Tobacco. Orta, Garcia da. Dell'historia de i semplici... Lot 166
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[Tobacco]. Orta, Garcia da. Dell'historia de i semplici aromati. Venice, Giovanni Salis, 1616. In 8° (158 x 106 mm); [32], 525, [3] pages. Typographical mark to title page, numerous woodcut figures in text (few flourishes.) Coeval vellum binding with manuscript title to smooth spine (new guards).
The work contains the first illustration of tobacco.Hunt 120: "He made an intensive study of Indian plants from which drugs were derived, indefatigably questioning the native physicians as to their uses";Garrison/ Morton 1815: "The first account of Indian materia medica and the first textbook on tropical medicine written by a European. It includes a classic account of cholera."
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