Sales catalogue: Stevens

Date:
29-30 January 1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/21/579
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Stevens. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    964 565 566 967 568 969 970 571 572 27 Second Day A Medical Act in Black Letter for providing a reward to Johanna Stephens upon a proper discovery to be made by her for the Use of the Publick, of the Medicenes prepared by her for the Cure of the Stone, 1739 A manuscript, entitled Ex. Tribus Arcana, written in ink, in French, dated 1762 ; a most interesting collection of alchemical and medical prescriptions for the composition of magical concoctions, charms, occult remedies and mystical preparations ; second leaf bears legend ‘“‘ Cum Sole et Sale Omnia Fuint,”’ with a drawing of a leopard, 5pp. index at end A 17th Century Manuscript, entitled Discours Preliminatre pour Servir de preface et factliter l’intelligence des Etudiens en la Lecture des Auteurs Philosophes Hermetique, written in French ; a precis of Alchemical theories of the past ; treating it as an admissible science Author’s Presentation Copies—Parent-Duchatelet ; Recherches sur l’Inflammation de _ l’Arachnoide Cerebrale et Spinale, 1821; | Benjamin Ridge. Glossology, 1844, 6 plates (2) Author’s Presentation Copies, Benjamin Moseley, a Treatise on the Lues Bovilla, or Cow Pox, 1805, uncut, to the Marquis of Hamilton ; Benjamin Ridge. Physio- logy of the Uterus, Placenta and Foetus, 1845, coloured frontispiece (2) Vaccination, rare early items, by John Thornton, H. Ranque and J. A. Brisset, 3 in 1 volume, 1801-28, 4 folding plates, 2 coloured Vazquez. Metodo Curativo del Colera-Morbo, 1834, bound with an enlarged edition of the same work together with cuttings and MSS. notes relative to the Cholera in Spain and the cures of Dr. Vazquez James Thomson. On Small Pox, with observations on the nature and extent of the security afforded by Vaccination, 1822; another, by John Thomson. An Account of the Varioloid Epidemic, 1820 (2) Seasonable Considerations on the indecent and dangerous custom of Burying in Churches and Churchyards, with remarkable Observations proving that the custom is not only contrary to the practice of the Antients, but fatal, in case of infection, 1721
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