Sep 27, 2018 - Sale 2486

Sale 2486 - Lot 438

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(MEDICINE.) Bálmis, Francisco Xavier. Demostracion de las eficaces virtudes nuevamente descubiertas en . . . ágave y begónia. 2 folding color-printed engraved botanical plates. [8], 347 pages. 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, minor wear; minor dampstaining, closed tears to plates, small inked stamps on title and second pages. Madrid, 1794

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first edition of a work on the use of two Mexican plants in treating venereal and other diseases. Guerra, Iconografia Medica Mexicana 833; Palau 22739.