MEDICINA ESPAÑOLA - CONTENIDA EN PROVERBIOS VULGARES DE NUESTRA LENGUA: Muy Provechosa Para Todo Género De Estados, Para Philosophos Y Medicos, Para Theologos Y Iuristas...COMPUESTA Por El DOCTOR JUAN SORAPAN DE RIEROS, Médico Y Familiar del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición...

[SPANISH MEDICINE - CONTAINED IN PROVERBS OF OUR ORDINARY LANGUAGE: Very Useful for all kinds of Studies, For Philosophers And Physicians, For Theologians And Jurists...COMPOSED BY DOCTOR JUAN SORAPAN DE RIEROS, Physician And Member Of The Holy Office Of The Inquisition...

MADRID: Imprenta de A. Gomez Fuentenebro, 1876. TIRADA DE 200 EJEMPLARES [200 COPIES].

TERCERA EDICION, Y Segunda Que Saca A Luz Su Mayor Apasionado El Presbítero D. JOSE M. SBARBI...Hecha en Granada el Año de 1615.

[THIRD EDITION, And Second Brought To Light By Its Great Enthusiast, Father D. JOSE M. SBARBI...First Edition published by Martin Fernandez Zambrano in Granada in the Year 1615.]

Contemporary finely-bound hardcovers, vellum spine and spine margins with marbled paper covered boards, 5.5x7.5 inches; THE ENTIRE ORIGINAL WORK including its yellow wrappers is nicely bound within, 285 pages.

VERY GOOD condition: Some light wear and soiling to the finely-bound hardcovers; personal bookplate of Walter M. Weber, a Naval Surgeon and noted Book Collector, on the front pastedown; small initials at the top of two blank front endpapers; the original front wrapper has a couple light stains, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A complete, solid, lovely copy.

RARE 1876 THIRD EDITION - recent reprints can be found, but this 1876 third edition of only 200 copies is almost impossible to find.

About JUAN SORAPAN DE RIEROS (from Wikipedia):

******Juan Sorapán de Rieros, b.1572 d.1638, was a Spanish physician of the 17th century . Expert in paremiology and famous for having published a book with a collection of proverbs about Spanish medicine and gastronomy entitled: Spanish Medicine contained in vulgar proverbs of our language.

He began his medical studies at the Monastery of Guadalupe . He graduated in Arts from the University of Salamanca in 1592 and later studied medicine in 1592-1593. In 1616, he published his work with forty-seven Castilian proverbs. He later became a member of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Llerena and Granada.******

About JOSÉ MARÍA SBARBI (from Wikipedia):

******José María Sbarbi y Osuna, b.1834 d.1910, was a Spanish priest, philologist and musicologist. He was director of the musical chapel of the Royal Monastery of the Incarnation, and organist at the cathedrals of Badajoz, Seville, Toledo, and Madrid. In love with the musical art and philology of his country, he dedicated his studies to both. Father Sbarbi wrote many works on musical and philological subjects, especially those related to Castilian proverbs and idioms, among them are: Anthology or alphabetical collection of comparative and ponderative proverbs and idioms of the Castilian language, Madrid, 1873; and The Book of Proverbs, Madrid, 1872.******