Account-book, merchant trading to China, 18th century (possibly Sir Robert Wigram)

[By a general merchant in the China trade, probably resident in India]. Contains entries of various drugs, opium, ginseng, etc. and of 'medicines' supplied to ships.

1774-1777

16 ll.+6 bl. ll. 8vo. 19x121/2 cm. Original paper covers.

Purchased 1908.

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).