Miscellaneous essays
Subtitle: containing, among a variety of other articles, History of the Yellow fever ...
By: by M. Carey.
Contributors: Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.; Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.; Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.; Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.; Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.; Binns, John, 1772-1860 former owner.
Publisher: Printed for Carey & Hart
Published: 1830
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 472
Subjects: Penn, William, -- 1644-1718; Williams, Roger, -- 1604?-1683; Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Freedom of religion; Women -- Employment; Charities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Ireland -- History -- Rebellion of 1641; United States -- Emigration and immigration; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Notes: "Collecta Revirescunt. "

Includes separate t.-p. to the 1830 (5th ed., improved) publication of "A short account of the malignant fever ... "

In manuscript in inner margin of p.45 : John Binns. (Cf. DNB, v.5)

Title page mutilated at top.
Table of contents: title: History of the Yellow Fever, which prevailed in Philadelphia in the Year 1793; title: Review of the Evidence of the pretended General Conspiracy of the Roman Catholics of Ireland, to massacre all the Protestants who would not join with them, on the 23d of October, 1641; title: Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe, with a view to a Settlement in the United States; title: Essays on the Public Charities of Philadelphia, intended to vindicate the Benevolent Societies of this City from the Charge of encouraging Idleness; title: A Brief View of the Policy of the Founders of the Colonies of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, West Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Carolina, as regards Liberty of Conscience; title: Critical Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet; title: Vindication of Sterne from the Charge of Plagiarism, &c. &c.