Jun 27, 2024 - Sale 2675

Sale 2675 - Lot 378

Price Realized: $ 2,250
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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(MEXICO--MEDICINE.) Group of 6 Mexican medical tracts. 8vo, unbound or disbound. Mexico, 1779, 1830-1849
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José Ignacio Bartolache. "Instruccion que puede servir para que se cure á los enfermos de las viruelas epidémicas." [8] pages, modern wrappers. A tract on smallpox; 3 in OCLC. Guerra, Medica Mexicana 426; Medina, Mexico 7049; Palau 25093. Mexico: Felipe de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, [1779].

Manuel de Jesús Febles. "Noticia de las leyes y ordenes de policia que rigen a los professores del arte curar." [2], vi, [1], 108, 18, 20, 27. 8vo, disbound; collates complete by Guerra, but lacking the final section and portrait called for by Sabin. Guerra, Medica Mexicana 727; Palau 87034; Sabin 23967. Mexico, 1830.

Manuel Robredo and José Gomez Benitez. "Metodo curativo de las viruelas y otras erupciones." 20 pages. 8vo, stitched, with modern staples; foxing. Guerra, Medica Mexicana 734; Sabin 48210; not in Palau. Tlalpam, 1830.

Juan Luis Chavert. "Disertacion sobre el cholera-morbus." [2], 29 pages. 8vo, original plain wrappers; minimal wear. Guerra, Medica Mexicana 776; not in Palau. Mexico, 1833.

Miguel Muñoz. "Cartilla, ó brebe instruccion sobre la vacuna." 12 pages. 4to, unbound; minimal wear; unopened. One in OCLC (at a German library); not in Palau. San Luis Potosí, 1840.

[Francisco Marroquin]. "Precauciones que deben tomarse en el caso que se presente el colera morbus." 16 pages. 8vo, disbound. One on OCLC. Mexico, 1849.

With--"Coleccion de casos, en ilustracion de las propiedades restaurativas i sanativas de la Panacea de Swaim, en varias enfermedades." [2], 105, [2] pages. 8vo, contemporary ½ calf, moderate wear; lacking frontispiece plate. Promotional piece for an American patent medicine, printed in the United States for the Mexican market. Not in Guerra; one in OCLC. "Filadelfia," 1831.