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Creator:
Piso, Willem, 1611-1678
Title(s):

Gulielmi Pisonis medici Amstelædamensis De Indiæ utriusque re naturali et medica libri quatuordecim, quorum contenta pagina sequens exhibet.

Published/Created:
Amstelædami : apud Ludovicum et Danielem Elzevirios, 1658.
Physical Description:
[24], 327, [5], 39, 226, [2] p. : ill. ; 37 cm. (fol.)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
QH183 P67 1658+ Oversize
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Illustrations are hand-colored.
"Georgii Marcgravii de Liebstad, Tractatus topographicus & meterorologicus Brasiliæ ... " (39 p.) and "Iacobi Bontii ... Historiæ naturalis & medicæ Indiæ Orientalis libri sex ..." (226, [2] p.) have separate paging and signatures.
Signatures: *-2*⁶ A-2E⁶(-2E6) a-c⁶ d² ²A-²T⁶.
Engraved t.p.
Includes indexes.
Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 2:483.
Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 63029.
Moraes, R.B. de. Bibliographia brasiliana, 2:153.
Rahir, E. Les Elzevier, 1267.
Frederik Muller & Cie. Catalogue of books, maps, plates on America, and of a remarkable collection of early voyages, 174.
Catalogue of botanical books in the collection of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt, 280.
Subject Terms:
Elzevirios, Ludovicum et Danielem -- Publisher.
Indians of South America.
Langdale, James -- Bookplate.
Medicine -- Brazil.
Medicine -- India.
Natural history -- India.
Orta, Garcia de, 16th cent. Coloquios dos simples e drogas.
Form/Genre:
Engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1658.
Woodcuts -- Hand-colored -- 1658.
Contributors:
Marggraf, Georg, 1610-1644.
Bondt, Jakob de, 1592-1631.
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  • (from added title page) Gulielmi Pisonis ... I. De aëribus, aquis, & locis
  • II. De natura & cura morborum, Occidentali Indiæ, imprimis Brasiliæ, familiarium
  • III. De animalibus, aquatilibus, volatilibus, & terrestribus, edulibus
  • IV. De arboribus, fructibus, & herbis medicis, atque alimentariis, nascentibus in Brasilia & regionibus vicinis
  • V. De noxiis & venenatis, eorumque antidotis ; Quibus insertæ sunt animalium quorundam vivæ sectiones, tum & aliquot metamorphoses insectorim
  • VI. Mantissa aromatica &c. Posita post Bontii tractatus / Georgii Margravii de Liepstadt
  • I. Tractatus topographicus & meteorologicus Brasiliæ, cum observatione eclipsis solaris
  • II. Commentarius de Brasiliensium & Chilensium indole ac lingua &c. / Iacobi Bontii ...
  • I. De conservanda valetudine
  • II. Methodus medendi
  • III. Observationes in cadaveribus
  • IV. Notæ in Garciam ab Orta
  • V. Historia animalium
  • VI. Historia plantarum

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