An inexperienced student doctor taking the pulse of a patient in his bed. Coloured etching by A.M. Mills, 1806.

The two bookes of Sr Francis Bacon, of the proficience and advancement of learning, divine and humane.

Ars magna sciendi, in XII libros digesta, qua nova et universali methodo per artificiosum combinationum contextum de omni re proposita plurimis et prope infinitis rationibus disputari, omniumque summaria quedam cognitio comparari potest. Ad qugustissimum Rom. imperatorem Leopoldum primum, justum, pium, felicem / [Athanasius Kircher].

Material: paper; 1 bl. l. + 157 ff. + 30 ll. + 13 ll. (last 2 bl.). 4to.; leaf dimensions: width 15cm, length 20.5cm

MS.63

Material: paper; 364 ff.; leaf dimensions: width 31 cm, length 21 cm

MS.56

Material: paper; 168 ll.4to.; leaf dimensions: width 18.5 cm, length 13 cm

MS.62

Material: paper; 203 ll. folio.; leaf dimensions: width 21.5 cm, length 30.5 cm

MS.55

Material: paper; 188 ll. 4to.; leaf dimensions: width 13 cm, length 18 cm

MS.124

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