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A short account of the yellow fever in Philadelphia : for the reflecting Christian / by J. Henry C. Helmuth ... ; translated from the German by Charles Erdmann ...
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Helmuth, Justus Henry Christian, 1745-1825, author.
- Hirt, Tobias, author of preface.
- Standardized Title:
- Kurze Nachricht von dem sogenannten gelben Fieber in Philadelphia. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Yellow fever--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Early works to 1800.
- Yellow fever.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- Booksellers' advertisements.
- Penn Provenance:
- Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)
- Kaplan, Deanne (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)
- Boyls, William (autograph) (Kaplan Collection copy)
- Fisher, Henry (autograph) (Kaplan Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, 55 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 20 cm (8vo)
- Manufacture:
- Philadelphia : Printed by Jones, Hoff & Derrick ..., MDCCXCIV [1794]
- Fingerprint:
- T.d. t, at heto toth (3) 1794 (R)
- Language Note:
- English translation of: Kurze Nachricht von dem sogenannten gelben Fieber in Philadelphia.
- Notes:
- Signatures: [A]² B-H⁴.
- "The proprietor's preface" signed: Tobias Hirt.
- Booksellers' advertisement on verso of title leaf.
- "List of all the burials ... from August 1st to November 9th, 1793": Preliminary page [4].
- Local Notes:
- Kaplan Collection copy has manuscript calculations in pencil on inside front and back wrappers and title leaf; pen tests on inside back wrapper; imprint date supplied in manuscript Arabic numerals in pencil on title leaf.
- Kaplan Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan.
- Kaplan Collection copy has partially illegible manuscript note ("Lebanon Cou[...]") in pencil on leaf B1r; manuscript notes and autographs ("Lebanon County Lebanon Town county township Pennsylvania William Wm Wm SS Boyls SS Boyls Wm") on leaf H4r; manuscript notes and autograph ("State Pennsyl vania philadalp William Boyls february the 18 1838 Lebanon County in State of pennsylvania") in ink on leaf H4v; partially illegible manuscript notes and autograph ("S State of pennsylvania p pennsylvania p...] Lebanon William Boyls Lebanon County in the State of [...]") in pencil on leaf H4r; partially illegible autograph ("Will[...] Boyls") on inside back wrapper; manuscript notes ("Lebanon Henr Henry fisher fisher") on inside back wrapper; pen test ("ABCDEF") and manuscript note ("Henry") on back wrapper.
- Kaplan Collection copy: front wrapper mutilated; wrappers and leaves dampstained; head outer corner of leaves B1-B3 torn off with minor damage to text on some pages.
- Kaplan Collection copy collectify accession no. 2006.12.26.01001
- Cited in:
- ESTC W3468
- Evans 27108
- Sabin 31268
- OCLC:
- 14865001
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