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245 02 $aA true and particular relation of the dreadful earthquake which happen'd at Lima, the capital of Peru, and the neighbouring port of Callao, on the 28th of October, 1746 :$bwith an account likewise of every thing material that passed there afterwards to the end of November following /$cpublished at Lima by command of the Viceroy, and translated from the original Spanish, by a gentleman who resided many years in those countries ...
260 $aLondon :$bPrinted for T. Osborne in Gray's Inn,$c1748.
300 $axxiii, [1], 341, [3] p., IX folded leaves of plates :$bill., maps ;$c21 cm. (8vo)
500 $aTitle continued: To which is added, a description of Callao and Lima before their destruction, and of the kingdom of Peru in general, with its inhabitants, setting forth their manners, customs, religion, government, commerce, &c. Interspersed with passages of natural history and physiological disquisitions; particularly an enquiry into the cause of earthquakes. The whole illustrated with a map 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.
500 $aCh. I: A description of Callo and LIma, as they were before the late earthquake, with an enquiry into the reason why it never rains there, and the cause of earthquakes. It was supplied by "another hand"; see p. xiii.
500 $aCh. II: A true and particular relation of the dreadful ruin in which Lima... was involved. It is a translation by Henry Johnson of Pedro Lozano's "Individual y verdadera relacion de la ruyna que padeció... Lima," first published at Lima in 1746. See Sabin (describing 2nd ed.).
500 $aCh. III: A description of Peru and its inhabitants, with their different interests.
500 $aAppendix. A full account of the late dreadful earthquake at Port-Royal in Jamaica; in two letters written by the minister of that place [i.e., the Rev. E. Heath].
500 $aSome plates signed: B. Cole sculp.
500 $aThree pages of Osborne's advertisements at end.
500 $aSignatures: A⁸ a⁴ B-X⁸ Z⁴.
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590 $aBinding: modern linen, title & date on spine label in gilt. Traces of red stain on edges.
590 $aSignatures on t.p. of J. Carlisle, now scratched out, and of M. Byles.
650 0 $aEarthquakes$zPeru$zLima$vEarly works to 1800.
650 0 $aEarthquakes$zPeru$zCallao$vEarly works to 1800.
651 0 $aPeru$xDescription and travel$vEarly works to 1800.
655 7 $aEtchings$zEngland$y18th century.$2aat
700 12 $aLozano, Pedro,$d1697-1752.$tIndividual y verdadera relacion de la extrema ruyna que padeció la ciudad de los reyes Lima, capital del reyno del Perú.$lEnglish.
700 1 $aJohnson, H.$q(Henry),$d1698?-1760.
700 1 $aHeath, E.,$cRev.
700 1 $aCole, B.$q(Benjamin)
700 1 $aOsborne, Thomas,$dd. 1767.
752 $aEngland$dLondon.
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