GB 0120 MSS.1140-1142 - Berlin: Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften

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GB 0120 MSS.1140-1142

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Berlin: Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften

Date(s)

  • 1748-1757 (Creation)

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3 volumes

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The first volume has the book-plate of Claude Nicolas Lecat [1700-1768], Docteur en Médecine, Chirurgien en Chef de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Rouen [etc.], dated 1742: all three volumes contain the ex-libris of Pierre Derocque, surgeon of Rouen.

GB 0120 MSS.1140-1142 1748-1757 Collection (fonds) 3 volumes Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften

The first volume has the book-plate of Claude Nicolas Lecat [1700-1768], Docteur en Médecine, Chirurgien en Chef de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Rouen [etc.], dated 1742: all three volumes contain the ex-libris of Pierre Derocque, surgeon of Rouen.

Purchased 1934.

Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres de Berlin, avec des Mémoires: Classe de Philosophie Expérimentale. Illustrated with folding and other pen and wash drawings. Produced in Berlin, 1748-1757.

In 3 volumes

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

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3 vols. 4to. 221/2 x 17 cm. Original calf bindings. Written on rectos only by several hands.

Described in: 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).

Entry copied from Wellcome online catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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Purchased 1934.

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Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres de Berlin, avec des Mémoires: Classe de Philosophie Expérimentale. Illustrated with folding and other pen and wash drawings. Produced in Berlin, 1748-1757.

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In 3 volumes

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The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

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  • English

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  • Latin

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French

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Described in: 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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Wellcome Library

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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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  • English

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