CASTRO, RODRIGO DE. Medicus-Politicus [medical encyclopedia; medical ethics].

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Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Art

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CASTRO, RODRIGO DE. Medicus-Politicus [medical encyclopedia; medical ethics].

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Latin with smattering of Greek and Hebrew (on p. 51). Scattered Latin marginalia. pp. (8), 277, (17). Browned. Contemporary limp vellum, stained. Sm. 4to. Garrison and Morton 1759; cf. Friedenwald, p. 55 (later edition).

Hamburg: Froben 1614

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $800

<<One of the Earliest Texts of Medical Ethics.>> It has been said of the author: "He proves himself a man of scientific training and wise, whose views on the profession of medicine were as high-minded as they were practical" (Gernet, Mittheilungen aus der aelteren Medicinal-Geschichte Hamburgs (1869) p. 138).