Recueil varié de Rapsodies dans tous les genres 1783. Livre trouvé

This is perhaps the device of Hortense Eugénie de Beauharnais [1783-1837] afterwards wife of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland. [Cf. Guigard. 'Nouvel armorial du Bibliophile' 1890. Vol. I, p. 123]. There seem to be very few entries before about 1810, and they are by different hands. The latest dated entry is 1817 on the 15th leaf. There are a few miscellaneous household and other receipts, but the contents of the volume consists mainly of anecdotes and literary quotations, etc.

1785-1817

1 volume 84 ll. 8vo. 14 × 91/2 cm. Calf gilt binding, stamped on the spine with a crown and below a letter H. Several leaves have been cut out in the middle of the volume, and some of the entries have been struck through.

Purchased 1929.

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).

From the Berhard III Collection.