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<dl><dd>Errata: p. [52], 1st ct</dd>
<dd>A fabrication. The author's real name is unknown. "Psalmanazar ... 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 'Descriptio regni Japoniae et Siam' (Amsterdam, 1649) or Candidius's 'Voyages.'"--Dict. nat. biog</dd>
<dd>Plates numbered as follows: [no. # map of Formosa], 1-4, [no # op. p. 61], 5-11, 13, [ no. # alphabet] , 14-16</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Apologetics</div>
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<dl><dd>Psalmanazar, George, 1679?-1763</dd>
<dd>Oswald, tr</dd></dl></div>
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