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Auction 51 · Lot 19
(MEDICINE)
- Estimate
- $700–$1,000
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Description
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
references
Friedenwald, p. 54
summary
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.
Browned. Contemporary vellum, distressed. Thick 4to
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