Toulmin, George Hoggart

Geology, being Chaptal's account of the stony substances of the world: illustrated with the most modern discoveries and analyses: also with notes and a preface explanatory of the true system of the universe, and of the decompositions and renovations of the globe which we inhabit. Author's holograph, and unpublished MS. Chaptal's 'Éléments de chimie', of a section of which this MS. is a translation and commentary, was published in 1790.

c. 1800

1 volume 12 ll. + 157 pp. + 13 bl. ll. 4to. 201/2 × 16 cm. Original half-morocco binding.

Purchased 1930.

Toulmin was M.D. of Edinburgh and published 'The eternity of the universe' in 1789, which was a greatly revised edition of his 'The antiquity and duration of the world', first issued in 1780.

Armorial book-plate of Richard Hotham Pigeon [1789-1851], Treasurer of the Pharmaceutical Society and of Christ's Hospital, London.

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).