MANUSCRIPT. – M. WALLIS. [A hand-written apothecary’s note-book. N.p.: 1729-1816-1824.] 72pp., manuscript, 12mo (129 x 66mm.) 42 leaves with 17pp. of hand-written recipes for household potions in a single legible hand, 54pp. for medical cures, mostly in a single hand, also a few notes from the original owner, dating from 1729, also 13pp. and title from ‘The Royal Almanack of Ireland, for the Year of Christ 1729’ mounted on leaves, with medical notes to the margins, a 3pp. manuscript index to rear. (Browning.) 18th century calf (lower cover nearly detached, annotations to pastedowns). Note: begins with an apothecary’s list of weight conversions, the household concoctions are for removing stains, blacking shoes, to clean plates, make ink etc., the medical ones are fairly extensive, involving laxatives, bowel pain, measles, asthma, worms, bile and different types of coughing.