MANUSCRIPT. [An apothecary's hand-written pharmacopeia. N.p.: circa early 19th century-late 19th century.] 228pp., manuscript, 8vo (178 x 113mm.) 26pp. unnumbered of tabulated index, 202pp. of chemical recipes and solutions used by a working apothecary in Chesterfield, and with additions and amendments throughout the 19th century. (Soiling, spillage and finger-marks throughout.) Contemporary calf (scuffing, light rubbing). Note: contains recipes for medicating both humans and animals ('diarrhoea in calves', 'pigs powders', 'infants carminative mixture', 'whooping cough', various remedies for 'toothache' and the overall less worrying 'hair oil scent'), as well mixtures for polishing wood. Provenance: George Sampson, chemist (stamp to initial blank); F.W. Dutton, chemist (stamp to initial blank).