Feb 04, 2016 - Sale 2404

Sale 2404 - Lot 300

Unsold
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CUBA--MEDICINE.) Sobre la eficacia del Crotalus Horridus en la fiebre amarilla. 99 pages. 4to, modern cloth gilt, with worn original marbled wrappers bound in; worming (heavy to first three leaves), inked later owner's stamp and underlining on title page, bookplate on rear pastedown. Havana, 1861
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First edition in Spanish, following the 1860 New York edition. The author recounts his frequent use of rattlesnake venom while treating the victims of a yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1853. Palau 189569. 2 copies in OCLC, and none known at auction.