Bernard, M. (& others)

A collection of receipts medicinall. With some later (19th cent.) additions. There are numerous 18th cent. additions to the original Bernard receipts. The date 1764 occurs on p. 101: the later receipts begin on p. 136.

1737-c. 1850

1 volume 2 ll. + 171 pp. + 30 bl. ll. + 10 ll. last 5 bl.. 4to. 23 x 201/2 cm. 19th cent. mottled calf binding. First and last leaves mounted: some margins cropped in binding.

Purchased at Sotheby's 31/10/1932, Lot 86.

A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of The Recipe books digitisation project.

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).

From the library of the Dowager Countess of Gosford (i.e. Louisa Augusta Beatrice Montagu, second daughter of the 7th Duke of Manchester [ -1944]).