Chocolate: or, An Indian drinke : By the wise and moderate use whereof, health is preserved, sicknesse diverted, and cured, especially the plague of the guts; vulgarly called the new disease; fluxes, consumptions, & coughs of the lungs, with sundry other desperate diseases. By it also, conception is caused, the birth hastened and facilitated, beauty gain'd and continued. / Written originally in Spanish, by Antonio Colminero of Ledesma, Doctor in Physicke, and faithfully rendred in the English, by Capt. James Wadsworth.
- Colmenero de Ledesma, Antonio
- Date:
- 165[2]
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Also known as
Curioso tratado de la naturaleza y calidad del chocolate. English
Chocolate
Indian drinke
Publication/Creation
London : Printed by J.G. for Iohn Dakins, dwelling neare the Vine Taverne in Holborne, where this tract, together with the chocolate it selfe, may be had at reasonable rates, 165[2]
Physical description
14 unnumbered pages, 40 pages, 4 unnumbered pages
References note
Wing (2nd ed.) C5400.
Thomason E.1671[1].
Notes
A translation, by Capt. James Wadsworth, of: Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma. Curioso tratado de la naturaleza y calidad del chocolate.
Testimonials by Melchor de Lara and John de Mena dated 1631.
Annotation on Thomason copy: "July 29".
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Thomason Tracts ; 209:E1671[1]) s1999 miun s