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].

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Author / Creator:Dubois-Fontanelle, Jean Gaspard, 1737-1812.
Uniform title:Naufrage et aventures de Monsieur Pierre Viaud. English
Imprint:Philadelphia : Printed by Robert Bell in Third-Street, MDCCLXXIV. [1774]
Description:xii,144,[4],108,[4]p., [1]leaf of plates : ill. ; 12°.
Language:English
Series:Eighteenth Century ; reel 1, no. 9.
Format: Microform Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2882144
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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.
Evans 13257; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3128
Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1983. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 1, no. 9).

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