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The busy-body: or, Successful spy: being the entertaining history of Mons. Bigand, a man infinitely inquisitive and enterprising even to rashness ... [Tr. from the French]
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection PQ2013.M65 M613 1742 v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mouhy, Charles de Fieux, chevalier de, 1701-1784.
- Standardized Title:
- Mouche, ou Les aventures de M. Bigand. English. 1742
- Language:
- English
- French
- Genre:
- Publishers' advertisements -- Great Britain -- 18th century.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Singer, Jacob (donor) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)
- Singer, Leah (donor) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)
- Singer, Godfrey F. (honoree) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)
- Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861- (donor) (RBC copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes ; 18 cm (12mo)
- Place of Publication:
- London : F. Cogan, 1742.
- Notes:
- Translation of: La mouche, ou Les aventures de M. Bigand, published anonymously. By the Chevalier de Mouhy. Cf. Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes, v. 3, col. 369.
- Publisher's advertisements: v. 2, [4]-[7] at end.
- Cited in:
- ESTC (RLIN) T96254
- Beasley, J.C. Prose fiction pub. in England, 1740-1749, 106
- Block, A. Engl. novel (1961 ed.), p 57
- OCLC:
- 13326525
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