Historia naturalis Brasiliae
Subtitle: auspicio et beneficio illustriss. I. Mauritii Com. Nassau ... adornata : in qua non tantum plantae et animalia, sed et indigenarum morbi, ingenia et mores describuntur et iconibus supra quingentas illustrantur
Contributors: Marggraf, Georg, 1610-1644; Laet, Joannes de, 1581-1649
Publisher: Apud Franciscum Hackium; Apud Lud. Elzevirium
Published: 1648
Place of publication: Lugdun. Batavorum; Et Amstelodami
Language: lat
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Natural history; Pre-Linnean works; Medicine; Indians of South America
Other titles: De medicina Brasiliensi.; Historiae rerum naturalium Brasiliae, libri octo.
Notes: Engraved t.p.

Added t.p.: Guilielmi Pisonis, M.D. Lugduno-Batavi, De medicina Brasiliensi libri quatuor : I. De aëre, aquis, & locis. II. De morbis endemiis. III. De venenatis & antidotis. IV. De facultatibus simplicium. : et Georgi Marcgravi de Liebstad, Misnici Germani, Historiae rerum naturalium Brasiliae, libri octo : quorum tres priores agunt de plantis. Quartus de piscibus. Quintus de avibus. Sextus de quadrupedibus & serpentibus. Septimus de insectis. Octavus de ipsa regione, & illius incolis. ... Ioannes de Laet, Antwerpianus, in ordinem digessit & annotationes addidit, & varia ab auctore omissa supplevit & illustravit.

Georg Marggraf's Historiae rerum naturalium Brasiliae, libri octo has special t.p. and separate paging.

"First edition of a pioneer work on tropical medicine. The second edition was published with the title 'De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica libri XIV' in Amsterdam in 1658"--Hunt, R.M.M.  Botanical books, 244.

Includes indexes.

Signatures: *⁴, []², A-P⁴, Q², [dagger]-2O⁴, 2P².

"Errata quaedam emendanda": p. [10] of 3rd group.

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 63028

Pritzel, G.A.  Thesaurus lit. botanicae, 7157

Nissen, C.  Die botanische Buchillustration, 1533

Hunt, R.M.M.  Botanical books, 244

Moraes, R.B. de.  Bibl. Brasiliana, p. 152-153