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18th century Commonplace Book.- Planta (Rev. Peter

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18th century Commonplace Book.- Planta (Rev. Peter

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18th century Commonplace Book.- Planta (Rev. Peter Jacob, Moravian Minister, Missionary in Jamaica, of Ockbrook, Derbyshire, 1721-1815) & Benigna Planta, daughter of P.J. Planta. Medical & other useful Recipes & other writings, 2 parts in 1 vol., manuscript in several hands (?some autograph), title and 265pp., 1f. loose, browned, original vellum, lettered direct on upper cover "1827 B Planta 1789", soiled, sm. 4to, 1801-15.

⁂ Contents, include:

(1). Regarding his affairs in Jamaica; "Inventory of my whole Estate of the Many Goods & Debts belonging to me" etc.

(2). Recipes, "Certain Cure for Corns"; "Different Wines"; "Huxhams Tincture of Bark"; "The Tincture of Opiom or, Laudanum" etc.

(3). Literary compositions: an untitled love story [Prince Idra]; "Antediluvian Tales"; "Thomas Paine" "Dr Byron's Poetry"; "Memoirs of the Life of the late, Revd Peter Jacob Planta..." etc.