Colin, Jean Jacques (1784-1863)

Projet du Rapport qui devait être fait à l'Académie de Clermont par M. Tailhand, sur le 'Traité de Vinification' de M. Aubergier. Author's holograph MS., with three autograph letters on the same subject: two addressed to M. Tailhand, and one to Madame Colin. The original 'Projet' (8 ll.) seems to have been written in 1825. The first letter to Tailhand (2 ll.) is dated 'Versailles 30 Xbre 1825'. The second (2 ll.) from the same place is dated '12 Juin 1826', and is headed 'Additions et corrections à faire au projet du rapport'. The third letter is undated. Produced in Versailles.

1825, 1826

1 volume 8 ll. + 2 ll. + 2 ll. + 1 l. folio. & 4to. 30 x 20 cm., 251/2 x 201/2 cm. Unbound. Slight tear in the margins of the three letters.

Purchased 1929.

J. J. Colin was professor of chemistry at St. Cyr.

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).