May 04, 2023 - Sale 2635
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Sale 2635 - Lot 151

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 700
[Medicine & Science] Medical Manuscript in Two Parts.

Italy, late 17th/early 18th century.

Two quarto format manuscripts on laid paper, written in a minute bookhand in Latin throughout, embellished with fancy penwork designs on title pages; bound in uniform contemporary limp parchment; the text listing diseases, causes, diagnoses, prognoses, and cures; one volume dedicated to general illnesses, including headache, vertigo, melancholy, paralysis, dysentery, vomiting, hypochondria, and others; the other dedicated to diseases affecting women and children; contemporary annotations to endleaves and inserted slips of paper from a contemporary practitioner; each book 8 1/2 x 6 in. (2)
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