MONARDES (NICOLAS), GARCIA D'ORTA AND CHARLES DE L'ECLUSE Dell' Historia de I Semplici Aromati, et Altre Cose; Che Vengono Portate dall'Indie Orientali Pertinenti All'Uso della Medicina, Venice, Giovanne, & Andrea Zenari, 1589, 2 vols in one, 8vo, woodcut title-vignettes, botanical illustrations (title to vol. I shaved at lower margin, several running titles shaved, some dampstaining to I1-8 of vol. II [index], occasional soiling and light browning), contemporary vellum (lightly soiled). [cf. Garrison and Morton 1817: on Monardes: 'First treatise on Central American drugs, and for many years the most important work on the medicinal plants of the New World'; 5104: on Garcia d'Orta: 'The first account of Indian materia medica and the first text-book on tropical medicine written by a European.']