Pellissier, Joseph

Quarta philosophiae pars seu Physica. Notes taken down by Joseph Pellissier of lectures by an unidentified Professor at Avignon. Illustrated with pen-drawings of apparatus, diagrams, etc., one folding, and at the end, by 30 engraved plates from an unidentified scientific work, and a frontispiece-an engraved portait of St. Catherine of Siena, by Crespy of Paris. On p. 422 'Finis Physicae particularis die Augusti 7a anno 1724'. On p. 463 'Finis Conclusionum ... Josephus Pellissier Avenione mense Augusti die 17a'. Produced in Avignon.

1724

1 volume 2 ll. + 463 pp. 4to. 22 × 17 cm. Original calf-gilt binding, worn. Pp. 429-442 and some leaves at the beginning have been torn out.

Purchased 1927.

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).