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Three lectures upon animal life / delivered in the University of Pennsylvania, by Benjamin Rush ... ; published at the request of his pupils.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection QP71 .R93
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physiology--Early works to 1800.
- Physiology.
- Life (Biology)--Early works to 1800.
- Life (Biology).
- Penn Provenance:
- Pepper, William (bookplate) (RBC copy 1)
- Pepper, William, 1874-1947 (donor) (RBC copy 1)
- Albert, Daniel M. (donor) (Albert Collection copy)
- Albert, Eleanor (donor) (Albert Collection copy)
- Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 (inscription) (Albert Collection copy)
- Birmingham Medical Institute (stamp) (Albert Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 84 pages ; 22 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Half-title: Lectures upon animal life
- Lectures on animal life
- Fingerprint:
- y.i- s.i- he.I lafr (3) 1799 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed by Budd and Bartram, for Thomas Dobson ..., 1799.
- Notes:
- Signatures: [A]⁴ B-L⁴ M².
- Local Notes:
- Albert Collection copy (RBC copy 3): leaves cropped at all margins with some loss of ms. presentation inscription on half-title leaf; cropped fore-edge margin of leaf K2 with ms. inscription reattached to leaf.
- Albert Collection copy (RBC copy 3) has ms. inscription ("American Medical Tracts") in pencil at head of title leaf.
- Albert Collection copy (RBC copy 3) presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Daniel and Eleanor Albert.
- Albert Collection copy (RBC copy 3) has remains of ms. presentation inscription to a "friend" from the author, dated 21 November 1800, in brown ink on half-title leaf; ms. correction to text in brown ink in the author's hand on leaf K2v.
- Albert Collection copy (RBC copy 3) has stamp of the Birmingham Medical Institute on title leaf.
- Cited in:
- Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1690
- ESTC W29542
- Evans 36255
- Osler, W. Catalogue 3857
- Sabin 74241
- OCLC:
- 45983318
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