Mar 30, 2023 - Sale 2631

Sale 2631 - Lot 86

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(SLAVERY & ABOLITION--CUBA.) Honoré Bernard. El vademecum de los hacendados Cubanos . . . para aliviar los males de los esclavos. 322, [1] pages. 12mo, contemporary 1/2 calf, moderate wear; minimal dampstaining and minor wear; edges tinted yellow. "Nueva-York," 1831
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First edition of a medical manual for Cuban planters and others in "the torrid zone" needing to handle treatment for their enslaved labor force, subtitled "Guia practica para curar la mayor parte de las enfermedades, obra adecuada á la zona tórrida y muy util par aliviar los males de los esclavos." It was written by a doctor from Château-Salins in France who had settled in Cuba; his name is given here as Honorato Bernard de Chateausalins. All manner of horrifying conditions are addressed, including leprosy (pages 107-109), yellow fever (205-207), and gonorrhea (pages 209-210). Menstruation is discussed on pages 145-147. Palau 28220; not in Shaw & Shoemaker. 2 in OCLC, and none traced at auction since Swann's Parreño sale, 13 April 1978, lot 1225.