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PISO, Willem (c.1611-1678, author and editor). De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica libri quatuordecim. Amsterdam: Louis & Daniel Elzevir, 1658.
2° (342 x 217mm.). Engraved title, woodcut illustrations. (Occasional light browning.) Contemporary vellum (slightly soiled). Provenance: Counts of Arenberg (Nordkirchen armorial bookplate).
A compilation of treatises by Piso, Georg Marcgraf and Jacobus Bontius on the natural history of Brazil. Piso, a Dutch pharmacist and botanist lived in Brazil as physician to the Dutch settlement between 1633 and 1644. Willems 1236; Borba de Moraes p. 676; Nissen IVB 589; Nissen BBI 1533; Hunt I.280; Wood p. 520.
2° (342 x 217mm.). Engraved title, woodcut illustrations. (Occasional light browning.) Contemporary vellum (slightly soiled). Provenance: Counts of Arenberg (Nordkirchen armorial bookplate).
A compilation of treatises by Piso, Georg Marcgraf and Jacobus Bontius on the natural history of Brazil. Piso, a Dutch pharmacist and botanist lived in Brazil as physician to the Dutch settlement between 1633 and 1644. Willems 1236; Borba de Moraes p. 676; Nissen IVB 589; Nissen BBI 1533; Hunt I.280; Wood p. 520.