MONARDES, Nicolás (c.1512-1588)

Лот 169
10.12.2025 12:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1514393
Лот 169 | MONARDES, Nicolás (c.1512-1588)
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£ 6 000 – 8 000
MONARDES, Nicolás (c.1512-1588)
Joyfull Newes Out of the New-found Worlde. Translated by John Frampton. London: printed by E. Allde by the assigne of Bonham Norton, 1596.
Third English edition of a text that introduced European readers to the medicinal plants and natural products of the Americas. Originally published between 1565 and 1574 under the title Historia medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales (‘Medical study of the products imported from our West Indian possessions’), it begins with reference to the voyages of Christopher Columbus, describes the benefits of herbs, trees, oils, and stones brought from the New World, and highlights remedies such as tobacco, sassafras, guaiacum, and other substances used for treating ailments. Monardes ‘was the first physician to write of the vegetable poison curare, and his lengthy description of an even more famous American plant introduced to Europe the words tabaco and nicotain’ (Norman). ‘The Joyfull newes […] was destined to be of real interest to expansionists of the next decade, for Hakluyt, Raleigh, and Hariot were keenly interested in medicinal plants, and Frampton’s translation must have been their major source of information’ (Parker). ESTC S112807; Hunt 173; Nissen BBI Supplement 1397nc; NLM/Durling 3221; Norman 1535; Parker, Books to Build an Empire (1965); Wellcome 4397.

Four parts in one, quarto (180 x 127mm). General title and one section title within ornamental borders, 12 woodcut illustrations (without the first leaf [blank except for signature-mark ‘A’], title cut to border, laid down, and with stitching just holding, first few text leaves slightly frayed at edges and with minor holes, final leaf restored in upper gutter, some dampstaining). Early 19th-century diced speckled calf, borders ruled in blind with gilt fleurons at corners, spine with raised bands gilt (upper joint neatly restored, lower joint splitting). Provenance: some early ink annotations including, in a 17th-century hand, a note beside the woodcut of the ‘Armadilio’ on T1r: ‘Armadilio a West Indian Beast with a skin like armour’ –Albert John Chalmers (British colonial physician and pioneer in tropical medicine research, 1870-1920; bookplate and plate recording bequest from Mrs Chalmers in the year of his death, to:) – Royal Society of Medicine (ink stamp).
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