Oct 17, 2011 - Sale 2256

Sale 2256 - Lot 273

Price Realized: $ 1,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
MURILLO Y VELARDE, TOMÁS DE. Tratado de raras, y peregrinas yervas . . . y sus maravillosas virtudes. Engraved arms of the dedicatee on title; 4 engraved illustrations. [12], 50 [i. e., 46] leaves. 4to, late 19th-/early 20th-century mottled sheep gilt with morocco lettering piece; light marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, last leaf reinforced in gutter on verso. Madrid: Francisco Sanz, 1674

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first edition of a work by the physician to King Philip IV of Spain on the qualities and medicinal properties of southernwood, ox-eye camomile, and mandrake. Palau 186227.