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The immortal mentor, or, Man's unerring guide to a healthy, wealthy, and happy life : in three parts   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Cornaro, Luigi, 1475-1566. Discorsi della vita sobria. Abridgements. English
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790. Way to wealth
Scott, Thomas, 1747-1821. Sure guide to happiness
Weems, M. L. (Mason Locke), 1759-1825, compiler
Bailey, Francis, 1735?-1815, printer
Bailey, Robert, 1774?-1808, printer
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Title
The immortal mentor, or, Man's unerring guide to a healthy, wealthy, and happy life : in three parts
Publisher
Philadelphia : Printed for the Rev. Mason L. Weems, by Francis and Robert Bailey, no. 116, High-Street
Description
Compiled by Mason L. Weems
A free and abridged translation of Luigi Cornaro's Discorsi della vita sobria, together with The way to wealth, and Advice to young tradesmen, by Benjamin Franklin, and A sure guide to happiness, by Thomas Scott. The work by Cornaro is followed by an "Appendix. Golden rules of health, selected from Hippocrates, Plutarch, and several other eminent physicians and philosophers"
Some copies have a recommendation by George Washington mounted facing the title page. Cf. Austin and ESTC
The works by Franklin and Scott have divisional title pages; register and pagination are continuous
Signatures: [A]² B-O⁶ P⁶(-P6) Q-2E⁶
NLM copy: lacking the Washington recommendation
Film 633 reel 55 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 55, no. 1011)
Evans
Blake, J. NLM 18th cent.
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints
Parsons, W. Catholic Americana
ESTC (RLIN)
Microfilm
NLM copy provenance: ownership inscription of J.K. Messersmith, Reading [Pa.] May 20, 1802
NLM copy bound in contemporary sheepskin; re-backed in brown goatskin
Will digitize
Condition reviewed

Subjects: Health Promotion; Happiness; Income
Language English
Publication date 1796
publication_date QS:P577,+1796-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: medicalheritagelibrary; medicineintheamericas; usnationallibraryofmedicine; americana
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2558025R.nlm.nih.gov
Source
Internet Archive identifier: 2558025R.nlm.nih.gov
https://archive.org/download/2558025R.nlm.nih.gov/2558025R.pdf

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