Auction 725, Lot # 318

ME - Bravo, Francisco.
Opera Medicinalia.
México: Pedro Ocharte, 1570.
8o. marquilla.
"The Opera Medicinalia by Francisco Bravo. Printed in Mexico 1570. With a Biographical and Bibliographical Introduction by Francisco Guerra. In two volumes. Dawson of Pall Mall, Folkeston & London, 1970.".
Introduction: "The Opera Medicinalia by Francisco Bravo. Printed in Mexico 1570, is the first medical book published in the New World. It is also, in the estimation of medical historians, the finest to come out of Spanish America during the whole colonial period...".
This edition is limited to 250 copies only of which this is number 187.
Encuadernados en pasta dura, en estuche.
Piezas: 2.
Estimado $3,000-4,000