88 pp. A-E8, F4. With 2 full-page wood engravings. (8vo) 16.5x10.5 cm (6½x4"), modern vellum, new endpapers. Significant early work on the medicinal plants of the East Indies, being the first edition of Clusius' Latin abridgment and translation of Acosta's 1578 work, Tractado de las drogas y medicinas de la indias orientales. A Portuguese doctor and natural historian who spent nearly a decade in Goa and other parts of India, Acosta, together with the apothecary Tomé Pires and the physician Garcia de Orta, is considered one of the pioneers of Indo-Portuguese medicine.
88 pp. A-E8, F4. With 2 full-page wood engravings. (8vo) 16.5x10.5 cm (6½x4"), modern vellum, new endpapers. Significant early work on the medicinal plants of the East Indies, being the first edition of Clusius' Latin abridgment and translation of Acosta's 1578 work, Tractado de las drogas y medicinas de la indias orientales. A Portuguese doctor and natural historian who spent nearly a decade in Goa and other parts of India, Acosta, together with the apothecary Tomé Pires and the physician Garcia de Orta, is considered one of the pioneers of Indo-Portuguese medicine.
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