Pharmacy.- Orta (Garcia de) & others., Histoire des Drogues, Espiceries, et de Certains Medicamens
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Pharmacy.- Orta (Garcia de) & others. Histoire des Drogues, Espiceries, et de Certains Medicamens Simples, qui naissent és Indes et en l'Amerique, edited by Antoine Colin, 4 parts in 1, second Lyons edition, woodcut illustrations, lightly browned, with 6pp. manuscript index to the illustrations bound in at beginning, small book-label of Henri Chevreul, later vellum, roan label, soiled, [Sabin 49948], 8vo, Lyons, Jean Pillehotte, 1619.
⁂ Collection of translations of four important early works on the plants, drugs, and materia medica of the New World, comprising Orta's Coloquios dos simples, e drogas...da India of 1563, the first textbook on tropical medicine written by a European; Acosta's expanded translation of Orta's work; Alpini on balsam; Monardes on Central American drugs.
⁂ Collection of translations of four important early works on the plants, drugs, and materia medica of the New World, comprising Orta's Coloquios dos simples, e drogas...da India of 1563, the first textbook on tropical medicine written by a European; Acosta's expanded translation of Orta's work; Alpini on balsam; Monardes on Central American drugs.
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Pharmacy.- Orta (Garcia de) & others., Histoire des Drogues, Espiceries, et de Certains Medicamens
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