Oct 09, 2003 - Sale 1979

Sale 1979 - Lot 76

Price Realized: $ 201
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
CASTRO, ANDRÉS ANTONIO DE. De febrium curatione libri tres. Engraved arms of the dedicatee, Duke João of Braganza, on title. [12 ], 271, [13] leaves. Folio, contemporary mottled sheep, worn; some marginal dampstaining, diagonal crease across title, lacks free endpapers. Vila Viçosa: Emmanuel Carvalho, 1636

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Early imprint from Vila Viçosa, seat of the Duke of Braganza (subsequently King João IV of Portugal), whom Castro served as physician. The earliest book printed there cited by Deschamps dates from 1635. Friedenwald (1944), page 457; Krivatsy 2263.