RICHARD C. RAMER Special List 161 MEDICINE

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richard c. ramer
title-pages. Engraved bookplates of Dom Diogo de Bragança (Lafões).
xi, 328; 438 pp., (1 l. errata), folding plate. 2 volumes $6,000.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of one of the most comprehensive treatises of its kind
in any language. Volume I deals with cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, ducks, chickens, turkeys,
rabbits and dogs. Volume II is mainly about horses, with a section on donkeys (pp. 256-
304). While the work deals with breeding, milking of cows, etc., the major emphasis is
on veterinary medicine. Toward the end of the second volume is a section explaining
pharmaceutical terms (pp. 305–411). There is a most detailed chapter index (pp. 413–31),
and an alphabetical index to diseases of animals (pp. 433–8).
The author (born Villarinho de São Romão, 1785; died Lisbon, 1863), was a peer of
the Realm and deputy to the 1820 Cortes from Trás-os-Montes, later representing Vila
Real and Bragança, before being elevated to the peerage upon the restoration of the
Liberal regime. He served as administrator of the Casa da Moeda and prefect of Trás-os-
Montes and Estremadura. Landowner and economist, he was a member of the Academy
of Sciences and numerous other learned societies as well as organizations devoted to
the public good. During the reign of Dom Miguel he was forced to lay low due to his
progressive ideas, expressed later in many published works.
Provenance: Dom Diogo de Bragança (Lafões), distinguished author of books on
dressage, horseman, and book collector with a great interest in books on horses (born
Lisbon, 1930). The great library of the Dukes of Palmela, formed mainly in the nineteenth
century, was dispersed, for the most part, during the second quarter of the twentieth
century through the 1960s.
j Innocêncio I, 185 (without collation; does not mention the plate). Not in Palau
Claveras. Not located in Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa.
Not located in Pires de Lima, Catalogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto.
Not in Palha. Not in Sir Gubián, Nepomuceno, Moreira Cabral, Fernandes Thomaz,
Monteverde, Azevedo-Samodães, Ameal, Avila Perez, Sousa da Câmara, Afonso Lucas,