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Viaggi ed avventure del capitan Roberto Boyle : con la relazione del viaggio, naufragio e maraviglioso salvamento del signor Castelman, in cui si vede una discrizione della Pensilvania, e di Filadelfia sua capitale / tradotti dall' inglese in italiano.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3346.C3 V616 1734
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chetwood, W. R. (William Rufus), -1766, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Voyages and adventures of Captain Robert Boyle. Italian
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Voyages, Imaginary--Early works to 1800.
- Voyages, Imaginary.
- Pennsylvania--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Pennsylvania.
- Travel.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Libreria Antiquaria C. E. Rappaport (label) (Kislak Center copy)
- Strouth, Howard Steven (bookplate) (Kislak Center copy)
- Physical Description:
- 447, [1] pages : 1 illustration ; 17 cm (8vo)
- Fingerprint:
- e.ui toi- a.a. sotr (7) 1734 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- In Venezia : A spese della Compagnia, MDCCXXXIV [1734]
- Language Note:
- Italian translation of: Voyages and adventures of Captain Robert Boyle.
- Notes:
- "Attributed to William Rufus Chetwood. Sometimes also attributed to Benjamin Victor or Daniel Defoe."--ESTC T144534.
- Signatures: A-2G⁸.
- In two volumes, each with special dated title leaf; signatures and pagination are continuous.
- Engraved frontispiece illustration.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy has manuscript bibliographical notes in pencil on front free endpaper.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert E. Visk, W'28, Memorial Book Fund.
- Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2022 from Inlibris LLC.
- Kislak Center copy has bookseller's label ("C.E. RAPPAPORT LIBRI RARI ROMA") on front pastedown; armorial bookplate ("Ex Libris Howard Steven Strouth") of Howard Steven Strouth (b. 1919) laid in.
- Kislak Center copy: first and last leaves mended at fore-edge; binding damaged.
- Cited in:
- Gove, P.B. Imaginary voyage, page 248
- Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 12555
- OCLC:
- 1129397224
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