MANUSCRIPT. [A hand-written compendium of random excerpts from contemporary journals, newspapers, gazettes. N.p.: 1823-1824.] 311pp., manuscript, 8vo (198 x 159mm.) 155 leaves of densely written excerpts in a single legible hand, including 26pp. to rear of genealogical information relating to the Le Geyt and Delafaye families, a mounted contemporary article relating Brunel’s plans for the ‘Thames Tunnel’ in 1823. (Toning, occasional browning.) Contemporary vellum, manuscript lettering to upper cover and spine (stained and discoloured). Note: contains a profusion of subjects, many of international interest, including reports on the death of a 1000 ‘Witches in Central India’ over the last thirty years, ‘The Condition of Women in Turkey’ (where its noted that most of them spend a good portion of every day in the public baths), the building of a 23-mile long canal in China, ‘Italian Manners’, as well as literary, political and articles about English and world  history, there’s medical matters like ‘The Durability of Human Teeth’, or utterly random like ‘Shop Signs’, ‘Beards’ and ‘Water Pipes’, all of these taken from a variety of contemporary sources. Provenance: Le Geyt family (ink ownership to upper cover).