A short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia
Subtitle: with a statement of the proceedings that took place on the subject in different parts of the United States. : To which are added, accounts of the plague in London and Marseilles; and a list of the dead, from August 1, to the middle of December, 1793
By: By Mathew Carey
Edition: Fourth edition, improved.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 26735; Early American imprints -- no. 26736; Early American imprints -- no. 26737
Publisher: Printed by the author.
Published: 1794
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: Yellow fever; Plague
Notes: Also issued as the first title in: Select pamphlets respecting the yellow fever ... Philadelphia : Mathew Carey, [1799] (Evans 36287).

Several states noted. Evans 26735 records states of 112 p. (incomplete?; no copy located), 159 p. (Austin 412), and 160 p. (Austin 411). Evans 26736 records a state with 164 p. and no comma after the word "subject" in the title (Austin 413). Evans 26737 records a state with [2], 164 p., printed wrappers, and a comma after the word "subject". Austin 414, which may describe this last state, records the comma, but does not mention the [2] preliminary pages, and reports "without the printed wrappers mentioned by Evans."

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-O⁴ P-Q² R-X⁴ Y².

Blue printed wrappers.

Statistics gathered in Philadelphia, August to November, 1793, including meteorological observations compiled by David Rittenhouse, p. [113-120].

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Evans 26736

Evans 26737

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 411

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 412

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 413

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 414