Gault de Saint Germain, Pierre Marie (1754-1842)

(1) Notice sur quelques unes de nos anciennes fontaines minéraux [c. 1820]. (2) Apparition d'une île volcanique. Sur l'anatomie de l'oeil ... [et] la composition du Papier Daguerrotype. 1839. Author's holograph MSS. The second work contains a folding engraving of parts of the human eye, extracted from 'Nouvelles de la République des Lettres', Amsterdam, 1686. p. 326. This article appears to be that by Petrus Guenellon, mentioned in Haller's 'Bibliotheca Anatomica' Vol. I, p. 670.

c. 1820 1839

1 volume 4 ll., 5 ll. 4to. 25 × 181/2 cm. Unbound.

Purchased 1931.

The author was a French miscellaneous writer, painter and art-critic. These two pieces have been numbered in pencil, 53-59 and 109-118.

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).