ORTA, Garcia de

Lot 143
21.09.2021 10:30UTC +01:00
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Lot 143 | ORTA, Garcia de
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[GASTRONOMIA] - ORTA, Garcia de (1501-1568); Nicolas MONARDES (1493-1588) - Due libri dell'historia dei semplici, aromati, et altre cose che vengono portate dall'Indie Orientali pertinenti all'uso della medicina. [CON:] - Delle cose che vengono portate dall'Indie occidentali. Venice: [al segno della Fontana]; Ziletti, 1582.

Italian translation of the two main treatises dedicated to tropical botany by Garcia de Orta, a Spanish doctor who lived and worked in Goa, and Nicolas Monardes professor at the University of Seville.
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8vo (170 x 120mm). Three titles with printer's device, several woodcut illustrations in the text and historiated initials (traces of woodworm in the first 30 and last 25 leaves that marginally affect the text, sometimes causing the loss of some letters, some browning). Late 18th, early 19th-century half calf binding, gilt title on label, marbled boards.
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