Notes on chemistry

Cahier V. Notes de chimie. Author's holograph MS., with 47 inserted notes and oddments. Illustrated with pen-drawings of chemical apparatus, etc. The back-strip reads as given above: a title written in pencil on the first leaf is 'étude du soufre et des sulphures', but the MS. contains notes of chemical research on various substances, and on the making of artificial gems. Two of the odd slips are dated 1887, and 1891 is found on the last leaf of the text. Produced in Paris.

1887-1891

1 volume 1 [4] ll. + 37 pp. + 29 ll. + 31 bl. ll. 4to. 21 × 17 cm. Original boards. Three leaves have been cut out at the beginning.

Purchased at Sotheby's (Hauser Sale) 18/4/1934, Lot 452 (part).

From the Library of Lionel Hauser of Paris with his press-mark label 'L.H.66'.

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).