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and in 1921 was named vice-rector of the University of Coimbra. He wrote many works on
Portuguese medical history and founded the Arquivos de Historia da Medicina Portuguesa.
j Fonseca, Aditamentos p. 317. Pires de Lima, Catalogo da Bibliotheca da Escola
Medico-Cirurgica do Porto 2389. Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção
portuguesa II, 235-6. Ferreira de Mira, História da medicina portuguesa pp. 165-9. Grande
enciclopedia XV, 639-40.
120. LEUSCHNER, Alberto. O chólera (morbo)? Defeza dum escritor de
quinta ordem. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade, 1911. 8°, original
printed wrappers (light soiling). Small woodcut vignette on front
wrapper and title page. Light browning. Unobtrusive vertical fold mark
down center. Overall good to very good. Apparently a presentation
copy, with “Offe” in contemporary ink manuscript before author’s
name on title page. 23 pp. $80.00
FIRST EDITION. A second edition appeared the same year. The author discusses
the derivation and gender of the terms “cholera” and “cholera-morbus”.
j Not located in OCLC. Porbase locates a copy at the Biblioteca Nacional de
Portugal. Not located in Copac.
121. LIMA, Américo Pires de, ed. O Doutor Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira.
Documentos coligidos e prefaciados por …. (Lisbon): Agencia Geral do
Ultramar, Divisão de Publicações e Biblioteca, 1953. Large 8°, original
illustrated wrappers (some soiling). Title page printed in green and
black. Light browning. Some soiling to blank rear cover. Overall very
good. 426 pp., (3 ll.), 2 plates. $50.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Prints 53 letters and 82 documents relating to Rodrigues
Ferreira’s expedition to Brazil. A noted naturalist and explorer, Rodrigues Ferreira left
Portugal in 1783 for Brazil, where he travelled along the Amazon collecting specimens
for his study of the natural history of Brazil. Upon his return to Portugal he assumed an
administrative post at the Real Gabinete de História Natural in the Jardim Botânico.
j NUC: DLC, NcU, WU, NNBG, NN. Porbase locates three copies, two in the
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and one in the Biblioteca D. Fernando Almeida.
122. LISBON, Academia Real das Sciencias, Commissão Medica.
Ensaio acerca do que ha de mais essencial sobre a cholera-morbus epidemica,
redigido pela Commissão Medica da Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa.
Lisbon: Na Typografia da Real Academia, 1833. 4°, original blue-grey