Alchemy: 18th cent.

Collection of alchemical extracts and receipts: in German. Pencil drawing of an alchemical furnace. Mainly written by two contemporary hands. On the verso of the last blank leaf is a seal impression in red wax with a monogram (not deciphered).

Late 18th century

1 volume 7 ll. + 47 pp. + 43 ll. (last 2 bl.). 8vo. 161/2 x 101/2 cm. Loose in a crimson stamped-vellum cover.

Purchased at Sotheby's 28/1/1935, Lot 5 (part).

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).

At the beginning on the verso of the last un-numbered leaf is an inscription in pencil by Julius Kohn referring to this MS. From the Julius Kohn Library.