Observations on the cause, nature, and treatment of the epidemic disorder, prevalent in Philadelphia / by D. Nassy, M.D. ; member of the American Philosophical Society, &c. = Observations sur la cause, la nature, et le traitement de la maladie epidemique, qui regne a Philadelphie / par D. Nassy ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nassy, David de Isaac Cohen, 1747-1806, author.

Contributor:

Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839, bookseller.

Parker & Co. (Philadelphia, Pa.), printer.

Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Yellow fever--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Early works to 1800.

Yellow fever.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Penn Provenance:

Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)

Kaplan, Deanne (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)

Physical Description:

48 pages ; 21 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Observations sur la cause, la nature, et le traitement de la maladie epidemique, qui regne a Philadelphie

Fingerprint:

n.t) ."he .:n- etci (7) 1793 (A)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed by Parker & Co. for M. Carey, Nov. 26, 1793.

Language Note:

English and French text on facing pages. French title page precedes and faces the English title page.

Notes:

Translated into English by a friend of the author, who also arranged to have the book printed. See page 43.

Also issued as the sixth title in: Select pamphlets: viz. 1. lessons to a young prince . Philadelphia : Published by Mathew Carey, 1796 (Evans 31172).

Carey published an edition in English only in the same year (Evans 25855).

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C [D]⁴ E-F⁴ (leaf D1 signed "C").

Local Notes:

Kaplan Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan.

Kaplan Collection copy collectify accession no. 2006.12.26.00961

Cited in:

Evans 25854

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. Medical imprints, 1359

Blake, J. NLM 18th cent., p. 319

ESTC W21320

OCLC:

14861248