Monardes, Nicolas (1498-1588).

Estimate

4,000 - 5,000 GBP

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Description

Primera y segunda y tercera partes de la historia medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales que sirven en medicina. Seville: Alonso Escrivano, 1574

6 parts in one volume, 4to (198 x 140mm.), ff. [6], 206, [1 (errata leaf)], illustration: woodcut illustrations in text, woodcut initials, printer's device at the end, binding: eighteenth-century mottled calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, without the final blank leaf, binding slightly rubbed

Literature

Palau 175487; Sabin 49938; Alden 574/38; JCB i p.254; Pritzel 6366; Hunt 119; Escudero y Perosso 667; Wellcome 4392; Durling 3220

Catalogue Note

first complete edition. This work is an important source for the medicinal discoveries in the New World, including the tobacco plant illustrated on the sub-title to part 2 (see illustration). An English translation appeared as early as 1577.