Académie des Sciences, Paris

An abridgement of all the chymical papers contained in the History and Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences [from 1699 to 1707]. Illustrated by a few pen-drawn diagrams, etc. Below the title given above is written 'N.B. in the Collection are comprised those Papers among the Botanical and Philosophical which related to Pharmacy, Medicine, or Chymistry'. Lettered on the spine 'Acta chymica Academiae Scientiarum. I.'

c. 1710

1 volume 4 ll. + 325 pp. + 32 bl. ll. 4to. 20 x 16 cm. Original rough calf binding.

Purchased 1910.

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).