106 PERUCCI, FRANCESCO. Pompe funebri di tutte le nationi del mondo.  — deg 
: Franc. . Rossi, 1639. Folio. 98--(8) pp. With engraved title, 23 largeengravings 
showing fu neral ritt* s, smaller engravings of objects; numerous licodent 
: omisit and initials. Contemporary vellum. £28. 
The main series of 23 large engravings consists of reversed copies after vla Porro's fine illustrations 
to a similar work, Porcacchi's Funerali antichi (first. pv penes in 574). The text does not follow 
: Porcacchi, and a.o. contains an extensive reference to A m zm Indian customs, parti- 
cularly in Peru. 
Spine damaged. Some thumb marks, otherwise a good clean copy. 
FIRST ILLUSTRATED WORK ON THE NATURAL HISTORY 
V5 OF BRAZIL 
107 PISO, WILLEM. Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica. MARCGRAF, GEORG. 
b pim Bu. rnm et meteo casali Brasiliae, cum observatione seges solaris. . . g 
BRON S, JAC . Historia animali ' EN 
quibu s ver den G. Piso annotationes & addi- 
" erdam, Louis & Daniel Elzevir, 1658. 
: Senall in^ va ff. --39 -- 329 (misnumb. 327) -- (5) 
s --226 pp.-- one leaf of index. With fine 
engraved title showing a Brazilian 
forest and five hundred and ninety- 
eight wood-cuts, mostly of Brazilian 
» 3 animals and plants, in the text. Vellum. 
4,225. 
The Brazilian Botany by Willem Piso and the account of 
the flora and fauna of Brazil and Chile by Georg Marcgraf 
ES | were compiled under the inspiration of Jan Mauritius 
mission sent to Dutch Brazil, by the West Indies C ompany 
t Nassau's request. Marc ol travelled to Brazil in 
1638 id under the governor's protection, compiled the 
lost óotable seientific work one 
E des 0$ th eentury 
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studies t Nassau's observatory i 
"These diui dud / iáelodsg dar of the solar delipse in 
1640, were the first ones made in America. 
ork is the only illustrated work on 
the SM Gere, ohitass E xe ARESAT 
D before the 19th century. ere 
" second edition containing in addition focios Aue 
d History of the Far East edited by 
Edges of blank margins ligh tly frayed in — 
title with a neat d in top corner, otherwis 
a very g 
Barba d Motori Bibliogr. Brasiliana, 2: uu 
152-3. Le Clerc 451. Willems 1:2 296. Nisse 
1533. Pritzel 7157. 
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rofits. One of the earliest was Jam es Edwards (1757- 181 16), whose first achievements 
1 aues back from Venice the ds uus library auo by aucti ion on 2 March 1789 and 1 NE i20, 
À and from Paris the Bibliotheca Par. e Ricci, p.89 
EARLY Xu NM uie WORK ON BRAZILIAN NATURAL HISTORY AND MEDICINE 
497 Piso, Willem. Marcgraf, George. Bontius, Jacob. DE INDIAE UTRIUSQUE 
RE NATURALI ET MEDICA LIBRI QUATUORDECIM, . . . [Containing: I. Piso, Medicina 
Brasiliae and Marcgraf, Historiae rerum naturalium Brasiliae. 1l.) arcgraf, Tractatus 
topographicus et. meteorologicus Brasiliae. 11I. Bontius, Historiae naturalis et medicae 
Indiae Orientalis. IV. Piso, Mantissa aromatica.] Amsterdam, L. and D. Elzevir, 1638 
185 
3 
E ME punk in one volume, engraved pes pp. (xxii), x (5); 39; 160; 161-226 (2), Suede 
OUGHOUT, including fishes, animals, birds, plants, etc., sli ght ly browned in plac 
ipd: "e i kheary stamps, cont bpocaty calf, gilt spine, dns and corners repaire 
.B. de Moraes, — einn II, pp. 153-4. Sabin, 63030. 
Garrison and Morton 1825, * introduced ipecacuanha into Europe". 
'The second and em det edition of Piso and Marcgraf's important work on Brazilian natural 
history. Part of the work had appeared in 1648 in their Historia Naturalis Brasiliae but because f 
unsatisfactory editing by Laet, Piso "decided to re-organise it entirely and publish it anew^ 
(Moraes). The Medicina Brasiliensi by Piso and the Historiae rerum Fveier Pi Brasiliae by Marcgraf 
Waller, 7472. Casey A. Wood, p. 520. 
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