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Map of Peru and title page of volume (1748)

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City plan of Lima (1748)

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Illustration of a horse and carriage used in Peru (1748)

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Illustration of a Creole lady going to Church (1748)

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Illustration of a Mulatta woman in the city (1748)

A true and particular relation of the dreadful earthquake which happened at Lima, the capital of Peru, and the neighbouring port of Callao, on the 28th of October, 1746…The second edition. (London, 1748)

This anonymous relation of the Lima earthquake of 1746 is based in part on an account by Pedro Lozano (1697-1752), who was the official historiographer for the Jesuit province of Paraguay between 1730 and 1751.

Backer-Sommervogel V, col. 131, no. 5