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ORTA, Garcia de (ca. 1501-1568). Aromatum, et simplicium aliquot medicamentorum apud Indos nascentium historia. Translated by Carolus Clusius. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1579.
8o (162 x 105 mm). Italic type, printer's woodcut device on title, numerous woodcut illustrations, several full-page, by Arnaud Nicolai, Gerard van Lampen, and A. van Leest after Pieter van der Borcht. (Some foxing or browning, marginal dampstaining.) Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin, upper covers with allegorical roll surrounding central IHS plaque, lower cover with allegorical and biblical rolls, two original brass clasps and catches, one (of two) original leather index tabs. Provenance: Laurentius, doctor of medicine of the college of [illegible] (contemporary inscription on front flyleaf, deleted, one or two marginal annotations in third work); later inscription on title, also blocked out.
Third Latin edition of the "first account of Indian materia medica and the first textbook on tropical medicine written by a European" (Garrison and Morton 1815), first published in Portuguese at Goa in 1563. The Latin translation by Charles de L'Ecluse added material relating to the New World, derived from Oviedo and Thevet. Adams O-321; Alden and Landis 579/39; Nissen BBI 949 (all editions); NLM/Durling 3416; Pritzel 4316n; Sabin 57665; Wellcome 4657.
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MONARDES, Nicolas (1498-1588). Simplicium medicamentorum ex novo orbe delatorum... historia. Translated by Carolus Clusius. Antwerp: Plantin, 1579.
8o. Italic type, woodcut printer's device, woodcut text illustrations, most full-page, of American plants and one animal (an armadillo). (One small marginal tear, some browning).
Second edition of Clusius' abbreviated Latin translation of Monardes' first two treatises (Sevilla 1565 and 1571), the earliest printed study of the medicinal plants of the New World. Adams M-1593; Alden and Landis 579/38; Arents 27; Guerra Monardes 21; Nissen BBI 1397 na; NLM/Durling 3217; Pritzel 6366n; Sabin 49942; Wellcome 4395.
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RANTZAU, Heinrich von (1526?-1598). De conservanda valetudine liber. Edited by Detlev Silvius. Antwerp: Plantin, 1580.
8o. Roman type, printer's device on title.
Second or third edition, first Plantin edition, enlarged, of Rantzau's treatise on health. Several chapters are devoted to materia medica. A Leipzig edition was published the same year. RARE. Not in Adams, Wellcome, the National Library of Medicine, or Garrison-Morton.
A FINE CONTEMPORARY SAMMELBAND OF THREE PLANTIN EDITIONS OF IMPORTANT PHARMACOLOGICAL TREATISES.
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Third Latin edition of the "first account of Indian materia medica and the first textbook on tropical medicine written by a European" (Garrison and Morton 1815), first published in Portuguese at Goa in 1563. The Latin translation by Charles de L'Ecluse added material relating to the New World, derived from Oviedo and Thevet. Adams O-321; Alden and Landis 579/39; Nissen BBI 949 (all editions); NLM/Durling 3416; Pritzel 4316n; Sabin 57665; Wellcome 4657.
[Bound with:]
MONARDES, Nicolas (1498-1588). Simplicium medicamentorum ex novo orbe delatorum... historia. Translated by Carolus Clusius. Antwerp: Plantin, 1579.
8
Second edition of Clusius' abbreviated Latin translation of Monardes' first two treatises (Sevilla 1565 and 1571), the earliest printed study of the medicinal plants of the New World. Adams M-1593; Alden and Landis 579/38; Arents 27; Guerra Monardes 21; Nissen BBI 1397 na; NLM/Durling 3217; Pritzel 6366n; Sabin 49942; Wellcome 4395.
[Bound with:]
RANTZAU, Heinrich von (1526?-1598). De conservanda valetudine liber. Edited by Detlev Silvius. Antwerp: Plantin, 1580.
8
Second or third edition, first Plantin edition, enlarged, of Rantzau's treatise on health. Several chapters are devoted to materia medica. A Leipzig edition was published the same year. RARE. Not in Adams, Wellcome, the National Library of Medicine, or Garrison-Morton.
A FINE CONTEMPORARY SAMMELBAND OF THREE PLANTIN EDITIONS OF IMPORTANT PHARMACOLOGICAL TREATISES.