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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
George Psalmanazar |
| OCLC Number: | 35214236 |
| Notes: | A fabrication. The author's real name is unknown. "Psalmanaazaar ... wrote in Latin, and the main portion of his manuscript was translated by Mr. Oswald ... what was not due to his own imagination he borrowed from Varenius's 'Description regni Japoniae et Siam' (Amsterdam, 1649) or Candidius's 'Voyages'"--Dict. nat. biog. |
| Description: | [56], 288 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 20 cm. |
| Series Title: | (Western books on Asia. Japan ; fiches 11,556-11,559) |
| Responsibility: | by George Psalmanaazaar ... |
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