Scope and content Original manuscript contract between James Grosett and John Newbery for the latter to manufacture "Lisbon or German Doctor's Diet Drink, The Unguento de Cao, The Angola Ptisan" from Grosett's recipes, exclusively. Provisions are made for ensuring secrecy and for handing over the recipes to successors. On vellum, 19.5 x 28", with revenue stamps, seals, and ribbons. Signed by Grosett and Newbery, and, as witnesses, Thomas Carnan, Newbery's partner and Shaw Grosett. Inscribed on verso...

Scope and content Letters, documents, and offprints given to or purchased by the History of Science Collections from 1967-1978. Includes signed letter from John James Audubon to Robert Havell, typewritten letters to A.D. White and Simon Henry Gage, a letter from Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon to the abbé de Launay; two letters from Schilling to Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring; a 1757 contract between James Grosett and John Newbery for the latter to manufacture various diet drinks; and documents concerning...