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"PIONEER WORK ON TROPICAL MEDICINE" (BRAZIL.) Piso, Willem. De Indiae Utriusque re naturali et Medica Libri Quatuordecim. Engraved title and a

"PIONEER WORK ON TROPICAL MEDICINE" (BRAZIL.) Piso, Willem. De Indiae Utriusque re naturali et Medica Libri Quatuordecim. Engraved title and a profusion of illustrations. 4 parts in one. Folio, early calf, a bit worn; minor dampstaining, extensive worm holes affecting the beginning and terminal signatures (but mostly in the top and bottom margins); inked ownership stamp at the head of the illustrated title and a bookplate on the front pastedown. Amsterdam, 1658

  • Notes: "Owing to the fact that a number of the woodcuts in this work are reproduced from [Piso's Historia Naturalis Brasiliae of 1648] this is sometimes said to be a second edition. It is in fact a different work, as a comparison of the contents will prove"--Sabin 63029; Borba de Moraes 676; Alden 658/129; Garrison-Morton 1825.

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