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Peruvian tales : related in one thousand and one hours, by one of the select virgins of Cusco, to the Ynca of Peru, to dissuade him from a resolution he had taken to destroy himself by poison. / translated from the French by Samuel Humphreys ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection PQ1987.G5 M413 1786 v.1-3 (v.1-3)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gueullette, Thomas-Simon, 1683-1766.
- Standardized Title:
- Mille et une heures, contes peruviens. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Penn Provenance:
- Round, J. H. (bookplate)
- Mendenhall, John C. (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 3 volumes (vii pages, 8 unnumbered pages-268 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations ; 22 cm (8vo)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for Harrison and Co..., 1786.
- Notes:
- Volume 3 (p. [185]-268) by John Kelly.
- Translation of: Les mille et une heures, contes peruviens.
- Printed in double columns.
- Also issued as a part of: The Novelist's magazine, vol. 21, London, 1780-88.
- Translator's preface" (p. [iii]-vii) signed: S. Humphreys. May 1, 1734.
- "The French author of the two former volumes of these Tales, has by death been prevented from obliging the public with a third ... I undertook to carry on the plan, and conclude what was keft unfinished ..."--Preface to "volume the third", p. [185], signed J. K. [i.e. John Kelly].
- Cited in:
- ESTC (RLIN) T91174
- OCLC:
- 12435194
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