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BROWNE, Joseph.

A Practical Treatise of the Plague,

and All Pestilential Infections that have happen'd in this Island for the last Century.

Stock Code
101108
London, for J. Wilcox, 1720
£450

An intriguing little work on the various pestilent afflictions that had pestered Britain in the previous one hundred years, including the Great Plague of London, written it seems in response to the important work A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Method to be used to prevent it (1720) by the physician Richard Mead.

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Description

First edition; 8vo; woodcut decorations, internally fine; bound in 20th century calf-backed marbled boards, minor rubbing, overall very good; 79,[1]p.

Bibliography

Wellcome p.252; not in Garrison & Morton.

Stock ID:101108

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