Du Grand Oeuvre. Extraits de mes lectures rélatives au Grand Oeuvre

'The PRACTICE or how to make gold step by step' [MS. No. 3968] is written by the same hand, and may possibly have originally formed part of this MS. The date 1774 is found on p. 17 and p. 44, in both instances apparently added later.

c. 1770

1 volume 6 ll. + 204 pp. + 1 bl. l. 4to. 211/2 x 171/2 cm. Modern vellum covers.

Purchased at Sotheby's 12/5/1914, Lot 16.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

From the John Eliot Hodgkin Collection.