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97. GUERREIRO, Inácio, ed. A epopeia das especiarias. Lisbon: IICT / INAPA,
1999. Colecção Oceanos. Folio (31.9 x 25.2 cm.), publisher’s cloth with dust
jacket. As new. 181, (1) pp., (1 l.), profusely and very nicely illustrated,
mostly in color.
SOLD
FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Texts by the editor, Luís Filipe Thomaz, J.E. Mendes
Ferrão, Maria Adélia, Maria Cândida, Liberato, Eurico S. Martins, José Pedro Sousa Dias,
Manuel Lobato, Maria de Jesus dos Mártires Lopes, and Maria Augusta Lima Cruz,
on every conceivable aspect of spices. Included are articles on the names of spices, the
principal tropical spices, spices from botanical and pharmacological standpoints, the
relationship between cloves, the Moluccas, and the Portuguese, spices in Goan cooking,
the relationship between the production and trade in spices and the history of cartography,
and finally the relationship between the routes of the spice trade and sixteenth-century
Portuguese literature. A lovely book.
j OCLC: 51289388.
98. GUYOT, Remy. Thèse pour le doctorat en médecine, présentée et soutenue
le 24 août 1843 ... Des lésions organiques qui peuvent produire l’ascite ....
Paris: Rignoux, Imprimeur de la Faculté’ de Médecine, 1843. Faculté
de Médecine de Paris, no. 202. 4°, disbound. Light foxing at edges. A
good copy. 48 pp. $100.00
FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this thesis presented to the Faculté de Médecine de
Paris on organic lesions that can produce ascites, also known as peritoneal cavity fluid
or (archaically) abdominal dropsy.
j OCLC: 468140858 (Bibliothèque Nationale de France). Copac locates a copy in
the British Library.
Beautifully Bound, Clean, Crisp Copy
99. GYRAO, António Lobo de Barbosa Ferreira Teixeira, 1º Visconde
de Villarinho de São Romão. Economia rural e domestica, ou ensaio
sobre os gados lanigero e cornigero sobre o methodo de os criar, apascentar,
preservar das doenças que lhe são proprias, e curar-lhas quando as teverem:
com avisos mui importantes aos lavradores sobre objectos ruraes e economicos.
2 volumes. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 1835. 4°, contemporary crimson
straight-grained morocco (a few pinpoint wormholes and other very
slight wear), flat spines richly gilt, gilt letter, covers with gilt border
design, binding edges gilt, all text block edges gilt. Folding lithograph
plate depicting a horse. Printed throughout on high-quality paper. A
fine to very fine, clean copy. Purple stamps of the Dukes of Palmela on