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<dl><dd>Added engraved title page reads: Gründliche Beschreibung frembder Materialien und Specereyen Ursprung Wachssthum Herkomen und deroselben Natur u[nd] Eigenschafft wie auch alterhand Anmerckungen deme-zugleich viel verwünderns würdige Dinge historischer Weise mit einverleib[e]t aüfgesetzt von Christophor Vielheüeri Apothectern in Landeshüt. Leipzig Verlegts Johann Fritzsche. 1676</dd>
<dd>Virgules in title and in imprint transcriptions replaced with commas</dd>
<dd>Includes discussions and/or woodcut illustrations of chocolate, tobacco, sarsaparilla, indigo, aloe, rubber trees, unicorn horns, both from the mythical unicorn and the Arctic narwhal, and whales</dd>
<dd>Signatures: A-D⁴ (A1 verso blank) ²A-²D⁴ E-2G⁴</dd>
<dd>Includes index</dd>
<dd>Woodcut head and tail pieces; initials</dd>
<dd>Arents, G. Tobacco (suppl.)</dd>
<dd>Mueller, W. Kaffee</dd>
<dd>Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration</dd>
<dd>Alden, J.E. European Americana</dd>
<dd>John Carter Brown Library copy bound in modern vellum</dd>
<dd>John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Harper and Lippitt Funds</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Natural history; Chocolate; Tobacco; Sarsaparilla; Rubber; Narwhal; Indigo; Aloe; Whales; Imprint 1676</div>
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Vielheuer, Christoph</div>
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