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Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Plague, Zach (illustrator).

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 120 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.30 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 120 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.30 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 120 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.30 inches. In Stock.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

LATER EDITION. 8vo. 74 pp. Self-wraps. Library rubber stamp on front cover. Good. On fighting the plague.

small folio [27x17cm]. disbound. 3 pages + covering title. good clean condition [shipping charges will be reduced when this order is processed] an original 1722 Black Letter printed Act of Parliament.

2. Auflage. 273, (15) S. Ill. Orig.-Broschur. - Sehr guter Zustand innen und außen. Plague, Zach (illustrator).

Zustand: New.

small folio [27x17cm]. disbound, with archival tape backing. 21 pages + covering title [pp29-32 repeated]. good clean condition [shipping charges will be reduced when this order is processed. Please see our storefront page for shipping information] an original 1721 Black Letter printed Act of Parliament containing much interesting information on the laws regarding quarantine in the early 18th century.…

small folio [27x17cm]. disbound. 5 pages + covering title. good clean condition [shipping charges will be reduced when this order is processed. Please see our storefront page for shipping information] an original 1722 Black Letter printed Act of Parliament forbidding the entry of ships from plague infected countries into British and Irish ports. The penalties for assisting the entry of any such ships were rather more severe than those of our more recent quarantine laws, with any person so convicted being sentenced to death.…

Small 4to. pp. 4. Spotted and with old folds. 1865 and 66 saw the worst outbreak of Rinderpest, or Cattle Plague in history and led to the formation of a National Veterinary Service for the first time. The same year, 1866, saw the final cholera pandemic in Britain and the definitive conclusion that it was mostly passed through a contaminated water supply.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Deluxe Limited Edition. Quarto, xvi, [4], 271pp. Full natural burlap, title stamped in gilt on red leather spine label, large red X printed on front cover and year 1665 printed in red on back cover. All edges stained black. Black endpapers. Housed in publisher's original black cardboard slipcase, title printed on label attached to spine, faint shelf wear, a fine example. Includes The Monthly Letter of The Limited Editions Club for February 1968, Number 408. From a limited edition of 1500 copies, this being number 85, signed by the illustrator, Domenico Gnoli. From the Limited Editions Club, A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe, signed by the illustrator, Domenico Gnoli. (illustrator). Signed.…

1p., 4to. In very good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Engraved illustration of the Old House at the head (signed 'S. Holden'), with an engraving of the Plague-Stone beneath it, followed by the text: 'The Relic represented above formed the corner coping-stone of a garden wall, immediately above the spot indicated in the drawing by the letter A. It is traditional in the neighbourhood that about the middle of the 17th century, (probably in the year 1665,) several cases of The Plague occurred in this house. All direct intercourse with the neighbours being prohibited, the money paid for the provisions and other necessaries was deposited in the square dish seen in the Stone, which was kept filled with vinegar and water for the purpose of disinfection. Those who died of the Pestilence are said to have received interment in a field near the house, and here the remains of three bodies were discovered in the year 1843. The Stone is now in the possession of Dr. Kendrick, Warrington.' A note at the foot relates to the illustration of the Old House: 'The Wash-Lane was formerly often flooded with water, and it is thus represented, with the stepping stones for foot passengers'. Scarce: no copies on either OCLC WorldCat or COPAC.…

Zustand: Good. 4to (191x136 mm). 8 pp. Woodcut ornament on title and ornamental headpiece and initial on p. 3. ?Com as licenças necessarias?; offered for sale ?na rua direita do Arco da Graça defronte de huma Cruz, no primeiro andar.? In fine: Omnia correctioni Sanctae Matr. Eccl. subjicio. Unbound. Some light browning, lower portions of the first and last leaves detached, damp stain to gutter. A rare Portuguese news pamphlet on the North African plague of 1756, combining epidemic reporting, natural-disaster narrative, demographic information and an explicit defence of maritime quarantine. Published only months after the Lisbon earthquake of 1 November 1755, the tract belongs both to the history of plague literature and to the extraordinary wave of Portuguese occasional printing generated by earthquakes, storms and other perceived natural catastrophes in their aftermath. The anonymous author begins from an environmental explanation of recurrent epidemic disease in Africa, attributing it partly to extremes of winter cold and summer heat and claiming that plague returned at intervals of ten or fifteen years. In 1756, however, the danger is presented as exceptional because earthquake, drought, famine and a violent storm had combined to worsen existing conditions. The tract therefore reveals an interesting coexistence of climatic and naturalistic reasoning with a providential interpretation of catastrophe. The account of the storm of 15 March 1756 is particularly vivid. A succession of lightning, thunder, torrential rain, wind and exceptionally large hail is said to have caused deaths over a vast area extending from Fez toward Timbuktu, while panic itself allegedly produced further casualties. The ensuing destruction and scarcity are described in deliberately extreme terms: the author reports famine so severe that desperate inhabitants were reduced to eating their own flesh or that of their children. These passages should be read as contemporary reported news rather than verified demographic fact; their rhetorical intensity is characteristic of eighteenth-century disaster relations. The pamphlet then turns to the spread of plague around Fez, presenting estimates of population and mortality and describing continuous religious processions, prayers and sermons. It reports heavy losses among courtly elites and devotes a striking passage to the Jewish quarter, where the greater part of the Jewish population is said to have died and the synagogues to have been left almost deserted. In confessional language characteristic of the period, the anonymous writer contrasts this with the claim that no Catholic had suffered comparable harm, interpreting this as evidence of divine protection. The text proceeds geographically through Bougie, Oran, Marrakesh and Algiers, supplying population figures and estimates of deaths and thereby attempting to give the pamphlet the form of an informed regional survey rather than a single anecdotal report. Equally important is the account of how the information reached Portugal. The final page states that the reports were obtained after an English ship commanded by Jeremiah Butler encountered a Moorish vessel; Butler supposedly had the intelligence written down after reaching Faro, while further details circulated through correspondence involving João Cofre, an English merchant resident in Porto. The tract thus offers a valuable glimpse of the maritime and mercantile networks through which epidemic intelligence, rumour and commercial news moved between North Africa, England and Portugal. The author is also conscious of the distinction between information and rumour. A story that two infected English vessels had sailed respectively for Genoa and Venice is explicitly treated with suspicion because other recent correspondence suggested that the plague remained confined to Africa. This small passage makes the pamphlet especially interesting for the history of news transmission and verification. Its conclusion is overtly politi. …

Original cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First Edition. Octavo, 181pp, [6pp ads]. Original maroon cloth with cityscape illustration stamped in red and yellow on front cover. Title in gilt on spine. Stated "published May, 1915" on copyright page. Solid text block, dust remnants to top edge, frontispiece, a fine example. In the publisher's scarce first state dust jacket, with "Illustrated By Gordon Grant / Price $1.00" label affixed to spine as issued. Small closed tears to edges, sunning to spine, small loss to bottom edge of spine. A bright example. Publisher's advertisement for "Novels of 1915" laid in. (Sisson & Martens 80) (BAL 11960) (Walker & Sisson, 25). Jack London (1876-1916) was one of the first American authors to gain international fame and accumulate wealth from his writing. Despite his popularity, London never received any literary awards for his work. London is remembered today through retellings of his stories on film and television, most recently in a movie adaptation of The Call of the Wild starring Harrison Ford. First edition of The Scarlet Plague by Jack London, in the incredibly scarce first state dust jacket. (illustrator).…

Compilation of observational governmental reports on various outbreaks of the bubonic plague in the Middle East, Persia and Egypt between 1853 and 1877. As stated in the introduction, this publication was compiled to study the epidemic in detail, in the hope that such learning might benefit Great Britain in the event of an outbreak of the plague in its own territories. The information in these reports proved to be of value during the intense study of the plague in the 1890s, which led to the identification of the disease's origin in 1894. The compilation comprises three parts: the first contains extracts from reports of the medical officers of the local government board, the second is a memorandum by Mr. Netten Radcliffe and the last contains a few papers considering the medical aspects of quarantine.Binding worn at the edges and the paper spine damaged at the head and foot. With the upper corner of the first few pages slightly soiled, but still in good condition.l Creighton, A history of epidemics in Britain (1965), I, p. 162; Ethnographic plague: configuring disease on the Chinese-Russian frontier, p. 166; Histories of post-mortem contagion: infectious corpses and contested burials, p. 25; WorldCat 66370645, 29739922, 249535263, 460669494, 29166725 (8 copies). Original publisher's blue printed paper wrappers. With two folding lithographed maps, one centered on the Middle East and the other detailing the seats of the plague in Mesopotamia and south-west Persia. Pages: [2], 76 pp.…

Folio. With two folding lithographed maps, one centered on the Middle East and the other detailing the seats of the plague in Mesopotamia and south-west Persia. Original publisher's blue printed paper wrappers. Compilation of observational governmental reports on various outbreaks of the bubonic plague in the Middle East, Persia and Egypt between 1853 and 1877. As stated in the introduction, this publication was compiled to study the epidemic in detail, in hopes that such knowledge might benefit Great Britain in the event of an outbreak of the plague in its own territories. The information in these reports proved to be of value during the intensive study of the plague in the 1890s, which led to the identification of the origin of the disease in 1894. - The compilation comprises three parts: the first contains extracts from reports of the medical officers of the local government board, the second is a memorandum by Mr. Netten Radcliffe, and the last contains a few papers considering the medical aspects of quarantine. - Binding worn at the edges and the paper spine damaged at the head and foot. Upper corner of the first few pages slightly soiled, but still in good condition. - Creighton, A history of epidemics in Britain (1965) I, 162. Ethnographic Plague: Configuring Disease on the Chinese-Russian Frontier, p. 166. Histories of Post-Mortem Contagion: Infectious Corpses and Contested Burials, p. 25.…

8vo. V, (1), 117, (1) pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Very rare study of Constantinople's plague epidemic of the year 1778, by an anonymous eyewitness. Though not himself a medical man (as he confesses in the preface), he feels that most of Europe's learned physicians lack a practical understanding of the illness, for which reason he here sets out his own experiences in writing. - Only six copies in libraries worldwide, mostly in specialized medical research institutions (Wellcome, Institut Pasteur, New York Academy of Medicine, National Library of Medicine etc.). - Binding rubbed and chipped in places, but a very good copy. - Wellcome II, 446. Blake 114.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. The Stratford Co., title page states 1919, copyright page states 1920. Near VG. Bottom corners worn through, a couple of edge chips, otherwise moderate wear. Pages yellowed with an occasional bit of foxing or minor blemish, binding intact.

Lipsiae, "Apud Laur. Sig. Cornerum", no date (1681?), (8),136 pag., woodcut floral vignette on title, 3 initials and a tailpiece, contemporary boards, small octavo (16,2 x 10,4 cm.). = Very rare, no copies traced at auction and only 2 copies in continental libraries (Leiden and Amsterdam, VU). Important work describing the plague: its nature, symptoms, causes, cures and precautions. Rivinus was a German physician and botanist. He made notable contributions to both botany and medicine, particularly during his time as a professor at the University of Leipzig. He is considered a forerunner to Linnaean taxonomy. …

Letter signed (secretarial copy). 8vo. Manuscript in brown ink, edges slightly dusty, otherwise clean and fresh. Docketing to verso reads "Carta a Torre". [2], [2 blank] pp. Lisbon, H.Q. Grilo Barracks, A fascinating letter, sounding the alarm of incoming plague from Algiers and outlining the initial public health measures taken to stop the spread. It lays the blame on Algerian corsairs, who are said to have infected foreign ships, the crews of which have then passed the disease on in various ports and their home countries.  The letter thus orders the Governor of the Tower of Saint Vincent to stop any vessel (Portuguese or foreign) approaching Lisbon harbour, and hold it at sea until clearance is granted by the Department of Health. It states that all small boats are to be checked, even fishing smacks going out just beyond the bar. In that way, fishing and other local maritime activity were allowed to continue, with the necessary precautions taken on their return each evening. Manuscript material on efforts to control the plague in eighteenth-century Europe is fairly common, as the threat was so consistent and widespread. Examples linking it to piracy or privateering, however, are decidedly uncommon. This example is especially scarce, as (anecdotal) evidence of corsairs spreading disease from North Africa to the Iberian Peninsula.…