The surprizing yet real and true voyages and adventures of Monsieur Pierre Viaud. A French sea-captain
Subtitle: To which is added, The shipwreck. A sentimental and descriptive poem, in three cantos. By William Falconer, an English sailor. [Two lines of verse].
Series: Eighteenth century -- reel 1, no. 9.
Publisher: Printed by Robert Bell in Third-Street
Published: 1774
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 144
Work titles: Naufrage et aventures de Monsieur Pierre Viaud.
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).