CASTRO-SarmENTO, JACOB DE. Materia Medica Physico-Historico-Mechanica. Part I: Mineral Kingdom. Part II: Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms.

Estimate: $2,000–$2,500
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author

(MEDICINE).

printer

Wiliam Strahan

Place

London

Publication

1758

Description

Second Edition of Part I. FIRST EDITION of Part II. Foldout engraved frontispiece portrait of author by Houston (Rubens, Jewish Iconography no. 2211). Broad margins.

references

Friedenwald, The Jews and Medicine, Vol. II, pp. 457-9; idem, Jewish Luminaries in Medical History, p. 56; Roth, Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, p. 410, no. 26.

pp. (10), 51, (1), 580, (22). Trace foxed and damp-wrinkled old tape repair on pp. 419-420. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt; scuffed. Lg. 4to.

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