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Berlin: Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Berlin: Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Date
- 1748-1757
- Reference
- MSS.1140-1142
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
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.
Publication/Creation
1748-1757
Physical description
3 volumes 3 vols. 4to. 221/2 x 17 cm. Original calf bindings. Written on rectos only by several hands.
Contributors
Acquisition note
Purchased 1934.
Ownership note
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.
Finding aids
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).
Languages
- French