Costa, Emanuel Mendes da (1717-1791)

Dissertation on those fossil figured stones called Belemnites. Endorsed: 'No. 6. Jan. 29. 1746-7. Pr. Tr. 482. XI.' He has also copied out the title on the verso of the last leaf. Produced in London.

1746

15 ff + 1 l (4to. 23 × 181/2 cm.). A scribal copy.

Purchased 1934.

The author was a Portuguese mineralogist of Jewish descent, elected F.R.S. in 1747. [see the Dictionary of National Biography].

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).