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Transcripts, extracts, and notes on alchemy: volume II. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Transcripts, extracts, and notes on alchemy: volume II
- Bacstrom, Sigismund
- Date:
- c.1835
- Reference:
- MS.1031
- Part of:
- Bacstrom, Sigismund
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Description
Transcripts, extracts, and notes on alchemy [etc.]. Vol. II.
Partly holograph MSS.
At the end of the third section are pen-drawings of tubes and a crucible; also a coloured drawing of a distilling apparatus.
The first three items are holographs by Bacstrom.
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.1835
Physical description
1 volume 2ll. first bl.. + 48 pp. + 2 ll. + 36 ll. + 52 ll. last bl.. + 108 ll. last bl.. 4to. v.s. 1804-1808. 19th cent. half-calf binding. Outer lower corners of the second section stained by chemicals ?, and some defective.
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Acquisition note
Purchased 1928.
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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).
Notes
The versos of the first two leaves of this section bear the inscription 'Alchemy. George Graham. Student. Pantheon, Oxford Street. 1824. London'. The watermark of the paper however is dated partly 1827 and partly 1825, and the script seems to be somewhat later, and resembles some of the hands of the entries signed M. Graham, in the Graham volume of alchemical extracts [MS. 2550], which is bound uniformly with the two volumes of Bacstrom transcripts, and also lettered on the spine 'MSS. on Alchemy received from H[enry] C[owell] Boys 1894'.
Ownership note
Armorial book-plate of Edward Matthey [1836-1918].
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- 77779B