MONARDES, Nicolás.

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Joyfull newes out of the newfound world, First complete edition in English of the first treatise on Central and South American medicinal plants, from the library of the Suffolk physician and author Philip Moore (fl. 1564-1580), with his gilt supralibros on the front cover and numerous annotations, possibly in his hand.Monardes's treatise was published in Spanish in 1565 as Historia medicinal and progressively enlarged in the subsequent editions of 1565, 1569, and 1574. The first English edition, translated by John Frampton, was published in 1565. This second edition incorporates material from the Spanish 1574 edition, specifically the sections on bezoars, escuerçonera, iron, steel, and snow from page 111 onwards.Frampton was a merchant who mastered Spanish during his career in the Seville-to-Bristol trade. In 1651, he was arrested by the Spanish Inquisition, tortured, tried, and forbidden to return to England. He nevertheless made his escape, and became a translator in London. Monardes's Historia medicinal was his first project. "Whatever Frampton's intentions of a political or mercantile nature, one fact remains incontestable, namely that his efforts were a contribution to the expansion of European pharmacology... Speculation is, of course, free with regard to what Frampton may have known first hand of Monardes's gardens and dispensaries" (Beecher, pp. 107-8).Based in Seville, the port of entry for the trade with America, Nicolas Bautista Monardes (1493-1588) was in the idea

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