MEDICINE, ASTRONOMY, PHILOSOPHY & LAW


Collection of twenty, mostly eighteenth century, manuscript notebooks on various subjects, covering astronomy, medicine and pathology, physics, philosophy and natural philosophy, teachings on Christianity, jurisprudence and politics, in English (3) Latin (10), French (5), Italian (1) and German (1), including "Concerning the Antiquity and Excellency of Astronomy"–"Phisica" kept by Ludovic Bourgeois of Salines, France, 1790, including 6 folding diagrams – "Vero Onore del Cavalieri" (True Honour of the Knights) – "Union des Syrurgiuns avec les barbiers", 1668 – "Encyclopedia varie eruditionis" by Eusebius Blasco, Carmelite – "Tractatus de simonia", 1788, "Tractatus de actibus humani", "Tractatus de contractibus" and "De praecepto justitiae" (ownership inscription of J. G. Delhotal) – a treatise on the science of various natural phenomena by Girard d'Ailleville, 1778 -- and "Recettes de differents Remedes", a pharmacopoeia, 4to and 8vo, several ownership inscriptions and bookplates, contemporary bindings (calf, vellum, marbled boards, paper wrappers etc.); with two printed pamphlets and Cervantes' Don Quixote (Leipzig, Fritsch, 1734), inscribed "The gift of Mrs Reynolds/ 1836/ This Book belong'd to the/ late Queen Charlotte/ wife of Geo III/ J.Harris", eighteenth and nineteenth century (22)