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- 1924-1963 (Creation)
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Correspondence giving very detailed accounts of restoration Pybus commissioned on rare books. This includes work done, material used, information about previous bindings and prices. There is also a selection of pages from an old text possibly a copy of the old Boards Lamirite? Works that are directly mentioned include:
Guilielmi Harveii ... Exercitationes anatomicae : de motu cordis et sanguinis circulatione. William Harvey 1578-1657. 1751 (view in library catalogue)
Albertvs Magnvs De secretis mvliervm : item de virtutibus herbarium lapidum et animalium. Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280. Michael Scot ca. 1175-ca. 1234; Albertus, de Saxonia, d. 1390 1655 (view in library catalgue)
The Breviary of healthe for all maner of syckenesses and diseases the which may be in man, or woman doth folowe : expressynge the obscure termes of Greke, Araby, Latyn, and Barbary in English concernyng phisicke and chierurgerie Andrew Boorde 1490?-1549; Thomas Gallibrad former owner.; Ann Tempest former owner.; James Barlow former owner. 1557 (view in library catalogue)
Medicine in Greek
Harvey : de motu cordis
De morborum & symptomatum differentiis & causis libri sex Galen. Guilielmus Copus d. 1532? 1547 (view in library catalogue)
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