"Vicent Peset Llorca" Library

History of Medicine and Sciences Library

It has a collection of monographs on the area formed by more than 10,000 volumes. It is a collection of one of the most important specialised magazines in the field and a section of reference works with more than 1,000 titles. Among its funds, we have to mention the Peregrín Casanova donation, with a wide collection of Darwinian texts.

Historical-medical Library

It possesses more than 30,000 volumes, among which we find an approximation of 3,000 medical books from 16th to 18th centuries, around 15,000 books between 19th and 20th centuries, as well as collections of important magazines of 18th and 19th centuries. Its origin was the old repository of the Faculty of Medicine Library of the University of Valencia, to which donations by doctors from Valencia and the rest of Spain for more than 100 years have been added. Among the oldest, two figures from the last century stand out: León Sánchez Quintanar's, popular for his richness in valued Renaissance and Baroque books; and Enrique Ferrer Viñerta's, mainly about surgical issues.
Among the 20th century donations, the one by the psychiatrist and historician of medicine Vicente Peset Llorca (Seville, 1914–Valencia, 1981) –which gives the name to the institute's library–,  the studies on Valencian medicine environment surrounding Gregorio Mayans, collected in his books Mayans and the doctors (1972) and Gregori Mayans and the culure of the Enlightenment (1975) stand out among his works. After his death, his brother Juan Peset Llorca donated his library, including his files, papers and research notes.

Historical Library of the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Valencia

The current Observatory was created in 1909 by Ignacio Tarazona-Blanch (1859-1924), full university professor of globe's cosmography and physics of the University of Valencia. The Library, on a variety of subjects, consists of Astronomy, Mathematics, History, Natural Sciences, Pedagogy, Grammar, etc. works, specially from the 19th and 20th centuries, some of them with outstanding etchings. It contains books and magazines acquired by the Observatory and the Tarazona personal library, that was bequeathed to the university after his death.

Rodrigo Pertegás Archive

It compiles one part of the huge work carried out by the doctor and researcher José Rodrigo Pertegás (1854-1927) in diverse archives of the city of Valencia, where from he dedicated himself to abridging and copying a wide type of documentation and all kind of news which referred to medicine (bibliographical data, epidemies, sanitary aspects, professionals and medical practise in Valencia, etc.). This way, it contains historical-medical information coming from accesible archives nowadays, such as the Archivo del Reino or the Municipal, and the archives already gone, such as the parish archives.

Seminars

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