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<dl><dd>Compiled by Mason L. Weems</dd>
<dd>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"</dd>
<dd>Some copies have a recommendation by George Washington mounted facing the title page. Cf. Austin and ESTC</dd>
<dd>The works by Franklin and Scott have divisional title pages; register and pagination are continuous</dd>
<dd>Signatures: [A]² B-O⁶ P⁶(-P6) Q-2E⁶</dd>
<dd>NLM copy: lacking the Washington recommendation</dd>
<dd>Film 633 reel 55 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 55, no. 1011)</dd>
<dd>Evans</dd>
<dd>Blake, J. NLM 18th cent.</dd>
<dd>Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints</dd>
<dd>Parsons, W. Catholic Americana</dd>
<dd>ESTC (RLIN)</dd>
<dd>Microfilm</dd>
<dd>NLM copy provenance: ownership inscription of J.K. Messersmith, Reading [Pa.] May 20, 1802</dd>
<dd>NLM copy bound in contemporary sheepskin; re-backed in brown goatskin</dd>
<dd>Will digitize</dd>
<dd>Condition reviewed</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Health Promotion; Happiness; Income</div>
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<dl><dd>Cornaro, Luigi, 1475-1566. Discorsi della vita sobria. Abridgements. English</dd>
<dd>Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790. Way to wealth</dd>
<dd>Scott, Thomas, 1747-1821. Sure guide to happiness</dd>
<dd>Weems, M. L. (Mason Locke), 1759-1825, compiler</dd>
<dd>Bailey, Francis, 1735?-1815, printer</dd>
<dd>Bailey, Robert, 1774?-1808, printer</dd></dl></div>
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