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The shipwreck [electronic resource] : A sentimental and descriptive poem. In three cantos. By Willia...

The shipwreck [electronic resource] : A sentimental and descriptive poem. In three cantos. By Willia...

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The shipwreck [electronic resource] : A sentimental and descriptive poem. In three cantos. By William Falconer, an English sailor. [Two lines in Latin from Virgil, with two line English translation].

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The shipwreck [electronic resource] : A sentimental and descriptive poem. In three cantos. By William Falconer, an English sailor. [Two lines in Latin from Virgil, with two line English translation].

Publisher

Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Prichard & Hall, in Market Street, near Front Street, M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]

Date

M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]

Record Identifier

74VKPvrgxzMg

MMS ID

991019567519702626

Language

English

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Physical content

123,[1]p. ; 18°.

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Publisher

Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Prichard & Hall, in Market Street, near Front Street, M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]

Place of Publication

United States of America

Date Published

M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]

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Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.

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Full title

The shipwreck [electronic resource] : A sentimental and descriptive poem. In three cantos. By William Falconer, an English sailor. [Two lines in Latin from Virgil, with two line English translation].

Notes

General note

"Occasional elegy."--p. 101-103.

"The shipweck. Occasioned by the loss of the Halsewell East-Indiaman."--p. [104]-105.

"The storm, a poem. Descriptive of the late tempest, which raged with such destructive fury throughout the southern parts of North-America, in July, 1788. By a citizen of Philadelphia."--p. [107]-123. By Peter Markoe.

Reproduction of original from Library of Congress....

Citation / References Note

ESTC W22245.

Evans, 21081.

Additional physical form availability note

Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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74VKPvrgxzMg

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991019567519702626