Sales catalogue: Maggs Bros

Date:
1 April 1932
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/239
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    688 MAGGS BROS., 34 @° 35, CONDUIT STREET, LONDON, W. RECIPES FOR THE USE OF PHYSICIANS AND APOTHECARIES. 966 SEPULVEDA (Fernando de). Manipulus Medicinarum. Title in large Gothic letter within woodcut border; text in Gothic letter, sixty-two lines to a full page, double columns. Small folio, mottled calf, gilt panelled back. Salamanca, 1523. (See Illustration opposite.) £175 Not in Salva. Palau’s Manual knew of no edition before 1550 and only that of the British Museum, which possesses a copy of the 1550 edition. An extremely rare edition of this work, consisting entirely of recipes for the use of doctors and apothecaries.
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