Lectures on chemistry: notes by Robert Perceval

  • Black, Joseph, 1728-1799.
Date:
1777-1778
Reference:
MSS.1229-1232
Part of:
Black, Joseph (1728-1799)
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Lectures on Chemistry, begun 3 Nov. 1777. Taken down by Robert Perceval (1756-1839). Produced in Edinburgh.

Publication/Creation

1777-1778

Physical description

4 volumes 4 vols. 8vo. 181/2 x 11 cm. Original quarter-calf binding.

Acquisition note

Purchased at Sotheby's 23/7/1934, Lot 216 (part).

Biographical note

Robert Perceval (1756-1839) was afterwards appointed to be the first professor of chemistry at Dublin University. See the Dictionary of National Biography for more detail.

Finding aids

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).

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  • 66764A-D