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[DUFOUR, PHILIPPE-SYLVESTRE.] De l'Usage du Caphé, du Thé, et du Chocolate. Full-page woodcut of coffee plant. [24], 188 pages. 12mo,

[DUFOUR, PHILIPPE-SYLVESTRE.] De l'Usage du Caphé, du Thé, et du Chocolate. Full-page woodcut of coffee plant. [24], 188 pages. 12mo, contemporary calf, spine rubbed, shelf labe removed from rear cover; perforated stamp on title and 2 other leaves, small burn mark in lower margin of G4. Lyon: Jean Girin & Barthélemy Rivière, 1671

  • Notes: first edition of a collection of writings on coffee, tea, and cacao. "Compiled by Dufour, although often attributed to Jacob Spon... Includes a translation of Antonio Fausto Naironi's Discursus de saluberrima potione caheu, 1st publ., Rome 1671; an extract from Alexandre de Rhodes's Diver voyages, 1st publ., Paris, 1653; a translation of Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma's Du Chocolate, 1st publ., Paris 1643; & a translation of Bartolomeo Marradon's Dialogo del uso del tabaco, 1st publ., Seville, 1618"--Alden 671/110.

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