Willem Piso

Apud Franciscum Hackium, et Amstelodami, apud Lud. Elzevirium

Louis Elzevir (1604-1670)
Franciscus Hackius (active 1638-1664)

Joannes de Laet (1581-1649)

1648

Botanical illustration
Early works to 1800
Indians of Central America
Indigenous crops
Indigenous peoples—Ecology
Natural history—Brazil
Natural history illustration
Medical geography
Medicine
Zoological illustration
Zoology—Brazil
Zoology—Pre-Linnean works
Wood-engraving

Leiden (Netherlands)

2 pt. in 1 v. ([12], 122, [2]; [8], 293, [7] p.) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 38 cm. (fol.)

38.1

26.2

Engraved title leaf.

Woodcut decorated headpieces, initials; woodcut illustrations throughout the text.

Marggraf's works [pt. 2] have special half-title and separate pagination and signatures.

Includes indexes.

See catalog record for additional notes.

Latin

Piso, Willem. "Historae Rerum Naturalium, Liber Sextus, Qui agit Quadrupedibus, & Serpentibus." Historia naturalist Brasiliae. Leiden, 1648.