Miscellanea Alchemica XXII

Collection of alchemical tracts, and receipts: in French. With additions by an early 19th cent. hand. There are numerous small pen-drawn alchemical symbols and figures in the margins. Alchemical receipts, etc. by the later hand (3 ll.). The next entry in this Catalogue is written by the same hand, partly in Italic and partly in 'Lettres de civilité'.

mid-18th century

1 volume 3 ll. + 72 ff. + 2 ll. + ff. 65-110 + 3 ll. (last bl.). 8vo. 16 × 10 1/2 cm. Original calf binding. Margins slightly cropped.

Purchased 1933.

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).

The name 'Remi Pierret' is written in red ink in the upper margin of fol. 1: his name and address 'Paris 1878. 27 Août. Rue Oberkampf 147' are found written inside the lower cover. This is Rémy Louis François Pierret [1820-1893].