With engraved title, portrait of the author, and 9 full-page engravings in the text. Later half morocco, spine and top edge gilt, rubbed. Johann Neander was a physician who compiled information on tobacco from several sources. He only advocated the medical use of tobacco and included correspondence with his colleagues on this subject in the Epistolae , bound in at the end of his work. Lucca, S. and G. Marescandoli, 1733-1737.
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Graesse V, p. 171. Documental history of the Knights of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem from 1088 till 1732. Pauli opens in the year of the conquest of Jerusalem by the crusaders, the beginning of the rise of the Hospitallers as a political, religious and military force. He treats their history via charters, statutes of the grand masters, papal bulls, royal letters, which he orders chronologically. Each volume opens with a chronological index of documents, followed by the full text of the documents.