Naufrage et aventures de M. Pierre Viaud, natif de Bordeaux, capitaine de navire
By: histoire véritable, vérifiée sur l'attestation de M. Sevettenham, commandant du Fort Saint-Marc, des Appalaches
Contributors: Dubois-Fontanelle, Jean Gaspard, 1727-1812; Sevettenham, M.
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1798
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Voyages and travels; Shipwrecks
Other titles: Naufrage et aventures de M. Pierre Viaud.
Notes: Formerly attributed to Jean Gaspard Dubois-Fontanelle, the editor of the early editions.

First edition printed in Bordeaux and Paris, 1768.

The shipwreck is supposed to have occurred on the coast of Florida, February 1766.

"Traduction du certificat donné par M. Sevettenham,  commandant du Fort St. Marc des Appalaches, à M. Viaud":  p. 184-186.

Signatures: pi⁴ (pi1, pi2 versos blank) A-P⁶ (K2 missigned K3) Q⁴ (-Q4)

Engraved head piece.

Cf. Polak, J. Bibliographie maritime française,  9438.

Cf. Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 99412.

Purchase; 2016; 17-048.

John Carter Brown Library copy half bound in contemporary calf with marbled boards and vellum corners.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.