Rainsford, Charles (1728-1809)

Notes and extracts from alchemical authors in English, French, German and Latin: with particulars of experiments, etc. made by the Author. Author's holograph MSS. Illustrated with a few rough pen-drawings of apparatus, etc. The dates 1786 and 1787 are found in Parts III and V.

c. 1785

8 volumes 8 parts. 8vo. 171/2 × 111/2 cm. Original calf-bound note-books, some covers defective. Some leaves have been cut out.

Purchased 1936.

The author served in the British Army at Fontenoy in 1745, and in other later campaigns in Europe, was promoted to Major General in 1777, and was elected F.R.S. in 1779 [see the Dictionary of National Biography].

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 Lionel Hauser Library, with his press-mark label 'L.H. 124'.