An Essay on the motions of the iris, and the power of adapting the eye to objects at different distances

Illustrated by a few pen-drawn diagrams. Pasted on the verso of the first end-paper of Vol. I is a small label 'Bound by J. McLaren, Glasgow.'

1828

2 volumes 2 vols. 4to. 24 x 20 cm. Original panelled morocco-gilt binding. The MS. is carefully written, on rectos only, and has been apparently prepared for the press. There are a few notes in pencil by another hand.

Purchased 1916.

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).