Grosschedel, Johann Baptist

Calendarium naturale magicum perpetuum profundissimam rerum secretissimarum contempletionem totiusque philosophiae cognitionem complectens. The work, which is on rectos only, contains pen-drawn diagrams and figures copied from the original engravings [cf. Preceding entry]. Armorial book-plate of Ignatius Dominicus S. R. Comes de Chorinsky [etc.] [1729-1792].

mid-18th century

1 volume 1 bl. l. + 91 ff. obl. 4to. 16 × 20 cm. Original yellow silk brocade binding, with floral coloured design, partly in silver thread: decorated end-papers in blue and gold: in calf and board slip-case, worn. Binder's label 'Augsburg bey G. G. Stoll'.

Purchased 1930.

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).