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An eulogium, intended to perpetuate the memory of David Rittenhouse, late president of the American Philosophical Society, : delivered before the Society in the First Presbyterian Church, in High-street, Philadelphia, on the 17th Dec. 1796. : Agreeably to appointment / by Benjamin Rush, a member of the Society.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796.
- Rittenhouse, David.
- Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796--Death and burial.
- American Philosophical Society--Presidents--Biography--Early works to 1800.
- American Philosophical Society.
- Astronomers--United States--Biography--Early works to 1800.
- Astronomers.
- Famous Persons.
- Presidents.
- Philadelphia.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Famous Persons.
- Philadelphia.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Early works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Pepper, William (bookplate) (RBC copy 2)
- Pepper, William, 1874-1947 (donor) (RBC copy 2)
- Physical Description:
- 46 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm (8vo)
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia: : Printed for J. Ormrod, no. 41, Chestnut-street, by Ormrod & Conrad., [1796 or 1797]
- Notes:
- "Philosophical Hall, December 17, 1796 ... Resolved, unanimously, that Dr. Rush be requested to furnish the Society with a copy of the Eulogium, to be published under their direction."--Page 3.
- Evans dates publication as 1796, ESTC as 1797; American Antiquarian Society record notes, "Keith Arbour asserts that this was not published until 1797. See his dissertation [Using history, 1994] ... p. 137 n. 76."
- Collation: 8vo: [A]⁴ B-F⁴ [$1 signed]; 24 leaves, pages [1-5] 6-46 [47-48 (blank)].
- LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection. Wanting final blank leaf.
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy 3 with copy 2 of: An eulogium upon Benjamin Rush, M.D. professor of the institutes and practice of medicine and of clinical practice in the University of Pennsylvania / by David Ramsay ... Philadelphia : Bradford and Inskeep, 1813. (RBC R154.R9.R3 c.2)
- Smith copy bound with: Binney, Horace. An eulogium upon the Hon. William Tilghman, late Chief Justice of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia : Philip H. Nicklin, 1827. -- Hodge, Hugh L. An eulogium on William P. Dewees, M.D. Philadelphia : Merrihew & Thompson, Printers, 1842. -- Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen. Eulogium in commemoration of the Honourable William Tilghman, LL.D. Philadelphia : R.H. Small, 1827.
- Cited in:
- Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 680
- Evans 31143
- ESTC W32081
- Other Format:
- Also issued on microfilm.
- OCLC:
- 14852697
- Online:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/2569019R
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