HORTA [ORTA] (GARCIA DA): Aromatum et Simplicium Aliquot Medicamentorum Apud Indos Nascentium Historia, primum quidem Lusitanica lingua conscripta, Antwerp, Officina Plantiniana, 1593, 8vo, fourth edition, 29 woodcuts in text; Aromatum et Medicamentorum in Orientali India Nascetium Liber, Antwerp, Officina Plantiniana, 1593, 8vo, second edition, one woodcut illustration; Simplicium Medicamentorum ex Novo Orbe Delatorum, Quorum in Medicina Usus Est, Historia, Antwerp, Officina Plantiniana, 1593, 2 vols. in one, 8vo, third edition, 15 woodcut illustrations, together 3 works in one vol., contemporary wallet-edged vellum, bookplate of Comes de Solms. [Durling 3417; Sabin 57666; Pritzel 4316 (1), 13 (1), 6366 (III)]

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HORTA [ORTA] (GARCIA DA): Aromatum et Simplicium Aliquot Medicamentorum Apud Indos Nascentium Historia, primum quidem Lusitanica lingua conscripta, Antwerp, Officina Plantiniana, 1593, 8vo, fourth edition, 29 woodcuts in text; Aromatum et Medicamentorum in Orientali India Nascetium Liber, Antwerp, Officina Plantiniana, 1593, 8vo, second edition, one woodcut illustration; Simplicium Medicamentorum ex Novo Orbe Delatorum, Quorum in Medicina Usus Est, Historia, Antwerp, Officina Plantiniana, 1593, 2 vols. in one, 8vo, third edition, 15 woodcut illustrations, together 3 works in one vol., contemporary wallet-edged vellum, bookplate of Comes de Solms. [Durling 3417; Sabin 57666; Pritzel 4316 (1), 13 (1), 6366 (III)]

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Horta's work displaced Liebault's as the chief source of information on the subject in Europe. It was familiarly quoted and contemporaneously translated into many languages.

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