(BRAZIL) Piso Willem De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medi

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(BRAZIL.) Piso, Willem. De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica libri quatuordecim. Engraved title page, numerous text illustrations. [22], 327, [5], 39, 226, [2] pages. 4 parts in one. Folio, early calf, minor wear, rebacked with portion of original backstrip laid down; minor dampstaining, extensive worming to the beginning and terminal signatures (mostly in the top and bottom margins); erased ownership stamp at the head of the illustrated title, bookplate of Brazilian historian Alfredo de Carvalho on front pastedown. Amsterdam, 1658

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"Owing to the fact that a number of the woodcuts in this work are reproduced from [Piso's Historia Naturalis Brasiliae of 1648] this is sometimes said to be a second edition. It is in fact a different work, as a comparison of the contents will prove"--Sabin 63029. Borba de Moraes, page II: 676; European Americana 658/129.