Imagining Formosa (Taiwan) in Europe at the beginning of the 18th Century

First edition of this notorious forged account of the lands, peoples, and culture of Formosa (Taiwan), by the mysterious George Psalmanazar, including this fold-out engraving of his imagined Formosan alphabet—the first recorded “constructed language” in European history, from which he rendered a non sensical translation of The Lord’s Prayer: “Amy Pornio dan chin Ornio vicy, Gnayjorhe sai Lory,” etc.