Lectures on Chemistry

Written in the same handwriting through on the recto only. Each page is framed by rulings in red ink. There is no name but the date 16th March, 1758 occurs on folio 305. Chemical symbols are nearly everywhere used both in text and headings, instead of the scriptio plena.

C. 1758

319 folios 4to. 24.5 × 19 cm. Old calf binding, rebacked.

Described in: Warren R. Dawson, Manuscripta medica. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of the Medical Society of London (London, 1932).

Bookplate of John Lewis Petit, M.D., F.R.S., Bloomsbury Square. [Physician to St. George's Hospital; died 1780.]