De Indiae Utriusque Re Naturali Et Medica Libri Quatuordecim

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Subject: Science & Medicine.
Place of Publication: Amsterdam.
Year Printed: 1658.
Publisher: Elzevir.
Author: Willem Piso.
Topic: Medicine.
Region: South … Read more Subject: Science & Medicine.
Place of Publication: Amsterdam.
Year Printed: 1658.
Publisher: Elzevir.
Author: Willem Piso.
Topic: Medicine.
Region: South America.
Binding: Hardcover.
Language: Latin.
Special Attributes: 1st Edition.

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PISO, Willem (Guilelmus Pisonius).- [...] DE | INDIÆ UTRIUSQUE | RE NATURALI ET MEDICA | LIBRIS QUATUORDECIM | Quorum contanta pagina sequens | exhibet.- Amstelædami: Apud Ludovicum et Danielem Elzevirios, 1658.- [11], 327, [5], 39, [1 br.], 226, [2] p.: il.; 33 cm.- E.

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A pioneering work in the field of tropical medicine, published by the author (a Dutch physician who remained in Brazil during the Dutch occupation of Pernambuco, 10 years after the publication of his Historia Naturalis Brasiliae. Includes, in the last part, a text and references to Garcia da Orta.

Condition: A study book, lacking the allegorical frontispiece, engraved in a sweet-cut and with numerous holes of moth that pierce the whole volume, without ever harming the reading. It is, however, full of text and retains the more than six hundred figures that illustrate it. Binding recent, entire parchment. Some foxing. Sabin, 63029.

Author: WILLEM PISO - 1637-1644.
Dimensions:
Height: 14.56 inches
Length: 9.44 inches
Width: 1.37 inches

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