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Author
Stearns, Samuel, 1741-1809
Hodge, Robert, 1746?-1813, bookseller
Campbell, Samuel, 1765-1836, bookseller
Berry, Edward, bookseller
Allen, Thomas, bookseller, fl. 1785-1799
Title
The American oracle : comprehending an account of recent discoveries in the arts and sciences, with a variety of religious, political, physical, and philosophical subjects, necessary to be known in all families, for the promotion of their present felicity and future happiness
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Publisher
New-York : Printed for, and sold by Hodge and Campbell, Berry and Rogers, and T. Allen.
Description
"This volume consists of the sheets of the London edition [Printed for J. Lackington and J. Parsons, 1791] with new title-page and preface (dated 12 September, 1791, at New York), and additional errata."--Clark, John C.L. "'The famous Doctor Stearns.' A biographical sketch of Dr. Samuel Stearns with a bibliography." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society n.s. 45 (1935): 416
At the foot of the t.p.: The copyright of this book is secured agreeable to the act of Congress. (Price two dollars in boards.)
Errata and instructions to the bookbinder on p. [6], 1st group of paging
"A figure of the solar system, engraved for The American oracle by J. Robinson, London."--plate facing p. 90
Includes an index
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-2R⁸ [2S]⁸ 2T⁴ (2T4 blank)
Library holds rebound volume and original covers removed for rebinding
NLM copy: untrimmed edges
Evans
Blake, J. NLM 18th cent.
ESTC (RLIN)
NLM copy provenance: ownership inscriptions of Stephen Curtis, 1793, and Elbert Curtis, 1824
Will digitize
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Subjects: History; Natural History; Medicine; Science
Language English
Publication date 1791
publication_date QS:P577,+1791-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: medicalheritagelibrary; medicineintheamericas; usnationallibraryofmedicine; americana
Accession number
2573007R.nlm.nih.gov
Source
Internet Archive identifier: 2573007R.nlm.nih.gov
https://archive.org/download/2573007R.nlm.nih.gov/2573007R.pdf

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