An account of the eruption of Vesuvius, in 1767 / communicated in a letter from the Honourable Isaac Jamineau, Esq., his Britannic Majesty's consul at Naples, to John Morgan, M.D. F.R.S. and professor of medicine in the College of Philadelphia, member of the American Society, Meeting at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge--published by order of that Society.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jamineau, Isaac, 1710-1789.

Contributor:

Morgan, John, 1735-1789.

American Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge, publisher.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Volcanoes--Italy--Naples--Early works to 1800.

Volcanoes.

Volcanoes--Italy--Naples--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Vesuvius (Italy)--Early works to 1800.

Vesuvius (Italy).

Vesuvius (Italy)--Eruption, 1767--Early works to 1800.

Vesuvius (Italy)--Eruption, 1631--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Italy--Naples.

Genre:

Poetry.

Broadsides -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 18th century.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 33 x 21 cm

Fingerprint:

tou- i.n- usue s-i. (S) 1768 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : [Published by the American Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge], [1768]

Notes:

Includes an account of the eruption of Vesuvius on Oct. 29, 1767 by eyewitness Isaac Jamineau, as well as a history of previous eruptions. Concludes with a poem (in Latin, followed by an English translation) inspired by the volcano's eruption of 1631, apparently found on a roadside marker "three miles distant from Naples."

Presumably published early in 1768. Jamineau sent his description of the eruption to Dr. Morgan in 1767, which Morgan read before the American Society for Promoting and Propagating Useful Knowledge, Held in Philadelphia, on Feb. 19, 1768. Jamineau was nominated for corresponding membership in the Society at that meeting, and was elected Feb. 26, 1768 (an honor of which he was apparently never informed). Cf. Whitfield Jenks Bell. Patriot-improvers, 1997.

Broadside. Text printed in triple columns beneath caption title.

Not in Evans.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries from William Reese Co. in 2015.

RBC copy closely cropped at all margins.

Cited in:

ESTC N506725

OCLC:

436840218