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.

Standardized Title:

Naufrage et aventures de Monsieur Pierre Viaud. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shipwrecks.

Shipwrecks--Early works to 1800.

Viaud, Pierre.

Viaud, Pierre--Early works to 1800.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii,144,[4],108,[4]p., [1]leaf of plates ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Surprizing yet real and true voyages and adventures of Monsieur Pierre Viaud. A French sea-captain

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.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Evans, 13257

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3128

English Short Title Catalog, W29514.

OCLC:

642787936