Amatus Lusitanus (pseudonym of João Rodrigues). Curationum Medicinalium Centuriae duae (collection of medical case histories).

Estimate: $1,500–$2,500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(MEDICINE).

printer

Sebastian Niuelli

Place

Paris

Publication

1554

Description

FIRST EDITION. Headpieces. Floriated initials. Marginalia in Latin and French.

references

Not in Adams; Friedenwald (1946), p. 36.

summary

Amatus Lusitanus (1511-1568?), arguably the most distinguished physician of his age, was a Marrano, born in Castello Branco, Portugal, who openly returned to Judaism in Ancona, Italy. Always one step ahead of the Inquisition, Amatus finally fled to the friendlier clime of Ottoman Salonica, where it is believed, he succumbed to plague in 1568. See Harry Friedenwald, The Jews and Medicine I (1967), pp. 332-380; Natalia Berger (ed.) Jews and Medicine (Philadelphia, 1995), pp. 89-97.

ff. (16), 230, (2 blanks), (15), (1 blank), 150, (1). Light stains, marginal worming, some underlining in ink. Tree calf, gilt extra, lacking top and bottom portions of spine. 12mo.

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