The surprizing yet real and true voyages and adventures of Monsieur Pierre Viaud. A French sea-captain. To which is added, The shipwreck. A sentimental and descriptive poem, in three cantos. By William Falconer, an English sailor. [Two lines of verse]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dubois-Fontanelle, Jean Gaspard, 1737-1812. 19559

Contributor:

Griffith, Elizabeth, 1727-1793

Standardized Title:

Naufrage et aventures de Monsieur Pierre Viaud. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women translators--84009.

Women translators.

Women--82663.

Women.

Local Subjects:

Women translators--84009.

Women--82663.

Genre:

Imaginary voyages.

Physical Description:

xii,144,[4],108,[4]p., [1]leaf of plates : ill. ; 12⁰.

Place of Publication:

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

Notes:

Each work has separate title page and pagination. The first, attributed by Evans to Jean Gaspard Dubois-Fontanelle, is "Translated from the French by Mrs. [Elizabeth] Griffith," and has running title: The adventures of Monsieur Pierre Viaud.

The frontispiece, engraved by James Smither, is the only illustration. In some copies, the frontispiece is printed in red.

Error in paging: p. 60, 2nd count, misnumbered 50.

"Occasional elegy."--p. 106-108, 2nd count.

Bookseller's advertisement, p. [ii]; prospectus for Michaijah Towgood's A dissent from the Church of England fully justified, [4] p. at end.

With an initial advertisement leaf.

Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1983. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 1, no. 9).

Local Notes:

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

English short title catalogue (ESTC), W29514

Evans, 13257

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3128