PISO (Guillaume), [MARKGRAF (Georges)] & De LAET (Jean). - Lot 141

PISO (Guillaume), [MARKGRAF (Georges)] & De LAET (Jean). Historia naturalisBrasiliae, Auspicio et Beneficio Illustriss. I. Mauritii com Nassau illius Provinciæ et Maris summi Praefecti adornata : In qua non tantum Plantæ et Animalia, sed et Indigenarum morbi, ingenia et motes describuntur et Iconibus supra quingentas illustrantur. Lugdun. Batavorum, Apud Franciscum Hackium, et Amstelodami, Apud Lud. Elzevirium, 1648. 2 parts in an in-folio volume, basane, ornate ribbed spine (early 19th c. binding). - VI] ff. (including frontispiece) + 122 pp. ("De medicina brasiliensi libri quatuor") + [II] pp. (Index) & -- [IV] ff. + 293 ("Historiæ rerum naturalium Brasiliæ, libri octo") + [VII] pp. (Index). Cyphered: - *6, A-P4, Q2. -- †4, A-Z4, Aa-Oo4, Pp2. ORIGINAL EDITION. Title adorned with rich allegorical decoration and 429 woodcuts in the text, of natural history and scenes of daily life. It was at the request and under the "Auspices" of the Governor General of Brazil, Jean Maurice de Nassau, known as the Brazilian, that this first book on the natural history of Brazil saw the light of day. natural history of Brazil. It is the fruit of the collaboration of a scientific team from Holland, whose aim was to discover the country's geography the country's geography, highlighting its riches and the virtues of its plants, and giving us the first details on sugar cane and sugar production. and sugar production. From the library of Brother Jacques Tartarie of the Order of Friars Minor of Rion, with handwritten bookplate on p. 1. Binding flaking: light foxing on a few leaves: marginal wetness on the first quire: soiling on 4 or 5 pages at the end of the volume. volume. Borba de Moraes 675-6 "The only illustrated work on Brazilian natural history": Garrison-Morton 2263-1 and 5303 "First edition of this 'pioneer work on tropical medicine": Hunt 244; Nissen BBI 1533; Willems 1068; Leclerc 1634 "Recueil estimé donnant un extrait de la grammaire Brésilienne du P. Joseph de Archieta et un vocabulaire Brésilien latin par En. De Moraes".