The natural history of Aleppo and parts adjacent [electronic resource] : containing a description of the city, and the principal natural productions in its neighbourhood; together with an account of the climate, inhabitants, and diseases, particularly of the plague with the methods used by the Europeans for their preservation / by Alex. Russel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Russell, Alexander, 1715?-1768, Author.

Series:

Bloomsbury Arcadian Online Library: History of Science and Medicine

Standardized Title:

The natural history of Aleppo, and parts adjacent. Containing a description of the city, and the principal natural productions in its neighbourhood; together with an account of the climate, inhabitants, and diseases; ... By Alex. Russell, M.D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aleppo (Syria)--Early works to 1800.

Aleppo (Syria).

Natural history--Syria--Aleppo--Early works to 1800.

Natural history.

Plague--Syria--Aleppo--Early works to 1800.

Plague.

Penn Provenance:

This copy once belonged to Sir Gore Ouseley (24 June 1770 to 18 November 1844).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 266, 10 pages) : folded plates

Place of Publication:

London: Printed for A. Millar, 1756.

Notes:

Date of publication in the source image reads 1856.

Navari, Leonora. The Catalogue of the Henry Myron Blackmer Collection of Books and Manuscripts (London: Maggs Bros Ltd, 1989), 1458. Hamilton, Alistair. The Arcadian Library (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 73. Hamilton, Alistair. Aleppo Observed (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).

Local Notes:

Contemporary sprinkled calf, raised bands, red morocco label, slightly rubbed otherwise excellent.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.