Medicine
Manuscript notebook of Robert Wiltshire Evans, surgeon, c.1795-1805
£1,764
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
4to (20 x 15.5cm), contemporary tan sheep-backed marbled boards, approximately 300 pp., including passages on the reproductive organs, conception, pregnancy, and childbirth (approx. 70 pp. in total), an extensive pharmacopeia, 'Extracts from Mr Home's lecture, 1805' on numerous subjects including fractures, dropsy, hernias, ‘strictures in the urethra’, etc., ‘Mr Moor on the Teeth’, ‘Thomas upon the operations’, and profuse additional notes on the amputation of the penis, inflammation of the cornea, diseases of the nose and ear, gonorrhoea, etc., binding rubbed, wear to foot of spine, a little loss to marbled paper on boards, a few leaves evidently removed
Provenance
From the library of the late Robert Bogdan (1950-2023), of Boghead of Torries and Dykehead of Avochie, Aberdeenshire, geography master at Charterhouse and sometime chairman of the Scottish Castles Association.