A true and exact relation of the late prodigious earthquake & eruption of Mount Ætna, or, Monte-Gibello : as it came in a letter written to His Majesty from Naples by the Right Honorable the Earle of Winchilsea, His Majesties late ambassador at Constantinople, who in his return from thence, visiting Catania in the island of Sicily, was an ey-witness of that dreadfull spectacle. Together with a more particular narrative of the same, as it is collected out of severall relations sent from Catania. Published by authority.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winchilsea, Heneage Finch, Earl of, -1689.

Series:

Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Etna, Mount (Italy)--Early works to 1800.

Catania (Sicily)--Earthquake, 1669--Early works to 1800.

Local Subjects:

Etna, Mount (Italy)--Early works to 1800.

Catania (Sicily)--Earthquake, 1669--Early works to 1800.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (16, pages 15, 26-38 pages, 1 unnumbered folded plate)

Other Title:

Caption title, p. 11: Particular narrative of the late dreadful earthquake and irruption as it is collected out of several relations from Catania

Place of Publication:

[London] : Printed by T. Newcomb in the Savoy, 1669.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Text and register continuous despite pagination.

With frontispiece engraving of the eruption.

Includes a list of towns and points of interest destroyed by the earthquake.

Copy has print show-through.

Reproduction of the original in the John Rylands University Library, Manchester University, Manchester, England.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2103:32) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

Wing (2nd edition) W2967A.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.