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238. [YELLOW FEVER]. Memoria sobre as medidas sanitarias executadas em
1856 contra o commercio maritimo do Porto a pretexto da febre amarella. Porto:
Typ. de A. da Silva Santos, 1857. 8°, original green printed wrappers
(slightly chipped and minor creases). Slight browning. Overall very
good to fine. (1 l.), 101 pp. $100.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this account of public-health measures in Porto
during a yellow fever epidemic.
j Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa II, 439. Pires de
Lima, Catalogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto 2722. NUC: DNLM.
OCLC: 46737188 (New York Academy of Medicine). Porbase locates 2 copies at the
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and one at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Not
located in Copac.
History of a Cuban Foundling Home, in an
Elaborate Contemporary Binding
239. [ZENEA Y LUZ, Evaristo]. Historia de la Real Casa de Maternidad
de esta ciudad …. Havana: Oficina de D. José Severino Bolona, 1838.
4°, contemporary crimson morocco, flat spine richly gilt with black
morocco lettering piece, gilt letter, eight 3-cm. square black morocco
inlays, each with gilt design, one in each corner of the front and rear
covers (damage of about 1.5 x 2 cm. to one of the inlays on the rear
cover), covers richly gilt, each cover bearing small gilt stamp with
royal Spanish arms, both gilt; roll-tooled border, gilt with floral rolls
and stamps. Edges of boards milled gilt. All text block edges gilt. Very
minor wear at extremities. Inner dentelles gilt. Marbled endleaves.
Woodcut portrait on frontispiece, woodcut vignettes within text, and
engraved vignette on title-page. Nicely printed on high-quality paper.
A clean, bright, handsome, fine copy. Frontispiece, 417 pp., (3 ll.), 3
folding tables paginated with the text, and extra leaf following the
main text, at p. 70, with notes on the Real Casa. $6,000.00
FIRST EDITION. The Real Casa de Maternidad, founded in Havana in 1830, was
successor to the defunct foundling home Casa Cuna (established 1711). The first part of
this work deals with the history of the Casa Cuna and the administration and income
sources of the Real Casa. Among the plethora of supporting documents (pp. 71-417)
are the Real Cedula approving the establishment of the Real Casa de Maternidad and
its Regulamento.
The Regulamento included provision for housing unmarried women during the final
two months of their pregnancies; stipulated that no questions would be asked of those
wishing to leave children at the Real Casa; and laid out rules for keeping the children
identified. A group of documents (pp. 261-80) suggests that there was a heated debate