Historia naturalis Brasiliae, :
auspicio et beneficio illustriss. I. Mauritii Com. Nassau ... adornata : in qua non tantum plantæ et animalia, sed et indigenarum morbi, ingenia et mores describuntur et iconibus supra quingentas illustrantur.

Description

Main Author

Piso, Willem, 1611-1678.

Related Names

Marggraf, Georg, 1610-1644.
Piso, Willem, 1611-1678.

Language(s)

Latin

Published

Lugdun. Batauorum [Leiden] : Apud Franciscum Hackium, ; 1648.

Subjects

Indians of South America.
Botany, Medical > Botany, Medical / Brazil.
Medicine > Medicine / Brazil.
Medical geography > Medical geography / Brazil.
Natural history > Natural history / Brazil.

Note

"Errata quædam emendanda": p. [10] of 3rd group (Piso).
Includes indexes.
"First edition of a pioneer work on tropical medicine. The second edition was published with the title 'De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica libri XIV' in Amsterdam in 1658"--Hunt botanical catalogue.
Georg Marggraf's Historiæ rerum naturalium Brasiliæ, libri octo has special t.p. and separate paging.
Signatures: *⁶, A-P⁴, Q², [dagger]⁴, A-Z⁴, Aa-Oo⁴, Pp².
Engraved t.p. followed by letterpress p. in continuation: Guilielmi Pisonis, M.D. Lugduno-Batavi, De medicina Brasiliensi libri quatuor : I. De aëre, aquis, & locis. II. De morbis endemiis. III. De venenatis & antidotis. IV. De facultatibus simplicium. : Et Georgi Marcgravi de Liebstad, Misnici Germani, Historiæ rerum naturalium Brasiliæ, libri octo : quorum tres priores agunt de plantis. Quartus de piscibus. Quintus de avibus. Sextus de quadrupedibus & serpentibus. Septimus de insectis. Octavus de ipsa regione, & illius incolis : cum appendice de Tapuyis, et Chilensibus, Ioannes de Laet, Antwerpianus, in ordinem digessit & annotationes addidit, & varia ab auctore omissa supplevit & illustravit.

Physical Description

[12], 122, [10], 293, [7] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 39 cm. (fol.)

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