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<dl><dd>statement of responsibility: 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, con vn trattato della neue &amp; del beuer fresco / di Nicolò Monardes, medico di Siuiglia ; hora tradotti dalle loro lingue nella nostra italiana da messer Annibale Briganti, marrucino da ciuità di Chieti, dottore &amp; medico eccellentissimo</dd>
<dd>On t.p., statement "Parte prima ..." follows first statement of responsibility</dd>
<dd>Part 2 of Monardes' Historia medicinal and his treatise on snow (p. 386-525) have caption title: "Delle cose, che vengono portate dall'Indie Occidentali ... Parte seconda, distinta in due libri ... ; con vn libro ... che tratta della neue ..."</dd>
<dd>Briganti's translation of Carolus Clusius' annotated Latin abridgement of the Orta work (p. [1]-257; 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 (p. 258-385) were originally published Venice, 1576, under title: Due libri dell'historia de i semplici ... e due altri libri</dd>
<dd>For 1589 ed. (Venice : G. &amp; A. Zenari), cf. Arents SA 0094</dd>
<dd>Name of printer from colophon, which reads: Stampato in Venetia, nella stamperia di Giouanni Salis</dd>
<dd>Signatures: a-b⁸ A-2K⁸ (2K8 blank)</dd>
<dd>Illustrations: 28 prints : woodcut ; full-page (2) and image 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</dd>
<dd>Woodcut printer's device (Agnus Dei) on t.p.; floriated initials</dd>
<dd>"Borgarutio Borgarucci, a' lettori" (advertisement for the pharmaceutical museum of Francesco Calceolari, Verona): p. 381-385</dd>
<dd>"Del tabaco, &amp; sue grandi virtù": p. 388-406, with large ill., p. 388 (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</dd>
<dd>Includes index</dd>
<dd>citation/reference: Sabin 57670</dd>
<dd>citation/reference: Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.), 99523</dd>
<dd>citation/reference: Alden, J.E. European Americana, 616/84</dd>
<dd>citation/reference: Wellcome cat. of printed books, 4663</dd>
<dd>citation/reference: Guerra, F. Monardes, 38</dd>
<dd>Sabin</dd>
<dd>Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.)</dd>
<dd>Alden, J.E. European Americana</dd>
<dd>Wellcome cat. of printed books</dd>
<dd>Guerra, F. Monardes</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Materia medica; Bezoars; Indians of North America; Tobacco use; Snow; Therapeutic use; Tobacco; Tobacco in art; Tobacco in art</div>
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<dl><dd>Orta, Garcia de, active 16th century</dd>
<dd>Briganti, Annibale, approximately 1520-</dd>
<dd>Clusius, Carolus, 1526-1609</dd>
<dd>Monardes, Nicolás, approximately 1512-1588. Historia medicinal. Italian. 1.-2. parte</dd>
<dd>Monardes, Nicolás, approximately 1512-1588. Libro que trata de dos medicinos excelentissimos contra todo veneno. Italian</dd>
<dd>Monardes, Nicolás, approximately 1512-1588. Libro que trata de la nieue. Italian</dd></dl></div>
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