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The history of King Apprius, &c. : extracted from the chronicle of the world, from its creation / Translated from a Persian manuscript found in the library of Schah-Hussain, sophi of Persia, dethroned by Mamut in 1722 ; By a gentleman who served in the Persian armies.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection PQ1955.B78 H53 1728
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beauchamps, Pierre-François Godart de, 1689-1761.
- Standardized Title:
- Histoire du Prince Apprius. English
- Language:
- English
- Persian
- Physical Description:
- 116 pages ; 18 cm (12mo)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Sold by the Book-sellers of London and Westminster, 1728.
- Notes:
- First edition in English.
- Signatures: A-E¹² (E₁₁ blank; E₁₂, blank? wanting)
- Title-page in red and black.
- Translation of the author's Histoire du Prince Apprius. According to P. Lacroix (Bibliothèque de M.G. de Pixerecourt) this is a satire directed against the regent Louis, by C. Nodier does not concur in this opinion. The proper names are anagrammatized.
- "Errata" slip tipped in on p. 116.
- Cited in:
- ESTC N7377
- McBurney, W.H. Engl. prose fiction, 236.
- OCLC:
- 15743873
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