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Auction archive: Lot number 178

RODRIGUES, Joao (1511-1568). [AMATUS LUSITANUS, pseudonym]. Curationum medicinalium centuriae quatuor, quarum duae priores ab auctore sunt recognite, due posteriores nunc primum edite... Basel: Froben, 1556.

Auction 18.03.1998
18 Mar 1998
Estimate
US$700 - US$1,000
Price realised:
US$2,070
Auction archive: Lot number 178

RODRIGUES, Joao (1511-1568). [AMATUS LUSITANUS, pseudonym]. Curationum medicinalium centuriae quatuor, quarum duae priores ab auctore sunt recognite, due posteriores nunc primum edite... Basel: Froben, 1556.

Auction 18.03.1998
18 Mar 1998
Estimate
US$700 - US$1,000
Price realised:
US$2,070
Beschreibung:

RODRIGUES, Joao (1511-1568). [AMATUS LUSITANUS, pseudonym]. Curationum medicinalium centuriae quatuor, quarum duae priores ab auctore sunt recognite, due posteriores nunc primum edite... Basel: Froben, 1556. 2 o (302 x 194 mm). s8 a-s 6 t 4 v-z A-O 6. 228 leaves. Roman and italic type. (Light browning, minor dampstaining to a few leaves.) 18th-century vellum, spine ink-lettered (some wear to head of spine, covers bowning). Provenance : Petrus Franciscus Boeck (?) (ownership inscription on z5 r). First Edition of this collection. Rodrigues, who adopted the humanistic name Amatus Lusitanus, was a physician and surgeon of Jewish-Spanish origin. This collection contains the first recorded case of purpura as a separate entity, not associated with fever. Adams A-915; Garrison-Morton 3049; NLM/Durling 200; Wellcome 263; Norman 1840.

Auction archive: Lot number 178
Auction:
Datum:
18 Mar 1998
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
Beschreibung:

RODRIGUES, Joao (1511-1568). [AMATUS LUSITANUS, pseudonym]. Curationum medicinalium centuriae quatuor, quarum duae priores ab auctore sunt recognite, due posteriores nunc primum edite... Basel: Froben, 1556. 2 o (302 x 194 mm). s8 a-s 6 t 4 v-z A-O 6. 228 leaves. Roman and italic type. (Light browning, minor dampstaining to a few leaves.) 18th-century vellum, spine ink-lettered (some wear to head of spine, covers bowning). Provenance : Petrus Franciscus Boeck (?) (ownership inscription on z5 r). First Edition of this collection. Rodrigues, who adopted the humanistic name Amatus Lusitanus, was a physician and surgeon of Jewish-Spanish origin. This collection contains the first recorded case of purpura as a separate entity, not associated with fever. Adams A-915; Garrison-Morton 3049; NLM/Durling 200; Wellcome 263; Norman 1840.

Auction archive: Lot number 178
Auction:
Datum:
18 Mar 1998
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
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