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[LONDON]. London's dreadful visitation; or a collection of all the bills of mortality for this present year. London: E. Cores, 1665.
4o (195 x 161 mm). Folding letterpress table, woodcut title border of memento mori motifs (cropped at upper and lower margins). (Title-page browned, some slight browning to text, several margins shaved, affecting some headlines and cropping signatures, and occasionally shaving and cropping text). Later half calf (binding broken). Provenance: Oxford University ("Radcliffe Library/University Museum" stamp), Bodleian Library (deaccession stamp).
FIRST EDITION, variant with "27th of December" on title. Listing week by week the births and deaths in each of London's parishes, with the causes of death. Of some 97,300 deaths recorded during the year, 68,596 were of the plague. Other causes of death recorded include "griping in the guts", "stopping of the stomach", "rising of the lights" and "head-mould shot". Bills of mortality such as these were analysed by John Gaunt in Natural and political observations ... made upon the bills of mortality, regarded as the foundation of medical statistical analysis (see lot 477). Garrison-Morton 5119; NLM/Krivatsy 7098; Wing G-1593A; Norman 1385.
4o (195 x 161 mm). Folding letterpress table, woodcut title border of memento mori motifs (cropped at upper and lower margins). (Title-page browned, some slight browning to text, several margins shaved, affecting some headlines and cropping signatures, and occasionally shaving and cropping text). Later half calf (binding broken). Provenance: Oxford University ("Radcliffe Library/University Museum" stamp), Bodleian Library (deaccession stamp).
FIRST EDITION, variant with "27th of December" on title. Listing week by week the births and deaths in each of London's parishes, with the causes of death. Of some 97,300 deaths recorded during the year, 68,596 were of the plague. Other causes of death recorded include "griping in the guts", "stopping of the stomach", "rising of the lights" and "head-mould shot". Bills of mortality such as these were analysed by John Gaunt in Natural and political observations ... made upon the bills of mortality, regarded as the foundation of medical statistical analysis (see lot 477). Garrison-Morton 5119; NLM/Krivatsy 7098; Wing G-1593A; Norman 1385.