A true and particular relation of the dreadful earthquake which happen'd at Lima, the capital of Peru, and the neighbouring port of Callao, on the 28th of October, 1746
Subtitle: with an account likewise of every thing material that passed there afterwards to the end of November following
By: published at Lima by command of the Viceroy, and translated from the original Spanish, by a gentleman who resided many years in those countries ; to which is added a description of Callao and Lima before their destruction, and the kingdom of Peru in general, with its inhabitants ... Interspersed with passages of natural history and physiological disquisitions, particularly an enquiry into the cause of earthquakes ; The whole illustrated with a maps of the country about Lima, plans of the road and town of Callao, another of Lima, and several cuts of the natives, drawn on the spot by the translator.
Contributors: Lozano, Pedro, 1697-1752.; Johnson, H. 1698?-1760.; Heath, E., Rev.; Cole, B. engraver.; Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for T. Osborne, in Gray's Inn
Published: 1748
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: Earthquakes -- Peru -- Lima -- 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: Individual, y verdadera relacion de la extrema ruyna que padeciò, la Ciudad de los Reyes Lima, capital del reyno del Perù. English.; Full account of the late dreadful earthquake at Port-Royal in Jamaica.; True and particular relation of the dreadful ruin in which Lima (otherwise called la Ciudad de ls Reyes) capital of the kingdom of Peru, was involved.
Notes: ESTC T154244
NUC pre-1956 NT 0355671, NT 0355678, NH 022658
The bulk of the work, including the description of Peru and its cities and the scientific observations, is a compilation from various authors, made, not by the translator, but "by another hand." Cf. Pref., p. xiii.
"A true and particular relation of the dreadful ruin in which Lima (otherwise called la Ciudad de los Reyes) capital of the kingdom of Peru, was involved" (p. 131-199) is a 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. Cf. NUC pre-1956, NT 0355678.
"Individual, y verdadera relacion de la extrema ruyna que padeció la Ciudad de los Reyes Lima" sometimes attributed to Pedro Lozano. Cf. ESTC.
Signatures: A⁸ a⁴ B-Y⁸ Z⁴.
Leaf of plate VII missing in foliation.
Most plates signed: B. Cole, sc.
"Appendix: A full account of the late dreadful earthquake at Port-Royal in Jamaica, in two letters written by the minister of that place, from a-board the Granada in Port-Royal harbour [1692]": p. [327]-341. The first letter is dated June 22, 1692, the second June 28, 1692. Letters attributed to Rev. E. Heath. Cf. NUC pre-56 NH 022658.
Publisher's advertisements: [3] p. at end.