Lebensdauer und Todesursachen zwei und zwanzig verschiedner Stände und Gewerbe nebst vergleichender Statistik der christlichen und israelitischen Bevölkerung Frankfurts. Nach zuverlässigen Quellen bearbeitet. (Life Span and Cause of Death of twenty-two Different Professions and Trades and Comparative Statistics of the Christian and Jewish Populations of Frankfut. Based on Reliable Sources)
Frankfurt: J. D. Sauerländer's Verlag, 1855. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (4) 116pp., 2 folding table. Original three-quarter leather over marbled boards. Decorative green edges. Medical report determining life spans and causes of death, including twenty-three detailed tables, of the Frankfurt population over the span of thirty-three years (1820–1952) by medical doctor Wilhelm Carl de Neufville, based on similar works by French and other German doctors. Frankfurt had the perfect preconditions for such a work, in terms of data collected by the city and the absence of pandemics like Cholera, etc. The professions and trades highlighted in this work are clerics, lawyers and administrative personnel, medical doctors, teachers, merchants, tailors, shoemakers, carpenters, bakers, butchers, beer brewers, painters and plasterers, masons and sculptors, brick layers, smiths and locksmiths, gardeners, fishermen, printers, typographists, tanners and furriers. Work considered important for the conduct of civil life, in particularly helpful for the insurance business. This detailed study is an early example of applying socio-anthropological and medical data to analyze the development of a 19th century urban industrial environment. Text in German. Binding with some wear along edges, spine rubbed and scuffed. Small sticker with handwritten number, and small plastic bag pasted to inside front cover. Block with light foxing throughout. Binding and interior in overall good condition. g. Item #46997
Price: $250.00