A true and particular relation of the dreadful earthquake, which happen'd at Lima, the capital of Peru, and the neighboring 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.
Contributors: Lozano, Pedro, 1697-1752.; Johnson, H. 1698?-1760.; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, printer.; Hall, David, 1714-1772, printer.; Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: London printed, Philadelphia reprinted, and sold by B. Franklin and D. Hall, at the New printing office, near the market
Published: 1749
Place of publication: [Philadelphia]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 52
Subjects: Earthquakes -- Peru -- Lima -- 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: Account of the late earthquake
Notes: Translated by Henry Johnson from an anonymous pamphlet entitled: Individual, y verdadera relacion de la extrema ruyna que padecio, la Ciudad de los Reyes Lima. Sometimes attributed to Pedro Lozano. Cf. ESTC, Miller.
A drastic abridgement of the original English translation, including only 86 of the 341 pages of T. Osborne's London edition of 1748. Cf. Miller.
Signatures: A-C⁸ D².
"Some considerations on the causes of earthquakes."--P. 42-52.
Evans 6348
Miller, C.W.  Franklin, 476
ESTC W28209
NUC pre-1956 NT 0355675