SANTO ANTONIO, CAETANO DE. Pharmacopea Lusitana, Methodo Pratico de Preparar & Compor os Medicamentos [“Portuguese Pharmacopoeia, Practical method of Preparing Medicaments.”]

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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SANTO ANTONIO, CAETANO DE. Pharmacopea Lusitana, Methodo Pratico de Preparar & Compor os Medicamentos [“Portuguese Pharmacopoeia, Practical method of Preparing Medicaments.”]

FIRST EDITION. Scattered Portuguese marginalia in an older hand. On front flyleaf, pencil inscription in Ladino (Judeo-Español): Recipe por... ["Prescription for"], followed by a lengthy inscription in Portuguese pp. (16), 431, (1 blank), (24). Opening three leaves marginally frayed, few light stains. Contemporary mottled calf, worn. 4to

Coimbra: Joam Antunes 1704

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $750

The Portuguese physician Caetano de Santo Antonio was born in Beira. Pharmacopea Lusitana was the first pharmacopoeia written by a pharmacist in Portuguese