Alchemy: 18th cent.

Collection of ten full-page water-colour drawings, with MS. Latin descriptions in red, of alchemical apparatus, furnaces, etc. The date is found on the illustration of a mortar on the verso of the third leaf from the end.

1782

1 volume 11 ll. folio. 35 x 24 cm. Original paper covers. Six of the illustrations have laminated parts.

Purchased 1935.

On the first leaf is pasted the armorial book-plate of Christo[pher] Froschmayr E[dler] v[on] Scheibenhof.

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).