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FIRST DESCRIPTION OF THE USE OF TOBACCO AS A DRUG.
""First Treatise on Central American Drugs" (Garrison-Morton 1817 on the original edition of Monarde, Seville 1565).
Complete First Edition: the 1576 edition which preceded it was only a very abridged version. (Palau 99519; Sabin 57668). 2 parts in one, 28 woodcuts in the text some full page depicting tobacco, sassafras, armadillo, long pepper etc.
Garsia da Orta (1510-1568) was a Portuguese who settled in Goa, and is the first European to describe the vegetable drugs and diseases of the Indies. His book is a milestone in the history of materia medica. Nicolò Monardes (1507-1588), Spanish physician, was the first to describe the medicinal plants of America. His book was very popular and translated into many languages.
Alden / Aldis: European Americana, 1582/61 - Begnasco 1029. Durling 3418. Wellcome I, 4659. Palau 99518. Sabin 57667.
CONTENTS
Italian translation of the Briganti of the Coloquios dos Simplos of Orta. . . da India (FIRST EDITION!. Translated from the Portuguese in Goa, India, in 1563), and of Monardi's Dos Libros in Spanish (Sevilla, 1569).
Woodcuts with illustrations of various plants, including a tobacco plant.
Briganti based his translation of Da Orta's book on the abridged Latin version of l'Ecluses. Il Primo libro di Monardi a P7 recto, where the heading of line 5 reads 'dall'Indie Orientali' mistake for 'Occidentali'; The second Book begins at the verse of T5, line 5 which correctly reads 'Westerners'.
This edition differs from Hunt's exemplar (142) in having Francesco Ziletti's name and star, and the date 1582 (not in Roman numerals) on the title - and thus adds further mystery to what Margarete B. Stillwell calls " a first-class bibliographic rebus" in his "Indagine bibliografica" (page liv) concerning Ziletti and his Venetian press (Hunt Botanica Catalogue, volume I).
CONDITION REPORT - COMPLETE
2 parts in 1 volume. 15 woodcuts of plants. - First Italian edition and together with the first part of Monarde's work "the first treatise on Central American drugs" (Garrison-Morton 1817 on the original edition of Monarde, Seville 1565). Woodcuts with illustrations of various plants, including a tobacco plant. - Lightly browned or brown-spotted throughout. Late half vellum binding - (24), 348, (2) pp, two blank leaves. Several errors in pagination but complete collation.
Beautiful and numerous woodcuts of exotic plants, nuts, palms, etc. some papers with light gore and stains. Coeval ownership signature on the frontis and last page: Lodovico Colucci da Pescia, Physici. Renewed looks. Solid, well-bound text block, clear pages, and brilliant inking. A good copy.
FULL TITLES & AUTHORS
Two books on the history of simple, aromatic, and other things that are brought from the East Indies pertinent to the use of medicine. By Don Garzia of the Horto Medico Portughese with some brief Annotations by Carlo Clusio [Bound w:] - And two other books likewise of those brought from the West Indies. By Nicolò Monardes, Physician of Siuiglia.
Now all translated from their languages into our Italian language by M. Annibale Briganti Marrucino from Ciuità di Chieti Most excellent Doctor & Physician.
In Venice, after Francesco Ziletti 1582
Garcia de Orta (Garzia dell'Horto: 1501-1568); Nicolas Monardes (1493-1588) 66944949
