Advertencias sobre os abusos, e legitimo uso das aguas mineraes das Caldas da Rainha, para servir de regulamento aos enfermos que dellas tem precisão real. Publicadas de ordem da Academica Real das Sciencias de Lisboa.

Lisbon, Na Officina da Mesma Academia Real, 1791.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 10 works bound in 1 volume. 4°, contemporary quarter morocco over marbled boards (minor wear to corners), smooth spine with gilt fillets and dark green leather lettering piece displaying "miscellan // medica" in gilt letter, text block edges sprinkled. Woodcut vignette of the Real Academia das Sciencias de Lisboa on title page. Typographical headpiece on p. 1. Printed on thick paper of excellent quality. Clean and crisp. In very good to fine condition. Fine internally. (2 ll.), 37, (1) pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Instructions to those seeking the cure at the baths of Caldas da Rainha: how to prepare, what to do while undergoing treatment, and when to visit them. Tavares was best known as a pharmacologist; his texts were used in the Lisbon medical schools for some time. The final page contains a list of books published by the Academy of Sciences. Some copies have an addition leaf of advertisements.*** Innocêncio III, 71-2: calling for only 37 pp. Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa I, 288-89. Pires de Lima, Catálogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto 3967. Ferreira de Mira, História da medicina portuguesa p. 333, and pp. 9, 285, 302, 314, 325, 326 and 350. Porbase locates two copies at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and one at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Jisc repeats British Library and Wellcome Library. *** BOUND WITH:  Discurso sobre a hernia vulgar em commum; e em particular sobre a operação da bubonocele: da necessidade de emprehendella, diversidades de casos, e variedade de circumstancias, que nella concorrem: composto por hum professor Alumno de Chirone, para dar em resposta a huma carta, que lhe escreveo certo cirurgião seu amigo, empregado nnos exercitos. Lisbon: Na Typographia Regia Silviana, 1799. 4º, 44 pp. Woodcut vignette on title page. Typographical headpiece on p. 3. In very good condition.FIRST and ONLY EDITION.* OCLC: 7978539 (National Library of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons of England); 39325874 (University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library); 1157830432 (Wellcome Library); 969476080 (Internet resource; the Royal College of Surgeons copy digitized). Porbase locate three copies, all in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. AND BOUND WITH:SOARES, José Pinheiro de Freitas. Memorias ácerca do estado em que se acha o Mercurio nos Unguentos e outras preparações mercuriaes, feitas por meio da trituração ao ár livre. Lisbon: Na Impressão Regia, 1814. 4º, 68 pp. Woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title page. In very good conditon. First and Only Separate Edition? On the use of mercury in treating syphilis. A similar text appears to have been included earlier in the Investigador Portuguez.The author (Agueda, district of Aveiro, 1769-Lisbon, 1831 or 1832), received a medical degree from Coimbra University. He was a member of the Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa and chief physician to the King of Portugal.* Innocêncio III, 103 (the present edition is the only one cited). Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa I, 285-6 (no other edition cited). Not in Pires de Lima, Catálogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto, which lists two other works by the author. No edition located in OCLC. This edition not located in Porbase, which cites one with a slightly different title, without imprint, in a single copy in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (an offprint from the Investigador portuguez?). No edition located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) located only the variant edition cited by Porbase. AND BOUND WITH:LEITÃO, [António José de] Lima. Breve aviso ao pôvo acérca do tratamento da doença epidèmica que grassa na Europa com o nome de Côlera-Morbus Asiàtico. [Colophon] Lisbon: Na Impressão Regia, 1833. 8°, 16 pp.. Caption title. In very good to fine condition.FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this contribution to the literature on cholera, with comments on the disease and on treating its early and advanced stages.Lima Leitão (1787-1856), a major figure in Portuguese medicine, was born in Lagos (Algarve) and served as a physician with the French and the Portuguese armies from 1808 to 1814, before moving to Brazil. In 1816 he was sent from Rio de Janeiro to Mozambique, where he was chief physician, and from there in 1819 to India, to act as Intendente de Agricultura. Lima Leitão was a professor at the Royal School of Surgery in Lisbon, president of the Lisbon Society of Medical Sciences, and an active contributor to the Portuguese medical press. He served twice in the Cortes and published numerous works on medicine and politics, as well as some poetry and a translation of Virgil. * Innocêncio I, 169. Not in Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa, or Pires de Lima, Catálogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto, both of which list other works by the author. Not located in OCLC. Not located in Jisc, which lists two copies of the related title, at the British Library and at Wellcome. KVK (51 databases searched) cites this work only via Porbase (no location given). Not located in National Library of Medicine's LocatorPlus. AND BOUND WITH:LEITÃO, [António José de] Lima. Breve aviso ao pôvo acérca dos Preservativos da doença epidèmica que grassa no Europa com o nome de Colera-morbus Asiàtico. [Colophon] Lisbon: Na Impressão Regia, 1833. 8°, 24 pp. Caption title. In very good to fine condition. FIRST and ONLY EDITION of another contribution to the literature on cholera.* Innocêncio I, 169. Pires de Lima, Catálogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto 2374. Not in Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa which lists other works by the author. OCLC: 560524318 (British Library); 27159823 (Wellcome Library). Not located in Porbase. Jisc locates copies at British Library and Wellcome. Not located in KVK (51 databases searched), which should have cited British Library. AND BOUND WITH:LEITÃO, [António José de] Lima. Um fragmento da història da epidemia, que, sob o nome de Còlera-morbus Asiàtico, havendo percorrido a Ásia e a maiòr parte da Europa, chegou a Portugal no corrent anno de 1833. [Colophon] Lisbon: Na Impressão Regia, 1834. 8°, 44 pp. Caption title. In very good to fine condition. FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this description of the outbreak of cholera in Portugal in 1833, including its spread, government actions taken to curb it, and newspaper reports. Perhaps most interesting is the detailed report of an autopsy performed in Portugal on a cholera victim (pp. 12-17). The first appendix is a report of a microscopic examination of water tainted with cholera. The second is an annotated bibliography of Portuguese works on the 1833 epidemic. Includes bibliography, with comments, of works on cholera in Portuguese on pages 40-44.* Innocêncio I, 169. Not in Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa, or Pires de Lima, Catálogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto, both of which list other works by the author. Not in Wellcome. OCLC: 560524370 (British Library); (University of Toronto copy digitized); 45167625 (Internet Resourse). AND BOUND WITH:VAZ, Francisco d'Assis de Sousa. Memoria sobre a inconveniencia dos enterros nas igrejas, e utilidade da construcção de Cemiterios. Porto: Imprensa de Gandra e Filhos, 1835. 4º, 51, (1) pp. In very good to fine condition. FIRST and ONLY EDITION.* Pires de Lima, Catálogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto 11054. Not in Innocêncio. Not in Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa, which lists five other works by this author. Not located in OCLC. Porbase has a record for this book without locating any copy. Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the record in Porbase. AND BOUND WITH:SOCIEDADE PHARMACEUTICA LUSITANA. Copia da representação endereçada pela Sociedade Pharmaceutica Lusitana ás Côrtes Geraes da Nação Portugueza, renovando a sua pretenção contra o pagamento de emolumentos pelas visitas ás boticas, d novo suscitado pelo Conselho de Súde Publica do Reino. Lisbon: Typogrphia da Sociedade Propagadora dos Conhecimentos Uteis, 1843. 4º, 12 pp., wood engraved vignette on title page of a snake climbing the trunk of a palm tree, in very good to fine condition.FIRST and ONLY EDITION.* Not in Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa, which lists five other works by this Sociedade. Not in Pires de Lima, Catálogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto. OCLC: 1157362698 (Wellcome Library); 26682173 (no location given); 1157772230 (Wellcome Library copy digitized). Porbase locates two copies, both in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (one in "mau estado"). Jisc locates the Wellcome copy. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copies cited by Porbase. AND BOUND WITH:PEREIRA, J.J. de S[ilva]. Nobreza dos medicos. [Coimbra?]: n.pr., [1845?]. 4º. 19 pp. Caption title. in very good to fine condition. FIRST and ONLY EDITION.* Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa, II, 314. Not in Pires de Lima, Catálogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto. Not located in OCLC. Not located in Porbase. Not located in Jisc. Not located in KVK (51 databases searched). AND BOUND WITH:GUIMARÃES, Manoel Lopes. Reflexões que, sôbre a Memoria ácerca de dois casos de febre amarell, observados no Hospital da Mizericórdia da Cidade de Ponta Delgada e mais circumstancias, que os acompanharam, pelo Dr. André Antonio Avellino Medico do mesmo Hospital. Ponta-Delgada: Typ. A. das Latras Açorianas, 1858. 4º, 15 pp. Woodcut vignette on title page. Author's three-line ink manuscript presentaion inscription to Francisco António Rodrigues de Gusmão (first line partly cropped) in upper blank margin of title page. In very good condition.FIRST and ONLY EDITION.The author (1817-1904) was a physician-surgeon, Delegado do Connselho de Saude Pública do Reino no Districto Adminnistrativo de Ponta Delgada, and Guada mór de saude in the Açores.Provenance: Francisco António Rodrigues de Gusmão (1815-1888), physician and author, perhaps the most significant collaborator of Innocêncio Francisco da Silva in the course of the writing of the still indispensable Dicionário bibliographico portuguez. He presumably commissioned the binding. It was purchased in the auction of books owned by Rodrigues de Gusmão and Mário Tomás da Costa Roque (1932-1983), distinguished physician, the author of books on the history of medicine and on printing history, an important auction catalogue with 1,320 lots, sold 1 and 2 April, 1998. See Silva's and Pedro de Azevedo, Biblioteca de Francisco António Rodrigues de Gusmão e Mário Tomás da Costa Roque, Lisbon: Silva's, 1998. The introduction to the catalogue contains an extract from the Dicionário bibliographico about Rodrigues de Gusmão, and an essay by Joaquim Veríssimo Serrão about Costa Roque. For Rodrigues de Gusmão see Grande enciclopédia, XII, 929.* Innocêncio XVI, 250. Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa, II, 207. Not in Pires de Lima, Catálogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto. OCLC: 14827528 (Notional Library of Medicine); 83998103 (Countway Library-Harvard University Medical School). Porbase locates a single copy, in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copy cited by Porbase.