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1. Add MS 71576-71578

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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JEAN-BAPTISTE PORTA: a revision, prepared circa 1816, and apparently unpublished, of the French naturalist Henri Gabriel Duchesne's Notice Historique sur la Vie et les Ouvrages de J.-B. Porta (1801); together with a French translation of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

2. Add MS 71576

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Add MS 71576
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Scope & Content:
JEAN-BAPTISTE PORTA. Vol. I. Notice Historique sur la Vie et les Ouvrages de J.-B. Porta; circa 1816. ff. (). 350 x 235mm. includes: f. 2 Henri Gabriel Duchesne, French naturalist: Pierre Joseph Macquer, French chemist: Sauvage, member of the Société Philomathique de Paris: Letter to Pierre ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1816
Extent:
1 item