Longevity : being an account of various persons, who have lived to an extraordinary age, with several curious particulars respecting their lives ; the whole comprising an abridgement of longevity, as far as history extends in every quarter of the world, from the creation to the year 1792 ; authenticated by referential notes from authors of veracity / by Christian Hoffman of New-York.

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Longevity : being an account of various persons, who have lived to an extraordinary age, with several curious particulars respecting their lives ; the whole comprising an abridgement of longevity, as far as history extends in every quarter of the world, from the creation to the year 1792 ; authenticated by referential notes from authors of veracity / by Christian Hoffman of New-York. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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New-York : Printed and sold by Jacob S. Mott, no. 7. Vesey-Street, 1798.

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At the foot of the t.p.: [Copy-right secured]
Appendix includes " Deaths recorded in Scripture, from the Creation to the Flood"
"Subscribers names"--pp. 113-120
Signatures: A-K⁶
Film 633 reel 50 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 50, no. 920).

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Evans 33887
Sabin 32391
Blake, J. NLM 18th cent., p. 215
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 920
ESTC (RLIN) W13644

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1960. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm

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