1. Add MS 71576-71578
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 71576-71578
- Title:
- JEAN-BAPTISTE PORTA: a revision, prepared circa 1816, and apparently unpublished, of the French naturalist Henri Gabriel Duchesne's Notice Historique sur la Vie et les Ouvrages de J.-B. Porta (1801); together with a French translation of Porta's Magiae Naturalis. Purchased by the Patent Office Library in 1906, and transferred to the Department of Manuscripts in July 1994. Three bound volumes, in the first of which the 1801 printed text of the Notice is inlaid, with many manuscript addition...
- Scope & Content:
- Giovanni Battista della Porta, of Naples: Henri Gabriel Duchesne, French naturalist: 'Magiae Naturalis'and other works of Giovanni Battista della Porta, translated by Henri Gabriel Duchesne: circa 1816: Fr.: Partly printed.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- [1811-1821]
- Extent:
- 3 items