UTOPIA - Protection, Sinold, Balthasar von, Philipp (Pseud.: L. E. v. Faramond). The most blissful island in all the world, or the land of contentment. The island's government, nature, fertility, customs of the inhabitants, religion, church constitution, and the like, together with the occasion on which such a country was discovered, are described in detail. With gest. Frontispiece, 1 gest. Folded map and 6 (1 folded) copper plates. Nuremberg, Georg Peter Monath, 1749. cl.-8°. [5] tr., 250 pp., [3] (instead of 6) tr. Plain half-leather binding of the late 19th cent. (minimally rubbed). Cf. Bloch 3282 - Faber du Faur 417.1638 (both EA 1723, published under Pseud. von Wahrenberg): "This republic, which seems to be an imitation of Andreae's Christenburg, is governed by a communistic royalism exercising strict control over all things. Primitive and patriarchal conditions are praised: for example, barter trade without the exchange of money, of which very little is in circulation". - Hayn/G. II, 234: "Interesting utopia, with some remarks on America". - Missing at the end 3 ll. Table of contents of the second part. - Somewhat browned, in the margins foxing and in places dampstained.