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]
by Jean Gaspard Dubois-Fontanelle
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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]
1774, Printed by Robert Bell in Third-Street
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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].
1774, Printed by Robert Bell in Third-Street
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in English
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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.
Signatures: [A]⁶ B-N⁶ chi² ²A-I⁶ 2chi² ([A]1 recto blank).
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.
Evans 13257.
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3128.
Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 13257).
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