(MEDICINE).

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 26

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SILVA, JEAN-BAPTISTE. Traité de l'usage des differentes sortes de saignées, principalement de celle du pied [“Treatise on the use of different sorts of bleeding, especially that of the foot.”]. * Appended to Vol. II: Hecquet, M. Observations sur la saignée du pied Browned. Vol. I: pp.17, (5), 239, (1 blank). Vol. II: pp. (4), 230, (10); 56. Contemporary mottled calf, rubbed. 12mo Friedenwald, p.140

Amsterdam: François L'Honoré 1729

Est: $600 - $900
PRICE REALIZED $550
Jean Baptiste Silva, of Portuguese Marrano extraction, was born in Bordeaux in 1682 and died in Paris in 1742