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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 19

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CASTRO, RODRIGO DE. De Universa Muliebrium Morborum Medicina [gynecology]. * Second edition and third edition Part I: pp. (24), 226, (41), (1 blank). Part II: pp. (4), 541, (43). Hamburg, Froben, 1617. * AND: Part I: pp. (24), 226, (41), (1 blank). Part II: pp. (4), 541, (43). Hamburg, Froben, 1628 Browned. Contemporary vellum, distressed. Thick 4to Friedenwald, p. 54

Est: $700 - $1,000

Roderigo de Castro was one of the most eminent of his celebrated family of physicians. His reputation was such, that he was called upon to treat the King of Denmark. In his private life, he was one of the founders of the small, but distinguished Sephardic Community of Hamburg. See H. Friedenwald, "The Doctors de Castro" in: The Jews in Medicine (1967), pp. 449-52; D.B. Ruderman, Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe (1995), pp. 294-99.