Balsamo, Giuseppe (calling himself Count Alessandro di Cagliostro) (1743-1795)

Collection of translations, transcripts, extracts and notes relating to Cagliostro, made by or for Dr. E. Lalande in connection with his book Le maître inconnu - Cagliostro.

c. 1910

1 file (containing 2 exercise books and 4 bundles of papers) Vol. I. v.s. Unbound: in three folders.

Purchased at Sotheby's (Hauser Sale), 16/4/1934, Lot 48 (part).

Cagliostro's sojourn at Strassburg is dealt with in Chapter V of Lalande's book, first published in Paris in 1912: there was a second edition in 1932. Both were issued under the pseudonym 'Marc Haven'.

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).

From the Library of Lionel Hauser of Paris. Originally in a folder with his library press-mark label 'L.H. 99'.