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].

Author/creator Dubois-Fontanelle, Jean Gaspard
Other author Griffith, Elizabeth, 1727-1793 translator.
Other author Smither, James, 1741-1797, engraver.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : Printed by Robert Bell in Third-Street, MDCCLXXIV. [1774]
Descriptionxii, 144 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 108 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm (12mo)
Supplemental ContentEvans Digital Edition
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Uniform titleNautrage et aventures de Monsieur Pierre Viaud. English
SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 13257. ^A478749
General noteEach 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.
General noteThe frontispiece, engraved by James Smither, is the only illustration. In some copies, the frontispiece is printed in red.
General noteError in paging: p. 60, 2nd count, misnumbered 50.
General note"Occasional elegy."--p. 106-108, 2nd count.
General noteBookseller's advertisement, p. [ii]; prospectus for Michaijah Towgood's A dissent from the Church of England fully justified, [4] p. at end.
References Evans 13257
References Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3128
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 13257).
Genre/formPoems 1774.
Genre/formElegies.
Genre/formProspectuses.
Genre/formBooksellers' advertisements Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Other titleAdventures of Monsieur Pierre Viaud.

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