SEMEDO, João Curvo.- Polyanthea medicinal: noticias galenicas, e chymicas, repartidas em tres tratados...- Quarta vez impressa / por seu filho o Reverendo Ignacio Curvo Semmedo.- Lisboa Occidental: Na Officina de Antonio Pedrozo Galram, 1727.- [60], 879, [1 br.], 32, [4], 11, [1 br], [1, 1 br.] p.: 1 portada grav., 2 retratos grav.; 29 cm.- E. João Curvo Semedo (1635-1719), born in Monforte, a physician of great fame and experience, bequeathed us an extensive bibliography in the specialty, in Portuguese, which was a pioneer in Portugal. The edition is illustrated with a frontispiece engraved with the coat of arms of the dedicatee, a portrait of Cardinal de Sousa (dedicate) and another of the author, before the beginning of the text. The volume includes, at the end (32 p.), a «Memorial de varios simplices que da India Oriental, da America. & de outras partes do mundo vem ao nosso Reyno...", followed by the "Manifesto aos amantes da saúde" (11 p.); the last page, printed only on the front, contains some rare "Advertencias dignas de serem sabidas", of the responsibility of the author's son. Slightly handled copy, with a slight trim to the head. Contemporary binding, full sheepskin, a little worn, preserving the original endpapers. Inocêncio, III, p. 357.