(MEDICINE).

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: $550

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printer

François L'Honoré

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1729

Description

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

references

Friedenwald, p.140

summary

Jean Baptiste Silva, of Portuguese Marrano extraction, was born in Bordeaux in 1682 and died in Paris in 1742

Browned. Vol. I: pp.17, (5), 239, (1 blank). Vol. II: pp. (4), 230, (10); 56. Contemporary mottled calf, rubbed. 12mo

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