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ORTA, Garcia da. Aromatum et simplicum aliquot medicamentorum apud Indos nascentium historia edited by C.Clusius. Antwerp: C.Plantin, 1567.
8° (145 x 90mm). Title with woodcut printers device, woodcut initials and 16 illustrations, many full-page, all HAND-COLOURED. Later vellum (slightly stained).
FIRST LATIN EDITION, with fine colouring. This edition of Orta's important work on medicinal plants was abridged from the first edition published in Goa in 1563; it has the addition of illustrations and important new material relating to the New World, derived from Oviedo and Thevet. Orta, a Portuguese physician, initially practised in Lisbon, but moved to India and set up in Goa where he established a large practice and an extensive medical garden, studying Indian plants and their uses. 'His work provided Western scholars with their introduction to tropical medicine and with their basic data on almost all of the major cultivated plants of the region' [DSB] Palau 99516; Wellcome 4655; Durling 3414; Nissen BBI 949
8° (145 x 90mm). Title with woodcut printers device, woodcut initials and 16 illustrations, many full-page, all HAND-COLOURED. Later vellum (slightly stained).
FIRST LATIN EDITION, with fine colouring. This edition of Orta's important work on medicinal plants was abridged from the first edition published in Goa in 1563; it has the addition of illustrations and important new material relating to the New World, derived from Oviedo and Thevet. Orta, a Portuguese physician, initially practised in Lisbon, but moved to India and set up in Goa where he established a large practice and an extensive medical garden, studying Indian plants and their uses. 'His work provided Western scholars with their introduction to tropical medicine and with their basic data on almost all of the major cultivated plants of the region' [DSB] Palau 99516; Wellcome 4655; Durling 3414; Nissen BBI 949