Title: Primera y segunda y tercera partes de la historia medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales que siruen en medicina : Tratado de la piedra Bezaar, y dela yerua Escuerçonera ; Dialogo de las grandezas del hierro, y de sus virtudes medicinales ; Tratado de la nieue y del beuer frio.

Author: Nicolás Monardes

Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana

Description:

Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.

Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.

Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.

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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library

DocumentID: SABCP02317100

CollectionID: CTRG97-B2200

PublicationDate: 15740101

SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America

Notes: "Del tabaco y de sus grandes virtudes": leaves 41-50; ill. on half-title of Segunda parte. For discussion and Frampton's translation of selected passages, cf. Arents 15. "De los cañutos para el asma" (tobacco as asthma remedy): leaves 117v-118r. "Van en esta impression la tercera parte y el dialogo del hierro nueuamente hechos, que no han sido impressos hasta agor." "Segunda parte del libro, de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales ... Do se trata de tobaco ..." (leaves [40]-96) has special half-title. "Tercera parte de la historia medicinal ..." (leaves 97-123), "Libro que trata de dos medicinas ..." (leaves 125-156), "Dialogo del hierro ..." (leaves 157-185), and "Libro que trata de la nieue ..." (leaves 186-206) have special title pages. Illustrations (in pt. 2): 11 prints : woodcut; 12 x 7 cm. or smaller. Errata statement: leaf [207]v.

Collation: [9], 206, [2] leaves : ill. ; 21 cm