Brown, John (1735-1788)

John Brown, Elementa medicinae, 1st ed. (Edinburgh: C. Elliot, 1780). An interleaved copy of the first volume , with incomplete holograph MS. translation by Robert Batty [1763-1849]. Pasted inside the cover of Vol. 1 is an engraved portrait of Dr. Brown by James Heath [1757-1834] after John Donaldson's [1737-1801] miniature; and inside that of the second volume, an engraving of the same by John Caldwall [ -1819], published in 1799.

c. 1800

2 volumes 1 vol. in 2. 8vo. 18 x 111/2 cm. Original half-calf binding, defective.

Purchased 1920.

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).

Library stamp of R[obert] Batty M.D. [1763-1849] at the beginning of each volume.