£400
Book. Chocolate. Colmenero de Ledesma, Antonio. Chocolata Inda. Opusculum de qualitate et natura chocolatae. Norimbergae (Nuremberg). Wolfgangi Enderi. 1644. pp. (24) unnumbered, 73, (5) unnumbered of index, errata leaf. 24mo in 12s. Frontis, lacking folded half. Full vellum. First Latin edition of the first European work dedicated to chocolate and cocoa, a translation from the Spanish of Curioso tratado de la naturaleza y calidad del chocolate. Text is clean, only fault is the frontis.
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