Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 170

Price Realized: $ 195
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(OBREGÓN, CONGREGACIÓN DE BERNARDINO DE.) Instrucción de Enfermeros y Modo de aplicar los Remedios a todo Género de Enfermedades. [24], 152; 52 pages; lacks the portrait of Obregón. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, 203x145 mm, contemporary vellum boards with thong catches and one thong clasp (of 2), small piece of vellum missing from rear cover, book block loose in binding; contents heavily browned. Madrid: Bernardo Peralta, 1728

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Manual of nursing care with an appendix on ministering to the dying, first published in 1617. The long-defunct Third Order Franciscan congregation founded by Bernardino de Obregón (1540-99) was devoted to caring for the sick. This edition not in Palau.