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Botany.- Orta (Garcia de) Aromatum et simplicium aliquot medicamentorum apud Indos nascentium historia, collation: A-Z, a-f8, fourth edition, woodcut printer's device on title and penultimate leaf, with final blank, woodcut illustrations, some underlinings in red, one or two contemporary marginalia, wormhole to Z gathering onwards with occasional slight loss, browned, cropped affecting a few head-lines, later calf-backed boards with vellum corners, spine gilt, rubbed, spine worn & chipped at foot, [Adams 322; Nissen BBI 949; Sabin 57666; Wellcome I 4655], 8vo (160 x 100mm.), Antwerp, ex Officina Plantiniana, 1593.
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Botany.- Orta (Garcia de) Aromatum et simplicium aliquot medicamentorum apud Indos nascentium historia, collation: A-Z, a-f8, fourth edition, woodcut printer's device on title and penultimate leaf, with final blank, woodcut illustrations, some underlinings in red, one or two contemporary marginalia, wormhole to Z gathering onwards with occasional slight loss, browned, cropped affecting a few head-lines, later calf-backed boards with vellum corners, spine gilt, rubbed, spine worn & chipped at foot, [Adams 322; Nissen BBI 949; Sabin 57666; Wellcome I 4655], 8vo (160 x 100mm.), Antwerp, ex Officina Plantiniana, 1593.
*** Important work on the pharmaceutical plants of the New World and the first textbook on tropical medicine by a European.")
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Botany.- Orta (Garcia de) Aromatum et simplicium aliquot medicamentorum apud Indos nascentium historia, collation: A-Z, a-f8, fourth edition, woodcut printer's device on title and penultimate leaf, with final blank, woodcut illustrations, some underlinings in red, one or two contemporary marginalia, wormhole to Z gathering onwards with occasional slight loss, browned, cropped affecting a few head-lines, later calf-backed boards with vellum corners, spine gilt, rubbed, spine worn & chipped at foot, [Adams 322; Nissen BBI 949; Sabin 57666; Wellcome I 4655], 8vo (160 x 100mm.), Antwerp, ex Officina Plantiniana, 1593.
⁂ Important work on the pharmaceutical plants of the New World and the first textbook on tropical medicine by a European.
Lot 72
Botany.- Orta (Garcia de) Aromatum et simplicium aliquot medicamentorum apud Indos nascentium historia, fourth edition, woodcuts, Antwerp, ex Officina Plantiniana, 1593.
Hammer Price: £550
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Botany.- Orta (Garcia de) Aromatum et simplicium aliquot medicamentorum apud Indos nascentium historia, collation: A-Z, a-f8, fourth edition, woodcut printer's device on title and penultimate leaf, with final blank, woodcut illustrations, some underlinings in red, one or two contemporary marginalia, wormhole to Z gathering onwards with occasional slight loss, browned, cropped affecting a few head-lines, later calf-backed boards with vellum corners, spine gilt, rubbed, spine worn & chipped at foot, [Adams 322; Nissen BBI 949; Sabin 57666; Wellcome I 4655], 8vo (160 x 100mm.), Antwerp, ex Officina Plantiniana, 1593.
⁂ Important work on the pharmaceutical plants of the New World and the first textbook on tropical medicine by a European.
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