Polyanthea medicinal : noticias galenicas, e chymicas, repartidas em tres tratados ... / por Joaõ curvo Semmedo ....

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Semmedo, João Curvo, 1635-1719, author.

Contributor:

Galrão, António Pedroso, printer.

Franciscus Eduardus, S.J., annotator.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Language:

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

Pharmacology--Early works to 1800.

Pharmacology.

Penn Provenance:

Duarte, Francisco (autograph) (Smith copy)

Franciscus Eduardus (inscription) (Smith copy)

Physical Description:

[62], 310, 315-879, [1], 32, [4], 11, [1] pages, [2] leaves of plates : portrait, coat of arms ; 30 cm (fol.)

Edition:

Terceyra vez impressas, e augmentadas.

Fingerprint:

euo- dee- ue,& dedi (3) 1716 (R)

Place of Publication:

Lisboa : Na Officina de Antonio Pedrozo Galram ..., MDCCXVI [1716]

Contents:

Polyanthea medicinal

Memorial de varios simplices, que da India Oriental, da America, & de outras partes do mundo vem ao nosso reyno para remedio de muytas doenças, no qual se acharáõ as virtudes de cada hum, & o modo com que se devem usar

Manifesto que o doutor Joam Curvo Semmedo, medico, morador em Lisboa, faz aos amantes da saude, & attentos às suas consciencias.

Notes:

Signatures: pi1 *-5*⁶ A-4D⁶, ²A-C⁶ *⁶.

Engraved plates.

Woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces.

Title in red and black.

Printed marginalia.

"Memorial de varios simplices" and "Manifesto" each has separate signatures and pagination.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Smith copy formerly contained: Tribunal da Junta da Bula da Cruzada. [Indulgence of six months issued by the Tribunal da Junta da Bula da Cruzada, Portugal]. [Portugal] : [publisher not identified], [between 1722 and 1734].

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Smith copy copiously annotated, with manuscript note following edition statement on title leaf ("quas castigavit, et notis illustravit &c. Franciscij Eduarduj, Soc. Jesu.") identifying the annotator as Franciscus Eduardus, S.J.

Smith copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2021 from Antiquariat Forum.

Smith copy has early autograph ("Franco. Duarte") on title leaf.

Smith copy bound in full contemporary mottled calf; 5 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; leather spine label (damaged) with title stamped in gold; all edges red.

Smith copy: "Spine worn, spine label a little damaged, first endpaper a little frayed, some marginal water stains (especially at the beginning of the work), a marginal wormhole on pp. 685-790 (not affecting the text)"--Bookseller's description.

OCLC:

26978365