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ORTA, GARCIA DA, CRISTOVAL DE ACOSTA and NICOLAS MONARDES. Histoire des drogues, espiceries, et de certains medicamens simples, qui naissent és Indes, tant Orientales que Occidentales, diuisée en deux parties. Lyon: Jean Pillehotte 1602.
8vo, 180 x 110mm. (7 1/16 x 4 3/8in.), contemporary limp vellum, fragment of eighteenth-century calf gilt backstrip, inner joints cracked, covers a little soiled, last 14 leaves slightly wormed, some dampstaining at end, browned, a few underlinings in red pencil.
3 works in one. First edition in French, translated by A. Colin, numerous text woodcuts.
Monardes, Dos Libros, el uno que trata de todas las cosas que traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales (Seville 1565), Orta, Coloquios dos Simples e Drogas...da India (Goa 1563) and Acosta, Tractado de las Drogas...de las Indias (Burgos 1578) were translated into Latin by Clusius (1567, 1574, etc.) and were published together in 1582 from which this translation is derived.
Alden and Landis 602/80; Nissen BBI Suppl. 1397nd; Sabin 115;
Provenance: Juan Carlos Ahumada; the present owner.
8vo, 180 x 110mm. (7 1/16 x 4 3/8in.), contemporary limp vellum, fragment of eighteenth-century calf gilt backstrip, inner joints cracked, covers a little soiled, last 14 leaves slightly wormed, some dampstaining at end, browned, a few underlinings in red pencil.
3 works in one. First edition in French, translated by A. Colin, numerous text woodcuts.
Monardes, Dos Libros, el uno que trata de todas las cosas que traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales (Seville 1565), Orta, Coloquios dos Simples e Drogas...da India (Goa 1563) and Acosta, Tractado de las Drogas...de las Indias (Burgos 1578) were translated into Latin by Clusius (1567, 1574, etc.) and were published together in 1582 from which this translation is derived.
Alden and Landis 602/80; Nissen BBI Suppl. 1397nd; Sabin 115;
Provenance: Juan Carlos Ahumada; the present owner.