Jackson, Robert:
A TREATISE ON THE FEVERS OF JAMAICA, WITH SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE INTERMITTING FEVER OF AMERICA, AND AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING SOME HINTS ON THE MEANS OF PRESERVING THE HEALTH OF SOLDIERS IN HOT CLIMATES. BY...MD.
Robert Campbell, Philadelphia:, 1795
Original full leather [rubbed, worn, hinges starting] Early ownership inscriptions on front endpapers Half title, xi, [1 blank], 276, 19, [1 blank], [4 publ advts] pp Text lightly tanned and lightly foxed Overall, Good+ "Apparently reprinted from the first London edition of 1791" Austin Jackson says, "Observations contained in the following pages, were made during the time that I lived in Jamaica, or while I attended some part of the army in America," between 1774 and 1782 Jackson served with the Scotch regiment in New York for two years "Both as an administrative reformer and as a writer on fevers Jackson holds a distinguished place" X DNB 542-3 He is dubious as to the efficacy of purging and "the free use of the lancet" for "promoting the cure of the general class of febrile diseases" Jackson discourses at length on these matters, especially yellow fever FIRST AMERICAN EDITION Evans 28890 Austin 1040 Ragatz 374 [London] Not in Jenkins
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[Jackson, Robert?]:
AN HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA, FROM ITS ORIGIN; SO FAR AS REGARDS THE SEVERAL POINTS OF CONTROVERSY, WHICH HAVE, FROM TIME TO TIME, ARISEN BETWEEN THE SEVERAL GOVERNORS OF THAT PROVINCE, AND THEIR SEVERAL ASSEMBLIES. FOUNDED ON AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS.
R. Griffiths, London:, 1759
Original calf [lightly rubbed], rebacked in period style, with gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. viii, [18], 444 pp, with pages 441-444 bound out of order. Lightly foxed, upper blank margin of title leaf repaired without any text loss, Very Good. The book is often attributed to Benjamin Franklin, "who must have had a hand in it" [Howes], but he firmly disclaimed the honor. Paul Ford nevertheless nominated Franklin, "for he was at that time the only person in London who had the knowledge and material for such a book; he was the only person interested in the writing of it, and was indeed virtually sent to London for just such work; and he was the person who paid the cost of publication, and distributed the copies." In any event, modern scholarship gives the credit to Franklin's London co-agent, Jackson. The book is a detailed source for the controversies on quit rents, paper money, the Penn family and its privileges, conflicts between colonial governors and popular assemblies, Indian relations, and the French and Indian War. FIRST EDITION. Howes P204. Ford, Franklin 253. Stevens, Rare Americana 363. Bartlett, John Carter Brown Catalog 1217.
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