Collas, Johann

A philosophical Discourse on the circulation and propagation of living Creatures: with many Anatomical and Physical Experiments: also an easy method to find out the generation of Insects. The date 1709 is found on p. 66.

c. 1710

1 volume 80 pp. 4to. 201/2 x 161/2 cm. 19th cent. paper covers. First and last leaves cut down and mounted. The first leaf badly faded and stained. The illustrations referred to at the end are wanting.

Purchased 1928.

The author was a physician, and corresponded with Sir Hans Sloane [1660-1755].

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).

A copy of this MS. is found in Sloane No. 3323, ff. 86-107, and a letter to Sloane in Sloane No. 4458, fol. 143.

This MS. is stated by an anonymous owner to have been 'formerly in the Library of E[benezer] Sibly [1757-1799], the Astrological writer and Quack'.