabisch beschreeven door
Abu Jaaphar ebn Tophail, en uit de latynsche overzettinge van Eduard
Pocock... In het nederduitsch vertaald... Amsterdam, J. Rieuwertsz,
1672. Miu.
Among the Indian islands there is one where the men are born
without father or mother, and on which grows a tree that bears wo-
men instead of fruit, called Wakwaks. Some say that Ebn Yokdhan was
of this race; others, that he was the son of a beautiful woman
who had committed him as a babe to the sea, near the Balaɛric
Isles, and that the coffer in which he lay was washed far among
the trees on this island by a tidal wave, which burst it open,
and, the infant crying, he was suckled by a wild goat.
1675
Barnes, Joshua, B.D.
---Gerania: a new discovery of a little sort of people anciently
discoursed of, called Pygmies. With a lively description of their
stature, habit, manners, buildings, knowledge, and government, being
bery delightful and profitable. 110p. W. G. for Obadiah Blagrave.
London, 1675. B.M., Miu.
Vairasse, Denis, d'Allais (assumed title)
---Histoire des Severambes, peuples qui habitent une partie du trois-
ieme continent, communement appelle la Terre australe. Contenant un
conte exact du gouvernement, des moeurs, de la religion, & du langage
de Cette nation, jusqu'es aujourd'huy inconnue aux peuples de l'Europe.
Paris, 1679.
Miu.
---L'histoire des Severambes.... Traduit de l'anglois.... Paris,
Bruxelles, 1682. Miu.
---The History of the Sevarites or Severambi.... Fritten by one Cap-
tain Siden translated by A. Roberts. 2 pt. London, 1675-79.
B.M.,
MiU.
---Geographisches Kleinod, aus zweyen sehr ungemeinen Edelgesteinen
bestehend.... au fanglich durch den Autoren selbst geschrieben, hernach
in offentlichen Druck in Englischer Sprache heraus gegeben, durch A.
Roberts.. Sultzbach, 1689. B.M., Miu.
--Historie der Severambes.... Uit het fransch in het nederduitsch
gebracht door G. v. Broekhuizen... Amsterdam, 1882. Miu.
The controversy still rages whether this was originally writ-
ten in English or French. In any case, it is one of the liveliest
of Utopias. It was the basis for a bogus third volume of Gulliver's
Travels, in 1727.
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1684
Winstanley, William
-Historical. Rarities, and curious observations domestick and for-
eign...Collected out of approved authors. London, 1684. B.M., .C.
This includes "The miraculous and strange Adventures and
Deliverances of one Andrew Battel of Leigh in Sussex and "A Strango Deli-
verance of an Englishman from a Desolate Island near Scotland.... 11
These, although possibly founded on fact, are probably imaginary.
If so, for once the setting is not tropical.
1688
Grimmelshausen, Hans Jacob Christoffel von
---Der abentheurliche Simplicissimus teutsch. Das ist: Die Beschrei-
bung des Lebens eines seltzamen Vaganten, genant Melchior Sternfels
von Fuchshaim...Am tag geben von G. S. von Salsfort. 1000. B.M.
---Gantz neu eigerichteter allenthalben, viel verbesserte abentheur-
licher Simplicius Simplicissimus...Mit 3 Continuationen von G. S. von
Salsfort.... 1671. B.M.
mà n
--Der abenteuerlichen Simplicii Verkehrte Welt...entworffen von
S. L. vo Hartenfels.... 1672.
1672. B.M.
--Der aus dem grab der Vergessenheit wieder erstandene Simplicissi-
mus; dessen abentheurlicher, und mit allerhand Seltsamen begebenheiten
angefellter lebens-wandel... auf- und vorgestellet wird, durch German
Schleifheim von Sulsfort.... Narnberg, 1685. B. m.
---Another edition in English? 1688.
~
According to Miss Morgan, in her Rise of the Novel of Huiners,
at page 200, an English translation was advertise by Dica Bald-
win in 1688. But no other mention is made of such a translation,
and one can only conclude that it was never printed. It does not
appear in the Stationers Register.
Parallel passages in Defoe indicate that he at least had some
indirect contact with Simplicissimus. One need not suppose, as one
critic has theorized, that he read the translation in manuscript.
It is probable that Defoe did not know enough German to have read
the original; but he did not live in a vacuum, and may well have
heard the story retold by someone else.
1689
Pitman, Henry
---A RELATION of the great sufferings and strange adventures of Henry
Pitman, Chirurgeon to the late Duke of Monmouth, containing an account
...of his being engaged in the Duke's service...trial, condemnation, and
transportation to Barbadoes...his escape in a small open boat...ashore
on an uninhabitable island, where they met with some Privateers, that
burnt their boat, and left them...taken aboard a Privateer anu at length
arrived safe in England. Printed by Andrew Sowle. London, 1689.
(from the reprint in the Stuart tracts, 1603-1693, ed. C. H. Firth).
More down to earth than some this was based on fact.
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​1691
La Mothe, Marie Catherine, Comtesse d'Aulnoy
-Relation du Voyage d'Espagne. Seconde edition. 3 tom. La Haye,
1692.
↑
Kaplan
B.M.
Troisieme edition. 3 tom. La Haye, 1693. · B.M.
---The Ingenious and Diverting Letters of, the Lady-Travels into
Spain...The second edition.
3 pt.
Samuel Crouch.
Fourth edition corrected. 288p. S. Crouch.
S. Crouch.
London, 1692. B.M.
London, 1697.
B.M.
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This is the relation of a real journey, but the result is no
more real than is Sterne's "Sentimental Journey."
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Daniel, Gabriel
---Voiage du monde de Descartes. A Paris, Chez la veuve de Simon Pe-
nard, M DC LXXXX(1390). L.C.
kua
---Another edition....Paris, 1691. B.M.
---A Voyage to the World of Cartesius...now translated into English
by Thomas Taylor. 298p. Printed & sold by Thomas Bennet. London,
1692. B.M., L.C., Miy.
-The second edition. ...Translated into English by T. Taylor....
London, 1694. B.M., L.C.
Daniel was here chiefly interested in satirizing the de-
voted followers of Descartes; and it is his spirit, rather than
his body, that makes the journey to the moon and to realms be-
yond. However, he does mention one instance where a man was trans-
ported there bodily. Once there, he pictures his travellers voyag-
ing over a great ocean which corresponds in general to the Atlan-
tic, visiting islands, discovering other seas and continents.
1633
Foigny, Gabriel de
---La Terre Australe connue: c'est a dire, la description de ce pays
inconnu jusqu'ici, de ses moeurs & de ses coutumes. Par Mr. Sadeur, avec
les avantures qui le conduisirent en ce continent...Reduites & mises en
lumiere par les soins & la conduite de G. de F. Geneva, 1370, R.M., Miu.
--Les Avantures de Jacques Sadeur dans la decouverte et le voiage de
la Terre Australe.... Paris, 1692.
Paris, 1692.
B.M., L.C., Miu.
Another edition. ...Paris, 1693.
---A New Discovery of Terra Incognita Australis, or the Southern World,
by J. Sadeur, a French-man. Who being cast there by a shipwrack, lived
35 years in that country. Translated from the French.... London, 1393.
B.M., L.C.
1602
After many shipwrecks, Sadeur has adventures with monstrous
beasts, four-footed birds, etc., finally making his escape on the
back of a whale. He arrives at the highly civilized land of Austra-
lia, where the people are all hermaphrodites and live in great ter-
ror of enormous birds, the Urgs. Sadeur tames an Urg and escapes.
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L'autre monde ou les Etats et Empires,
Les Avantures de Jacques Sadeur.
Bacon, Brancis, Lord Verulam....
Barnes, Joshua, B. D...
Bergeron, Pierre, Parisien..
Browne, W., tr...
Cavendish, Margaret, Dutchess of Newcastle....
The Comical History of Francion...
The Comical History of the States and Empires of the Worlds
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Lisieux, Zacharie des, Capucin (Pere)
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Icaromenippus, or A Voyage to Heaven..
The Ingenious and Diverting Letters of the
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The Isle of Pines, or, A Late Discovery of a Fourth Island....
La Mothe, Marie Catherine, Comtesse d'Aulnoy..
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A further word should be added about inclusion. Professor Atkinson,
in his two works mentioned above on the extraordinary voyage in French
literature, tried to give the impression that this was a literary genre
peculiar to, or at least first developed in, French literature. This
was the natural result of his work in that field, and to a large extent
he was right.
However, there was also a parallel trend in English literature;
to demonstrate this trend has been the chief purpose of this paper,
although I have not until now made this purpose explicit. It may be
questioned, why I included French works if this was my purpose; the
answer is that I have included only such works as were translated into
English, thereby making an addition to the stream of English thought.
The paper was arranged by date of first publication, with the
purpose in mind to show the progress of this trend which I have assumed
exists. In several cases I have indicated direct plagiarism, in others
there is merely the suggestion of similar subject-matter or treatment.
In harmony with this purpose, I have listed translations according to
the date of translation into English, assuming that this was the time
when their influence was more largely felt.
January 1956

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