Observations on a variety of subjects, literary, moral and religious : in a series of original letters, written by Tamoc Caspipina, a gentleman of foreign extraction, who resided some time in Philadelphia. Revised by a friend, to whose hands the manuscript was committed for publication.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duché, Jacob, 1738-1798.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Description and travel.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Pennsylvania--Description and travel.

Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Philadelphia.

Genre:

Letters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x,241,[1]p. )

Other Title:

Observations on a variety of subjects, literary, moral and religious

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed by Robert Bell, in Third-Street, MDCCLXXIV. [1774]

Notes:

Letters dated from July 4, 1771 to Nov. 20, 1772. The pseudonym used by Jacob Duché is derived from the initial letters of the phrase The Assistant Minister Of Christ Church And St. Peter's In Philadelphia In North America.

Dedicated to James Hamilton.

Typographically identical, except for title page, with the edition printed at Philadelphia by John Dunlap in the same year.

Errors in paging: p. 123, 213 misnumbered 132, 132.

"Errata."--p. [242].

The final letter is signed and dated: "Tamoc Caspipina. Philadelphia, Nov.20, 1772".

Caspipina = Jacob Duché.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Evans, 13259

English Short Title Catalog, W28701.

OCLC:

642786019