CASTRO-SarmENTO, JACOB DE. Materia Medica Physico-Historico-Mechanica. Part I: Mineral Kingdom. Part II: Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms.

AUCTION 51 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Books, Part II

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Lot 18
(MEDICINE).

CASTRO-SarmENTO, JACOB DE. Materia Medica Physico-Historico-Mechanica. Part I: Mineral Kingdom. Part II: Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms.

Second Edition of Part I. <<FIRST EDITION>> of Part II. Foldout engraved frontispiece portrait of author by Houston (Rubens, Jewish Iconography no. 2211). Broad margins. pp. (10), 51, (1), 580, (22). Trace foxed and damp-wrinkled old tape repair on pp. 419-420. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt; scuffed. Lg. 4to. Friedenwald, The Jews and Medicine, Vol. II, pp. 457-9; idem, Jewish Luminaries in Medical History, p. 56; Roth, Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, p. 410, no. 26.

London: Wiliam Strahan 1758

Est: $2,000 - $2,500