Feb 19, 2004 - Sale 1997

Sale 1997 - Lot 68

Price Realized: $ 374
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
CRUZ, MARTÍN DE LA. The Badianus Manuscript (Codex Barberini, Latin 241), Vatican Library: An Aztec Herbal of 1552. Introduction, Translation, and Annotations by Emily Walcott Emmart. 118 color plates reproducing the entire manuscript. 4to, original cloth with black ink shelf number on spine; institutional stamp on title, rear pastedown toned; bookplate. Baltimore, 1940

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"The earliest complete Mexican medical text . . . the earliest extant medical treatise written by a native American, and . . . the earliest herbal written in the Americas"--Garrison-Morton 1811.1. Guerra, Iconografía Médica Mexicana 823.