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PISO, Willem (1611-1678) and Georg MACGRAF (1610-1644). Historia naturalis Brasiliae. Leiden: Franciscus Hackius; Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1648.
2 parts in one volume, 2° (392 x 249mm). Engraved title by Theodor Matham, over 400 woodcut illustrations after Georg Marcgraf and Albert Eckhout. (One or two marginal tears, light spotting and browning, stronger towards the end.) Contemporary calf gilt, spine ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt in compartments (skillfully rebacked with old spine partly relaid, corners restored, covers rubbed). Provenance: GEORGES CUVIER (stamp on dedication) — Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (stamps and deaccession stamp on dedication).
FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC WORK ON BRAZIL WITH EXCEPTIONAL PROVENANCE. Described by Borba de Moraes as the most important seventeenth-century scientific work completed in Brazil, this work was written by Piso, physician to the Count of Nassau, and the naturalist Marcgraf. Piso's De medicina Brasiliensi details the herbs of Brazil and their healing powers, local diseases and poisonous reptiles. Marcgraf's Historia rerum naturalium Brasiliae describes the plants, trees, animals, insects, marine life and shellfish of Brazil. The eighth and last part of Marcgraf’s Historia was written by Laet, and describes the north-eastern region of Brazil and its inhabitants. This part, according to Moraes, 'is very valuable from the ethnographic and linguistic aspect'. Borba de Moraes II, 675-6 ('Sumptuously printed by Elzevir, IT IS ONE OF THE BEAUTIFUL DUTCH WORKS ON BRAZILIANA'); Garrison & Morton 5303 ('Piso was the first to separate yaws from syphilis'); Nissen BBI 1553; Nissen IVB 589; Sabin 63028; Willems 1068.
2 parts in one volume, 2° (392 x 249mm). Engraved title by Theodor Matham, over 400 woodcut illustrations after Georg Marcgraf and Albert Eckhout. (One or two marginal tears, light spotting and browning, stronger towards the end.) Contemporary calf gilt, spine ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt in compartments (skillfully rebacked with old spine partly relaid, corners restored, covers rubbed). Provenance: GEORGES CUVIER (stamp on dedication) — Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (stamps and deaccession stamp on dedication).
FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC WORK ON BRAZIL WITH EXCEPTIONAL PROVENANCE. Described by Borba de Moraes as the most important seventeenth-century scientific work completed in Brazil, this work was written by Piso, physician to the Count of Nassau, and the naturalist Marcgraf. Piso's De medicina Brasiliensi details the herbs of Brazil and their healing powers, local diseases and poisonous reptiles. Marcgraf's Historia rerum naturalium Brasiliae describes the plants, trees, animals, insects, marine life and shellfish of Brazil. The eighth and last part of Marcgraf’s Historia was written by Laet, and describes the north-eastern region of Brazil and its inhabitants. This part, according to Moraes, 'is very valuable from the ethnographic and linguistic aspect'. Borba de Moraes II, 675-6 ('Sumptuously printed by Elzevir, IT IS ONE OF THE BEAUTIFUL DUTCH WORKS ON BRAZILIANA'); Garrison & Morton 5303 ('Piso was the first to separate yaws from syphilis'); Nissen BBI 1553; Nissen IVB 589; Sabin 63028; Willems 1068.
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