Memorable accidents, and unheard of transactions : containing an account of several strange events: as the disposing of tyrants, lamentable shipwrecks, dismal misfortunes, stratagems of war, perilous adventures, happy deliverances, with other remarkable occurrences, and select historical events, which have happened in several Countries in this last age / translated from the French, printed at Brussels in 1691, and dedicated to His present Majesty William King of England, &c. ; published in English by R.B.

Accession number

PML 8217.1

Creator

Léonard, T.

Published

London : A. Bettsworth and C. Hitch at the Red-Lyon, 1733.

Credit line

Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.

Notes

Epistle dedicatory signed: T. Leonard.
R.B. = Richard Burton, i.e. Nathaniel Crouch.
Woodcut frontispiece.
Seven final advertisement leaves.

Description

[6],177 p., [7] : ill. (woodcut) ; 16 cm.

Provenance

Bookplate of Henry Cunliffe; autograph of John Heaviside; from the Toovey collection.

Binding

Beige cloth; bound as a set with PML 8205-8219.

Classification

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