Martin, Louis Aimé (1781-1847)

étude sur Cavendish. Author's holograph MS.

c. 1840

1 volume 1 l. + 10 ff. + 1 l. + 2 ll. + 1 l. 4to. & folio. 25 × 19 cm., 37 × 24 cm. Unbound. Written partly on the rectos only. The 2 ll. noted above are the two large folio sheets. Most of the pages have been struck through.

Purchased 1932.

The author was a miscellaneous writer and littérateur. This MS. may possibly have formed part of his unfinished and unpublished 'Histoire des Sciences et des idées.' In the B.M. Catalogue he is entered as 'Aimé-Martin (Louis), but as above in French reference books.

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).