Bidspirit auction | Stella, Benedetto: TOBACCO. WORK OF

Stella, Benedetto: TOBACCO. WORK OF D. BENEDETTO STELLA FROM CIUITA CASTELLANA MDSB IN WHICH THE ORIGIN, HISTORY, CULTIVATION, PREPARATION, QUALITY, NATURE, VIRTUES & VSO IN SMOKE, IN POWDER, IN LEAVES, IN THE AMBIENT, AND IN MEDICINE OF THE PLANT COMMONLY CALLED TOBACCO IS DEALED WITH... A NATURAL, MEDICAL, MORAL, AND CURIOUS TREATISE. Rome, 1669, for Filippo Maria Mancini. - 1 vol., in 8°, cm 16x12, p. [32], 448. Full leather back binding, silent spine with 4 ribs. Seventeenth-century illustrated pharmacopoeia and herbology book dedicated to the tobacco plant and its numerous applications, decorated with 6 engraved plates in the text and numerous woodcut initials, as well as countless headpieces and tailpieces. Copy characterized by ancient handwritten notes in ink in the margin of the text, missing the last 32 pages.