Turner, Robert (1620-1665?)

Collection of medical and technical 'secrets': followed by 'The theater of Nature treating of some magnetical cures, of the secret qualityes of herbes, stones, and chimicalls' (Incomplete). The 'Theater of Nature' begins on p. 69, but is incomplete, signed 'Ro. Turner. 3 August 1657. Christophers Alley in St. Martyns le grand.' It is almost certainly a contemporary copy, and may possibly be holograph. Produced in London.

1657

1 volume pp. 35-137 + 2 bl. ll. 4to. 191/2 × 15 cm. Unbound. Pp. 1-34, 47-50, 55-66, 71-78, 119-122, 127-130 wanting: margins and corners frayed.

Purchased 1931.

No record has been traced of the publication of this work: the author was an astrologer and botanist [see the Dictionary of National Biography].

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).