Stafford, Cornelius WilliamThe Philadelphia Directory, for 1798: containing the Names, Occupations, and Places of Abode of the Citizens ... With an accurate Table of the Duties on Goods, Wares, and Merchandize; together with a General Abstract from the Revenue Laws. [Philadelphia:] Printed for the Editor by William W. Woodward, 1798 8vo (220 x 125 mm). Title stained, toning. Contemporary half calf gilt. Custom box. First Edition. The epidemics of yellow fever in the port city of Philadelphia during 1797 and 1798 caused some forty thousand persons to flee from the urban area, "a number representing from three-fourths to five-sixths of the entire population" (Packard). Residents of Philadelphia feared another deadly visitation of yellow fever like that of 1793. REFERENCEESTC W27617; Evans 34593; Packard, History of Medicine in the United States I, p. 145-151 (on the Philadelphia epidemics of 1797 and 1798)
Stafford, Cornelius WilliamThe Philadelphia Directory, for 1798: containing the Names, Occupations, and Places of Abode of the Citizens ... With an accurate Table of the Duties on Goods, Wares, and Merchandize; together with a General Abstract from the Revenue Laws. [Philadelphia:] Printed for the Editor by William W. Woodward, 1798 8vo (220 x 125 mm). Title stained, toning. Contemporary half calf gilt. Custom box. First Edition. The epidemics of yellow fever in the port city of Philadelphia during 1797 and 1798 caused some forty thousand persons to flee from the urban area, "a number representing from three-fourths to five-sixths of the entire population" (Packard). Residents of Philadelphia feared another deadly visitation of yellow fever like that of 1793. REFERENCEESTC W27617; Evans 34593; Packard, History of Medicine in the United States I, p. 145-151 (on the Philadelphia epidemics of 1797 and 1798)
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