Lot 1558: ORTA, GARCIA DE.

Aromatum, et simplicium aliquot medicamentorum apud Indos nascentium historia: primum quidem Lusitanica lingua... conscripta... nunc vero Latino sermone in epitomen contracta, & iconibus ad vivum expressis, locupletioribusque annotatiunculis illustrata a Carolo Clusio... Tertia editio. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1579, 217, [7]pp., illustration : woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials and illustrations

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Monardes, Nicolas (c. 1512-1588). Simplicium medicamentorum ex novo orbe delatorum, quorum in medicina usus est, historia, Hispanico sermone descripta... Latio deinde donata, & annotationibus, iconibusque affabre depictis illustrata a Carolo Clusio... Altera editio. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1579, 84, [4]pp., illustration : woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials and illustrations

L'Écluse, Charles de (1526-1609). Aliquot notae in Garciae aromatum historiam. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1582, 43, [1]pp., illustration : woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials and illustrations

Acosta, Cristobal (c. 1515-c. 1592). Aromatum et medicamentorum in Orientali India nascentium liber: plurimum lucis adferens iis quae a Doctore Garcia de Orta... scripta sunt... Caroli Clusii... opera ex Hispanico sermone latinus factus, in epitomen contractus, et quibusdam notis illustratus. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1579, 88pp., illustration : woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials and illustration

4 works in one volume, 8vo (169 x 109mm.), binding : later vellum-backed blue boards, small tear in spine, boards a little soiled

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PROVENANCE

T. Lynford, inscription on title-page
LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

Krivatsy 3416, 3217 & 1065; Wellcome 4657, 4395 (1st 2 works); Voet 1840, 1711, 1010 & 1038