Description de l'isle des hermaphrodites. Nouvellement decouverte, concernant les moeurs, les coutumes & les ordonnances des habitans de cette isle, Comme aussi le Discours de Jacophile à Limne, avec quelques autres pièces curieuses

Second edition, the First edition of 1605 is extremely rare. Illustrated with a frontispiece depicting a hermaphrodite, with the inscription 'Je ne suis ni male ni femelle...' ["I am neither male nor female..."].

Contemporary sheep binding, worn. Decorated spine with raised bands. Lacking the title label. Light dampstaining to margins at end of work.

Considered the first French anti-utopia, this journey of a Frenchman weary of his country's ills to an island inhabited by effeminate characters, made-up and devoted to festivities and pleasures, is a satire of the disorders of Henri III's court, himself represented by king Hermaphroditus, woman king or man queen. The work brought considerable notoriety to its author, of whom little is known except that he left several scholarly translations. The work, which was compared to the Satyre ménipée, was presented to Henri IV, who forbade anyone from troubling the author.