Dos libros, el uno que trata de todas las cosas que traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales, que sirven al uso de la medicina, y el otro que trata de la piedra bezaar, y de la yerva escuerçonera
By: Cópuestos por el doctor Nicoloso de Monardes Medico de Sevilla
Publisher: en casa de Hernando Diaz
Published: 1569
Place of publication: Impressos de Sevilla
Language: spa
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Materia medica; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Dos libros, el vno qve trata de todas las cosas que traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales, que siruen al vso de la medicina, y el otro que trata de la piedra bezaar, y de la yerua escuerçonera; Indias occidentales; Segunda parte del libro, de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales, que siruen al vso de medicina; Monardis en Castellan
Notes: "Monardes, a Spanish physician from Seville, never traveled to America. He was able, however, to study exotic plant specimens in his native city because of Seville's control over the navigation and commerce operating between Spain and the New World. Monardes maintained a botanical garden filled with native and exotic plants and made scientific studies of those plants imported from the Americas including coca, mechoacan, tobacco, sunflower, sarsaparilla, and sassafras detailing their curative virtues."--https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/monardes-nicolas-1493-1588-dos-libros-el-uno-6052432-details.aspx (viewed November 20, 2018).

"Second edition of Monardes's treatise on the medical plants of the New World, first published in 1565. Both editions are rare in commerce. Monardes, a physician living in Seville, Spain, never traveled to America but was able to study a large number of New World plants due to Seville's control over the navigation and commerce operating between Spain and the Americas. He maintained a botanical garden in which he grew both native and exotic plants, and made scientific studies of the pharmacological properties of such New World species as tobacco, coca, sunflower, sarsaparilla, ipecacuanha, cinchona and sassafras. Monardes's Dos libros was "the first full treatise on these drugs, and for many years the most important study of the medicinal plants of Central America" (Mann, Modern Drug Use, p. 202). It was through Monardes's writings that the American materia medica began to be known, and his books were widely read and translated. The English version, translated by John Frampton, was published in 1569-71 under the title Joyfull Newes out of the Newe Founde Worlde."--https://www.vialibri.net/years/items/897156/1569-monardes-nicolas-dos-libros-el-uno-que-trata (viewed November 20, 2018).

Portrait of Monardes on title page; woodcut printer's device on verso of last leaf, woodcut head- and tail pieces and initials; some text in italic, most text printed chiefly in Roman letters.

"Tassa" leaf (pages [281]-[282]) at end (shorter paper than others); signed Pedro del Marmol,

English-language translation entitled: Joyfull newes out of the newe founde worlde, translated by John Frampton (1577-1596).

Pritzel, G.A. Thesaurus literaturae botanicae omnium gentium (1872-1877 edition), 6366

Lib. copy 2 volumes in 1.

Lib. copy pagination begins with title page.

Lib. copy has "Tassa" leaf, at end of Dos libros, el uno que trata de todas las cosas ...; leaf signed Pedro del Marmol, and dated 1569.

Lib. copy accompanied by two folded, loose typed sheets with bookseller? description of the 1569 volume and the 1571 volume.