Author: BRAVO, FR.- Fr. GUERRA [ed. & Commentary].-
Title: Opera Medicinalia. (Mexico, P. Ocharte, 1570). W. ill. Added a commentary booklet with a biographical and bibliographical introduction by Fr. Guerra. Reprinted by photo-lithography by Warren & son.
Description: London, Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1970. 8vo. In 2 vols. in vellum slipcase (bindings by Zaehnsdorf Ltd.). The commentary volume by Francisco Guerra, contains 8 pls. (The edition is limited to 250 copies of which this is nr. 26, numbered in ink on verso of the printed title of the commentary volume.). G&M 5372: '....the first medical book published in the New World, it includes references to native drugs and to parturation and its complication. Original description of tabardillo (Spanish or Mexican typhus.)' Price, Wellcome, Americana M. 24. 'The work contains four occasional essays on typhys, venesection in pleurisy, the doctrine of critical day and the nature of sarsaparilla. The extremely crude woodcuts are said to be the first medical illustrations published in America. Reprint in 250 copies only. Hand-made paper made at Hayle Mill, Maidstone, Kent, by Barcham Green Ltd.

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