Grand Oeuvre sur le Mercure

Grand Oeuvre sur le Mercure et l'Or pour faire la Poudre de Projection, qui transmue tous les métaux imparfaits en sol parfait à toutes épreuves, avec des particuliers réels et lucratifs. By the same hand as MS. No. 2588 and MSS. 4164-4166 [Grand-Oeuvre (Le)].

c. 1750

1 volume 2 ll. (first bl.). + 131 pp. 8vo. 161/2 × 101/2 cm. Original boards. Title within a pen-drawn decorated border in red and black: some headings in red.

Purchased at Sotheby's (Hauser Sale) 16/4/1934/ Lot 196.

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 Library of Lionel Hauser of Paris, with his press-mark label 'L.H. 120'.