1791 AN ACCOUNT OF PRINCIPAL LAZARETTOS in EUROPE in prisons & hospitals ANTIQUE

An account of the principal lazarettos in Europe;
with various papers relative to the plague: together with further observations on some foreign prisons and hospitals; and additional remarks on the present state of those in Great Britain and Ireland.

By John Howard, F.R.S.

London ; 1791

Small folio: 9 1/2 by 11 3/4"

 Illustrated with  copper plates and 1 folded table

Original calf over wooden boards, spine with raised bands and title label


-Blake 223. Wellcome III, 306. Osler 1212. Garrison-M. 1601. Norman 1109-

Epoch-making work of the "famous philanthropist and reformer of the English prison system"
(Hirsch-H. III, 314)

Howard visited countless hospitals and prisons in Europe and "brought about partly through personal representations, partly through writings among other things through the treatise: "
"Account of the principal lazarettos..." in several states a reformation of these institutions" (H.-H.). 

Some wear of binding, upper board detached. Very good interior condition

Text in English
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