Sales catalogue 496: Maggs Bros

Date:
1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/53
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 496: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GILBERTI (FRAY MATURINO)—continued. the earliest linguistic works published by the missionaries at the time of the Con-— quest. ‘There is, moreover, no more important vocabulary in existence—even amongst those published in our day—than Padre Gilberti’s work on the Tarasca Language, one of the principal languages of the ancient Mexican Empire.” Sabin, No. 27361. “‘ These works of Gilberti are all of excessive rarity and interest, being early examples of printing in the New World.” (Blank margins of last few leaves strengthened.) “It is rare because the Consejo de Indias forbade its circulation, in spite of numerous licences to print.” ON “‘ TABASCO’” PEPPER. 1354 GOMEZ ORTEGA (Casimiro). Historia Natural de la Malagueta 6 pimienta de Tavasco, y noticia de los usos, virtudes y extencion de derechos de esta saludable y gustosa especia. With full-page plate, illustrating the Tabasco pepper-tree. Small folio wrappers. Madrid, Joachin Ibarra, 1780. £3 3: Palau’s Manual, Vol. Ill, p. 363. The author was a member of the Royal Society of London and senior pro- fessor of the Spanish Sky Botanical Gardens. His publication contains an interesting description of the malagueta, or ‘Tabasco tree, which originally flourished in America and Jamaica; and was successfully transplanted in Europe through the agency of the Spaniards, being known in England as “ all-spice.”’ It was Dr. Francisco Hermandez, protomedico to Philip II, whom the Spanish King sent to New Spain for the purpose of writing the natural history of that country, who first described the fruits and the tree under the Mexican name of Xocoxochitl, or Pimienta de Tavasco. 136 GONZALEZ (José Eleuterio). Noticias y documentos para la historia del Estado de Nuevo- Leon. Second Augmented and Revised Edition. : 2 vols., 8vo, half roan. Monterey, 1885. | {1 Ios
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