Observations on the cause, nature, and treatment of the epidemic disorder, prevalent in Philadelphia

Alternate Title:

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

Creator:

Nassy, David de Isaac Cohen, 1747-1806 (author)

Contributor:

Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839 (bookseller); Parker & Co. (Philadelphia, Pa.) (printer)

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1793-11-26

Description:

Pamphlet of David de Isaac Cohen Nassy's observations of Philadelphia's 1793 yellow fever epidemic; Philadelphia, PA

Identifier:

2006.12.26.00961; {8F482F66-C4C9-4DAA-B373-933D7F3A6CF1}; 13.872

Language:

English

Provenance:

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

Publisher:

Printed by Parker & Co. for M. Carey

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

48 pages; 21 cm (8vo)

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

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

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Archives Room, Arc Ms 56, Box 6 Folder 11

Collection:

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