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Title

Dell'historia de i semplici aromati, et altre cose, che vengono portate dall'Indie Orientali pertinenti all'vso della medicina. Parte prima, diuisa in libri IIII / di Don Garzia dall'Horto medico portughese ; con alcune breui annotationi di Carlo Clusio. Et due altri libri parimente di quelle cose che si portano dall'Indie Occidentali / di Nicolò Monardes medico di Siuiglia ; hora tutti tradotti dalle loro lingue nella nostra Italiana da M. Annibale Briganti, marrucino da Ciuità di Chieti, dottore & medico eccellentissimo.

Author

Orta, Garcia de, active 16th century

Publication

In Venetia ... : Appresso Giouanne, & Andrea Zenari fratelli, 1589.

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Additional Authors

• Clusius, Carolus, 1526-1609.
• Briganti, Annibale, approximately 1520-
• Monardes, Nicolás, approximately 1512-1588.

Description

[32], 347, [5], 131, [13] p. : ill.; 18 cm. (8vo)

Alternative Title

Dell'historia de i semplici aromati, et altre cose.

Subject

• Materia medica > India > Early works to 1800
• Materia medica > Latin America > Early works to 1800
• Tobacco > Therapeutic use > Early works to 1800
• Indians of North America > Tobacco use > Early works to 1800
• Bezoars > Early works to 1800
• Snow > Therapeutic use > Early works to 1800
• America > Early accounts to 1600

Note

• "Del tabaco, & sue grandi virtù": p. [8]-24 (4th group), with large ill., p. [8] (reworked block from the Venice, 1575 ed. of Monardes' Part 2). For discussion of this chapter in the original Spanish ed. (1571) and J. Frampton's translation of selected passages, cf. Arents, G. Tobacco, 15.
• Device on t.p.: fountain with putti, a recut version of a device previously used by Comin da Trino. Cf. Arents SA 0057C; Zappella, G. Marche dei tipografi e degli editori, v. 2, fig. 559 (early version); v. 1, no. XCIXf.
• Part 2 of Monardes' Historia medicinal and his treatise on snow (131, [13] p. at end) have special t.p. with title: Delle cose, che vengono portate dall'Indie Occidentali ... Parte seconda, distinta in due libri ... ; con vn libro ... che tratta della neue ... Without name of translator; with device and imprint as above; separate paging and signatures.
• Issued also with a Ziletti device (comet) and imprint on both title pages: In Venetia : Appresso li heredi di Francesco Ziletti, 1589. Cf. Sabin 57669; Guerra, 29.
• Briganti's translation of Carolus Clusius' annotated Latin abridgement of the Orta work (Clusius' title: Aromatum, et simplicium ... historia) and Briganti's translations from the Spanish of Part 1 of Monardes' Historia medicinal and the latter's treatise on bezoar were first published Venice, 1576, under title: Due libri dell'historia de i semplici ... e due altri libri ...; without name of publisher or printer but with the same fountain device (early version; cf. above) on t.p. as the present ed. The same texts were reissued 1582, without name of publisher or printer and a different fountain device (with putti heads).
• The present anonymous translations of Part 2 of Monardes' Historia medicinal and his treatise on snow were first published Venice, 1575, together with anonymous translations of Part 1 and the treatise on bezoar, each part with special t.p., with title: Delle cose che vengono portate dall'Indie Occidentali ...; with comet device and statement "Presso di Giordano Ziletti" (cf. Arents, G. Tobacco, 20). Two 1582 reissues of these texts have on first t.p., respectively, the fountain-putti heads device with no name of publisher or printer, and the comet device with "Appresso Giordano Ziletti"; on 2nd t.p., the comet and "Appresso Francesco Ziletti." For a copy of the 1582 Orta-Monardes Pt. 1 and the 1582 Monardes Pts. 1-2 (pt. 1 is the anonymous issue) bound, perhaps as issued, in one vol., cf. Arents 20A.
• All the above eds. have statement on title pages: Con priuilegio.
• Monardes' Part 1 (p. 237-297) and the treatise on bezoar (p. 298-347) each have caption title: Della historia de i semplici, aromati, et altre cose che vengono portate dall'Indie Orientali [sic, for Occidentali] ... Libro primo [-secondo].
• Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁸b⁸, A-Y⁸, ²A-²I⁸ (b7,8 blank).
• Pages 278 and 282 are transposed.
• Illustrations: 28 prints : woodcut ; full-page (2) and 11 x 9 cm. or smaller. Blocks in first part (Orta-Monardes pt. 1) repeated from 1576 ed.; in second part (Monardes pt. 2) from 1575 ed.; copied from earlier Latin eds. of Orta and Spanish eds. of Monardes. Subject: Indian and American materia medica.
• "Borgarutio Borgarucci, à lettori" (advertisement for the pharmeceutical museum of Francesco Calceolari, Verona): p. [348-352]. For detailed account, cf. Bibliotheca Belgica.
• Includes indexes.

Indexed In (note)

• Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.)
• Bibliotheca Belgica (1964-1975 ed.)
• Alden, J.E. European Americana
• Wellcome cat. of printed books
• Guerra, F. Monardes

Call Number

Arents SA 0094

OCLC

NYPG88-B80654

Author

Orta, Garcia de, active 16th century.

Title

Dell'historia de i semplici aromati, et altre cose, che vengono portate dall'Indie Orientali pertinenti all'vso della medicina. Parte prima, diuisa in libri IIII / di Don Garzia dall'Horto medico portughese ; con alcune breui annotationi di Carlo Clusio. Et due altri libri parimente di quelle cose che si portano dall'Indie Occidentali / di Nicolò Monardes medico di Siuiglia ; hora tutti tradotti dalle loro lingue nella nostra Italiana da M. Annibale Briganti, marrucino da Ciuità di Chieti, dottore & medico eccellentissimo.

Imprint

In Venetia ... : Appresso Giouanne, & Andrea Zenari fratelli, 1589.

Indexed In:

Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.) 99520

Bibliotheca Belgica (1964-1975 ed.) O11

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 589/50

Wellcome cat. of printed books, 4462

Guerra, F. Monardes, 30

Local Note

Provenance: Ex libris Soc. Med. Edinensis (inscription).

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Added Author

Clusius, Carolus, 1526-1609.

Briganti, Annibale, approximately 1520-

Monardes, Nicolás, approximately 1512-1588. Historia medicinal. Italian. 1.-2. parte. 1589.

Monardes, Nicolás, approximately 1512-1588. Libro que trata de dos medicinos excelentissimos contra todo veneno. Italian. 1589.

Monardes, Nicolás, approximately 1512-1588. Libro que trata de la nieve. Italian. 1589.

Added Title

Dell'historia de i semplici aromati, et altre cose.

Research Call Number

Arents SA 0094