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[Title Page]


title page

[English Translation]
HISTORY

OF THE GREAT

AND ADMIRA–

BLE KINGDOM
OF ANTANGIL.
Unknown until now to all Historians
     & Cosmographers: composed of six score
     Provinces, very–beautiful & very–fertile. With
     a description thereof, & of its unparalleled
     polity, both civil & military. For the In–
     struction of the youth. And of the Religion.

               All included in five books,

                        By I. D. M. G. T.



AT SAUMUR,      

By Thomas Portau.[1]      
1616.      






1. All copies of Antagil appear to have either a printer's placard, with the name of Jean le Maire of Leyden, glued atop the name of the actual printer Thomas Portau, or have remnants of this said placard such as is seen on this volume. There is no doubt that the actual printer was Portau, though both printers did carry some of the same printer's decorations. The reason for this poorly disguised deception can only be assumed, but it's likely that resistance, or repercussions to the publication of this volume were felt by Portau, as concepts found in Antangil would have been found repugnant to the French crown such as the idea of a republican government that greatly curbed the power of the kings of Antangil. To the crown of France such writings would have been near treason.

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Above: title Page of Antangil carrying the partial placard of Jean le Maire of Leyden, with the exposed half of the actual printer, Thomas Portau of Saumur, exposed beneath.