Chaussegros & others: short works on occultism

Collection of short works on the Occult Sciences, etc. mostly incomplete. Written partly by Chaussegros, and partly by other hands. (1) La verité des sciences. With uncompleted tables of square and cubic roots. Written by Chaussegros, and paginated 144 to 206. (2) Fragment of an astrological and fortune-telling work (15 ll.). Also written by Chaussegros. (3) Livre d'Arbatel sur la magie (31 ll.). By two different hands. (4) Extracts from the 'Ars Notoria', attributed to King Solomon, with other scraps and oddments (42 ll., loose, v.s.). (5) Table des distances des étoiles, des principales étoiles fixes. Caractères de chymie (20 ll.). Written by Chaussegros.

c. 1820

1 volume 86 ll. + 42 loose sheets, etc. v.s. Original boards, crudely bound, with a tape tie.

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).