![COFFEE – [DUFOUR, Philippe Sylvestre]. Tractatus novi de potu caphé; de Chinensium thé; et de chocolata. Paris: Pierre Muguet, 1685. 12° (134 x 84mm). Engraved frontispiece and 3 plates, the unpaginated and unsigned 2 leaf index at end together with the 2 leaf address to the reader signed á. (Occasional faint soiling.) Contemporary vellum (lacking ties, soiled). Provenance: Theophilo de Andrade (bookplate). First Latin edition, translated by Dufour’s friend, Jacob Spon. Hunersdorff 1, 442; Mueller 68. [Sold with:] BRAEUNINGER, Johann Andreas. Disputatio inauguralis medica, de potus caffe usu et abusu. Erfurt: Grosch, 1725. 4° (180 x 145mm). Woodcut headpiece, initial and large tailpiece on verso of final leaf. (Browned, small marginal stain on verso of final leaf.) 19th-century half roan (rubbed). Hunersdorff 1, 176; [And:] CIVININI, Giovanni Domenico. Della storia e natura del caffe. Florence: Bernado Paperini, 1731. 4° (243 x 180mm). Folding](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2016/CKS/2016_CKS_12140_0368_000(coffee_dufour_philippe_sylvestre_tractatus_novi_de_potu_caphe_de_chine081944).jpg?w=1)
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COFFEE – [DUFOUR, Philippe Sylvestre]. Tractatus novi de potu caphé; de Chinensium thé; et de chocolata. Paris: Pierre Muguet, 1685. 12° (134 x 84mm). Engraved frontispiece and 3 plates, the unpaginated and unsigned 2 leaf index at end together with the 2 leaf address to the reader signed á. (Occasional faint soiling.) Contemporary vellum (lacking ties, soiled). Provenance: Theophilo de Andrade (bookplate). First Latin edition, translated by Dufour’s friend, Jacob Spon. Hunersdorff 1, 442; Mueller 68. [Sold with:] BRAEUNINGER, Johann Andreas. Disputatio inauguralis medica, de potus caffe usu et abusu. Erfurt: Grosch, 1725. 4° (180 x 145mm). Woodcut headpiece, initial and large tailpiece on verso of final leaf. (Browned, small marginal stain on verso of final leaf.) 19th-century half roan (rubbed). Hunersdorff 1, 176; [And:] CIVININI, Giovanni Domenico. Della storia e natura del caffe. Florence: Bernado Paperini, 1731. 4° (243 x 180mm). Folding engraved plate, complete with final blank. (Title spotted at top margin, very short closed tear to plate sometime repaired on verso, last 5 leaves with very minor marginal repairs at fore-edge.) Contemporary vellum (rubbed). Hunersdorff 1, 311 (‘An erudite dissertation on the coffee tree and on the introduction of coffee to Italy’); Muller 47; [And:] ZANNICHELLI, Jacopo. Il credenziere al suo padrone: lettera contro l'abuso del caffè. Venice: 1754. 4° (226 x 160mm). Errata leaf. (Occasional insignificant spotting.) Modern pasteboard binding. Hunersdorff 2, 1649 (‘A polemic against excessive coffee consumption’).
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