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'Bills of Mortality of several considerable Towns in Europe beginning with the year 1717 extracted from the Acta Breslaviensia by Conrad Joach Sprengell'

Reference number: RBO/12/72

Date: 1726

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Original letter dated 18 June 1726

Data for burials, marriages, and christenings for many towns in Germany and Prussia

Reference number
RBO/12/72
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1726
Page extent
40 pages
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Manuscript

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'Bills of Mortality of several considerable Towns in Europe beginning with the year 1717 extracted from the Acta Breslaviensia by Conrad Joach Sprengell', 1726, RBO/12/72, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_12_72/bills-of-mortality-of-several-considerable-towns-in-europe-beginning-with-the-year-1717-extracted-from-the-acta-breslaviensia-by-conrad-joach-sprengell, accessed on 07 June 2026

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