El Mosaico
5,200.00€
An exceedingly rare, nearly complete set of 184 issues (of 186) of one of the pioneering Colombian magazines, promoting contemporary literature, extra illustrated with four lithographs by Manuel Doroteo Carvajal Marulanda.
FIRST BRAZILIAN PHARMACOLOGICAL HANDBOOK: Compendios de materia medica feitos por ordem de Sua Alteza Real e Organizados por José Maria Bomtempo, Medico da Sua Real Camara.
9,500.00€
Very rare and historically significant – “the first Brazilian pharmacological handbook”, published in Rio de Janeiro, and authored by José Maria Bomtempo, the chief physician to the Portuguese-Brazilian royal court and an internationally-renowned authority on tropical medicine; the fascinating and surprisingly readable work was intended to educate military doctors working in the field in Brazil on how to identify flora,…