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 28 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781171226284)

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Library of CongressW028209Running title: Account of the late earthquake. Translated by Henry Johnson from an anonymous pamphlet, entitled Individual, y verdadera relacion de la extrema ruyna que padecio .. Sometimes attributed to Pedro Lozano. Cf. the Dictionary of national biography, s.v. Johnson. "Some considerations on the causes of earthquakes."--p. 42-52.[Philadelphia]: London printed: Philadelphia reprinted, and sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, at the new-printing-office, near the market, 1749. 52p.; 8

Author: Multiple Contributors
ISBN-10: 1171226284
ISBN-13: 9781171226284
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Language: English
Published: 11/20/2010
Pages: 60
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.12d