Brown, John (1735-1788)

  • Brown, John, 1735-1788.
Date:
c. 1800
Reference:
MSS.1369-1370
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About this work

Description

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.

Publication/Creation

c. 1800

Physical description

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

Acquisition note

Purchased 1920.

Ownership note

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

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).

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Accession number

  • 40613