Berlin: Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften

Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres de Berlin, avec des Mémoires: Classe de Philosophie Expérimentale. Illustrated with folding and other pen and wash drawings. Produced in Berlin.

1748-1757

3 volumes 3 vols. 4to. 221/2 x 17 cm. Original calf bindings. Written on rectos only by several hands.

Purchased 1934.

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).

The first volume has the book-plate of Claude Nicolas Lecat [1700-1768], Docteur en Médecine, Chirurgien en Chef de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Rouen [etc.], dated 1742: all three volumes contain the ex-libris of Pierre Derocque, surgeon of Rouen.