Messier, Charles Joseph (1730-1817)

Collection of notes and oddments on astronomy etc. Author's holograph MSS. (1) Table des matières les plus intéressantes, extraites des Journaux. 1756 (10 ll. 8vo. 17 1/2 × 11 1/2). (2) Tiré de l'Histoire Naturelle de M. de Buffon. n.d. (13 ll. 8vo. 17 1/2 × 11 1/2 cm.). (3) Notes diverses, designs for monograms, plan of an estate, etc. One dated 15 Messidor, An 7 [3 July 1799] (12 ll. v.s.). (4) Observations et notes relatives à l'astronomie (9 ll. v.s.).

1756-99

1 volume 4 folders. v.s. Unbound.

Purchased 1932.

The author was a French astronomer and elected to the Académie des Sciences in 1770.

On the outside of the folder containing these MSS. is a note by an anonymous owner 'Manuscrits de feu M. Messier .. trouvés dans le vol[ume] que j'ai acheté de son Bibliothèque'.

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).