BARRIOS JUAN DE Verdadera Medicína Cirugía y Astrología 160

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IMPORTANT EARLY MEXICAN MEDICAL IMPRINT BARRIOS, JUAN DE. Verdadera Medicína, Cirugía, y Astrología. 186; [1], 80; [1], 37 [i. e., 38]; 59-68 leaves; lacks the ten preliminary leaves (including portrait and title) and last two leaves. Folio, early 19th-century 1/4 sheep, heavily worn, spine missing portions from top and bottom, joints cracked; contents browned and dampstained, sometimes quite heavily, occasional tears and worming with some text loss, several leaves partly detached, strong odor of camphor. 18th-century manuscript title and table of contents bound in. (O) Mexico: Fernando Balli, 1607

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extremely scarce first edition of the most comprehensive medical treatise printed in new spain until then,