The journal of Madame Giovanni / by Alexandre Dumas ; translated by Marguerite E. Wilbur in the first English translation of the original French edition.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870, author.

Contributor:

Poilloüe de Saint-Mars, Anne Gabrielle de Cisternes de Courtiras, vicomtesse de, 1804-1872, supposed author.

Wilbur, Marguerite Eyer, 1889-1982, translator.

International Collectors Library (Firm), active 1954, publisher.

Giuseppe Calabi Personal Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island)--Fiction.

Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island).

Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia)--Fiction.

Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia).

Australia--Fiction.

Australia.

French Polynesia--Marquesas Islands.

French Polynesia--Tahiti (Island).

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Calabi, Giuseppe (former owner)

Calabi, Giuliana (donor)

Physical Description:

[12], 404 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Garden City, N.Y., International Collectors Library, 1944.

Summary:

"[A] historic travelogue diary written by a wealthy French woman in the mid-nineteenth century ... This fantastically detailed and vivid chronicle describes Madame Giovanni?s exotic travels in New Zealand, Tahiti, New Caledonia, the Hawaiian Islands, California, and Mexico"--Amazon.com

Notes:

Has been attributed to Vicomtesse de Saint Mars. cf. Bibliothéque nationale, Catalogue general, and Quérard, J.M., Les supercheries littéaires dévoilées.

French edition 1856, has title: Taïti-Marquises-California; journal de Madame Giovanni, rédigé et publié par Alexandre Dumas.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Giuseppe Calabi Personal Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Giuliana Calabi.

Giuseppe Calabi Personal Library copy has prospectus laid in.

OCLC:

1173159