Tractatus novi de potu caphé; de chinensium thé; et de chocolata
Contributors: Spon, Jacob, 1647-1685; Moreau, René, 1587-1656; Naironus, Antonius Faustus, 1628-1711?; Rhodes, Alexandre de, 1591-1660; Nieuhof, Johannes, 1618-1672; Colmenero de Ledesma, Antonio; Marradon, Bartolomeo; Tabor, Stephen J. W. (Stephen James Wilson), 1815-1883. former owner; Swan, Bradford F. (Bradford Fuller) former owner
Publisher: Apud Petrum Muguet
Published: 1685
Place of publication: Parisiis [Paris]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Tea; Coffee; Chocolate drinks; Chocolate
Other titles: Tractatvs novi de potv caphé; de chinensivm thé; et de chocolata.
Work titles: De l'usage du caphé, du thé, et du chocolate
Notes: Translation, by Jacob Spon, of: Traités nouveaux et curieux du caffé, du thé et du chocolate, Lyon, 1685, which is an enlarged edition of: De l'vsage du caphé, du thé et du chocolate, first printed Lyon, 1671.

"Tractatvs de potv caphé", p. 1-100, is  taken from: De saluberrima potione cahue seu cafe nuncupata discursus / by Antonius Faustus Naironus, first printed in Rome. 1671.

"Tractatvs de Chinesivm the", p. 101-140, is taken from: Divers voyages et missions du P. A. de Rhodes en la Chine et autres royaumes de l'Orient, avec son retour en Europe par la Perse et l'Arménie / by Alexandre de Rhodes, first printed in Paris, 1653, and from: Gesandshap der Nederlandische Oost-Indische Compagnie / by Johan Nieuhof, first printed in Amsterdam, 1665.

"Tractatvs de Chocolate", p.141-191, is a translation, by René Moreau, of: Du chocolate discours curieux, divisé en quatre parties / by Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma, printed in Paris, 1643, which was first printed under title: Curioso tratado de la naturaleza y calidad del chocolate, Madrid, 1631.

"Dialogvs de Chocolata", p. 192-202, is a translation of: Curioso tratado de la naturaleza, los daños y provechos que el tempo y experiencia an descubierto de sus effectos, y del chocolate, y otras bevila, que en estos tempo se usan / by Bartolomeo Marradon, first printed in Seville, 1618.

Signatures: pi² (pi1 recto, pi2 verso blank) ã² (A2 verso blank) A-H¹² I⁸ (-I8) (I2 missigned I3)

Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Engraved frontispiece illustration is of a man from the Orient holding a cup of coffee, a man from China holding a cup of tea, and an native of Mexico holding a cup of chocolate and is counted as leaf pi1.

Mueller, W. Kaffee, Kakao, Scokolade, 68.

NLM. Seventeenth cent. books, 3485.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, books printed 1675-1700, p. 148-149.

European Americana 685/55.

John Carter Brown Library copy is bound in contemporary full speckled calf.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired as a gift of Bradford F. Swan through the JCB Associates.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Stephen J.W. Taylor: bookplate on front pastedown.