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Relation des tremblemens de terre: qui se sont faits ressentir avec toute la violence imaginable cette année 1751, dans toute l'isle de Saint Domingue, & leurs funestes effets

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Year:
1752
Subject:
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Earthquakes > Haiti
Natural disasters > Haiti
Earthquakes > Haiti > 1751
France > Rouen
Extent:
8 p. ; 19 cm. (8vo)

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Caption title.
Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: [A].
Woodcut headpiece; initial.
Concerns the description of a series of earthquakes and after shocks on the island of Saint-Domingue that began on October 18th and continued until November 8th, 1751. Pages 7-8 give a day by day description of the seismic activity.

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"Relation des tremblemens de terre: qui se sont faits ressentir avec toute la violence imaginable cette année 1751, dans toute l'isle de Saint Domingue, & leurs funestes effets " (1752). John Carter Brown Library. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:16171/

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