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An excursion from Paris to Fontainebleau : to which is added, An adventure in the Champs Elisees, near Paris; also an interesting account of the unfortunate disaster which befel [sic] Monsieur Pilatre de Rozier at Boulogne; with a translation of the elegant eulogium upon him, by the Marquis de Masonfort; with abstracts from the registers of the parliament of Paris; containing a year's list of criminals sentenced at Paris; with the nature of their crimes and punishments

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Publication date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786].
Call number: 486707
Creator: Harington, Edward (1753?-1807)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Ximenes, Nov. 1987. Inscription on free endpaper at beginning: Wm Skeate June 30th 1811. Inscription on free endpaper at beginning: C. Generales[?] ...[?] June 29 1970, NYC[?]. Stamp on free endpaper at beginning: Constantine D.J. Generales Jr, M.D. D. Phil ... Medical Society of the state of New York.
Dimensions: 22 cm (8vo)
Associated people: Becket, Thomas,; Ledger, George,
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