Transcripts, extracts, and notes on alchemy: volume I

  • Bacstrom, Sigismund
Date:
c. 1850
Reference:
MS.1030
Part of:
Bacstrom, Sigismund
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Description

Transcripts, extracts, and notes on alchemy [etc.]. Vol. I.

Partly holograph MSS.

On the spine is a label inscribed 'MSS. on alchemy received from H[enry] C[owell] Boyes 1894.' This is a printed title to the collection, and is found on the spine of both volumes.

Publication/Creation

c. 1850

Physical description

1 volume 19 ll. + 1 l. + 94 pp. + 5 ll. + 19 ll. + 3 ll. last bl.. + 7 ll. last 2 bl. + 5 ll. + 28 pp. + 59 ff. + 21 ll. last 2 bl. 4to. v.s. 1804-1806. 19th cent. half-calf binding. The titles of some of the Bacstrom transcripts are on slips, some pasted down. The various MSS. in this volume are of different 4to. formats.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1928.

Ownership note

Armorial book-plate of Edward Matthey [1836-1918].

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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  • 77719A