Scheuchzer, Johann Jacob (1672-1733)

Iter Alpinum primum, anno 1702-nonum, anno 1711. This MS. on the Alps is mainly in Latin, with few passages in German, and is written in the first person. It is possibly the holograph rough diary, later expanded into the printed 'Ouresifoiths' published at Leyden in four volumes in 1723.

1702-1711

1 volume 377 pp. + 9 ll. (last 7 bl.). 8vo. 18 × 111/2 cm. Original boards. Pp. 313-end are by a different, but contemporary hand.

Purchased 1930.

Armorial book-plate of Robert James Shuttleworth [1810-1874].

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).