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| Genre/Form: | Early works to 1800 Fiction |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Berington, Simon, 1680-1755. Life & adventures of Sig. Gaudentio de Lucca. Norwich [Conn.] : Printed and sold by John Trumbull, at his Printing-office ..., 1796 (OCoLC)630999590 |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Simon Berington; George Berkeley; American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) |
| OCLC Number: | 44682385 |
| Notes: | Ascribed to Simon Berington, often erroneously ascribed to Bishop Berkeley. Cf. Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.). First published under title: The memoirs of Sigr. Gaudentio di Luca, London, 1737. Also published under title: The adventures of Sigr. Gaudentio di Lucca. Cf. BM. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-T²/⁴ U² V⁴ W²(-W2). LC copy imperfect: p. 45-46 torn with loss of text; p. 1-6, 53-54 wanting. |
| Description: | 130 p. ; 17 cm. (12mo) |
| Other Titles: | Memoirs of Sigr. Gaudentio di Lucca Life and adventures of Signor Gaudentio de Lucca |
| Responsibility: | written by himself ; giving an account of a country in the midst of the vast desarts of Africa, being unknown to any person except Sig. Gaudentio, and its inhabitants altho' as ancient, populous, and civilized, as the Chinese ; with a particular account of their antiquity, origin, religion, customs, policy, &c., the manner how they got first over those vast desarts, and their method of travelling ; interspersed with several most surprizing and curious incidents ; copied from the original manuscript kept in St. Mark's Library at Venice. |
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