Harley, George (1829-1896)

Colored test-glasses. Author's holograph MS. Illustrated with pasted-in slips on which are pen-drawings of test-tubes, the contents tinted in water-colour. Written on folded folio sheets. The tests were on various chemical substances, organic and inorganic, poisons, etc.

c. 1860

1 volume 37 ll. 4to. 22 × 17 cm. Paper covers.

Purchased 1931.

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).