Histoire des tremblemens de terre arrive's a Lima, capitale du Perou, et autres lieux
Subtitle: avec la description du Perou, et des recherches sur les causes phisiques de tremblemens de terre
By: par M. Hales, de la Société royale de Londres, & autres phisiciens ; avec cartes & figures ; Traduit de l'anglois. Premiere [-seconde] partie.
Contributors: Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761.; Johnson, H. 1698?-1760.; Heath, E., Rev.; Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1752
Place of publication: A La Haye
Language: fre
Number of pages: 445
Subjects: Earthquakes -- Peru -- Early works to 1800.; Earthquakes -- Jamaica -- Early works to 1800.; Lima (Peru) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.; Callao (Callao, Peru) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.; Peru -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Full account of the late dreadful earthquake at Port-Royal in Jamaica. French.; Individual, y verdadera relacion de la extrema ruyna que padeciò, la Ciudad de los Reyes Lima, capital del reyno del Perù.
Notes: NUC pre-1956 NH 0396914, NH 0222661
Translation of "A true and particular relation of the dreadful earthquake which happen'd at Lima, the capital of Peru, and the neighbouring port of Callao, the 28th of October, 1746. London, 1748, with addition of the article by Mr. Hales.
The "Relation exacte de la destruction de Lima ... par le tremblement de terre qui y est arrivé la nuit du 28 octobre 1746" (1. ptie., p. [147]-221) is a French version, from the English translation by Henry Johnson of the "Individual, y verdadera relacion de la extrema ruyna que padeció la Ciudad de los Reyes Lima", first published at Lima in 1746.
"Reflexions physyques sur les causes de tremblemens de terre, présentées a la Société royale de Londres le 5 avril 1750. V.s. par M. Etienne Hales": 2. ptie., p. [379]-406.
"Relation d'un tremblement de terre, arrivé au Port Royal à la Jamaique au moins de juin 1692, tirée de deux lettres du ministre de cet endroit, écrites à bord du vaisseau La Grenade, alors en rade au Port Royal" (2. ptie., p. [407]-422) is a translation of A full account of the late dreadful earthquake at Port-Royal in Jamaica, sometimes attributed to Rev. E. Heath, first published by Jacob Tonson in London in 1692, but also included in the English translation by Henry Johnson in 1748.
Pt. 1: xvi, 221, [1] p., [3] leaves of plates (folded); pt. 2: [8], 223-445, [1] p., [3] leaves of plates (folded).
Signatures: Pt. 1: a⁸ A-I¹² K⁴(-K4); pt. 2: ²K¹² L-S¹² T⁸(-T8).
Two plates in pt. 1 signed: Baillieul le fils sculpsit. Two plates in pt. 2 signed: Dupin Lainee sculpsit.