Respour, P. Moras de

  • Respour, P. Moras de
Date:
c. 1775
Reference:
MS.4196
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Description

Rares expériences sur l'esprit minéral pour la préparation et transmutation des corps métalliques. Où est enseigné la manière de faire les agents necéssaires qui ont été jusques aujourd'huy inconnus et cachés au public. Avec la connoissance du mouvement général et particulier du monde élémentaire de ce qui y est contenu. Par Monsieur D.***. À Paris chez Laurent d'Houry, rue St. Jacques MDCCI. The work by Respour ends on p. 258, and is followed by an extract from Nicolas de Locques' 'Rudiments de la philosophie naturelle', which was first published in 1664. At the bottom of the title-page, and on p. 258 the name 'Allemand' occurs, who may have been the transcriber of this MS.

Publication/Creation

c. 1775

Physical description

1 volume 12 ll. (first bl.). 292 pp. 9 bl. ll. 8vo. 161/2 × 101/2 cm. Original calf binding.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1907.

Finding aids

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).

Notes

This edition of Respour's treatise is not mentioned in Ferguson's 'Bibliotheca Chemica', Vol. II, pp. 256, 257: it was first published in 1668.

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  • 19037