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The right pleasant, and diverting history of Fortunatus and his two sons : in two parts, I. Containing an account of his noble birth, remarkable travels, and strange adventures in many kingdoms, how he obtained a purse, which supplyed him with a continuance of money, and a wishing hat, by which he could be conveyed in an instant, to any place where he desired to be, as also his death, at which he bequeathed his purse and hat to his two sons, with his sumptuous funeral monument, &c. II. Containing the travels and remarkable actions of his sons, with their untimely deaths and burials / first penn'd in the Dutch language, thence abstracted, and now published in English, by T.C.
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Fortunatus. English. 1730.
- Language:
- English
- German
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 168 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm (12mo)
- Edition:
- The tenth edition, illustrated with variety of new pictures and new additions.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for J. Osborne ... J. King ... and J. Hodges ..., [between 1730 and 1739]
- Notes:
- Translation and partial abridgement of: Fortunatus, first published in Augsburg in 1509.
- The translator T.C. is variously identified as Thomas Churchyard or Thomas Gainsford.
- An 11th edition was published by the same printers in 1740.
- Cited in:
- ESTC (RLIN) N12936
- OCLC:
- 82883731
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